Book Box: How to build a mountain house
These days I am either waiting for electricians or stonemasons or plumbers. Building a house in the mountains sounds romantic I know —but wait until you spend long moments arguing with a wood polish man who insists ebony is chestnut brown. When the cement work goes awry, I take a deep breath, and think of […]
Book Box | Literary Rehab: How to balance Life with Lit
This is my week of non-reading. I’ve been forced into literary rehab. As someone who spends all their free time between the pages of a book, this is pure torture. The only times I haven’t read were when I was forbidden to —maybe there were exams, or maybe my mother decreed I was straining my […]