Educating people

I am doing a talk at Tile Hill Library in Coventry on 14th December which I am looking forward to. I have decided to try and get into local Senior Schools and talk about the pleasures of reading and writing, which I have always found to be therapeutic. Whenever I am stressed or down I either pick up a book and read and lose myself in someone else's life or write something where I can step out of my life for a while.
I know when my Mum was dying, I would sit bey her bed holding her hand and read a book, because she was in a coma.
I think the benefits of writing is you can be anyone you want, (which is why I always like to write in the first person) and you can do anything you want, including murder and they can't imprison you for it!! ha ha. With St Petersburg I could enter the glittering society of the Romanov empire and fall in love with a handsome prince. Thanks to the internet I was able to do research on buildings in St Petersburg and Tallin in Estonia. I would have loved to go on one of those cruises that took in Moscow, St Petersburg and Tallin as well as other parts of Russia, but thanks to Mr Vladimir Putin and his war that will not be possible.

I hope that I will get the opportunity to influence some youngsters to read or take up writing.

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