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By Ella Bramhall
This week, as part of ‘Libraries Week’, ILE has been celebrating the power of reading for wellbeing. As the week draws to a close, Ella Bramhall asks: Why do we read for comfort anyway?
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In our ongoing feature inspired by ILE’s growing ‘Reading for Wellbeing’ collection of fiction for staff and students, Adam Cummins shares his love for T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.
By Lucy Pettigrew
From 8-12 October (THIS WEEK!) York St John University is holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE as part of Libraries Week. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Lucy Pettigrew shares her love for Ned Vizzini’s It’s a Kind of Funny Story.
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By Ellie Anderson-Ingham
From 8-12 October (THIS WEEK!) York St John University is holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE as part of Libraries Week. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Ellie Anderson-Ingham shares her love of Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness.
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‘Words Matter’ is our Literature Programme blog, a dedicated space for our students, staff and alumni. Check here for the latest news on forth-coming events and for opinion, commentary and reviews by your peers on the programme. The blog also explores, celebrates and promotes the ethos of our programme team, which is the belief that literature provides the means of interrogating and understanding the world we live in. We are therefore interested in exploring what literature can tell us about identity, politics and culture.
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As some of you might know, this Saturday is National Bookshop Day. This means that across the weekend, specifically October 8th, there will be lots of book related events going on across the country such as author readings, signings and such. It’s an occasion to show your local bookshop some love as, whilst Amazon is convenient and easy to access online, there is nothing like going for a browse at your local store. There is a community there, a tangible hum to all of those spines full of potential calling out ‘pick me’. Every penny we spend there goes towards keeping those sanctuaries in place and making sure they remain on our high streets for the long run.
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By James Turner
Continue reading “National Poetry Day: Poetry Is Now More Important Than Ever”
The Words Matter Lecture is a highlight of our academic year here on the Literature programme at York St John University. Below, Subject Director Dr Anne-Marie Evans announces full details of this year’s lecture, to be delivered by Dr Jo Waugh on Thursday 11th October.
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By James Turner
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, James Turner shares his love of Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy.
By Charlotte Stevenson
This week is Banned Books Week, 23-29 September. To mark the occasion, regular writer Charlotte Stevenson asks: Is it ever appropriate to decide what another person should or shouldn’t read?
Thank you to Literature Festivals Manager Gemma Young for getting in touch to tell us about this fantastic forthcoming literary festival. York St John University staff are eligible for 241 tickets on all events. To redeem this wonderful offer, quote the code RHLF241 when calling the box office on 01423 562303.
Continue reading “Raworth’s Harrogate Literature Festival, 18-21 October 2018”
By Erin Byrne
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Erin Byrne shares her love of A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark.
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By Charlotte Stevenson
From 8-12 October York St John University will be holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for promoting and ensuring wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Charlotte Stevenson shares her love of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.
The ‘Exploring Utopian York’ podcast, written and produced by our Dr Adam Stock and Durham University’s Sarah Lohmann offers a fun and enlightening way to get to know the city of York, and is ideal for new students!
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Our thanks to Dr Keith McDonald, Subject Director for Media and Film, for organising a dedicated welcome event for all students in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy, taking place at Spark this Wednesday.
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