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Jan 10, 2025 | 
nature.com | Rebecca Foster |Hannah Carver
AbstractThe Supporting Harm Reduction through Peer Support (SHARPS) study involved designing and implementing a peer-delivered, harm reduction intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use. Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) provided a framework for the study.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Rebecca Foster
This article relates to Rental House
Weike Wang's Rental House takes place during a couple's two vacations — one to Cape Cod and the other to the Catskills. Here are a few other novels in which vacations are equally illuminating about the characters' personalities and relationship dynamics.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Rebecca Foster
BookBrowse:
In Weike Wang's third novel, a thirtysomething couple's interactions on vacation reveal much about race, class, and ambition.
For many of us, vacations offer an escape from the everyday — a chance to explore new places, have fresh experiences, and see sites of cultural and natural beauty.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bookishbeck.com | Rebecca Foster
Today is PKD Awareness Day. Because the author and I both have polycystic kidney disease, I’m doing something I rarely do and reprinting an early review of mine that has already appeared on Shelf Awareness. I could hardly believe it when I was trawling through the list of review book offers and saw that Eiren Caffall also has PKD, then even more astonished to learn that it is a major theme in her memoir, which also weaves in marine biology and environmental concerns.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
northwestend.com | Rebecca Foster
Grief does crazy things to people and Yes, We’re Related explores the different reactions of two sisters to the loss of their mother on the first-year anniversary of her death. The play starts with the three actors emerging from the audience and raving whilst in squirrel masks.
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May 17, 2024 | 
loveproperty.com | Rebecca Foster
In 2014, Thomas and Marie decided to tackle their first self-build in Cambridge in the UK. They purchased a plot without planning permission, which was a big risk. “It had previously been lock-up garages,” says Thomas. “We knew about it because we lived nearby.”They decided to work with German timber-frame package provider Baufritz. Each home produced by the firm is engineered in a factory before being delivered to site and assembled.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Rod Nordland |Rebecca Foster
BookBrowse:
A foreign correspondent, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, looks back at a remarkable life of overcoming adversity and reporting from war zones.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bookishbeck.com | Rebecca Foster
“Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past” is the instructive subtitle of this globe-trotting book of foodie exploration in the vein of A Cook’s Tour and The Omnivore’s Dilemma. With its firm grounding in history, it also reminded me of Twain’s Feast. Journalist Tara Grescoe is based in Montreal.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Rebecca Foster |Kirstin Anderson
The UK government plans to impose tougher sentences on those convicted of serious crimes, it announced via this year’s king’s speech at the state opening of parliament. Political pundits reacting to the speech on the BBC immediately questioned the rationale behind potentially putting more people in prison, when UK prisons are struggling to accommodate those already under their purview.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
bookishbeck.com | Rebecca Foster
Just one week to go until the official start of Novellas in November! I’m testing out this link-up service in advance by listing the posts that people have already made about their reading plans for the month. Feel free to add your links now and throughout November. (You can also leave them in a comment below.) If you forget, I will try to spot any missing posts in my feeds and add them in myself. This post will be pinned to the top of my blog from now until 3 December.
