Authors Electric

                                                  Reading Reviews for Online Living                                                 Since the pandemic I have noticed something interesting that has emerged online connected with books. Several dedicated readers have been reviewing books sent to them by publishers and posting the reviews for their followers to beg, borrow, or buy in order to read. These reviewers have a variety of handles: There is  Findingtimetowrite , by Marina Sofia. This deals mainly with books in translation which she publishes;  Adventures in reading, running and working from home  by Liz Dexter who likes non-fiction and who has commented on my own and others’ Authors Electric posts;  Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramb...

                                                          A Bit of Bibliotherapy   One morning last week, owing to a fault in the town’s water supply, I had to move from  Coffee1  to a new establishment for my morning cup of Americano. I was reading a book called  Our Spoons Came From Woolworths  by Barbara Comyns. The hardships described in the book of living without much money recalled to me my early married life back in the seventies when I lived in Guildford as a young teacher. It also occurred to me that  The Verdetto Lounge  where I was sitting was itself a Woolworths store many years ago. The vagaries of chance and its connections are multiform.   The historian David Olusoga has recently produced an excellent series of BBC programmes called  Union  about the union between England, Scotlan...