![]() ![]() Beth wanted to travel the world and visit India. ![]() I loved how they were unafraid to share their dreams and fears with each other. Standing by each other, refusing to bow down to convention and living lives that mean something to them. It’s also a tale of friendship, community and loyalty as the women – and the men they love – build close bonds. Pack Horse Librarian visiting a school to hand out books in 1930s America It’s something I’ve felt – you can draw whole worlds in your head through reading a book in a way television and films will never allow – it’s probably why so many people hate adaptations. It’s the visits and stories that help to keep them going, the comfort they get from a book. “The families they visited were often blue with cold themselves, children and old people tucked up together in beds, some coughing or rheumy-eyed, huddled around half-hearted fires and all still desperate for the diversion and hope that a good story could bring”. The families the women visit are living in abject poverty in harsh conditions: ![]() It reminded me of how we can take something as simple as reading and learning for granted. How reading can help us escape and immerse ourselves in another world and how the thirst for knowledge can give people the tools they need to build a different life. I loved this book, it reminded me of the magic of reading, the knowledge and entertainment it gives. Female Packhorse Librarian making her way in to the mountains to deliver books in 1930s America ![]()
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All the groundbreaking Saga of the Swamp Thing graphic novels by Alan Moore, the writer of Watchmen and V For Vendetta, in a gorgeous slipcase box set!īefore Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s really not much more to the plot than that, but what could have been an extremely boring book is surprisingly absorbing in the hands of Emma Donoghue. The three monks set off in the boat and eventually come to the uninhabited rocky island of Skellig Michael, where they prepare to live in seclusion together for the rest of their lives. To set out on pilgrimage with two companions, find this island, and found a monastic retreat.’Īrtt persuades the Abbot to let him take a small boat and go in search of the island, accompanied by two other monks: the elderly Cormac, who came to religion late in life after losing his loved ones to plague, and Trian, a young man given to the monastery by his parents as a child. ‘The dream is an instruction to withdraw from the world. ![]() ‘I was with an old monk, and a young one.’ The Abbot shows no sign of understanding him. As if I were a bird or an angel, looking down on the three of us.’ His name is Artt and he claims to have had a dream, a vision sent by God: The setting is 7th century Ireland and the novel begins with a stranger arriving at the monastery of Cluain Mhic Nóis on the banks of the River Shannon. I’ve read four books by Emma Donoghue now and each one has been completely different from the one before! Haven is a particularly unusual novel and even after finishing it I’m still not quite sure what I really think of it. ![]() |