So here we are, we have passed the 1 year anniversary of the creation of his little side-project. Fittingly enough, in true Scholar's Notebook fashion, this post is coming a little late. June was an interesting month to say the least. Looking back on last year's posts, around this time I was churning out at... Continue Reading →

We are nearing the 1 year anniversary of the creation of this blog and looking back I realize I have spent a large portion of a couple of the posts I have written apologizing for my absence or making promises that never fully came to fruition. Alas, such is the life of a man approaching... Continue Reading →

"Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all"- Emily Dickinson. That was the opening line from the poem "Hope" by American poet Emily Dickinson, who has been a favourite of mine since I studied her works in secondary school and... Continue Reading →

As many of my dear readers will know, I started this blog to chronicle my experience writing my MA thesis in the wake of completing a project on blogging for the taught component of the degree. I have also managed to include pieces on other events in my life, making this a kind of non-private... Continue Reading →

Roll Initiative! A while back it was my intention to create a series of blog posts each focusing on a specific literary genre. After publishing my post on the mystery genre I put up a poll on my personal Instagram account for my friends and followers to vote on which genre they would be interested... Continue Reading →

Happy New Year readers! So here we are at the start of a new decade. I will admit that I had that moment on New Year's Eve where I reminisced on the past 10 years, which for me consisted of ages 14-24. This really was the decade I grew up in; my teenage years and... Continue Reading →

Recently I attended a wonderful production of A Christmas Carol at The Gate Theatre in Dublin. Quite a few of these blog posts have been written in the wake of me visiting some great city and this is the follow-up to my previous post about my visit to the Museum of Literature Ireland (I was... Continue Reading →

An entire museum dedicated to literature, of course I was going to go! This post will be the first of a two-parter detailing my escapades when I recently made a trip up to the capital. I was there to see a show but having arrived early I was also able to take in this museum... Continue Reading →

Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening or whenever you are reading this. It has been almost 2 months since my last blog post, the reason being that quite a lot has been going on and in recent years I have realized just how quickly weeks fly by. The biggest news is I recently received... Continue Reading →

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" - Samuel Johnson Travel is a common dream shared by many people and it is something I have always enjoyed (even if I'm not particularly fond of flying, quite the conundrum I know).... Continue Reading →