🪴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
- 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
Substack is where I’ve been getting my non-fiction fix.
🎧 Listening:
Audio books:
Consistently finishing books by Sally Rigby and K.L Slater.
Podcasts:
- On the Reg with Jason and Inger
- Stitching Tales, by Malena Hjerpe and Johanna Lundstrom
- BBC’s Woman’s Hour
- ABC’s Life Matters
- Hidden Brain
- Academic Writing Amplified by Cathy Mazak
- Defend, Publish and Lead by Christine Tulley
- Teaching in Higher Ed
- ABC’s This Working Life
- ABC’s Soul Search
- You’ve Got This with Dr Katie Linder
- Grad School Is Hard, But… , by Dr Katy Peplin
- 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