I know, I know, Iโm a bit late to the party, but I eventually got here! I think this year was one of the greatest in terms of fantastic reads by really wonderful authors. It is ridiculously hard to only pick six, but that is the trend I'm trying here on this blog ;P. Letโs [...]
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POETRY REVIEW: WILD EMBERS BY NIKITA GILL
Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty Wild Embers by Nikita Gill is a firestorm of lovely prose, that at times, can be quietly powerful and other times, is an exhilaration of a pure unstoppable force. I will try and keep this review brief, only because I wholeheartedly believe that this is a poetry collection [...]
REVIEW: ORIGIN BY DAN BROWN
First and foremost, Edmund Kirsch reminds me of Tony Stark. Literally down to the personality type and the fashion choices. And Winston (AI) reminds me of JARVIS. I just really needed to get that out of the way. Moving onto the review portion of this post,ย Origin does not disappoint. Unlike the previous books, and maybe [...]
REVIEW: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
i stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can i do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see further ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย -ย legacy Every time I read a [...]
what does she have?
one of the saddest things to bear witness to is the sudden realisation of their own mortality. she says that she's old and she doesn't want to die. she calls aged care homes a prison, and she doesn't want to collapse into the arms of death from inside a cage. that daughter that she stabbed [...]
today is a better day
today is a better day. not so much an empty shell but a cracked one with feelings trickling through, a lost soul fighting its way into its Home. i'm smiling. it doesn't take as much effort to move the muscles of my face and showcase a feeling a thought, i'mย here. it's a [...]
Adorable YA Reads: Part One
*PLEASE NOTE THAT MAJORITY OF THIS WAS WRITTEN PRIOR PLACEMENT* ย Iโll have you know that I am a master procrastinator. Instead of doing homework - and trust me I have a mountain load - I sit down on my dinner table, and write mini-reviews. Because if Iโm not doing homework, I am reading. Literally, [...]
TOO FAT, TOO SLUTTY, TOO LOUD by Anne Helen Petersen
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Womanย by Anne Helen Petersen, is an analytical study concerning the notion of what it means to be an โacceptableโ woman. Through the lens of female celebrities, Petersen emphasises the boundaries by which female behaviour is policed in both the public and private [...]
TOP 5 POETRY PICKS
Last year, I made a mission to read all the poetry collections that I could get my hands on (and that I could afford) after I spontaneously picked up Rupi Kaur'sย Milk and Honey and fell in absolute and overwhelming love. So I thought, in the spirit of upcoming holidays, how about I write a list [...]
matching flower tattoos & motorbike gears
she was driving when I looked over from the passenger seat. one hand on the wheel, the other adding emphasis to her words a telling symptom of her greekness. like a meteor shredding through earthโs atmosphere smashing into earthโs plains and distorting the landscape, i was suddenly and inexplicably hit by the mortality of the [...]
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