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Kath’s Blog

For Reading Addicts has more to offer than just your run of the mill book reviews, I love to give our readers a bit more to get their proverbial teeth into! While I used to run FRA alone, we now have lots of enthusiastic literature lovers to help. As well as in the blog and pages sections, you’ll find us around our social media pages too so please try and remember we are people too, not just words on a screen.

It is on this page that you will find a whole plethora of interesting articles from the polls that require your input to a Word of the Day. In amongst the pages here you will find ‘me’ and hopefully, with your continued support – ‘you’ too.

My only sadness about the pages of Kath’s blog is that each new post does not have the same unmistakeable aroma of a new book, that you cannot feel the pages but rest assured, as much heart and soul has gone into these pages as a newly published novel.

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George Takei Fights Censorship of LGBTQ+ Literature in Banned Books Week

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Beloved Star Trek actor, author and LGBTQ+ icon, George Takei is fighting against the rising censorship of books, in particular LGBTQ+ literature, during this year’s Banned Books Week. Takei who…

Rivals author, Jilly Cooper, dies age 88

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British author, best known for her long-running Rutshire Chronicles series including the recently adapted 'Rivals' novel, Dame Jilly Cooper, has sadly passed away at the age 88. Her children, Felix…

Word of the Day – Medley

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Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…

Word of the Day – Hincty

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Word of the Day - Hincty (adj) hink-tee

Storygraph vs Fable: Breaking up with Goodreads

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There are many reasons that readers might want to break up with Goodreads, not simply because of its connection to the retail giant, Amazon but also because of the way…

Remembering Jane Goodall (1934–2025)

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On 1 October 2025, the world lost Dame Jane Goodall, DBE, a pioneering primatologist, conservationist, writer, and tireless advocate for animals and the natural world. She was 91. Her passing…

Word of the Day – Melee

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Word of the Day - Melee (noun) mel-ey

Word of the Day – Fulciment

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Word of the Day - Fulciment (noun) (archaic) ful-si-ment

Word of the Day – Dubitation

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Word of the Day - Dubitation (noun) (Archaic) doo-bit-ay-shun

New writing prize launched in memory of Hilary Mantel

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A new literary prize that champions emerging writers has been set up in memory of author Hilary Mantel, best known for her book Wolf Hall that was adapted into a…

Word of the Day – Numen

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Word of the Day - Numen (noun) noo-men

Word of the Day – Phonesthemic

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Word of the Day - Phonesthemic (adj) fo-nes-thee-mik

Word of the Day – Wayfarer

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Word of the Day - Wayfarer

Word of the Day – Bracteate

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Word of the Day - Bracteate (adj)(noun) brak-tee-ayt

Word of the Day – Broozled

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Word of the Day - Broozled (adj) (Scots) brooz-ld

Shel Silverstein: The Poet Who Wrote Your Favourite Songs

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Most people know Shel Silverstein as the quirky genius behind The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic. His playful poetry and doodle-like illustrations made…

Word of the Day – Witherward

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Word of the Day - Whitherward (adverb) (archaic) with-er-werd

Word of the Day – Afterclap

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Word of the Day - Afterclap (noun) af-ter-klap

New stage adaptation of Austen’s Emma brings the novel into 21st Century

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In the year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of celebrated British novelist, Jane Austen, her 1815 novel, Emma is getting a modern re-telling in a new stage adaptation from Ava…

Word of the Day – Immiserate

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Word of the Day - Immiserate (verb) im-iz-er-ayt