8 Hours of Sleep: The Lasting Legacy of Coffee?

I have just found this really fascinating article on the BBC about the way we sleep.  I’ve been a poor sleeper all my life, suffering from quite bad insomnia up until the age of 18 (I would regularly have 4 hours of sleep, sometimes less and it would take me 3 hours or more to [...]

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The Night Circus – Not a Review

So it’s been a while since I asked who had been to The Night Circus and I’ve taken some time to think about it. On the surface this book appears to be a fairly straightforward romance in a magical 19th century.  But once you plunge into the circus, you find that you’ve inadvertently fallen in [...]

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Character Flaws

I love a good bit of synchronicity …  I’ve been reading Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy recently, having already read and loved The Liveship Traders.  One of the things I love most about her work is how damn real the characters are.  They make the wrong, slightly illogical choices because of their emotions; they hurt others [...]

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Absence & Illness

I feel as though half my posts on both my blogs are apologising for not posting in a while!  Recently I’ve been suffering with medication for my illness, because it’s been too effective. I have Graves Disease, which makes me have an overactive thyroid.  I’ve reacted so strongly to my medication (much to the surprise of my [...]

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