How do I start talking about Educated by Tara Westover? I'll try with this: I was recommended the …
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I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice: wild swimming, coping, and finding your people
I tend to read more slowly now than when I was younger, usually taking a week or two to read a book. …
“Life – her life – depended on self-discipline”: Reading Elephant Moon by John Sweeney to rediscover perseverance and wonder
I don’t think anyone’s immune from the doldrums. The same goes for loneliness. Just recently, I felt …
The power of a sunset: how Viktor Frankl & Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov are lifted from hardship by the beauty of nature
Despite experiencing unimaginable hardship during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl describes …
How people (and hobbits) can “find strength they didn’t know they had” with books and good company
The End of Your Life Book ClubWill Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club is one of my best-loved …
Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov on why being knocked off course is “only the start of something new and good”
My favourite translation by Anthony Briggs andpublished by Penguin.A fortnight ago I submitted …