Final Thoughts

As I prepare to go home, I wanted to pause to reflect. I reflect best when writing lists as my thoughts are quick bursts and not organized paragraphs. So, please bear with me as I reflect in list format on my semester of co-oping in London and preparing to return to UC. It reads a …

It ain’t all sunshine and ice lollies.

Prepare yourself, this one is longer than usual. I've kept pretty closely to my description of the site so far: books and study abroad, or things related to my monster commute. But that's not all that study abroad has been for me or is for anyone who's ever been abroad, so that's not really what …

I’m just a bill.

First of all, I returned a book to the library and didn't pick up a new one...so the posts are going to be veering away from books for the {limited} amount of time I have left here. Then this past Friday, I was lucky enough to go into the Houses of Parliament on a tour. …

How to Survive a 1.5 Hour Commute

Ok, so I have a confession: I haven't been reading all that much on trains as I'm commuting. GASP. WHAT. Then what have you been doing? If we wanna get really real, I've been sleeping. (judge me all you want, but 6:45am is early, especially when your roommate sleeps in untill 7:45am because her commute …

Railway Review #3

Sometimes when I pick a book at random off the shelf, I hate it. Other times, I cannot put it down. This time I discovered a new third option where the book starts slowly and I never want to pick it up, but then once I actually did I couldn't put it down. Billed as …

Checkin’ It Out

Alright, bad library puns aside, I went to the British Library. It's not like a regular library though...it's a cool library. Ok, I swear I'm through with the lame jokes now. The British Library isn't a regular library because you can't check out any books. It's a research library. With a Reader Pass, you get …

Railway Review #2

I did myself a favour with the second book I picked up from the library, I picked a Philippa Gregory novel. They didn’t have The Other Boleyn Girl, so instead I picked up The Taming of the Queen. Taming is about another of Henry the 8th’s wives, Katherine Parr. In the divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, …

Wren in Cambridge

First: I know I got off schedule. Mondays are supposed to be my day. BUT yesterday while I was at work, one of the other interns from my uni here in London messaged our group chat saying a co-worker had given him two tickets to the opera for that evening. And I was first to …

Railway Review #1

After 3 weeks of work and commutes, I finally finished reading the first book I'd picked up from the library. The Shakespeare Diaries was a joy to dig through. Because, by dig, I am referring to the author's choice to only use words that were available when the Bard was alive. Which, while a fantastic historical …

Fancy-Schmancy Books

When I read children's books like Eloise and Fancy Nancy, I always think of Harrods. And after wandering through their children's clothing section recently, that association is for good reason. Harrods is the most upscale department store I have ever been into, and most certainly the largest. While neither of those things are true for …