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It’s official: January 2020 was the longest January on record and I refuse to believe that it was only 31 days long. But even so, it’s given me time to read, so I guess I’m not really complaining. Especially because I reunited myself with my literary favourite, John Steinbeck. I started reading The Grapes of Wrath a few years…

It’s time; a little book update has been long overdue, and the two books I’ve read recently deserve a little time in the limelight (small though it may be). My lovely new commute (by lovely, I mean it’s an hour shorter than it used to be) has reinvigorated both my motivation and energy for reading…

Between shows, socialising and just, you know, doing life, July has been beyond busy. Which is why I’ve surprised myself by getting through two and a half books. Why half, you might ask… Well, aside from the two full books I read, which I’ll be telling you about in a second, I also started a…

One question: how is it already July? Sometimes it’s scary how quickly time slips by without you even knowing. That’s why I think it’s pretty ironic that this month I ended up reading two books where time is kind of key. In both of June’s reads the main characters’ desire to stop time is contrasted…

I realise this post should probably be called “What I’ve been reading: May, and a little bit of June”, but that just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Since I went on holiday in May, I actually managed to get a fair amount of reading done (three books in a week, don’t all…

I wish I could say I’ve been so immersed in my reading that I’ve forgotten to blog, but that would be a lie. The truth is, I’ve been incredibly busy with writing for work. As my job title, Content Editor, I spend pretty much all of my time writing and researching my blogs for my…

Hello again world, it’s been a long, long time since I’ve been able to post anything (depsite my promise to myself of one blog a week), but I’m finally back on the blogging band wagon. It turns out, my timing couldn’t be more perfect, since it’s International Women’s Day and I’ve been itching to write…

Before I start, let’s address the obvious elephant in the room… it’s a new year, it’s a new me (it’s not) and it’s time to make some resolutions. Like all good resolutions, I’m going to start with something that seems achievable but will inevitably fail anyways… in 2019, I resolve to show my blog some…

With family, job and Christmas stresses all on the up this month, my mind has kind of been in a million and one different places recently. Unfortunately, I’ve probably spent more time this month staring out of the window than doing anything productive in the last couple of weeks. Rest assured though, I did manage…

Flaky though I may be when it comes to keeping my blog up to date, I didn’t renege on my promise to read one whole book in October. This month, I took my second foray into the world of non-fiction with what’s now up there as one of my new favourite books… Humans: A Brief…