{"id":4073,"date":"2023-07-06T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/2023\/07\/06\/hows-that-summer-break-going\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:42:30","slug":"hows-that-summer-break-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019s That Summer Break Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello! It\u2019s been a wee while. I was hoping that I would be posting here a little more than I have during the summer break away from uni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess June was kinda crazy. Busy here and there. A few gigs and one that I couldn\u2019t make due to Glasgow receiving a downpour of biblical proportions. I set out to go and made it as far as Buchanan Street then spent 45 minutes sheltered under a shop frontage before trying to continue on to the venue before finally and swiftly admitting defeat and heading home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towards the end of June I started getting my teeth into writing. I\u2019ve taken out a subscription to a writing magazine and an online membership to their website. I\u2019ve compiled a list of writing competitions that I am interested in entering over the next few months and have already been busying myself with researching and writing down ideas and actual fictional content and short stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m also reading as well. I read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and am currently around a quarter of the way through reading Thackery\u2019s Vanity Fair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also still a consumer of podcasts and have recently been enjoying series two of Uncanny, as well as a few documentary style podcasts – one called Shiny Bob about the Edinburgh judicial system. Another titled A Very British Cult, about a life coaching \u2018company\u2019 called Lighthouse – which I\u2019m quite bloody scared to mention here to be honest, given how they were portrayed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently I am nearing the end of a podcast on the K-pop sex scandal. It\u2019s called Burning Sun and is a series aired as part of the Intrigue podcast series on BBC Sounds. It\u2019s really a very disturbing listen. The systemic sexual abuse of women in South Korea is absolutely abhorrent. And the fact that these outwardly looking \u2018shiny, clean\u2019 male K-pop stars behaved this criminally and disgustingly behind closed doors is beyond alarming. It\u2019s truly frightening what lurks behind some country\u2019s cultures – how we believe we see them and how they outwardly project themselves to be compared to how they truly are. How these kinds of behaviours can somehow be regarded as mere \u201ccultural differences\u201d is shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can deal with the darkness of this podcast – for there are very stressing details on sexual assults and incidences of suicide discussed – then I recommend you listen to Burning Sun. You can find it on BBC Sounds – Link to the podcast HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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I have another couple of weeks to wait before I get the result for my previous module and find out how well (or otherwise!) I did on my final assignment. Of course, I will let you know here (as much as I can) about it – bearing in mind that I will need to be careful just how much I can share about my mark and pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m also hoping to write here a little bit more often, in between writing work for the writing comps I\u2019d like to enter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, take care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! It\u2019s been a wee while. I was hoping that I would be posting here a little more than I have during the summer break away from uni. I guess June was kinda crazy. Busy here and there. A few gigs and one that I couldn\u2019t make due to Glasgow receiving a downpour of biblical … <\/p>\n

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