So, I'm not going to lie: apart from the physical books, sunburn is the only evidence of my reading this month. But sunburn aside (it's turning into tan now anyway), it's been a bumper book month, mostly because of my newly free Fridays. It's also a month that I've just realised is also dedicated to [...]
Sometimes, if you think what you're going through sucks, reading can help. It can pick you up, remind you of happier times and take you to a better world. Or, it can remind you that really, your problems are literally miniscule. In the grand scheme of things, your problems don't matter and you're going to [...]
Since we can't go anywhere right now, you'd have thought I'd have been all over my reading list in the last few weeks. Safe to say, I haven't been. I can be a terrible procrastinator, and with so much time on my hands, it's so easy to just "do it tomorrow". The fact that the [...]
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 [...]
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