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Author: Stephanie Butland Found in a Bookshop is the second book about a lovely bookshop based in York, UK. The first book is entitled The Lost for Words Bookshop (the name of the bookstore in York where the story is happening) and I wrote a review, which can be found here. I purchased this second…
Author: Stephanie Butland The Lost for Words Bookshop is another beautiful story of community, support, friendship, and love. However, this story is more than that because it is also a story of domestic abuse. What is more, it is also a story of early socialization and how it impacts adult life. It is well known…
Author: Bella Osborne The Library is a book by Bella Osborne, a British author who turned up for me in searches when I was googling about British authors who write about communities following my enthusiasm for books by Libby Page and Sally Page. A few of us decided to form a book club in the…
Author: Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was recommended by Sarah Whittle for the #WECAN book club in honour of her Ukrainian heritage. It would be an understatement to say I was initially shocked by the suggestion thinking we will have to read about how tractors were invented or something daft. It…
Author: Eva St John The Great Deceiver or book five of the Quantum Curators series ended this part of the series I’ve been reading and enjoying enormously. I misunderstood the author’s recent newsletter announcement about the story’s finale and thought this series sadly ends here so I savoured it and read it slowly, but a…
Author: Caroline Criado Perez Invisible Women book was gifted to me by my dear colleague, Robert Minton-Taylor but as workload would have it I only read it now because it was recommended by a member of a #WECAN project book club so I said yes seeing an opportunity to finally read the piece. Throughout the…
Author: M. E. Thomas As part of our school’s book club, which we initially formed as part of the #WECAN project, albeit we just do it for fun and engagement now, we read this book about a sociopath, which I proposed due to my love of popular literature and behavioural research interest. After I read…
Author: Michelle Obama I follow US politics and the media quite a lot because of the nature of the work I do, i.e., studying mass communications industries. I knew about Barack Obama’s presidency and some of the initiatives he launched and how he tried to change the US. But what I did not know was…
Author: Emily Edwards This book was part of reading for the school’s book club I formed with colleagues as part of the #WECAN project. It is indeed one of the most thought-provoking books we read as part of the book club due to the moral, ethical and behavioural questions it opens. In the book, we…
Libby Page A new book by Libby Page arrived on Friday bringing weekend captivation and saying nope to writing my own (academic) book. It was also one of those rare occasions when I pre-ordered the book. I don’t get passionate or excited about authors often even if I like what they wrote. But this is…
Author: Sally Page This book was recommended by a member of the project book club I formed for the #WECAN project. It came as a recommendation because I said I loved books by Libby Page and want to find an author who writes similarly since I read everything she wrote. By similar, I mean stories…
Maya Angelou As part of the #WECAN project’s book club, our next book to discuss is Maya Angelou’s famous book ‘I know why the caged bird sings’, which I heard about but never read. If you ever wondered why the Black Lives Matter movement is kicking off, this book will tell you why. I knew…
Author: Libby Page I reviewed other two books by Libby Page before, the Island Home and the 24-hour Café. Accidentally, I worked my way through her books in the reverse order so now I read her first book The Lido. As with the other two books, I loved it and once again, Page thrills me…
Author: Libby Page After reading magnificent Island Home by Libby Page, I purchased her two other books due to the impact the Island Home made on me. I first read the 24-Hour Café with Lido on my next to-read list. I was attracted by the 24-Hour Café due to the funky title that did not…
Author: Delia Owens I finished reading this book yesterday and have struggled all day today in writing this blog because I do not know where to start writing or how to write about this absolute masterpiece. The book was proposed as a reading by a colleague as part of the project book club I formed…
Libby Page I read this book as part of another #WECAN book club. It was yet another book recommended by someone else, this time by a young and very talented colleague who read Page’s previous books (I didn’t) and thought it might be worth reading this one too. This recommendation was not one of those…
Glennon Doyle As part of the #WECAN book club, this month we read Glennon Doyle’s powerful book ‘Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living’. The title of the book initially reads like some book about grown-up women’s empowerment, which is not what I normally read. Therefore, I was not thrilled when this was proposed by one of…
Eva St. John Rating: 5/5 I just finished reading this book, as part of the #WECAN project book club I founded and boy, was this a good proposal for the book club. I stayed up last night until 3 am as I was unable to let it go and then I kept reading today until…
Last year, as part of the ‘Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking’, or shortly, the #WECAN project, I led a research study conducting a systematic literature review on women and networking. Other than the usual stuff of women facing barriers for not always being able to network and networks still functioning as boy’s clubs, with…
Amazon delivered ‘An Education’ on Friday. I took it in my hands yesterday afternoon, and I did not go to sleep until I finished it. The book reads like a short history of British journalism as Lynn Barber worked in journalism since the 1970s, thus experiencing enormous changes in the industry and the British society…
This is the final blog in the #SaveTheCulture series. The last book is a true story, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”, published by Picador in 2002. The book is written by Alexandra Fuller and it is about her life and growing up in Africa. Thus, we get to follow her life from childhood…