Norfolk Bookworm

The Dark Circle by Linda Grant. My reading order of the six Bailey's Prize books has been totally random - it really was just the w...

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo I started this book with the assumption that I wasn't going to find it a top read.  It is set in Ni...

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's Globe, London. May 2017. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. From the sublime The Ferryman  in the afternoon...

The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan This thick tome was the fourth book I pulled out of my box and is possibly the one I approached with ...

The Ferryman, Royal Court, London. May 2017. A few year's ago Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem  was the big 'thing' in Londo...

First Love but Gwendoline Riley. The third book I picked out of my book prize box was First Love  and my initial impression was how min...

Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare's Globe, London. May 2016. I am so pleased that this has come back to the Globe. In 2015, when it first pla...

The Power by Naomi Alderman Next out of my Bailey's Prize box came The Power  by Naomi Alderman and I didn't have such a great r...

After the great reading month that March gave me I didn't find April to be so good for the main part - although becoming a Bailey'...

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien I'm not sure why I picked this one out of the box to read first - perhaps it was the ...

Reading Agency / Baileys Library Ambassador 2017 A long time ago a careers quiz at school suggested that perhaps I should consider work...

There hasn't been too much on at the cinema lately that I've wanted to see but typically just now there are three films all once. ...

Love in Idleness, Menier Chocolate Theatre, London. April 2017. Due to a variety of events I am later reviewing this than normal and it...

Meeting Scott "Scooter" Altman, retired astronaut with Space Lectures, Pontefract. April 2017. Another trip north to meet an a...

Abigail's Party, Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2017. I've never squirmed so much in a theatre where the play was causing the mo...

March was a good month for reading with me, thanks to that lovely holiday at the start of the month (and then a nasty cold later on) I rea...

Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera House, London. March 2017. It hasn't been that long since I saw the Glyndebourne version of this oper...

Travesties, Apollo Theatre, London. March 2017. After the wonderful performance of Hamlet  in the afternoon there was always a danger t...

Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, London. March 2017. Reading back through this blog it becomes obvious that while I love Shakespeare seeing the...

The Norfolkbookworm Birth Year Reading Challenge  Being 40 later this month it would have been far too easy just to say that my readin...