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Friday Reads | 31st March 2017
Read more: Friday Reads | 31st March 2017Well folks, the last Friday Reads I did I was saying that I couldn’t believe it was halfway through February and here we are at the end of March. Yep, that happened. So let’s just remain in a state of denial about the fact three whole months of 2017 have passed and focus instead on…
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Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer
Read more: Review | Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth HewerTitle: Wishing for Birds (2016) Author: Elisabeth Hewer Read: 21st January 2017 Genre: poetry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In this breath-takingly beautiful debut collection, Elisabeth Hewer displays a sense of lyricism and astuteness that make her poetry sing. “Rebellion sits well on you like a red coat or the gilt gold burnish of youth” Collecting together sixty…
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My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1
Read more: My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1I have a horrible tendency of setting New Year’s Resolutions and then promptly forgetting about them completely until 1st January of the following year when I start setting new ones for the year ahead. Obviously that defeats the entire point of having goals to begin with, so I’ve decided to do quarterly ‘check-ins’ with my goals…
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Review | The Tearling Trilogy by Erika Johansen
Read more: Review | The Tearling Trilogy by Erika JohansenTitle: The Tearling trilogy: The Queen of the Tearling (2014) The Invasion of the Tearling (2015) The Fate of the Tearling (2016) Author: Erika Johansen Read: 1st-6th Feb | 6th-11th Feb | 11th-19th Feb Genre: fantasy; dystopian; young-adult Rating: 5/5 | 4/5 | 3.75/5 Spanning three books, Erika Johansen’s Tearling trilogy tells the story of Kelsea Glynn,…
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2017 Book Haul #2
Read more: 2017 Book Haul #2I know what you’re thinking, am I really hauling another lot of books so soon after my first book haul of the year? Yes, in short. Amazon is the devil, it encourages me to buy books, and they make it so easy to acquire books that I just can’t say no. Their 3 for 10 paperback offer…
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WWW Wednesday #2 | 22nd March 2017
Read more: WWW Wednesday #2 | 22nd March 2017Exactly a month after I did my last WWW Wednesday, I bring you another! (You have to admit: this is a sort of consistency… just not the regularity the meme originally suggests.) Whilst you can always find out what I’m reading via Goodreads (mainly because I update my page number obsessively in case my bookmark falls…
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Book TBR Jar | My Take On It
Read more: Book TBR Jar | My Take On ItLast night, in a fit of strange productivity, I decided to make a book jar because my TBR is getting a little ridiculous considering my book buying problem. And also because I frequently forget some of the backlist books which are tucked away on my bookshelf and barely get a look-in thanks to all the…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Books on my Spring TBR
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Books on my Spring TBRIt’s yet another Tuesday, so that means another Top Ten Tuesday! For those who don’t know, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the book bloggers and list lovers, The Broke and the Bookish, and each week they post a topic for bloggers to respond to. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books On…
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Bullet Journals | My Rationale & Initial Thoughts
Read more: Bullet Journals | My Rationale & Initial ThoughtsYes folks, you saw that right – I started a bullet journal because I’m just one big cliche. I’d previously half-heartedly tried it in squared notebooks and found it did help my productivity, for as long as I kept up with it. My main problem was that I didn’t keep up with it, or invest enough time…
