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"What are the books that have changed my life?" This is the question that has been on my lips all week - as I'm making my avocado on toast, drifting off in a mid-day daydream, and even when I'm watching the ultimate TV show, Criminal Minds. And it’s all thanks to the book Atomic Habits.…
Continue reading ➞ Six Life-Changing Books You Need to Read | Books & Literature | Rosie Abigail
How is it now 2022 when my brain is still in March of 2020? To answer that, time is strange and living through a pandemic is simultaneously the quickest and longest experience of my life. If I am acknowledging that we have reached the end of 2021 (and the dawning of a new year), then…
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Another day, another blog post to rip up the classics (metaphorically of course, I’m not a monster). Whilst I love reading, classic novels are not really my thing. When I say ‘classic novels’, I’m sure you can already conjure them up in your mind. Books by Dickens, Hardy, Tolstoy, Austen, Dostoevsky etc. You know, the…
Continue reading ➞ Top 10 Classics Novels to Read If You *Hate* Reading the Classics
So much for posting this at the end of July! It seems I’m just about getting into the swing of blogging again after my time away. However, it is still the first half of August so I think that’s an acceptable time to drop a July favourites! Let’s go! Style I left my old job…
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Is it over? The random spate of 30 degree heat that brought the country to a standstill? Oh I hope so. I am not built for the heat; I am built for cosy jumpers and rainy evenings and days where there’s limited under-boob sweat. Still, there is one plus side that comes with a British…
Continue reading ➞ Literary Girl Summer | Top Five Books on My Summer Reading List 2021
Big yikes - I have not written a favourite’s post since November 2020! All I’ll say is that my blogging routine is fully up in the air, thanks to working full-time in a pandemic. I do always enjoy writing these favourite posts as it’s a joy to look back on what made me happy this…
Continue reading ➞ March 2021 Favourites | Skincare, Animal Crossing, Mid-Size Style
I don’t want to be that person who says ‘it’s been a tough year for us all’, because we’ve heard it over and over and over. So I’ll just say ‘bloody hell, it’s been shit, hasn’t it?’ For me, there have been pockets of joy (I started my Masters, got engaged, and my blog started…
Continue reading ➞ What’s Been Getting Me Through the Pandemic? | Books, Culture, Lifestyle
Goodbye New Year's Resolutions, hello New Year's Books! Eight of the best books I've pledged to read in 2021.
It’s been a good few months since I’ve posted a favourites! Four months in fact. Time really does fly when you are in a global pandemic… My last favourites post was for July 2020 - I had just turned twenty-four, had gotten engaged, and was trusting in the media that we would be out of…
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If you know me, I am one bookish girl, and I think there’s no greater gift than giving someone a book you think they’ll enjoy. So with Christmas coming up and buying gifts online being the safest bet, I thought I’d make a kind of gift-giving-guide for books! I’ve (loosely) taken the five types of people you are bound to have in your life, and racked my brain to work out what books would be great gifts for them.
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