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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 – Ossuary

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Word of the Day - Ossuary (noun) osh-oo-er-ee

Word of the Day – Ombrifuge

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Word of the Day - Ombrifuge (noun) (rare) om-bri-fewj

7 alternative reads for trans allies instead of Harry Potter

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In the UK, the Supreme Court recently made a ruling defining a ‘woman’ as being biological, and instead of making things safer or clearer for women, the decision has raised…

Word of the Day – Hendiadys

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Word of the Day - Hendiadys (noun) hen-dahy-a-dis

Word of the Day – Elide

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Word of the Day - Elide (verb) eh-layhd

Word of the Day – By-blow

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Word of the Day - By-blow (noun) (archaic) bahy-bloh

Word of the Day – Leviathan

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Word of the Day - Leviathan (noun) lev-ay-a-thun

Word of the Day – Milk-livered

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Word of the Day - Milk-livered (adj) milk-liv-erd

Word of the Day – Oxter

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Word of the Day - Oxter (noun) ok-ster

Word of the Day – Cecaelia

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Word of the Day - Cecaelia (noun) suk-ay-lee-a

Word of the Day – Gnosis

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Word of the Day - Gnosis (noun) noh-sis

Netflix’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to star Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden & Olivia Coleman

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Netflix have announced a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s much-loved, classic novel, Pride and Prejudice. The new six-part limited series will star big names including Emma Corrin (Lady Chatterley’s Lover,…

Word of the Day – Properispomenon

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Word of the Day - Properispomenon (adj) pro-per-i-spom-e-non

Word of the Day – Internecine

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Word of the Day - Internecine (adj) in-ter-nee-seen

Word of the Day – Hajji

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Hajji (noun) hadj-ee A muslim who has gone on pilgrimage to Mecca. First recorded in 1600–10; from Arabic ḥajjī, equivalent to ḥajj “pilgrimage” + -ī a suffix indicating relationship or…

Word of the Day – Expiditious

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Word of the Day - Expiditious (adj) eks-pid-ish-us

Stage adaptation of Hunger Games premieres October 2025

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The premiere of the first-ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel and Lionsgate's motion-picture ‘The Hunger Games’ is set to run from October 2025 in London. The Hunger Games: On…

Word of the Day – Patrician

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Word of the Day - Patrician (noun/adj) pat-rish-un

Word of the Day – Boreen

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Word of the Day - Boreen (noun) bor-een

Word of the Day – Madcap

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Word of the Day - Madcap (adj) mad-kap