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Bethany Keats: writer, PhD student, ballerina

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In Defence of Reading Challenges

June 10, 2020 by Bethany Keats
Looking down to a book open on my lap, cute shoes below

I’d stopped reading. I loved it, but I’d stopped. Somewhere between 2010 and 2015 I became a lapsed reader. And I was most definitely a lapsed reader by 2017. Which is why I took up the JCU Library Reading Challenge in 2018. And it’s thanks to that reading challenge I got reading again. I didn’t … [Read more…]

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Confessions of a lapsed reader

February 3, 2018 by Bethany Keats
Five books stacked on top of each other with a blurred background

I used to read. Lots. I’d miss train stops and tram stops. I’d read waiting for lectures to start and I’d read up the back of them when I was bored. I destroyed Mum’s copy of The Mists of Avalon from constantly taking it in and out of my handbag because I couldn’t put it … [Read more…]

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