Thought Corridor

Long time and no update to this little blog, I’ve moved abroad and things have been hectic to say the least ! I’m just getting back into writing this blog.  I am reading Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks. This is a beautiful collection of short stories. I love short stories anyway and it’s always fantastic that people are still writing them. I’ve admired Tom Hanks as an actor, my dad is a fan and he introduced me to Mr. Hanks’ earlier films. When I heard in Twitter that he was publishing a book that wasn’t an autobiography I was intrigued. This volume of seventeen short stories are all unconnected but they do share things in common, they look at the humour in life and examine human kinds foibles, they are also linked by typewriters. As a fan of Tom Hanks I know that he likes and collects typewriters so it’s perhaps unsurprising to see that they play a part in these stories, sometimes as a minor detail but other times they are at the tales forefront. These tales are beautiful, funny a...

Having joined NetGalley, I'd applied to read two books. One publisher said no but one thankfully said yes. The book that I've been sent from is the publishers Grove Atlantic and is called 'From Holmes to Sherlock' by Matthias Bostrom translated from the Swedish by Michael Gallagher. One slight issue is the formatting of this book on a Kindle device, occasionally sentences will break awkwardly but it's not too distracting. First of all I have only just started reading the book and it's already very interesting. The author begins his book by presenting his readers with a snapshot of a dinner thrown by a Sherlockian society, during which Mark Gattis outlines his plans for the reboot of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, the new show of course will simply be called Sherlock. The author beautifully sets the scene in this dinner, outlining the vision that Gatiss had for Holmes, as the author eloquently puts it, he wants to take it from Holmes to Sherlock. The man D...

I have joined NetGalley ! Looking forward to reading and reviewing lots of interesting books.

My circumstances in life have changed. I'm going to be working for myself and will therefore (hopefully) have more free time and will use this blog much more. This blog will be a record of my thoughts on books, music and cds as well as a place for more generalised musings. As I'm just about getting ready to go out tonight this post is short. Tomorrow's post will be longer and will be a review, unsure on what yet but I think I'll start of (no surprises here) with a book review.

Hello again This post must begin with an apology as I remember stating on the last post here that there would be more regular...they haven't been, Sorry about that...Things have changed...or are in the process of changing...actually, the truth is I have no idea what to do. I started the PhD about two weeks ago, I have been stressed and depressed since. Went to a gp who could offer very little help other than remembering to breathe when things feel bad...think I've been managing to do that without much help, breathing...its almost automatic...I know she was trying to help but it wasn't. Just made to feel like I was wasting her time. So the main issues I have with regards to the PhD is that my parents are funding it after I failed to get funding from other sources. When I found out that I'd been unsuccessful with the funding claim I was disappointed naturally, but my parents promised to help anyway after all, I wanted to do the PhD and I'm their only child...that...

Hello...again ! If you read my first post over a year ago you have probably guessed that I had forgotten about this little blog of mine, and have, by chance, just remembered it. Times have moved on since I last wrote in this blog, over a year has passed. So a little update about me. I did get my MA in Romantic Literature after all, I know, I'm as amazed as you. However after getting that degree in September of last year, 2014, I had been more than a little unemployed. After months, and months of seemingly endless job interviews I ended up working back in the museum. As that was seasonal I began working there again in April of 2015 it finished around the 14th of September. This leads me on to the subject of how I remembered about this little blog of mine. Earlier this week I began my journey towards a PhD (hopefully), after lots of meetings the whole registration process should be completed by tomorrow and I'll then officially be able to say that I am no longer unemployed or...

It must be stated first of all that this will be a very sporadic blog, it's just how my mind works. It will be added to when I have free time or generally when I think of something interesting or more likely non-interesting to say, random musings after all. I should probably tell anyone who is reading this a little about myself, however if the only people who ever read this are people who already know me then I'm guessing you already know enough about me. But just incase you dear reader stumble upon this little rambling blog of mine, then hello ! Allow me to introduce myself. I'll try not to bore you with the details. My name is Rhian, I'm 24 and am currently studying for an MA degree at Aberystwyth University in Literary studies specialising in 18th century romanticism (although if I had my way I'd be splitting my time by studying Doctor Who from 2009 onwards and everything and anything related to Sherlock Holmes) The one thing that you need to understand a...