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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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Word of the Day – Hesperian

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Word of the Day - Hesperian (adj) hes-per-ee-an

Word of the Day – Obmutescence

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Word of the Day - Obmutescence (noun) ob-myu-tes-uns

Word of the Day – Flinders

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Word of the Day - Flinders (noun) flin-derz

David Walliams dropped from publisher, HarperCollins UK

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British publisher, HarperCollins UK, announced that they have dropped David Walliams, following allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women. Walliams had been a big name for the publisher with his…

Word of the Day – Etiolate

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Word of the Day - Etiolate (verb) et-ee-oh-lee-ayt

Word of the Day – Theic

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Word of the Day - Theic (noun) thee-ik

British authors back proposal to give newborns automatic library cards

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British authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman, and Philip Pullman have backed a plan from think tank, The Cultural Policy Unit, which proposed automatic library cards be given to newborn…

Word of the Day – Monepic

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Word of the Day - Monepic (adj) mon-ep-ik

Word of the Day – Inveigh

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Word of the Day - Inveigh (verb) in-vay

Word of the Day – Drub

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Word of the Day - Drub (verb) drub

Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works

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The Mr Men and Little Miss characters created by Roger Hargreaves and continued by his son Adam Hargreaves, are set to star in their own feature film from the producers…

Word of the Day – Lurdan

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Lurdan (noun) lur-dn A lazy, stupid, loutish fellow. 1250–1300; Middle English, Middle French lourdin dullard, equivalent to lourd heavy, dull (more…)

Word of the Day – Impute

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Word of the Day - Impute (verb) im-pyoot

Word of the Day – Skiddoo

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Word of the Day - Skiddoo (verb) skid-oo

Word of the Day – Curio

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Word of the Day - Curio (noun) kew-ree-oh

Best-selling author, Joanne Trollope, dies age 82

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Best-selling English writer, Joanne Trollope, has sadly passed away at the age of 82, her family have announced. The author, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey, penned…

Word of the Day – Inquinate

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Word of the Day - Inquinate (transitive verb) in-kwin-ayt

Word of the Day – Exculpatory

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Word of the Day - Exculpatory (adj) eks-kulp-at-aw-ree

Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

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English writer, Sophie Kinsella, best known for her bestselling Shopaholic novel series, has died at the age of 55, her family has announced. The author, whose real name is Madeleine…

Word of the Day – Subfuscous

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Word of the Day - Subfuscous (adj) sub-fus-kus