Today is World Book Day, which gives me the perfect excuse to dig into one of my favourite hobbies – reading. I’ve always spent a lot of time with my head in a book, and I try to read a wide range of styles…although I am guilty of often returning back to my favourites over and over again. I think reading is such an important thing for everyone to do as much as they can, which is why I wanted to share some of my favourites and recommendations to you today. I also always love getting book recommendations from people, so please get involved and comment your favourite books and authors! I’m very lucky in that I can read pretty much anywhere, so when I am travelling that is basically my go to activity. When I was a kid and we’d go on holiday in the car to France, I…
I’ve got an interesting story to share with you today, on a few different levels! As a huge J. R. R. Tolkien fan (author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings), I was really excited when I read the news that broke over the last week or so about Project Northmoor. This project was launched to “save” Tolkien’s Oxford home, running as a crowdfunding style initiative to raise £4.5m to buy this house from the current owners. I’d seen the typical negative comments online slamming the project which has been publicly backed by Sir Ian McKellen and other actors in the films, saying “they can afford it themselves”. These comments annoyed me, and I was really interested in finding out more about the project, as I couldn’t believe that there isn’t a literary centre or museum dedicated to Tolkien’s legacy already. I clicked through onto the website (https://www.projectnorthmoor.org/)…