Caitlin

Blog 84: Avoid These Mistakes In Your Writing!

I have been looking at my old work again and my first ever attempts at writing a full length novel. To say I’ve learnt a lot since then would be an understatement, and I couldn’t help but cringe at the mistakes my younger self made which seem so blindingly obvious to me now, but weren’t […]

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Blog 83: Spellslinger By Sebastien De Castell.

Thank you Sebastien de Castell, your book has been the first book I’ve been able to read fully from front cover to back cover for what feels like a really long time. I devoured Spellslinger, and I have absolutely no regrets or complaints, other than, do you have to be so mean to poor Kellen? […]

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Blog 80: My TBR for 2019

In no particular order, I have a very long list of books which I will hopefully attempt to reduce in 2019. I’ve banned myself from buying new books as I have no room on my bookshelves. I need to read the books that I already have and decide which ones I will be keeping and […]

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Blog 79: Two Years In A Bookshop.

Happy New Year! So it has been just over two years since I first started working in a second-hand bookshop, and as a follow-up to my blog ‘One Year In A Bookshop’, I thought I would write another blog to update you on my experiences and see if anything has changed. As many of you […]

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Blog 78: On ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ by Richard Bach

Richard Bach is an American writer who has written many flight-related works. One of his most notable works is the fable, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which contains a lot of Bach’s philosophy and deeper thoughts. Bach believes that ‘our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance.’ I read this book in October when it was […]

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Blog 77: Thirteen Book Recommendations For Christmas.

Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Are you still searching for last minute gifts? Have you just found out that your great aunt from Australia is coming over to spend Christmas with the family? Fear not, I have some book recommendations for you for all ages and genders, but you may need to pop […]

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