Quite a while ago, I stumbled upon TED Talks when researching Public Speaking for a management course.
It was love at first sight.
The talks cover everything from social commentary, to technological and medical advancements, some are very serious, and others very entertaining. As it’s Mental Health Awareness Month, I recently found some talks that focused on #MentalHealth and thought I’d share them…
Leah from Uncorked Thoughts and Ula from Blog of Erised are hosting Mental Health Awareness Month from the 1st until the 30th of June 2014. Mental Health issues are more prevalent than ever and yet support, awareness and information about the ways in which mental health issues can affect you if you suffer from them […]
Settle in and get comfortable, people. This one’s messy. Before I started book-blogging there were many things unknown to me (actually, I’m pretty sure there are still many, many things unknown to me), but eventually I became keenly aware of the goings-on in book-world; from blogging plagiarism scandals, to highly anticipated new releases and from […]
Here’s something no one really tells you (and even if they do, you kind of don’t believe them) – blogging takes time. And book blogging takes even more time, because you have to actually read the book before you can write the review. I may have come up with a potential solution…
I used to read a lot of poetry when I was younger, but I fell out of love with it around the age of 14 and have never quite managed to repair that relationship. I spotted a post recently on My Little Book Blog and had to share it because I think these two poems (the original by Charles Warnke, and the response by Rosemarie Urquico) may just have begun to mend my on-again-off-again tumultuous battle with poetry…
Recently, I read a post on Book.Blog.Bake that served to be a massive wake-up-call for me, and made me realise just how naive I, and I’m sure many others, can be…
This is a rant post. I know I have to accept some of the responsibility, but I’m a little quite annoyed, so I’m putting a warning out there before you read on, that this Book Geek ain’t happy.
A discussion of book reviews, DNFs, book-blogger guilt, and asking what you do when you receive a book for review from a publisher and struggle to get through it…
Originally posted on 101 Books:
So says A.S. Byatt, author of Possession. I’m paraphrasing. The more I read about A.S. Byatt, the less likeable she seems. Last week, we talked about her dismissiveness of bloggers and social media. This week, let’s talk about how much she dislikes Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. How fun! Byatt comes…
I’ve finally taken the plunge.
After much procrastination and promising myself I would, I’m finally getting to grips with the classics.
While updating my never-ending Goodreads to-read list yesterday, I decided to back-date the books I read when I was younger. One thing led to another, and a few minutes (OK, hours) later, I had my Goodreads filled with as many books from my childhood as I could remember. It was only then I realised just how much Jacqueline Wilson featured in my childhood.
Confessions of a Book Geek 