My fourth novel – currently being edited:
After twenty years apart, two teenage sweethearts are unexpectedly reunited – now amidst the terror and devastation of war, they must learn to survive together, or alone.
Word of the week – Pulchritudinous
pulchritudinous adjective formal uk /ˌpʌl.krɪˈtʃuː.dɪ.nəs/ us /ˌpʌl.krəˈtuː.dən.əs/ (especially of a woman) beautiful SOURCE: Cambridge Dictionary What a very strange sounding word indeed; a mouthful, an almost guttural sounding word which to me summons up similar sounds such as decrepitude, sepulchre, putridness. Ironic really how such an ugly sounding word […]
Project Hail Mary
I feel like everyone’s heard of The Martian by Andy Weir (and maybe seen the film starring Matt Damon as solo Mars inhabitant and space pirate, Mark Watney)…but have you also heard of Project Hail Mary?
Not a book about birds – but not everything I read has an avian theme! 🙂
Birdsong
In keeping with the theme of my Writer’s Aviary, here is another book recommendation from my Bookshelf. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. I recently re-read this book with interest in how it may have influenced my own writing, being one of my top 20 books of all time. Be warned though, some minor spoilers ahead.
Low Tide
Unworthy are my words of you,impatient as birdsencouraging the morning light.Ours is a gentle and quiet embracesoft and settled in enduring night.To wake from the sweetest dream, so calm,can never compare with this peace in your arms.Into me you instil with your kissa feeling never before […]
Out of the Void
Poem by Laura A Coats – 2003 (age 18)
A sad poem written after losing a friend to suicide.
