Steinbeck has always been enjoyable for me. Smooth words and rough social subjects; goes in like a warm coffee. All the better with company in precautionary isolation.

Story time! Today I sat in a cafe and finally decided to put pen to page in this fantastic creative writing exercise book. It was busy in the London café and the characters varied. I wrote a short story about an eccentric man that came and sat to my left. Then a group of city-types sat at my right. It turned out they were local publishers having a morning meeting about fishing short stories from the slush pile. That‘s as far as the story goes!

I'm a bit of an idiot. Just started reading this book and I read some of the forward WHICH HAD MAJOR SPOILERS IN. I get it, it's an old book, but some kind of warning would've been nice.

Impatient to start this book by @MLRio

I feel like I know this book well before having read it. I loved Ron Wimberley's graphic novel adaptation. In fact, it might be my favourite graphic novel of all time. Only 10 short chapters in so far and Bradbury's poetic, lyric style is sucking me in like a kid to a cotton-candy stall.

I might make a few enemies on here today, but I destroy books. I turn the corners of pages - but I like to feel as though a book is like a scruffy dog, always at your side. Not a precious butterfly wing, inherited to be kept pristine. For those bibliophiles that disagree; It's ok - I usually use my kobo ;)

Don't they know how dangerous it is to put a bookshop on my way to work every day? It's always been a struggle to walk past the door of Foyles in Waterloo station.

I finished this yesterday before work and it ruined me for the day! Nevertheless it was a memorable and thought-provoking read about mental illness and the female body (lots of things flowing from orifices). Beautifully translated too I must say - by Deborah Smith. My only gripe being that it was such a small book and the characters were either good, a victim, or male. But perhaps that's the point.

Does anyone else like to draw? I really like these Seawhite of Brighton notebooks; They're half ruled and half plain. I'm not paid to promote them, I promise!

Commute read! I feel like this is more of an at-home read though. So far so good, I really like it.

I loved this book. Even with limited access I think Finkel got all he could out of the subject. Just enough to make one think about solitude in a new light. As an introvert, it initially seemed mildly appealing to hide away in the woods with books and junk food, but at the end of the day it was at a huge price. Definitely one of those "close the book and sit there thinking" types of read.

HYPED for this one. I've heard people put it in the same box as Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Which I loved.

I unknowingly read the excerpt on #electriclit and loved it. So I preordered it and the day has arrived! I'm so close to finishing East of Eden though so I may have to flick between the two. #tbr

It was a Weltschmerz- which we used to call "Welshrats"- the world sadness that rises into the soul like a gas and spreads despair so that you probe for the offending event and can find none.

I don't know why, but YA felt like a guilty pleasure for a while. Perks of being a wallflower and anything by John Green had me reading again, after college. One of my favourites was this one though! The soundtrack (to the film) is a good listen too. #marchintoreading #timtharp #ya #guiltypleasure

A recent #nonfiction read was the intimate H is for Hawk. A VERY interesting read. I expected a nature memoir and got a literary marvel. 10/10.
#marchintoreading #hawk #nature

Today's #marchintoreading is judging a book by its cover. This had me at hello with the oil painted wolves, howling steamy winter breath into the ultramarine. #jacklondon #callofthewild #whitefang #classic #pick #judgedbyitscover

My march TBR pile is currently just one book, but it's a big one! I'm only 9% in but wow, he's good (minus the racism). #tbr #marchintoreading #steinbeck #eastofeden

Let's see if I can bag half of these. #marchintoreading

I liked the concept. In the future, humanity goes in search of God, a physical presence in the universe. They set off in a spaceship to blow Him up. The closer they get, the more they feel His presence. It's a bit of a pulp book but entertaining. #scifi #pulp #agnostic #theist #atheist

Lovecraft is one of my top 5 writers to read, so I bought this anthology of homage horror. Horrage? Anyway, nobody does it like him. #lovecraft #cthulu

Do you Americans have this yet? Still waiting on a pre-order in the UK.

I've always liked travelogues. As a teenager I read a ton of cycling-around-the-world type ones. This book by adventurer Alastair Humphries is all about his epic 4 year trip around the world - the long way - by bike. I've met the author too and he's a jolly lovely chap.

"Thinking of grammar as the original sharing app makes it much more interesting and much more useful"
Haha! Fair point.

I got this one from my dear ol' Mum this Christmas. She usually has my taste down to such a tee that she buys me books I already own. This year she got ahead of me and picked one, unknowingly, from my wish list. So here goes.

A while ago I started binging on nature writing, from nonfiction environmentalism to memoir. Of the bunch above my favourite has to be Corvus by Esther Woolfson. It's all about her life living with rescue birds and her tales of her magpie will stay with you.

I must admit that this great book is helped by its gruff, American narrator. So with that in mind, if you were to ingest this any way first I would whole heartedly recommend the audiobook. I really ought read more like this, as I rarely read historical fiction, because it really has a cold and tough sense of place.

I love this book so much I own the print copy and an eBook! Bird writes:
"While your audience is reading your book, there's no better way to create instant identification with your heroine than by having a mean character interrupt her reading and criticise her for having such a useless hobby! "
Amen!