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How many books are you going to enjoy this year? – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
by Nora Vasconcelos As soon as this year started, I saw many posts on social media asking people "How many books are you going to read this year?", I also saw some other posts inviting readers to join reading challenges to be fulfilled by the end of 2023, so they would finish certain amount of…
Christmas markets – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
Their long history and changing future The 2019 Christmas market in Birmingham, UK. Shanae Ennis-Melhado/Shutterstock Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Coventry University and Cristina Galalae, University of Leicester Wooden huts with twinkling fairy lights, festive hubbub, and the aromas of roasted chestnuts and glühwein – this picture-postcard setting is recreated annually across UK towns and cities in December.…
Not in a Tuscan Villa – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
By Nora Vasconcelos Have you ever wondered what it'd be like if you could live abroad for a year? John and Nancy Petralia did it, and from this question, their dream became a plan and, at the age of sixty something, they told everyone that they would be leaving their home in New Jearsey to…
Printed Books: why the Internet hasn’t eliminated them – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
The thousand and one lives of the paper book. Pixabay Dominique Boullier, Sciences Po – USPC; Mariannig Le Béchec, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and Maxime Crépel, Sciences Po – USPC We stand amazed by the vitality of printed books, a more than 500-year-old technique, both on and offline. We have observed over the years…
Charles Dickens and the birth of the classic English Christmas dinner – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Hand colored etching by John Leech Joan Fitzpatrick, Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes…
Notes from the inside …and some lessons learned. – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
... and some lessons learned 😯 It's been more than a month since lockdown started over here... where's here? ...well it's many places in the world. But for me here is a very nice place blessed with a nice view. 🍃🌺😃 The same as many people, being indoors has been a huge challenge in which…
Writing can improve mental health – here’s how – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
Any kind of writing can help. Yulia Grigoryeva/ Shutterstock Christina Thatcher, Cardiff Metropolitan University Ernest Hemingway famously said that writers should “write hard and clear about what hurts”. Although Hemingway may not have known it at the time, research has now shown that writing about “what hurts” can help improve our mental health. There are…
Peter Rabbit: why it is still one of the greats of children’s literature – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
Peter Rabbit. Shutterstock Paul Wells, Loughborough University Since the days of Aesop, animals have been used as vehicles by which humankind has addressed its moral, ethical and cultural identity. For some, this serves to misrepresent animals, privileging anthropomorphism at the expense of the more sensitive address of animal sentience and welfare. For others, this approach…
To reduce stress and anxiety, write your happy thoughts down – The Traveling Book Club's Blog
A. and I. Kruk/Shutterstock.com Michael Smith, Northumbria University, Newcastle Writing about positive emotions may help to reduce stress and anxiety, according to our new study, published in the British Journal of Health Psychology. Earlier research has also found that writing about negative emotions – getting things “off your chest” – can improve your mental health.…