Tag Archives: reading

Because Chocolate

Posted on 03/06/2013 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

Because Chocolate

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Cathartic Reads

Posted on 05/02/2013 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

If you’re reading this without the right glasses on please let me clarify – cathartic, NOT catheter, so if you’re expecting some fascinating insight into the literary world of all things urinary please know that disappointment will follow. As many … Continue reading →

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Clock Watching

Posted on 30/01/2013 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

Normally I’m a very patient person.  I’m quite happy to wait in queues, look around and observe what everyone else is doing, make up various scenarios in my mind of why/who/what/when about their lives; that is, if I’m not reading.  … Continue reading →

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Got the T-Shirt

Posted on 17/08/2011 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

I’m reading Faulks on Fiction, or at least, I started to before discovering that I was blind to much of the journey leading to his theories and conclusions as I hadn’t read the chosen books for at least thirty years.  Books … Continue reading →

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My Writing Corner

Posted on 22/07/2011 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

A fan (you know who you are) asked me why, in all my publicity photos, there is only a picture of my writing chair and why the bookshelf next to it is full of cookery books.  First – seriously?  You zoomed … Continue reading →

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Swimming in the Shallow End

Posted on 19/06/2011 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

There are some days when a full dip just isn’t going to make it onto the agenda.  With the best of intentions you will slip into a bathing suit, pop on a cap and goggles and then….spend the next hour chatting … Continue reading →

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Reading Diary

Posted on 07/05/2011 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

In my son’s school the children have to keep a reading diary more to show that they have been reading rather than a record of what has been read.  Today, on FB, someone posted a list of ‘classics’ and asked which … Continue reading →

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A King of Fools

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

For a while now I have been toying with doing a course in creative writing at Oxford and I have been looking into the MSt.  Now, it isn’t that I think I need it, nor is it that I think … Continue reading →

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Great Inventions

Posted on 09/11/2010 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

BBC Radio 4 had a superb programme called the history of the World in 100 objects.  The book is out now and sits at No 1 on my Christmas list.  But there is one great invention that was missed off.  … Continue reading →

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Mumbled Humble Pie

Posted on 08/09/2010 by Bea Turvey apprentice author and witch

  My view is Life is too short to do something you don’t like if you don’t have to.  Specifically, reading a book that, within the first chapter or so, just doesn’t grab you.  I receive recommendations all the time and the … Continue reading →

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