Articles relating to: Reading
Books: Best Northern Reads (Part One)
Where would we be right now without books? For all my enthusiasm to gobble up the latest series of Brooklyn Nine-Nine or bingewatch The Tiger King (if you haven’t given into the hype, then do so immediately), the only thing that quells my internal anxiety and settles my soul is reading. There’s something reassuring about the weight of a book in my hands and the steady back-and-forth of lines on the page. When we’re feeling clipped and stifled, books allow us to fly.
Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2019
As we approach the end of 2019 (and the beginning of another decade) it’s tricky to remain optimistic – what with Brexit, a general election and a climate crisis. Nevertheless, this year wasn’t all fire and brimstone. If you’re a bookworm or a writer, 2019 was full of great news and excellent reads.
Jane Austen at Home: Northern Soul talks to TV historian Lucy Worsley
“She was very intolerant of foolishness, vanity, empty talk, obsequiousness, time-wasting, cruelty.”
Book Review: Why Vinyl Matters by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
As an enthusiastic crate digger, I thought I didn’t need to be told why vinyl matters.
Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2017
Despite our hopes that 2017 would be a marked improvement on the turbulent 2016, this year came with more bumps, twists and turns than the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. But, as usual, it was an excellent year for bookworms and the good reads kept on coming.
The book that changed my life: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
I read the book that changed my life, the one I can’t stop telling people about, last year.
The book that changed my life: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s landmark 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is not a book about censorship.
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