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Pulling Tarot Cards for My Characters | Rotting Trees, Book 1 in the Bezzina’s Emporium Trilogy
So over on Patreon I’m hosting a book club to discuss Rotting Trees. It’s been huge fun revisiting the novel and coming up with conversation points and while I was thinking about the novel’s themes, vibes and many unanswered questions, I got wondering about which cards in the Major Arcana best represent the characters in… Continue reading
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Gamification of Reading | Pagebound vs GoodReads vs StoryGraph Part One
Happy February. How is your reading challenge going this year? You’re already behind? You didn’t read eight books a week? YOU FAILURE. Most of this blog’s content these days is book-related: my Read, If You Like… series where I talk about books I’ve read and why you might enjoy them if you like a certain… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like: ‘Julie Chan is Dead’ by Liann Zhang
Hello hello, I’m chilly and it’s raining. I’ve been hearing about the UK’s false autumn so I’m grateful for rain, but I really enjoyed not having cold knees. And not having to put on socks. And not laundering socks. Where do they go. I’ve almost finished The Lord of the Rings. I didn’t flick between… Continue reading
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Best Books of 2025 So Far
Long time no chitchat. It feels a long time, because I was working on the final module of the semester when I last wrote and now the film debuted two months ago. How’s your summer? Done anything fun? Raged against the machine? Me too, if you count working on mirrornovel as an alternative to reading… Continue reading
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