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How to enrich your lockdown time with a life changing reading experience
This lockdown time may be the best thing to help you grow and improve your wellbeing. You may ask, what can improve my wellbeing? It’s reading and reading lots of books. In an article, Neil Gaiman – Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming – he suggests that reading fiction for pleasure is…
Read MoreFind out why writers need to take a retreat to become great authors.
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” The Minotaur ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays It’s almost Spring, and we’re welcoming new things, new growth, and new hope. Nature is returning and blossoming. And writer’s retreats are budding around the world to give…
Read More3 Travel Books to inspire writers to soar like Ann Patchett
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller If you’re dreaming of becoming a writer or if you’re a polished, established author, you may feel empty of new ideas or inspiration. In either situation, are you struggling for that sparkle of…
Read MoreAre you a book lover who loves the earth? Why not take a green literary vacation?
Green Travel Benefits Finding enjoyment with a vacation that offers extra benefits is the best part of Eco-Friendly travel. You’re probably a green traveler if you want more meaningful, challenging, and adventurous experiences in your travels with sensitivity and responsibility for the environment and the local cultures. I consider myself Eco-Friendly since I like to…
Read MoreEight old London literary places to inspire writers to become great authors
Authors find their inspiration from their surroundings. If you love great works of fiction or want to understand the practices at a new level, you’d like to take a London literary tour. From Chaucer to Dickens, Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, London has inspired (and home to) some English language’s most celebrated writers. You can venture…
Read MoreYou’ll fall in love with the great steam railway trip to Bronte country’s literary adventure
Like great creative people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Frank Lloyd Wright whose nature studies inspired their works of art, Charlotte Bronte too used nature to enrich her writings. Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature’s imagery throughout “Jane Eyre,” and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. The Oxford…
Read MoreFind how to have great air travel this summer
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot You have lots of steps to take with air travel from planning your dream trip to buying your airplane ticket. I hope this following video of five tips will give you happy air travels that will be the beginning of your best summer vacation…
Read MoreHow to be a Beach Lover and a Spy fan. Visit Jamaica and Read James Bond
Lovers of sand, sea, and adventure, you will have a treat by reading Ian Fleming’s novels on Jamaica beach vacations. Dig into James Bond and discover spy thrillers that merged from the Jamaican sands. As Matthew Parker, the author of “Goldeneye – Where Bond was Born” documents the influence of the island on the now famous fictional…
Read MoreYes, Robert Louis Stevenson can awaken your childhood wonder.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson Do you remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? His stories still live on the page, in the movies, on Broadway, and in our heart. Stevenson, a…
Read MoreWhy nature adventurers should add a trip from Paris to Jules Verne’s home to their bucket list.
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert; where a man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” Jules Verne Jules Verne enjoyed living in Amiens. He called it a “levelheaded, polite, even-tempered town” with a “cordial…
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