We all have our rough days, more often than not and when it gets to the point where the rug really gets pulled out from under my feet, the only thing that makes me feel like me again are books. Books and candles. There’s something pretty comforting about cozying up in a blanket, candles lit…
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‘Annabel Lee’
I recently came across Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘Annabel Lee’ in ‘Lady Midnight’ by Cassandra Clare. It tickled something in the back of my mind and I realised I’d read it once before when I was in school. Reading it again, with and without a certain context made me think of so many different things…
Get Your Act Together!
I’ve noticed that I am at my most stressed when I am most unorganised, and it will come as no surprise that these two things go hand in hand. And since the beginning of this year I have been trying to stay more organised, trying to get things done on time and stay on top…
Life After Life: Bed Time Reads
I had been meaning to read Life after Life ever since it was recommended to me; the plot itself and the idea of reincarnation intrigued me, so I ordered a copy for myself and jumped right in. It’s taken me a while to get through, mostly due to the fact that studying English Literature at…
The Girl You Left Behind…
It isn’t quite often that I find a book which once I’ve finished, I go right back to the start and devour page after page all over again, and over the Christmas Holidays, I did exactly that! ‘The Girl You Left Behind’ made me dive right back into this heartbreaking yet heartwarming tale. Never have…
Does Pain Demand To Be Felt?
This Christmas Holiday, I got the chance to read a few of my well loved books that I left behind at home, in hopes that they would provide some much needed solace from victorian novels and plays that had occupied my mind during term time. And I was right! I have to say, I did not…
Brutally Honest: My Thoughts On ‘Never Let Me Go’
With a hefty first term of uni done and dusted, novels and plays put away to gather dust for the Christmas Holidays, my eyes caught the spine of something else on my rickety shelves. It was a book that I had been given a while ago and yet had never opened. Until now, and I…
The American Dream: My Thoughts on the ‘Great Gatsby’
Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” is a book that has stayed with me since the first time I ever read it. An evocative tale submerged in a world of kaleidoscopic glamour and lavish parties, it takes the readers a while to accustom their eyes to the damnation and sorrow that is eclipsed by the shadow of the…
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