about me

Widowed, almost two years ago, enough said......
With a life-long love for reading, I found it impossible to focus after the passing of my husband of twenty-nine years. He introduced me to his favourite genres, and we enjoyed discussing 'good reads'
Within the last five years of our marriage, he worked on his 'novel' and I dabbled with 'the short story'.
Twenty-one months later, I was able to read, and continue reading. This has improved the quality of my life and lifted my spirits. I find myself laughing uncontrollably sometimes as I peruse some Authonomy 'gems'
My chores are neglected, although my four children like the change in me, even as I monopolise the computer, red-eyed, into the wee small hours, reading.
I have an urge to take up my painting again; I love the medium of watercolour and long for summer! Not enough sunlight, if any, when one has to endure a Scottish winter.

I will try to give a constructive and objective comment on each book I back, as and when I find the time to do justice to the text presented; a cliched or hasty comment is not what this website is about, I hope.
If you find my remarks impertinent, please ignore them; I am no expert and it is hard to be a critic when my only tools are a love of the English language and a desire to be helpful.
Family committments restrict my 'authonomy' time.
I offer no book for return read at the moment.
I am revelling in the fact that I am reading again!
Perhaps my writing will follow suit, and all of a sudden I will be scribbling away.
What a great website! What talent !
I HATE to delete MY books which I have backed, and enjoy so much, but I keep finding more equally fabulous stories!

favourite books

Favourite love story - 'A Tale of Two Cities', Charles Dickens. I cried when I read this at the age of eleven, confined to bed with a bad case of the measles; it still moves me to tears all these years later.
Any novel be Wilbur Smith - love them!
Duncton Wood - William Horwood - wonderful.
Catherine Cookson, Maeve Binchey, Jeffrey Archer, Dick Francis, Dennis Wheatley, and lots of historical romance.

I enjoy reading and writing poetry, and I am working, slowly, on a collection of short short stories.
Open minded, I read almost anything.
The names of many authors I have enjoyed elude me but they are safely nestling in my sub-conscious ready to delight me again at any given moment, as my mood changes.

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