1st to 31st March
Welcome to the sixth Reading Wales celebration (aka Dewithon 24), a month-long event beginning on Saint David’s Day, during which book lovers from all parts of the world are encouraged to read, discuss and review literature from and about Wales.
For more in-depth information on this reading jolly, head over to DHQ (Dewithon Headquarters) and, to see what’s happening this year, please follow this link. You can also share your thoughts and posts on social media by using the hashtags #dewithon24 and/or #readingwales24.
Here we display your Dewithon-related posts. Please leave your links in the comments below or drop me a line with the URL.
Mwynhewch ddarllen! (Enjoy reading!)
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DEWITHON POSTS 2024
BOOK REVIEWS
- An Open Door: Writing for a Precarious Century – Volatile Rune
- The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward – Reading Wales 2024 – Staircase Wit
- Book review – Darren Chetty, Grug Muse, Hanan Issa and Iestyn Tyne (eds) – “Welsh (Plural)” – Adventures in reading, running and working from home
- Book review – Horatio Clare – “Down to the Sea in Ships” – Adventures in reading, running and working from home
- Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) by Ransom Riggs – Literary Potpourri
- Book Review: Silver on the Tree (1977) by Susan Cooper – Literary Potpourri
- Dewithon24: A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins – BookerTalk
- Dewithon 2024: Bring Me Sunshine by Lucy Kemp – Scones and Chaises Longues
- Dewithon 2024: Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden – Scones and Chaises Longues
- Dewithon 2024: Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson – Scones and Chaises Longues
- Drift by Caryl Lewis — an ode to Wales – BookerTalk
- Fairy gold? Or dust and ashes? – Calmgrove
- ‘Gone to Abergavenny’: Writing for a Precarious Century – Volatile Rune
- The hour’s getting late: #Dewithon24 – Calmgrove
- How Green Was My Valley – Just Reading A Book
- “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” (Groucho Marx) – Madame Bibi Lophile Recommends
- In this Fairytale, the Princess is Wiped from the Record – Volatile Rune
- “It’s the damn weather that’s been the trouble all through.” – Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
- The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price – She Reads Novels
- The Reckoning by Sharon Penman – She Reads Novels
- Review: A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens – Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
- Under Milk Wood – Just Reading A Book
- “Wales, in the end, is a lot of wet hills…” – Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings
- White Ladies and Hounds of Hell: Ghosts in Welsh Folklore – Volatile Rune
- Winter 2024, In My Reading Log – Buried in Print
FEATURES
- The BBC Radio Collection | Dylan Thomas #1 – This Reading Life
- Dewithon 2024: How Green Was My Valley – Scones and Chaises Longues
- Dewithon24 – Let’s Meet Some Authors From Wales – BookerTalk
- DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #1 – Book Jotter
- DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2 – Book Jotter
POETRY
- A Poem by Albert Cynan Evans-Jones – Book Jotter
- The Green Hollow by Owen Sheers – 746 Books
- Honesty: #MarchMagics2024 – Calmgrove
MISCELLANEOUS
- A Cheating Dewithon? – Roving Reader (YouTube broadcast)
- Dewithon – Reading Wales 2024 – Scones and Chaises Longues
- Dewithon Recommendations and TBR (all about those Welsh Books!) – PaSTORY Time (YouTube broadcast)
- Dewithon TBR – RedheadReading (YouTube broadcast)
- Friday Reads: Dewithon, Murder, and Quiche – Aaron Read A Book (YouTube broadcast)
- If it’s nearly March it must be time for the #Dewithon24 – Volatile Rune
- Reading Wales 2024 – BooksPlease
- Reading Wales –Dewithon–March 1st to 31st 2024 – Hopewell’s Public Library of Life
- ‘The Silent Quarry’ Reading Wales For #Dewithon24 – Thoughts Become Words
- What to Read for Dewithon (Wales Readathon)! – Too Many Heathers (YouTube broadcast)
Categories: Reading Wales
Look forward to joining in this month!
Marvellous! Hope you have a great Dewithon, Cathy! 😊👍
This is my first time joining in. I’m looking forward to it!
Welcome, Margaret. I’m so pleased you will be joining us. 😊
Looking forward to joining in for the first time!
Hope the challenge goes well! I don’t appear to have any Welsh authors TBR, sadly, and I’m being super-careful about keeping to books I already have for challenges this year. If anyone spots any on my shelves, please shout!
Quite understand, Liz. Thanks for taking the time to let me know. 😊👍
Good news: somehow I found myself “needing” to order a book from a Bad Place to get fast delivery on one I needed in a hurry, and I chose “Welsh: Plural” so I’ll read one after all!
Hooray! 😀👍
Here’s my first one, half-way through the second so hoping I can get it done and reviewed in time! https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/book-review-darren-chetty-grug-muse-hanan-issa-and-iestyn-tyne-eds-welsh-plural/
Don’t worry if you miss the Dewithon deadline, it will still count. I have linked to your Welsh (Plural) post above. Thank you so much, Liz. 😀👍
And my second one! I really enjoyed Horatio Clare’s “Down to the Sea in Ships” read for #ReadingWales24 https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/book-review-horatio-clare-down-to-the-sea-in-ships/
Thank you, Liz! 😊👍
I’ve pulled my book from the stack. But I bet it still takes me a ridiculous amount of time to work it into daily reading rotation. Some might say there are too many books on my mind right now, but they’re all so good!
That’s excellent news, Marcie. Hope it’s a goodun! 😀👍
Here’s one from Staircase Wit! The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward -http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-birthday-girl-by-sarah-ward-reading.html
Constance
Brill! Thank you so much, Constance. I have added it to this page. 😊👍
Are there any Welsh author writing lite, fun, books? I can’t cope with either of the dark books I chose–I’d love a gal pal book or women’s fiction for this year.
My first post from a Dylan Thomas BBC audio collection I’m slowly listening to – https://bronasbooks.com/2024/03/13/the-bbc-radion-collection-dylan-thomas-1/
This really is a super review, Brona. I have linked to it (above) and left you a brief message on the post. 😀👍
I reviewed The Green Hollow by Owen Sheers!
https://746books.com/2024/03/20/the-green-hollow-by-owen-sheers-dewithon24/
Many thanks, Cathy. I’ve linked to it (above). 😀👍
I just scraped in by the skin of my teeth, Paula 🏃♀️ Great links!
And thank you so much for doing so, Gretchen. A splendid post with such warm words. Very much appreciated, I can tell you. 😀👍
I read I let You Go, by Clare Mackintosh, which I wrote about in this post –
https://booksplease.org/2024/03/30/reading-wales-2024-2/
and also Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans, a Welsh historian, which I’ll write about later. I only finished it yesterday.