Myanmar (Burma): a Lonely Planet publication and my book of the month.
More on the trials of a timid traveller
My book of the month: How to Travel the World on $50.00 a Day
Budget travel advice from Nomadic Matt. He’s a good motivator, too.
My book of the month: All The Light We Cannot See
“We read to know we are not alone.” C.S. Lewis
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Reading, writing, and Ray Bradbury on looking after the muse
Zen in the Art of Writing – a cure for writer’s block
Summer comes early in Gisborne
Gisborne. Where the surf rolls in and the surfies are always out, where the sun shines and the beaches are sandy. And where, the summer I was five, I stubbed my toe in a headlong rush across the road to get to the water. It was a beauty […]
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Two favourite book blogs and a writer
I’ve discovered two new book blogs. They’re good. Very good. And not just because they’re both fans of Neil Gaiman. You didn’t know I was? Well, neither did I until the beginning of this year. Son number two is responsible for that development. I’m sure I’ll be talking […]
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – A Man Booker Prize Winner?
Tuesday is a big day in the book world. It’s the day the Man Booker Prize for 2014 will be announced. Which means I’ll probably hear the news sometime on Wednesday morning (New Zealand time). As it happens, early yesterday morning I finished American writer, Karen Joy Fowler’s […]
The Open Road Beckons
“The open road speaks for a perpetual becoming.” Pico Iyer I’m continuing my tradition of reading well-known books years after they came to the attention of the rest of the world! But the gap is narrowing. Pico Iyer’s The Open Road was published six years ago, where […]
The Caged Bird Sings to Me
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”* While I was reading One Hundred Years of Solitude (a book, you may remember, I decided to read after coming across another blogger‘s eulogy to Marquez) Maya Angelou died. So, I thought, what […]
In which celestial and blogging milestones converge.
Outside it’s dreary. We’re not seeing much of the sun. There’s no growth in the garden. It’s only seventy-one days until spring a friend of mine said on Facebook. Well, I thought, that’s a relief. Tonight I’ll be celebrating the solstice by going to a beach […]
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