As taken by @HalfPintBlonde Wall poetry in Leiden, which is a lovely little town that looks quintessentially Dutch, down to the windmill at the edge of the canal 🌷 I love seeing art and words and poetry in action. Excellent spot K and thanks for letting me share! You can follow @HalfPintBlonde (and why wouldn't … Continue reading Poetry in action
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Day to Night Reading Challenge with @HudLib
University of Huddersfield is running a really interesting reading challenge over on it's twitter (@HudLib) and instagram (@HudLib) The challenge is to see how many books you can read between #WorldBookDay and #WorldBookNight (that's 7th of March till the 23rd of April) that contain the following themes: Day Morning Midday or Lunch Afternoon Evening or … Continue reading Day to Night Reading Challenge with @HudLib
LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE
Morning All, Apparently, there's some sort of sporting event taking place tomorrow evening (semi-finals of the World Cup - CRO vs ENG at 7pm). Rather than compete with the footie fans; a date change is in order! Please join us next week to discuss - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor Wednesday 18th of July 7.30pm … Continue reading LBC Horsforth – DATE CHANGE
2 minute review – Reni Eddo-Lodge – Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
A number of years ago, I watched a Ted Talk that discussed where the societal responsibility of gender related violence (sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children) rested. Regardless of those subjected to abuse - men, women or children - the perpetrators were overwhelmingly male, leading Jackson Katz to posit that gender … Continue reading 2 minute review – Reni Eddo-Lodge – Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
LBC3Reads – 2018 – Four Seasons Theme
LBC3 is our quarterly book club. We meet every three months on a Saturday morning to book club, drink lots of hot chocolate and - naturally - set the world to rights. Originally, we started out with no fixed theme, just a desire to tackle longer reads (quickly abandoned), though in the past few years … Continue reading LBC3Reads – 2018 – Four Seasons Theme
Upcoming book clubs
We have our next few months choices in, taking us up to the end of the year...if you can believe it. I think I'm in denial. It's really like...May? Anyway, for your reading pleasure! LBC 3 Reads (#LBC3Reads) 21st October - Matilda by Roald Dahl 20th January - TBA LBC Horsforth (#LBCHorsforth) 11th October - … Continue reading Upcoming book clubs
LISTEN TO – The Reith Lectures – Hilary Mantel
Just sat in the car for ten minutes to the last moments of the forth of Hilary Mantel's Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4 - I didn't want to lose a word, while relocating! Don't know how I've missed the previous three - clearly I'm very successfully sleep walking through life right now - but … Continue reading LISTEN TO – The Reith Lectures – Hilary Mantel
The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi O Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such … Continue reading The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
LBC Dystopia 17 – The Sleeper Awakes – Write Up
LBC DYSTOPIA Venue: Crowd of Favours Date: Tuesday 23rd of September 2015 Time: 6pm - 8pm Address: Harper Street, LS2 7EA Tel: 0113 246 9405 DISCUSSING THE SLEEPER AWAKES H.G. WELLS * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * * * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * * * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * … Continue reading LBC Dystopia 17 – The Sleeper Awakes – Write Up
FREE EBOOK – LBC Dystopia
LBC Dystopia Date: 23rd September 2015 Venue: Crowd of Favours Our next pick is available for free as an ebook. Click on the links below for... HG Wells - Free Ebooks The Sleeper Awakes - Kindle The Sleeper Awakes - iTunes The Sleeper Awakes - Project Gutenberg BLURB A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly … Continue reading FREE EBOOK – LBC Dystopia
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