Thursday Murmurings
Reading club, good feels and podcast recommendations
Happy Thursday, you beauties!
In case you missed it last week, I have decided to start a reading club. How is a reading club different to a book club, I hear you cry. Well, rather than dictating what book everyone should read, we’re gonna go with a general theme each month. You pick a book that’s in line with the theme and on the last Thursday of each month, we’ll convene here and chat it up in the comments. The idea being, this way, we have a degree of autonomy over what we read, can use the theme to try out a genre we may not usually go for, and get inspiration from others when we hear about their reads.
We’re gonna kick this thing off in August, so we have a couple of weeks to figure out what we want to read, make a purchase, and create a schedule for yourself to read (if, like me, you have previously struggled to stay on track with your reading).
I figured for our first month (and given that’s it’s summer), we’ll go for some easy, low hanging fruit for the theme and that theme will be: Romance.
Romance is a genre I don’t usually go for personally, so I’m looking forward to going a little outside my own comfort zone. You can go cheesy chick lit, or maybe you want to go all Wuthering Heights and take on one of the classics - your choice!
Let’s go, book nerds!
Thursday Mood Boost
Let this be your reminder that everything will work out. It always does. No matter what shenanigans life has thrown your way, somehow, you’ve figured it out. Sure, maybe you freaked out and had a panic attack/melt down first, but whatever, that’s just part of the process. You should trust yourself more and rest easy in the fact that it simply always works out for you. And even if it doesn’t, that’s how it was meant to work out. You get me?
Podcast recommendation of the week
A podcast I have really been loving lately is Big Lives. Hosted by journalists Kai Wright and Emmanuel Dzotsi, each week they take a different cultural icon (be it a musician, comedian, actor, politician etc) and do a dive into the BBC archives to uncover the deep cuts that help us understand how that person became who they are and why they occupy such a place in our cultural landscape.
They’ve had episodes on Lauryn Hill, Sinéad O’Connor, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali and many more. I really appreciate the wide scope of people they look at and I always come away having learned something about that person that I didn’t know.
Highly recommend!
Until next week; smile at strangers, spread good vibes, be nice to people.