Clare Robb > Recent Status Updates

I’ve just finished my almost-annual read of Lord of the Rings and this time it was from a volume that includes all three books, so it’s pretty massive. I find something new in the text every time I read it, but also it’s so comforting to escape into its familiar rhythm.

I’m currently bed bound with a backache and I haven’t read the first two of these books, but I’m already very invested in this one

audiobook ing on the way to work at the moment and never have I had so many tabs open- there’s a new painting/ sculpture/ Greek pot to look up every time I listen and I love it.

latest audiobook for the dark mornings and evenings, walking to and from work. this story makes me feel like a child again

the book that I got myself for my birthday this year :’)

I already know that I’m going to love it

Audiobook

I’ve read A.S Byatt before but never her short stories and am finding it difficult to consider this kind of collection as a whole.
Thinking about common threads that infiltrate through, but also the stories separately. Connected by undercurrents.

sick day re-read

Audiobook

Dante Book Club

Re-read and noticing so many wonderful things I missed the first time around.

Have read full passages of this book without overcoming the lump in my throat. Truly effecting and viscerally descriptive- of both the Troubles that Kerri Ní Dochartaigh clawed her way through, and the natural world which surrounds her.