Reading, Writing and Everything In Between

That time of year has come around again when bloggers all over the world are preparing for the A-Z Blogging Challenge throughout the month o...

  This will be a brief reflection post on my experience of this years A-Z Blogging Challenge, I used my IWSG post last week to offer m...

So today is the last day of the 2013 A-Z Blogging Challenge. I certainly have found it to be a challenge this year. Even though I had my t...

Ok, so I realise how lame my 'Y' topic is but after days trying to come up with something this is the best that I've got. We...

Picture from rdulal.blogspot.com OK, so I know I'm cheating a little here, but X really can be a hard letter to find a topic for. Pl...

Picture from www.bbc.co.uk William Wordsworth is the first poet to be studied in this course. His name is synonymous with the Lake Distr...

Picture from au.fil.des.livres.over-blog... Voltaire was born as Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694. To please his father he became a law stu...

To me, literature is one of those things that you presume you must know something about, but when you actually stop to think about what it a...

Picture from www.guardian.co.uk I realise this post is cheating a little bit and really should be under 'E' for Emigrants, but I...

Picture from theshakespeareblog.com Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare is probably the most well known English pla...

Picture from www.scotiana.com Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, his father was a lighthouse engineer and his mother...

Thomas de Quincey was a professional journalist living in the Romantic period, and his most well known piece of work is Confessions of an En...

Picture from www.athenamillennium.it Percy Bysshe Shelley was a Romantic poet, regarded as one of the finest in the English language. He...

Picture from world80books.blogspot.com Oroonoko is the story of an African prince who falls in love with a girl that his grandfather, t...

A short post today, and a little departure from all the A230 study topics I've been doing up until now. We're now well into this c...

We have been studying the non-fictional travel writing of the Mutiny on the Bounty, which follows the journey of Captain Bligh and 18 of his...

So we're now halfway through the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2013. How has it been for everyone thus far? I'm pleased that I've...

Sam Selvon was born in Trinidad in 1923 to East Indian parents. He was educated in San Fernando but left when he was 15. Picture from ke...

A little departure from the authors and works that have so far been the topics of my A-Z challenge today (mostly because I don't have an...

Picture courtesy of www.keelinggallery.com James Joyce was an Irish writer born in 1882. His family was prosperous at the time off his b...