DEWITHON PLANNER 2024
Dewithon is an opportunity for book bloggers and readers in general around the world to discover Welsh writers and their works (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays – in fact anything written in English or Welsh with links to the nation of Wales).
We will begin our usual 31 days of celebration on Friday 1st March 2024 (St. David’s Day), with an official page appearing on which your Dewithon-related posts will feature. In the meantime, you can find plenty of useful links and reading suggestions in the freshly updated DHQ (Dewithon Headquarters) post and in our Reading Wales Library (there’s also oodles of information on The Welsh Diaspora and its Literature page), but please do not hesitate to ask for help if you are struggling to get started. You are encouraged to read and share your thoughts on any book or literary subject with a connection to Wales, so prepare to dechrau darllen (start reading)!
Missing Host
For reasons outlined in Winding Up the Week #360, I will be forced to set Dewithon 2024 to automatic pilot for extended periods – but will, as promised, pop in as often as possible. I therefore haven’t selected a specific readathon title for this year’s event, though I did suggest in my post that you may like to read The Winchester Codex, Frances Spurrier’s exciting new fantasy novel set in Wales.
Get Dewithoning!
Please be sure to let me know if you write anything at all about Reading Wales, though I’m especially keen to highlight your reviews and features. To do this, simply drop me a line or leave a link to your piece in the comments section below – and should you discuss the challenge on social media, I would appreciate you using either one or both of the following hashtags: #Dewithon24 and #ReadingWales24.
Thank you and good luck (diolch a phob lwc)!
Categories: Reading Wales
My TBR file tells me that I have a book I’ve tagged as Welsh: Gifted by Nikita Lalwani. I’m sure I’ll find time to read it at some stage this year!
Excellent! Thank you, Lisa. 😀👍
Thanks so much for hosting Dewithon, Paula! I loved reading Caradog Prichard’s One Moonlit Night for Dewithon before. Will try to participate this year and read some Welsh fiction. So exciting!
Thank you, Vishy. Yes, One Moonlit Night is a really special book – I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I’m delighted you’re thinking of Dewithoning this year. Fingers crossed you find something good to read! 😊
Thank you, Paula 😊 Thanks so much for hosting 😊
I intend to review an Arthur Machen novel in March, but I haven’t decided on anything else; maybe Jan Morris is a possibility, but who knows?
Fascinating choice, Chris. I should imagine Arthur Machen is right up your street. I read The Great God Pan many years ago but I’m not really familiar with anything else he wrote. As for Jan Morris… Well, you can’t go wrong with any of her books. 😀👍
Looking forward to it! I have two reads lined up, fingers crossed.
Fab! I can’t wait to discover your chosen books. 😀👍
Thank you for doing this!!! My intro post is up, tweeted and IG-ed! https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/reading-wales-dewithon-march-1st-to-31st-2024/
Fabulous! Thank you, Lisa. I will link to your post as soon as the official Dewithon 24 page goes up. 😀👍
Thank you so hosting Dewithon. I am very much looking forward to participating this year. I read One Moonlit Night in 2021 and loved it so much. I’ve been reading quite a bit of Welsh literature ever since. I am fortunate to have a lot of books to choose from in March. The hard part will be trying to pick!
I am afraid I don’t blog or have a YouTube channel, but I’ll be following along.
Thank you, Amy. So glad you will be joining us this year. It really doesn’t matter about having a blog etc. – the important thing is you discover new and exciting writers from Wales. I hope you have an enjoyable Dewithon. See you round. 👋😀
I’m in! I’ve got a plan. Hope you have lovely travels and that it works well with your hosting duties.
Hooray! 😀👍
Thank you as ever Paula. I have my intro post up and got my books. https://volatilerune.blog/2024/02/26/if-its-nearly-march-it-must-be-time-for-the-dewithon24/
Brill! Thank you so much, Frances. I left a brief comment on your post. 😊
I have made a start with a review of Nicola Upson’s Fear in the Sunlight:
https://sconesandchaiseslongues.blogspot.com/2024/03/dewithon-2024-fear-in-sunlight-by.html
I abandoned my first two choices – both by Margiad Evans! Luckily I had a book I’d read last year but not reviewed so I can make at least one contribution.
Sorry to learn the Margiad Evans’ books weren’t your cup of tea, Karen, but I’m delighted to know you found something to read for Dewithon. 😊
Hello again Paula,
My next review for Dewithon is of John Ford’s ‘How Green Was My Valley’, the film set in a Welsh mining village but, as it was made in wartime, filmed entirely on set in Malibu. I loved watching it again after many years – it’s still wonderful.
https://sconesandchaiseslongues.blogspot.com/2024/03/dewithon-2024-how-green-was-my-valley.html
Thank you so much, Rosemary. It’s amazing to think it was all filmed in Malibu!
Thanks for mentioning.
I just came back from Leipzig Bookfair.
Interesting because I don’t know contemporary Welsh authors.
Happy Easter holidays
Klausbernd 🙂
Thank you, Klausbernd. A very Happy Easter to you, too! 🐣🪺🐰
My review of A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens is up.
https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/review-a-five-year-sentence-by-bernice-rubens/
Many thanks indeed, Lisa. I have created a link to your review from the Reading Wales 2024 page: https://bookjotter.com/2024/02/28/reading-wales-2024/ 😊
Thank you! And, thank you for hosting–I love doing this event.
I know this is awfully late Paula, but I have just finished my review of Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden, so I hope it can be included:
https://sconesandchaiseslongues.blogspot.com/2024/03/dewithon-2024-carries-war-by-nina-bawden.html
Thank you again for hosting this reading month. The time has flown past, and I intended to do so much more, but if you do it again next year I will at least have a pile of books ready to go!
Best wishes.
Definitely not too late. You’ve had a super Dewithon, Rosemary. Thank you so much for all your lovely contributions. 😀👍