My Monday Metrical Musings #218

He read The Ilyiad at 14 He read The Ilyiad at 14Not once but thrice I had to blinkI said that just ain't possibleWere you mad with nothing else offering? Surely there must have been otherEasier books to attemptLike Robinson Crusoe or Moby Dick?What?! You also read the Odyssey?!! And did you say The Old … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #218

Fiction Book Review #2 – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (YA fiction on the Holocaust)

One of my deepest wishes as a parent was to some day share with my boys about the Holocaust. 2022 looks set to be the year I get to do just that! You see, recently I had declared that one of my secret loves for a new year were new textbooks. But since I'd left … Continue reading Fiction Book Review #2 – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (YA fiction on the Holocaust)