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How I’m Coping During These Stressful Times | Discussion

April 5, 2020 Kirsty Hanson

Hey there, lovely people!

Before I start this post, can I just say a massive THANK YOU to all of the essential workers that are working their arses off to make sure that life still seems relatively normal. I’m forever grateful!

I don’t even know where to start with this post. I would never ever think that the U.K. would be on lockdown. You read about things like this in dystopian novels, you watch films/TV shows based on pandemics, but you never think that it’s going to happen to you, you think they’re just things that happened way back when in history and that they’re a thing of the past. Well… that’s what I thought, anyway.

So.

How am I coping?

Not good, I’m afraid. …

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Things I Wish Book Boxes Would Change | Discussion

January 24, 2020 Kirsty Hanson

Listen, we all love book subscription boxes. They’re like getting a birthday present every month and you get loads of brilliant surprises plus an amazing book for a reasonable(ish) price.

HOWEVER.

I do have my problems with them. For those regular readers of my blog, you will know that I only subscribe to one subscription box, and I get it every month. But, this post isn’t just me spilling the tea on this particular box, it’s boxes in general.

I also know that because I get a box every month, there’s bound to be repetition because companies have to cater for people who want to get one-off boxes,

But, like I said before, this post is talking about book subscription boxes as a whole! …

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I’M BACK!

December 3, 2019 Kirsty Hanson

I can’t believe that the last time I wrote a blog post was in July/August. I’m officially the worst book blogger on the planet. It doesn’t help though, that I’ve been in the biggest reading slump OF ALL TIME. To put it into perspective, my Goodreads reading challenge was 80 and who was I kidding? I’ve read 29 books. …

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Audiobooks Count as Reading: A Discussion

September 15, 2018 Kirsty Hanson

I am so SICK AND TIRED of seeing this being flung around book Twitter. I am SICK AND TIRED of elitism surrounding reading.

People who say that audiobooks don’t get as reading are elitist, ableist and just idiots. Yes, ok, when I say I’m reading a book in audiobook format, I do say that I’m listening to an audiobook, but it’s still reading. An audiobook is when a person is reading out loud from a book, like… they’re reading the EXACT SAME WORDS that are on the pages in front of them. They could be reading the book out loud for a radio show/podcast, or they could be reading it for a service like Audible or Scribd. …

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