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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 – Sylvan

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Word of the Day - Sylvan (noun) sil-van

Word of the Day – Fewmet

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Word of the Day - Fewmet (noun) (archaic) few-met

Word of the Day – Matrilineal

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Word of the Day - Matrilineal (noun) mat-ri-lin-ee-al

Word of the Day – Halcyon

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Word of the Day - Halcyon (adj) hal-see-on

Bookshop specialising in Black literature saved from closure

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Brighton-based bookshop, Afrori Books, has been saved from potential closure after a successful campaign of bookselling. Carolynn Bain, who founded Afrori in 2020 in the wake of the Black Lives…

Word of the Day – Piquant

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Word of the Day - Piquant (adj) pee-khant

Word of the Day – Limn

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Word of the Day Limn (verb) lim

Word of the Day – Cicatrix

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Word of the Day - Cicatrix (noun) sik-a-triks

Juno Dawson and Andy Darcy Theo join judging panel of YA Book Prize

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Author Juno Dawson, and author and BookToker Andy Darcy Theo are joining the judging panel for 2026’s YA Book Prize. Celebrating the best YA fiction in the UK & Ireland…

Word of the Day – Boomerasking

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Word of the Day - Boomerasking (noun) (informal) boo-mer-ask-ing

Gay romance novel, Boyfriend Material, to receive TV adaptation

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Announced by Deadline, it has been confirmed that Alexis Hall’s gay romance novel, Boyfriend Material, will be getting the TV adaptation treatment. The production company A24 UK, known for series…

Word of the Day – Sciolism

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Word of the Day - Sciolism (noun) syo-lizm

Word of the Day – Odoriferous

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Word of the Day - Odoriferous (adj) oh-der-if-er-us

Word of the Day – Littoral

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Word of the Day - Littoral (adj) Lit-or-al

Word of the Day – Daggy

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Word of the Day - Daggy (adj) dag-ee

Word of the Day – Fortuitous

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Word of the Day - fortuitous (adj)

Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award for writing

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Poet and author, Michael Rosen, best known for his much-loved children’s books including We’re Going on a Bear Hunt has won the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen award for writing, in…

Word of the Day – Mazarine

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Word of the Day - Mazarine (noun) maz-ar-een

Word of the Day – Sonder

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Word of the Day - Sonder (noun) son-der

Word of the Day – Polako

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Word of the Day - Polako (полако) (noun) (Proto-Slavic) po-lah-ko