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Reader event: Penny Readings
Penny Readings St. George's Hall, Liverpool December 9th, 2007 By Chris High In the annual Penny Readings, now in its…
Reading and Dementia
This week, the Alzheimer’s Society called for all care staff to receive mandatory training in dementia care. The call came…
Chekhov’s Three Sisters in January 2008
January seems like a long way off but William Rossiter has been in touch to remind me about his one…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In posts during October we introduced Mersey Care Reads, a joint project between The Reader and Mersey Care NHS Trust,…
Reader event: The Penny Readings
On the evening of Sunday 9th December, at St George's Hall in Liverpool, The Reader is hosting its fourth annual Penny Readings…
Thoughts on the Kindle
Being in the UK I haven't yet managed to get my hands on one of Amazon's new Kindle ebook devices.…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: Going Sane
Hands up... are you sane? (A few hands hover in the air)... Insane? (A similar number of hands are thrusted…
Book Group at FACT Liverpool
Ella Jolly has been in touch to mention the book group she runs at FACT in Liverpool. The group reads…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: A Festival of Ideas
Free Thinking 07, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's unique festival of ideas launches in Liverpool this Friday (November…
What Should I Read Next?
If you're the kind of person who dithers over what to read next features like Amazon's recommendations and 'People who…
NY Diary 5: Chicago
I flew from New York to Chicago to visit Literature For All Of Us and stayed one night at the…
NY Diary 4: Beautiful bookshop Middlemarch reader recites lines from the novel…
In Grand Central Station we went into the bookshop and when I finally made my way to the counter to…
