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Pyjamarama online reading festival.

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Come along to BookTrust ‘s online reading festival featuring the nation’s favourite authors and illustrators. Find out more.


Online readers group chat

Our next Coventry Libraries Online Readers Group chat on facebook will be on Tuesday 5 May from 12 noon. Want to join us for a friendly informal chat about books? If this is not for you, you might like to share your book recommendations, review and book news. Contributions welcome!


Health and wellbeing support from the Reading Agency.

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Reading well for children author Dawn Huebner has published a free reading of her book Something Bad Happened, available to view on Youtube.

 

Visit the Reading Well website for helpful resources and advice for supporting people to look after their health and wellbeing during COVID-19 - including signposting to online health information and self-management resources from Reading Well partner organisations such as Mind, Alzheimer's Society, Carers UK, British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK. 


Book review

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The sweetness of life by Francoise Heritier 

This is a lovely book to make you think of all the good things in life. The author is writing to a doctor friend who wrote to her saying that he had “stolen” a weeks holiday in Scotland and she is reminding him of all the wonderful things he is missing in life by working so hard.  It reads like a stream of consciousness as she lists all the things in life that she cherishes, both past and present, and it allows you to start thinking of those special moments in your life, both small and large such as “holding buttercups under your chin to see if there’s a yellow reflection….making a blade of grass between your fingers and your lips whistle…..hearing the cascading of a waterfall”.  This is a book to treasure in lockdown as it reminds us of the good times we have had and to cherish the small things that get us through these days. 


Snacking too much?

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Useful tips on eating in lockdown.


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COVID-19 safety tips for survivors

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