What I was reading (and doing) 10 years ago: August 2016

This is the fourth post in my occasional series of archive posts in which I look back ten years. (See others here.) Being the school holidays, It was a good month of reading – 18 books finished, 5144 pages, and I posted eleven reviews on the blog, more at Shiny New Books. They included 4 Read More

Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

With Brendan O’Hea What a treat this book was from first page to last. I finished reading it on Boxing Day, and it went straight into my 2024 Books of the Year list. It is written with Brendan O’Hea, who is an actor/director friend of Dench, and is Associate Artistic Director at the Globe Theatre Read More

A life in a day… again and again and again…

Groundhog Day – Book by Danny Rubin, Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin August has been such a busy month. Not only have I managed to read 19 books, but I managed to go to the theatre twice and forgot to tell you about the first time when I took my daughter to the Old Read More