The Faevourite

I didn’t have a blog planned for this week but have just seen this all over the book trade press so I have to post about it because I think as many people should get involved as possible. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Watership Down (which just happens to be my favourite book), some…

Isn’t it funny How a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does? I don’t know if I’ve ever said this before on my blog but I think Winnie the Pooh is so fucking funny and underrated. One of my favourite moments from the books is when Pooh accidentally eats Eeyore’s birthday…

I just wanted to share this old pic from when I realised I am literally my tween fave Anastasia Krupnik. It is my way of saying (like I do every year….): I’m back babeey! You might see I’ve renamed the site. I’m not sure how but someone stole the Gliterature domain from me, so now…

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Happy Halloween y’all! Here’s some more stuff I’ve read that you should too: Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction (by Zadie Smith) Malfunctioning Sex Robot (by Patricia Lockwood) Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To? On audiobooks…

Feeling driven to post something so here’s a quick round-up of some articles about books/reading/etc. that I found interesting last month. Enjoi~ Superfans: A Love Story What can kids’ books teach the post-Harry Potter generation? On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women How Reese Witherspoon became the new high priestess of book clubs The…