“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' is a lie. Life is just one thing after another at the moment and strong is not how I'm feeling. I'm feeling tired, really tired.
Maybe it’s just me and my perimenopausal rage but I’m seeing quite a few fiction books coming out about menopause and the titles are always something to do with hot flushes and they’re tipped as being ‘hilarious’.
Because that’s all the menopause is, hot flushes 🙄
FUCK. OFF.
My novel Dogged is now available in a digital format (all the usual places). I'd love you to read it. Here's a third page of quotes about the book that folk sent to me, my publisher, or put up on Goodreads. Hard copies still available from
@IgniteBooks
@goodreads Yes, I always have done, ever since I learnt to read when I was 4. Over the past 50 years, books, in particular fiction, has been my anchor.