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Winding Up the Week #216
Winding Up the Week #216
An end of week recap
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
– Elie Wiesel
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of…
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Reading Wales 2022 #Dewithon22
Reading Wales 2022 #Dewithon22
Happy March! There are so many good things about March — Women’s History Month, my birthday, spring. Add to this list Reading Wales, aka, Dewithon (#dewithon22) or the Wales Readathon (#walesreadathon22). Reading Wales is month-long focus on reading literature by and about writers from Wales. It was created and is hosted each March by Paula at Book Jotter.
I’m starting off the month with Salt by…
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"...our rows of well-kept purgatories…" #SaundersLewis #ReadIndies #Dewithon22
“…our rows of well-kept purgatories…” #SaundersLewis #ReadIndies #Dewithon22
I’m a great believer in the fact that there is a right time for every book – which is probably why I have a gigantic TBR, because all those books are just waiting for me to find the appropriate space to get to them! A case in point is today’s book, which is the last one I’m going to be covering for our #ReadIndies event. The book is “Monica” by Saunders Lewis and it’s been sitting on the TBR for…
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Winding Up the Week #215
Winding Up the Week #215
An end of week recap
“What millions died – that Caesar might be great!”
– Thomas Campbell
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
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If you are planning a…
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DEWITHON 22: Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams
DEWITHON 22: Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams
A brief introduction and a few shared thoughts on my book choice for Reading Wales 2022
“…the African thing hung about me like a Welsh Not, a heavy encumbrance on my soul; a Not-identity; an awkward reminder of what I was or what I wasn’t.”
Published by Planet Books in 2002, Charlotte Williams’s Wales Book of the Year-winning autobiographical ‘novel’ has long been lauded by readers and critics…
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Winding Up the Week #214
Winding Up the Week #214
An end of week recap
“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
– Samuel Beckett
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
CHATTERBOOKS >>
If you are planning a reading event,…
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DEWITHON ‘22: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2
DEWITHON ‘22: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2
A series of short posts highlighting recent cultural and bookish chatter from Wales
This is the second post of D22 in which we look at literary and other cultural goings-on (Welsh speakers may prefer sgwrsio llenyddol Cymraeg) from the land of poetry and song.
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Choosing the Next National Poet of Wales
Literature Wales, the national company responsible for the…
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Winding Up the Week #213
Winding Up the Week #213
An end of week recap
“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
– Dylan Thomas
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related…
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A Poem by R. S. Thomas
A Poem by R. S. Thomas
We head into the second week of Dewithon 2022 with a poem from a man who believed in “the true Wales of my imagination”
Ronald Stuart Thomas was a fiery Welsh nationalist poet and Anglican priest, sometimes referred to as “the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales” for his outspoken views on the anglicisation of our small nation.
The son of a sea captain, he was born in Cardiff on 29th March 1913, his…
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Reading Wales 2022
1st to 31st March
Welcome to the fourth Reading Wales celebration (aka Dewithon 22), a month-long event beginning on Saint David’s Day, during which book lovers from all parts of the world are encouraged to read, discuss and review literature by and about writers from Wales.
For more in-depth information on this reading jolly, head over to DHQ (Dewithon Headquarters), and to see what’s happening…
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A Poem by Hedd Wyn
A Poem by Hedd Wyn
We commence the first week of Reading Wales 2022 with a poem written by the Welsh-language poet Hedd Wyn
To mark Saint David’s Day and the start of Dewithon 2022, I share the moving poem Rhyfel (War) in both English and Welsh. It is one of Hedd Wyn’s best known and most frequently quoted works in which he interweaves ideas about faith, music, class and conflict in a lament for the brutality and…
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Are You Looking Forward to Reading Wales 2022?
Are You Looking Forward to Reading Wales 2022?
DEWITHON PLANNER 2022
Dewithon is an opportunity for book bloggers and readers in general to discover Welsh writers and their works (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, in fact anything written in English or Welsh with links to the nation of Wales).
We will begin our usual 31 days of celebration on Tuesday 1st March 2022 (St. David’s Day), with an official page appearing on which your…
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Winding Up the Week #205
Winding Up the Week #205
An end of week recap
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
– Frank Herbert
This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
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If you are…
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