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How to get started in blogging

Despite being around for more than 25 years, blogging is still alive and flourishing. According to the latest blogging statistics, there were 31.7 million bloggers in the United States alone in 2020, with users of popular blogging platform WordPress producing around 70 million new posts each month.  So, if you’re thinking about starting a blog and wondering where to begin Read more…

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Midnight Library by journalist and mental health advocate Matt Haig is a thought-provoking page-turner for these uncertain times. Synopsis Thirty-something Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library – a sort of holding area between life and death – following a life of sadness and regret. In the Midnight Library, Nora gets the opportunity to try out all sorts Read more…

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where the crawdads sing is a beautiful coming-of-age tale that brings together romance, murder mystery and wildlife. Set on the North Carolina coast, it follows Kya Clark, who is known to the local community as ‘The Marsh Girl’ because she grew up in the nearby swamp. When a local boy named Chase Andrews is found dead, the local community immediately Read more…

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Normal People by Sally Rooney

Normal People is set in rural Ireland and follows the on-off-on relationship between Marianne – a socially-awkward misfit who ‘wears ugly thick-soled flat shoes’ and Connell, one of the most popular and good-looking boys in their school. Both are highly intelligent yet come from different social classes. Marianne is wealthy and lives in a mansion while Connell is working-class – Read more…