A short week for me means a brief message rather than my usual weekly wind up. You will, however, still see announcements for both Tove Jansson & Moomin Month and Women in Translation Month 2026, and among the birthday celebrants this weekend are Herman Melville, James Baldwin and Rose Tremain.
This week’s round up moves from recently read and reviewed books to notable pieces of literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside a handful of anniversaries worth marking (including the birthdays of George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley). It also gathers a selection of intriguing book related features from around the Internet.
This week’s round‑up ranges from recently read and reviewed books to standout literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside anniversaries of note (among them World Listening Day and the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray). It also returns to earlier posts deserving another look and draws together a set of intriguing book‑related features from around the Internet.
This week’s round-up gathers recently read and reviewed books, standout literary writing from across the blogosphere and a selection of notable anniversaries (including Bowdler’s Day, Malala Day and Henry David Thoreau’s birthday). It also revisits past posts worth rediscovering and highlights intriguing book-related features from around the Internet.
This week I focus on books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Alice in Wonderland Day, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthday and something else on 4th of July that has slipped my mind), focus on past posts deserving to be rediscovered and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week I focus on books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Helen Keller Day and Global Smurf Day), spotlight past posts deserving to be rediscovered and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet.
My latest addition to the Moomin shelf in the Tove Trove library is ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’, the third book in the original series, published in 1948.
This week I look at books recently read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including Audiobook Appreciation Month and Jean Paul Sartre’s and Ian McEwan’s birthdays), revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from around the Internet.
Following my two-week hiatus, I look at books recently read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including the birthdays of William Butler Yeats, Dorothy L. Sayers and Harriet Beecher Stowe), revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from around the Internet.
In this, my final wind up of the month, I look at books read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of unusual anniversaries, announce a two‑week hiatus, revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from around the Internet.
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including National Biographers Day and the birth of Adrienne Rich), announce Paris in July 2026, revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from around the Internet.
This week I focus on books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read in the Bathtub Day, J. M. Barrie’s birthday and Dalloway Day), focus on past posts deserving to be rediscovered and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet.
This sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited along for the ride.
Following a brief hiatus, this week I take a look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including International Harry Potter Day and Write a Review Day), focus on past posts deserving rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
A Tove Trove exploration of Olivier Norek’s ‘The Winter Warriors’, tracing the Winter War that shaped Tove Jansson’s early world and deepening my Reading Around Tove journey.
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature across the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including National Library Week and Refresh Your Goals Day), revisit past posts deserving rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week I round up books read and reviewed across the blogosphere, explore some of the finest literary writing to be found online, mark a host of literary anniversaries (including Drop Everything and Read Day and George Orwell’s annual Hate Week), revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight a selection of fascinating features from around the Internet.
This week I round up books read and reviewed across the blogosphere, explore some of the finest literary writing to be found online, announce both the 1961 Club and Lady Audley’s Secret Review Along, mark a host of literary anniversaries, revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight a selection of fascinating features from around the Internet.
My latest contribution to the Tove Trove Library is ‘Letters from Tove’, a substantial collection of letters written by Tove Jansson to her closest friends and loved ones during her life.
This week I seek out books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Shakespeare Week and the birth of Welsh poet R. S. Thomas), look forward to Wyrd & Wonder ’26, revisit past posts deserving rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.