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What’s this? What’s this?
Read more: What’s this? What’s this?What’s this? What’s this? There’s colour everywhere…If you’re not now singing What’s This? from The Nightmare Before Christmas then I simply don’t know what to tell you. But yes, what is this you may ask, is it a blog post, Emma? Yes! Is it a triumphant return to this blog? Have we kissed COVID-19 and…
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Reading in the Time of Corona
Read more: Reading in the Time of Corona2020 has not been a great year for reading so far. It just has not been in my priority. Between bereavement at the start of the year (expected, but still shakes up the routine), feeling overwhelmed with work and then, the big one, COVID-19, 2020 is not going to be a very good reading year.…
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You’ll be back, time will tell
Read more: You’ll be back, time will tellLong time no see, eh? If you’re even a slightly-frequent reader of this blog, then you might have noticed that I have been MIA for the past few weeks. In truth, since September really, I’ve not entirely been feeling my blog. Every post I’ve written has felt like a chore. That’s not to say I haven’t been…
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My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #3
Read more: My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #3Sometimes, I make resolutions/goals for the year. Mainly so I have something to write in the front of my bullet journal. Sometimes I succeed at them, sometimes I fail (spectacularly), but it’s always nice to have something to aim for and work towards. In recent years I’ve found that doing quarterly check-ins helps to keep…
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My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2
Read more: My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2Sometimes, I make resolutions/goals for the year. Mainly so I have something to write in the front of my bullet journal. Sometimes I succeed at them, sometimes I fail (spectacularly), but it’s always nice to have something to aim for and work towards. In recent years I’ve found that doing quarterly check-ins helps to keep…
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My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1
Read more: My 2019 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1Sometimes, I make resolutions/goals for the year. Mainly so I have something to write in the front of my bullet journal. Sometimes I succeed at them, sometimes I fail (spectacularly), but it’s always nice to have something to aim for and work towards. In recent years I’ve found that doing quarterly check-ins helps to keep…
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Discussion | Collecting Books, Hauls and Unhauls, and Marie Kondo
Read more: Discussion | Collecting Books, Hauls and Unhauls, and Marie KondoToday, I’m going to do a post that is, probably, a month or so behind the curve. A short while ago book bloggers across the Internet were a mixture of alarmed and flabbergasted by the idea, attributed to tidying-up goddess Marie Kondo, that people should own 30 books in their collection. Of course, as with…
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My 2019 Resolutions
Read more: My 2019 ResolutionsAs you may have seen from my final quarterly check-in of my 2018 resolutions, I did pretty ok at my somewhat ambitious yearly goals last year. As always, I tend to do better at the reading goals than I do at anything else, partly because reading is always (and has always been) a priority of…
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My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #4
Read more: My 2018 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #4As you may have seen if you’re been around the blog for a while, throughout 2018 I have been doing check-ins for my yearly resolutions as a way of keeping me accountable to more people than just myself. At the end of the first quarter of 2018, I posted my first check-in, at the end…
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30 Before 30
Read more: 30 Before 30I have a love/hate relationship with anything that resembles a ‘bucket list’ or ‘X before X’ list. I love the idea of optimistic goal setting but the realist (read: pessimist) in me knows that I likely won’t get to accomplish every goal I set myself due to lack of confidence, lack of money, or lack of opportunity…