🪴Life
Building a life for myself and my family in Ireland after 20+ years of living abroad.
📖 Reading
I’ve been slowly getting back into fiction after a dry spell. This year, I’ve been reading:
- Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy
- Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan (Translator: Rachel Cusk)
- Finistère, by Anne Berest
- Flashlight, by Susan Choi
- Small Pleasures, by Clare Chambers
- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- Under the Udala Trees, by Chinelo Okparanta
- We Have Always Been Here, by Samra Habib
- The Runaways, by Fatima Bhutto
- Summer Water, by Sarah Moss
Some of the places I’ve been getting my non-fiction fix in 2026:
- Culture Study, by Anne Helen
- The Economy of Algorithms, by Marek Kowalkiewicz
- Big Undies, by Corinne Fay
- The Good Journey with Ijeoma Oluo
- Digitally Literate, by Ian O Byrne
- Parenting for a Digital Future, by LSE Blogs
- Studio Sundays, by Bekka Palmer
- Thrive PhD, by Katy Peplin
- The Imperfectionist, by Oliver Burkeman
- Ground Truths, by Eric Topol
🎧 Listening:
Audio books:
Consistently finishing books by Sally Rigby and K.L Slater.
Podcasts:
- On the Reg with Jason and Inger
- Stitching Tales
- Woman’s Hour
- Life Matters
- Hidden Brain
- Academic Writing Amplified
- Defend, Publish and Lead
- Teaching in Higher Ed
- This Working Life
- Soul Search
- You’ve Got This
- The Academic Imperfectionist
(A now page “shares what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.” If you have your own site, you should make one too.)
Last updated: August 2026