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ft. emotional breakdowns and reading as an escape day one | day two | day three | So, if you were privy to my insta-story, you will know that yesterday, on the actual day three of the readathon, i kind of went into a stressed induced emotional breakdown. And, i know saying 'breakdown' is a [...]
DAY ONE \ DAY TWO Good evening, friends! Another day has passed, and although it wasn't as productive as yesterday, I'm still pretty happy! Today, to fulfil the challenge 'read a book you wanted to read last year (or something along those lines), I continued reading Death Note by Tsugumi Obha and Takeshi Obata. This [...]
I had become one with the plumbing.Percy Jackson, in Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan, p. 93 Good evening, friends! Another day has gone by and what a productive day it was! I typically don't say that, because I am a freakin master procrastinator, but today was a really good day, both [...]
Well, g'day friends! 'Tis the season for readathons, isn't it? So, earlier this week I shared for you my TBR for the O.W.L's Magical Readathon that I'm participating in this July (as of this moment, I am reading my second-to-last book!) but I'm also participating in The Reading Rush which starts on Monday, 22nd of [...]
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! I completely forgot to annouce my TBR for the O.W.L's Magical Readathon that I'm participating in this month! I decided to do my O.W.L's so I can do my NEWTS next month! I'm pretty excited, but before I devle into my TBR, I should say that if you want more information [...]
words are messy.love is messier. G'day friends! Today is a glorious day in Melbourne, still kind of cold but the sun is shining and the skies are blue with beautiful fluffy clouds. I think it is a fabulous Melbourne day for the review that I'm about to write! What better way to talk about a [...]
Weekly Check-In I'm at that stage in the year when literally everything on my TBR is not satisfying my bookish cravings. Does anyone else get like that? Like, you just stare at your mountain of books and think, meh I don't want to read anything. That's the point I am at currently. I was doing [...]
I am going to say this right now: this review will contain all the spoilery content! so! be! warned! CW: character death, instances of bullying, racism (alien racism?), soulmate insta-love (is that a trigger warning? in this case, possibly yes). G'day friends! As I'm writing this, I am in my pyjamas, on a kind-of sunny [...]
G'day friends! Today, I bring to you a review for Heart of Stone by Ben Galley, as part of the epic TheWriteReads Blog Tour! I'm super excited to write this as I'm writing this slightly differently than usual... I'm going to write this review in increments, in that, each 100ish pages, I'll be writing my [...]
G'day friends! Today, I kind of want to do a slightly different post. I was reading Tim Parks' novel, Where Am I Reading From? for my thesis and I came across this little section where he talks about how he's childhood bookshelf kind of prophesised where his interests would and/or wouldn't lie in the future. [...]
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