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“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London
Warning: This blog post contains mixed language. Deal with it. I recently became aware of just how selfish we are in the lives that we lead – even when we lead them with the best of intentions. We want to…
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My Favourite Sad Book Micheal Rosen’s Sad Book is one of my all-time favourite children’s books. One could say it’s because of the touching story, or because of my admiration for Quentin Blake’s illustrations. I say, it’s because of both,…
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Book vs. Post The Reading Slump For the past few years I’ve been going through quite the reading slump, which is unsettling, because I’ve been building my existence around books and literature since I can remember. If I had to…
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My Velvet Skirt So, I started with sewing lessons a few months ago. This might seem like a small feat to others, but to me it’s at least seven years’ worth of procrastination finally put to the side to do…
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And (trying) to Become a Great Writer When I was little. I used to believe that I would be this hardcore diary writer, unleashing my wildest dreams and sharing my most private thoughts. This one little notebook would hold the…
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Dreaming of Thirty* When we were teens most of us dreamed of how our lives would be one day. Now, I was never really a planner, but I had a bit of an idea of how my life would turn…
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Wuthering Heights, your one stop book to melancholy and despair. The story of a life after a broken heart. Between these pages you’ll find passion and love, but more than that you’ll find a desire for revenge, you’ll find greed…
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Enchanted. That’s what I was. Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, is one of those books that I finished within three days, and the only reason it took so long is because there were moments that I was forced to put the…
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