This Week I am Reading
THIS WEEK I AM READING... 29 AUGUST 2016 This Blog series should really be titled 'Travels of a Book Slut' on account of the fact that I...
top of page
Search
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
This Week I Have Been Reading
25 June 2016 Never one to only settle for one book at a time, and eager to escape the real world for the fictional one, this week I have...
16 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
This Week I am Reading
19 June 2016 This week I have returned to an old favourite, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It's been many many years since I...
9 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
This week I am reading
21 My 2016 I have gone back to visit a very old friend. I am re-visiting Robin Hobb's fantasy novels about the Fool and Fitz! She is now...
10 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
This Week I am Reading 'The Ship' by Antonia Honeywell
(and it is exquisite!) 10th May 2016 Update: Its a dystopian novel set in a world very like our own, but after a cataclysmic event. The...
8 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
Kenneth Grahame - The Missing Nature Mystic
15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...
21 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Vie Medicatrix Naturae
15 November 2015 I had an important insight into the mind of Mary Webb this weekend, which is really important to the work I am doing at...
18 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Going with the Flow
30 October 2015 One of the skills I am learning as I grow older is in not trying too hard. There is a skill to be honed in just letting...
12 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
A Week of Mindfulness and Thoughts on Value Judgments
18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference...
15 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
Me and Mr. Tolkien
13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...
19 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Priestess by Rainbow Jo
9th August 2014 When I started on my spiritual path some fifteen or so years ago, someone shared a very special piece of wisdom with me,...
21 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
In John Keats' Bedroom
Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Yesterday was a scorcher! While hordes of people were heading for Hampstead Heath, I snuck away down a...
10 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Research Heaven
Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Well, I must confess I have been a little quiet on here. I have been buried deep in the research, and...
6 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Silences of the Moon
Posted @ 10:43:38 on 20 January 2013 The best moment of my week was running into a teenager on the tube who really surprised me. I...
16 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
Good Reads...
Posted @ 15:52:04 on 04 August 2012 I took a little naughty detour from my dissertation a couple of weeks ago, to read a really fantastic...
9 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
My Precious Bane
Posted @ 11:32:12 on 04 June 2012 It is never a good sign when I start a new post thinking "My goodness, is it really that long since I...
21 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Heeelllooooooo! Is There Anybody There?
Posted @ 12:24:03 on 28 May 2011 It is a long time since I have posted anything here. It is a busy busy time at the moment, and all...
5 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Dear James Joyce
Posted @ 10:12:44 on 22 September 2010 Dear JJ, I felt I had to write this letter to you, after the way you gave me such a reproachful...
12 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
How the Gods Weave Their Magic
Posted @ 10:09:44 on 16 September 2010 A few years ago, when I was very unhappy and unsatisfied in my old life, I used to have a little...
18 views
Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
The Hero's Journey
Posted @ 08:58:56 on 22 April 2010 I have been having a really interesting foray into the world of Archetypes this last few weeks, from...
17 views
bottom of page