Here’s my new book review up on YouTube. I enjoyed this short spooky book.
My Female Crush: Anita Brookner
This week I read Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac. I bought the book from a local second hand book store for $3 and at the time, I was deliberating whether or not to buy it because it won the Booker Prize in 1984. I’m not a fan of Booker Prize winning books. Every time I […]
How to Read
Continuing onto the second skill highlighted in Robin Good’s article “What We Really Need to Learn to Be Successful in Life – Part 1″ is How to Read. Reading is my most favourite activity. Reading is critical thinking for me. However, it’s also HOW we read that is the most important skill and I believe […]
Book Review & Life Lessons from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
How have I NOT ever read this brilliant book before?! Jane Eyre fast became one of the BEST books I have ever read in my life. There’s a handful of books that I LOVE and adore and have somehow made an impact on my life. The first 10 are the ones I would throw into […]
New Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Here’s a new book review of a book that many people are reading at the moment. Highly enjoyable and immersive story.
Wuthering Heights
I’m reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and getting my fair share of the Yorkshire Moors. A book to read on these dark, cold, windy Melbourne nights. But geez, already, Cathy and Heathcliff! I have to get a hold of myself and rethink how I approach this book every night as I reach for it. Cathy […]
New Video Book Review: Seeing Other People By Diana Reid
Here’s my new book review that was published on YouTube yesterday.
AI Writes a Novel
I hope this product dies a quick death. This tweet stream was sent by a good friend and I nearly choked on my coffee while the developer was going through the demo. Pseudo alright. Read the comments. Then I did a search on YouTube. Already there’s some writers using this tool. It’s making me think […]
New Second Hand Book Haul
Needed a convenient excuse to get out of the house so I just said I was going to the supermarket. I HÂTE going to the supermarket. I went to my local second hand book store. A little tiny shop filled with stacks of dusty books that are precariously placed on top of each other creating […]
How To Read Fiction: A Video Book Review
The latest book review is up on my YouTube channel, Life Lessons From Books. It’s by James Wood on How Fiction Works. I have some books “dropping” (as they say) over the next four weeks. (I read about 1-2 books per week) What to expect in the coming weeks:
Book Review: A Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Here’s my latest book review now on YouTube.
Book Reviews of The Dying Animal & Indignation by Philip Roth
What on earth did I read?! One of the most odious characters I’ve ever read was in this book. Here’s my new book review.. The second book, Indignation was a bit better.
Random 6 Word Generator Stories
For a bit of fun, every morning I practice my creative stories by using a random word generator to generate six words that I could write a story. The words are bolded in the text. Here’s my first attempts. I have no idea if they are grammatically correct or structured well. My aim is to […]
When You Got To Go, You Got To Go
This is a short piece of fiction from a photo I took this morning that seemed odd and out of place. As I walked around the park, I thought about the story of how the car got there.
Catch-22 for Organisations
In this post I write about the links of this book by Joseph Heller called Catch-22 to the working world.
Life Lessons from War and Peace
Well finally, I’ve shared my thoughts on Tolstoy’s book War and Peace. Rather than do a review of it, I thought I’d share SOME of my life lessons with this book. I could have spoken for a lot more but I’m mindful that the video is long! I think I did this video more so […]
Fiction Writing
One of the things I’ve been doing in my spare time is writing fiction for the local council My Brother Jack awards. As an annual award to encourage writers in the local community, this competition has been running for many years and it’s always been at the back of my mind to submit an entry […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts. Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]