I’ve got another pretty busy weekend, though hopefully also enough time to finish off some of the books I’ve been reading. I’m reading so many at the moment, including some really good ones – it feels like 2018 has been a great reading year. I hope you also have a fun weekend planned – and here’s a book, a blog post, and a link to accompany you on it…
1.) The book – people keep writing books about reading, and I keep lapping them up. The latest I’ve spotted is Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson, which I think looks at a love of reading from a specifically Christian perspective. Um, hi book that puts together my two favourite things!
2.) The blog post – the Persephone Readathon has kicked off over at Dwelling in Possibility! Do go and check it out, and join in. I’m planning on reading Tory Heaven by Marghanita Laski.
3.) The link – you might well know Kate Beaton for her hilarious Hark, A Vagrant! cartoon. If you follow her on Twitter, you probably know that she recently lost her sister after a protracted and hideous experience of cancer. She has written movingly about it at The Cut.
Oh wow, I had no idea that Kate Beaton had lost her sister. That’s horrible — one of the worst things I can imagine. My sisters are so very dear to me. Her piece at The Cut made me cry, especially because the story about not being taken seriously by doctors who don’t think a large amount of between-period bleeding is a problem is so, so, so common. I can think of three women I know who have had similar experiences, without even trying hard.
Yes, anything about siblings destroys me.. And ugh, that’s awful.