Author Archives: Beth Wren
Travel Diaries: Canada Roadtrip – Vancouver to Jasper
In case you missed it, I’m sharing my adventures around the Rockies of Canada – you can find the first instalment about Vancouver here. Picking up our car in busy downtown Vancouver and then having to immediately drive on a different side of the road wasn’t stressful at all (I’m lying). After a few narrow […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #33
Counting freckles in the mountains.
Travel Diaries: Canada Roadtrip – Vancouver
I’ve just returned from my roadtrip around the west and Rockies of Canada with my boyfriend, and I’m already so excited to share my adventures and photos here on my blog. Hint: if you are ever considering visiting this area of Canada – do it. I don’t care if you have to sell your firstborn […]
Review: Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in […]
The London Diaries: Romeo + Juliet at the Backyard Cinema
A few weeks ago for my friend’s birthday, I took her to the Backyard Cinema screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. The idea behind Backyard Cinema is to offer a more immersive cinema experience, and that was something we totally felt from the moment we stepped inside the beautiful London church. Taking inspiration from Luhrmann’s […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #32
I’ll happily drown if you’ll be there too.
Review: Everyone Brave is Forgiven, Chris Cleave
When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss – until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she’d be a marvelous spy. When […]
The London Diaries: Horniman Museum and Gardens
If you’re anything like me and the thought of visiting London’s V&A, or the Natural History Museum on a Saturday afternoon fills you with fear, you might like to try the quieter and smaller Horniman Museum and Gardens, tucked away in SE London. The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a 5 minute walk from Forest Hill […]
Review: Three Daughters of Eve, Elif Shafak
Is it cheating to listen to a book instead of reading it? I’ve always somehow counted it as morally wrong in typical snooty bookworm style. But I had a deadline to read this book, and with a free Audible credit and a lot of time commuting and pottering where I liked to listen to […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #31
And I was always told that there was a permanence in change.
Bethany Wren 