All About the Voice
I’m listening to the mesmerising voice of Meryl Streep as she narrates Tom Lake, a novel by Ann Patchett, one of my favourite authors. I wander around the house, making the bed, watering house plants, shoving laundry in the washing machine. Completing chores,...
Lost in Libraries
If you’re passionate about books, you’re probably passionate about libraries and would be happy to be lost inside one for a day. Step through the doors of a library and your senses are hit with distinctive smells of ink and paper, sounds of muted footsteps and hushed...
Suspend Your Disbelief
Whenever my husband and I watch movies with a plot relating to a commercial airplane – Sully and Air Force One are favourites – he can’t help whispering in my ear during the movie: “They can’t do that in real life.” Commercial pilots will be the first to tell you...