linda huber

Tag: books

  • Classic Comfort Reads… with Polly Heron

    The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. As third book in each post, we’ll have one by the writer.This week, we have…

  • Can you read English? #joke

    This was originally going to be a post about books. However, we’ll leave that for next week when I can spill all my news at once, and instead, we’ll have a post about English. Specifically, reading English. A few weeks ago, I was tidying my English-teaching material and came across a joke. Remember a few…

  • Google searches this week…

    The internet is a blessing when you’re writing a book. I often wonder how writers managed before the www was part of daily life. For your main research, it’s usually more helpful to go and look at whatever you need to know more about, or talk to an expert – I’m lucky to have a…

  • The ‘Q’ books… #A-Z books 📚

    First of all, apologies for the somewhat homemade appearance of the blog this week; the new WordPress block editor has arrived and I can’t get the classic version back. (If anyone has an idiot’s guide to the new version, please send it to Switzerland) This series is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter…

  • The ‘D’ books… #A-Z books 📚

    This is an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting 26 books in 26 days, each title beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. Don’t worry, I’m planning on taking around 26 months to get to Z – each month I’ll post a newish book I’ve enjoyed, plus a children’s…

  • 2017 – the best of times and the worst of times… (a minimalist’s version)

    Another year bites the dust, and like most years, 2017 had its ups and downs. Here are a few of mine: Best decision – turning some of my old magazine stories into a charity anthology for a year. All profits made by The Saturday Secret  up until mid-February will go to Doctors without Borders. Worst breakage…

  • Book Lovers’ Tag…

    Here’s a fun Q&A idea I saw recently on Shelley Wilson’s blog. Below are my reading habits, good ones, bad ones, and downright ugly ones. What are yours? Do you have a specific place for reading? In trains, in bed, on the sofa, on the balcony with a nice glass of chilled white wine, and…

  • The A B C of writing a book… (only slightly tongue-in-cheek)

    Please note, this is not a list of instructions – that needs no A B C. To write a book, ‘all’ you need to do, according to a cartoon doing the rounds on social media, is: Sit. Stay. Write. This is a list of other important bookish points. A is for…   Yes. Well. A is…