November was another fairly relaxed month! I did get out of the house more because I needed to do a lot of shopping, for Christmas and for my graduation which was brought forward by seven months. I also did another guest lecture and put together a monograph proposal. My research blog has disappeared because I… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: November 2021

October has been a relaxed month! I didn’t really do much. In fact, the only things that I did were start my research blog and give a guest lecture on my PhD research. I hope November is slightly more eventful! The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Vathek by William Beckford The Monk by Matthew… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: October 2021

September has been oddly hectic! Here’s a quick run down of what I’ve been up to: I officially finished my PhD I applied for a temporary, part-time academic job for the spring 2022 semester I got the job after the strangest interview of my life I worked on the syllabi for the modules I’ll be… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: September 2021

August was good. August was productive. August was probably the best month I’ve had so far in 2021. I spent the first half of the month preparing for my PhD viva. I had my viva on the 17th and I passed with minor corrections. I guess I have a PhD now. Or I’m super close… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: August 2021

Oh, July. I’d be better off forgetting you ever happened. Milkman by Anna Burns Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle July 2021 TBR Restoration Shakespeare: The Law Against Lovers by William Davenant Shakespeare Saturdays: Sonnet 28 The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 2021… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: July 2021

June has been a good month! Since I submitted my PhD thesis in May, I took a lot of time off in June. I needed a break and I had one. I spent a few weeks reading in the garden because the weather was nice and then spent the rest of the month reading and… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: June 2021

  May has been a month. I’m due to submit my PhD thesis at some point today – which is terrifying – and I submitted another project yesterday so I have been doing a lot of academic work over the last month. Since I was working so much, blogging and reading took a back seat.… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: May 2021

April was hectic for me! I almost started a new job but that didn’t work out in the way that I wanted it to and then I did start a new job but that job is technically a month-long project rather than an actual job. I finished all of the training for the second job… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: April 2021

March was Women’s History Month and I enjoyed writing all of the posts that I’ve published this month. I always enjoy blogging in March but this year the experience was even better. Life was strange because I had both a relaxed and hectic month. Academic life was relaxed because I sent another draft off to… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: March 2021

February was slightly surreal! It was a very, very long month despite being the shortest month of the year. It snowed fairly often – which is unusual for the UK – and it was rather cold too. Winters have been mild for the last couple of years but we got down to -10C a few… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: February 2021