Reading January 2020 Reading Roundup The first month of the year took me from Greece to Serbia via Vienna (don’t ask!), and in the world of books it took…
Reading Shulem Deen’s Powerful Memoir of Hasidic Life All Who Go Do Not Return by Shulem Deen is a powerful account of the author’s escape from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect…
Travel 2019: My Year of Full-Time Travel As regular readers may know, I’ve been travelling full-time with my wife Genie since the beginning of 2015. We don’t have a…
Reading Best Books I Read in 2019 How was your reading year? I read 58 books overall, which was not as many as I’d hoped, but still about one…
Reading Inside the Syrian Conflict With Jonathan Littell Homs is one of those places that, like Aleppo and Kandahar and Mosul, has become a byword for suffering. For years it…
Reading German Literature Month: The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz German Literature Month happens every November, and usually I remember about it some time in December. This year, though, I’m taking part for the…
Reading October Reading Roundup It’s been a busy couple of months for me, driving across Europe and along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, and now…
Reading The Good Life Elsewhere: A Dark Moldovan Comedy of Migration To describe The Good Life Elsewhere by Moldovan writer Vladimir Lorchenkov as a comedy is slightly misleading. It’s certainly shot through with black humour and…
ReadingThinking Read to Your Children. They’ll Thank You for It It’s International Literacy Day today, and I’d like to talk about fostering a love of reading. Recent research by Egmont shows that…