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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 – Pratal

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Word of the Day - Pratal (adj) prat-al

Hungary’s Ancient Abbey Battles Beetle Infestation to Save Historic Library

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Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being removed from the shelves of Hungary’s Pannonhalma Archabbey as restoration workers race to save them from a devastating beetle infestation threatening to…

New series, Bookish, introduces a gay, bookshop detective in post-war London

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Created by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and co-written by Gatiss and Matthew Sweet (Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures), Bookish is a new series for U&Alibi which introduces a quirky new TV…

Word of the Day – Mavourneen

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Word of the Day - Mavourneen (noun) muh-vor-neen

Word of the Day – Wample

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Word of the Day - Wample (Scots) (verb) wom-pl

Word of the Day – Fichu

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Word of the Day - Fichu (noun) fish-oo / fee-shy

Goodreads Under Fire: Authors Speak Out Against Review Bombing and Homophobic Trolls

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For years, Goodreads has been a cornerstone of the book community: a place where readers share recommendations, track their reading, and review books. But for many authors, particularly those from…

Word of the Day – Mundify

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Word of the Day - Mundify (verb) mun-di-fahy

Women’s Prize for Non-fiction confirms trans women are eligible

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The Women’s Prize Trust, which runs both the Prize for Fiction and Non-fiction, have confirmed that trans women will be eligible to enter the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-fiction. This…

Word of the Day – Glaucous

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Word of the Day - Glaucous (adj) glaw-kus

The Salt Path: Beloved Memoir or Literary Deception? The Controversy Surrounding Raynor Winn

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When Raynor Winn’s memoir The Salt Path hit shelves in 2018, it quickly became a publishing phenomenon. Readers were moved by her poignant account of walking 630 miles along England’s…

Word of the Day – Crabwise

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Word of the Day - Crabwise (adverb) krab-wayhz

Word of the Day – Plook

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Word of the Day - Plook (noun) plook

Word of the Day – Casuistry

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Word of the Day - Casuistry (noun) kas-oo-is-tree

Word of the Day – Exequy

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Word of the Day - Exequy (noun) ek-si-kwee

Word of the Day – Mettle

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Word of the Day - Mettle (noun) met-l

Stephen King: The Dollar Baby Concept

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The “Dollar Baby” concept: Since the late 1970s/early 1980s, Stephen King has allowed student filmmakers, independent filmmakers, and other aspiring directors to license certain of his short stories for film…

Council bans trans children’s books in library

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Kent Council, under the control of far-right political party Reform UK, are removing all transgender-related books from the children’s sections of its libraries. The council’s leader, Linden Kemkaran, made the…

Word of the Day – Tatterdemalion

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Word of the Day - Tatterdemalion (noun) tat-er-di-mal-ee-on

Indie Bookshop pulls Harry Potter books from shelves over anti-trans campaigning

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An independent bookshop in San Francisco has pulled all Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling titles from its bookshelves in response to the author’s anti-trans views and campaigning; most notably, funding…