Does having all this extra time mean that you are doing more reading? Strangely, my days seem pretty full, and and I haven't been doing much extra reading during the day, but I do read in bed. Once I get stuck into a good book at bedtime, I end up burning the midnight oil.
I wonder what book you are reading right now? Maybe you love a good thriller, crime novel, or love story. You can see what I'm reading above. 'The Mirror and the Light' is brilliant, but over 900 pages long; I'm about two thirds of the way through. It's also extremely heavy, which is a challenge propping it up in bed. It's all about Henry VIII's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell. I fall asleep and dream about him!
The other book is by Mark Matousek. He is a writer, teacher and motivational speaker who talks about the transformative power of writing. He's an interesting chap click here to find out more.
The radio programme 'Desert Island Discs' invites people to select a favourite book to take with them when stranded (apart from the Bible or Shakespeare). What would you choose?
Writing prompt: What are you reading at the moment? What have you read in the past that has struck a chord with you? Write about an experience of reading (be it a book, poem, magazine or newspaper article) that has had a big effect on you. Maybe something made you laugh, or cry, or feel angry? Share any thoughts below.
Friday 1 May:
ReplyDeleteWell on this day of all days the surpise is to discover that I could possibly have a ‘baby sister’ who today turns 66 yrs old: makes me feel like Methuselah’s granny.
And come to think of it I always did rather regard the poor child as a cuckoo in my nest.
Won’t wander down the painful family tales of a mis-handled arrival of a sibling. It probably wasn’t so unusual in 1954.; suffice to say that I always had the impression that I was one of those apprentice pieces -the mis-crafted first time offspring --& that Jeannie was tthe better effort.
I seem to have been dwelling somewhat on childhood during lockdown (or purdah as I prefer to think of it). It’s partly because the local church has become my most regular online contact, apart from the dreaded FaceBook , of course. And the daily hymn has nevitably triggered memory. The organist isn’t actually offering Youtube recordings of ‘Jesus wants me for a sunbeam’ but he mgt just as well be given the toddler state I have cast myself into. Life is most certainly a case , at the moment, of ‘you in your small corner/and I in mine’ !
Noel Cowardrd famously spoke of the ‘potency of ‘cheap music’: hymn tunes do that for me. You can take the girl out of school assembly but you can not take the school assembly out of the girl .
(And now the compulsive school mag editor in me is suggesting that that last statement would sit better before its preceding paragrah. A-a-a-rgh!)
Thanks for your comments ML. I still occasionally sing 'You in Your Small Corner' to the grandchildren - memories of the Beginners'Class at Greenhill Methodist Church Sunday School in Bradford. Did you also sing 'Hear the Pennies Dropping?' I can see us now, sitting on small wooden chairs, with curved back and arms, while the lovely Mrs Benson passed round a painted tin for our 'collection.'
DeleteI am intrigued by the baby sister. Is Jeannie someone you have only just found out about?
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