Hazel's Blog

How can you tell the difference between someone who is proud of their achievements to those who boast to cover up a deeper issue?

Do you like to ‘Keep up with the Joneses’ or happy to just bake them a cake?

“My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” - Malcolm X

'To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.' - W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while." – Malorie Blackman

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them." – Emma Thompson

“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.” ― Jesmyn Ward, The Fire this Time