book reviewer. writer. phd student.
Whoops. I am so late. I thought I wrote this blog post! Maybe I dreamt it? Sometimes, I am a lost cause. If you don't already know, every month I make a short post talking about the books I read in the past month. If you want to read January and February, then click on [...]
Living with the memories you've got - and the ones you'll never make - is going to hurt, but pain is the privilege of the living (p. 197). " #OwnVoice I should warn you, you will shed a waterfall of tears reading this book. FYI. If I Tell You by Alicia Tuckerman was one of my [...]
moments like this remind me why i am alive. witnessing the countryside pass us by as we're driving up the Hume freeway; a family of cows a team of horses. the majesty of the Australian landscape, the sudden awareness of its unyielding nature, is incandescent. we seem so minuscule when confronted with [...]
i've never seen you as happy as you are now. skin glowing smile blinding your laugh at the ready. making the most out of this small country town. you are now who you are supposed to be. revel in it bask in your self-love for you have achieved dreams that seemed insurmountable before. [...]
#LOVEOZYA I am going to be quite honest, I picked this book up because I saw the name 'Cath Crowley' and I had such a deep love affair with her previous young adult novel, Words in Deep Blue. I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. The main plotline centres upon the friendship [...]
Fellow friends and other dudes, I just wanted to apologise for not being as active as usual on the ol' blog, I have just finished placement so I am hoping to be posting three times a week as usual (but like give me another week to get back into the groove please)! I have already [...]
Today was my first ever time actually teaching students in a classroom at an actual school. Before y'all go crazy, I am on placement so I didn't just randomly walk into a classroom and hijack the place. I'm meant to be here, honest. And to be quite truthful, it wasn't fantastic but it also wasn't [...]
i find myself exhausted. a bone-deep inescapable tiredness, an amalgamation of frustration, like cleaved nails scouring across a hard textured surface. indelicate obscene and overwhelmingly bloody fucking annoying. Malfunctioning dildos like the, Donald Trump’s Pauline Hanson’s and Mike Pence's of the world; stains on the very fabric of that which is the equality and humanity we [...]
I'm back. With more books! And this week, I read some beauties and others that I would rather forget. It's just been raining books here at my humble abode, and it has been wonderful. I'm going to be completely honest with you...I am still reading the Dragon Kin series by G.A. Aiken and still loving it! But, [...]
Don't be a fucking dickhead. That's usually my go-to response when I hear people (usually white, middle-aged Australians) proselytise about the 'horrors' that same-sex marriage will bring to the 'righteousness' of Australian culture. (Seriously, what righteousness? We have Pauline Hanson sitting in our Parliament. Righteousness has left the building and is running away to Mexico). [...]
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