Books To Help You Understand The World Better
- Hazel Butterfield
- 17 September 2024
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors." – Charles Baudelaire
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Bahrain for your next holiday holiday anyone?
- Hazel Butterfield
- 10 September 2024
The remit I got from the kids (13 & 16) was – ‘a city, not too long distance a flight, not cold, social media allowed and something to do’. I made sure their ‘not cold’ was more understood as warm, so I could sunbathe and leave them alone a bit more…
View PostHave a staycation by opening a book.
- Hazel Butterfield
- 06 August 2024
Books are life to bookworms. The power of words takes you to places you could never imagine and fills your heart with warm romance.
View Post‘Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.’ - Lemony Snicket
- Hazel Butterfield
- 14 June 2024
'The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.' - Alan Bennett, The History Boys
View PostThe Sun is out, time to get your books out.
- Hazel Butterfield
- 20 May 2024
'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.' - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
View PostFrank & Red, Think Twice, The Love of My Afterlife & Lessons In Cruelty - There is a theme...
- Hazel Butterfield
- 28 March 2024
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire
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