Tag: books

Book recommendation – Stumbling on Happiness

3 November 2024

A book recommendation: "Stumbling on Happiness". It's hilarious and insightful… just maybe skip the last chapter if you're planning on having kids. Now, here's a mind-bender from happiness studies: People in objectively challenging situations (like conjoined twins) often report being just as happy as everyone else. Surprising, right? Even more wild: People who experience traumatic […]

James enjoys books – That is not my X series

21 October 2024

James enjoys books. His favourite series is "That's not my X".Where X is Dog, Sheep, Fox, Fire Engine, Aircraft Carrier, Llama. The books take a very similar format to each other, to the point where you're almost begging for plot twist in one. Originally posted on this post on Instagram

Try not to be amazed, confused and maybe a bit tearful, when you read my plans for 2014

24 January 2014

My first plan for 2014 is not to use upworthy-style headlines to drive people to my blog again, but since you're here, why not take a glance? Over the past few years, I've tried to make plans for the upcoming year. Read over some of my plans for the coming year from 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009 – all guaranteed to make me […]

A Blog Post A Day: Looking Back

1 December 2012

31 days ago, I set out to write a blog post for every day in November. The low points: Posting various relatively poorly formatted, rushed or somewhat rambling posts that are probably below par. Rushing to midnight deadlines Desparately trying to push posts online at 11:50pm via GSM on a train! The high points: Completing various […]

Oh no-NanoWriMo

31 October 2012

According to Wikipedia: NaNoWriMo is an annual internet-based creative writing project which challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel between November 1 and 30. A number of people I know have done this in previous years my friend Dan Lynch even wrote a song about it: (I may have once mercilessly reworded/hacked […]

397 A4 pages later…

22 July 2007

So after telling myself I wouldn't even bother looking at Ms Rowling's latest novel, I completed it this afternoon, less than 18 hours after I acquired it, though prior to that I had read the first chapter, before coming to the conclusion that I might as well read the rest of the damn book, though […]