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Why I Complete Series I Don’t Like
I have noticed that I am frequently haunted by stories that I haven’t finished. You may have noticed that unlike a lot of other readers, I seldom DNF books anymore. This is for a good reason, I can’t let go of the stories. They follow me around and haunt me until I give up a…
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Difficult Women Review
Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do. Feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It’s time to reclaim the…
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Reframe the Day Review
Requests and to-dos bombard your phone and inbox, day and night. Information and distractions claw at your time and attention. You’re always busy, always searching for the finish line … or at least the pause button. Life feels like an endless series of “what’s nexts”–what’s the next meeting, task, obligation, goal, achievement?
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Reading Rush Wrap Up
So the Reading Rush is over, and I wanted to share with you what I did over the week. On the first day, I didn’t read a lot. I just ended up reading the shortest book on my TBR, the Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue. I thought that it was quite good but did end up…
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Weekly Reading Progress
Continuing on from what I started last week, here are all the books I’ve read in the past seven days! What I Read The Girl The Sea Gave Back For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her…
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