Marvellous Things

Summer has ARRIIIIIIVED :)
To those of you who I haven't seen while I've been home, my apologies, but the sunshine is calling me in equal measure to my pending deadlines. I am struggling to stay indoors glued to my laptop when it is just SO SUNNY.
The sun makes me deliriously happy.

But, alas, I have had work to do. I'm making progress. In early May I will be able to hand in my 8000 words and relax for a few brief days. Then Dissertation hell shall descend, but lets not go there.
Sooooooon.

Firstly, I would like to thank all of you who read my blog, I have over 1000 views now! :) So thank you, and I'm sorry if you only read this because you don't see me. I will emerge from behind the stack of books soon. I hope.

I have continued to read (of course) this week I've read:

The Book History Reader (for my essay, which was equally interesting and boring in parts)
&
Girl meets Boy- Ali Smith
Which as absolutely wonderful! Smith has such a gentle nature with her stories, the themes are an intricately woven undercurrent and her narratives are so absorbing and her characters wonderfully complex. What a writer.

So I guess that's all for now. Back to researching whether the book is dead. And writing about robbery.
Happy days!


Today's soundtrack: Eisley: Consider that Trolley Wood could be my work, my creative instinct. I do sometimes feel like this 'takes me away' or that I could lose it altogether!


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