READING WRITING

Shining A Light On Some New Names

And some intriguing ideas

Penny Grubb
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Published in
6 min readOct 29, 2022

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Image: Amy Z, Pixabay

My Read-Later-With-Coffee list surprised me this week. In amongst the old favourites was a crop of 7 writers I’d never read before. Now that sounded like an adventure well worth writing up.

The list came close to being trimmed to 6. There was an article in interview form that disturbed me for one of the questions it posed. As I write this, I don’t know if I’ll keep it in the list or quietly drop it. If I haven’t deleted this reference to it, then either it’s still here, or I’m getting very forgetful.

On To The Articles!

The headline on the first one was undoubtedly what made me bookmark it. Written by Zuzanna Żak, it said:

How to wake up correctly every day

It hadn’t occurred to me there was a right and a wrong way. Waking up is just something that I hope to do after I’ve been asleep. What could she mean? All I could come up with was that waking with a start and falling out of bed could count as sub-optimal and not a great way to begin the day, but anyway, I read on…

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Penny Grubb
Reciprocal

An award-winning crime novelist & long-time amateur poultry keeper, who specialised in teaching methods, healthcare & software engineering as an academic.