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My 2021 Reading Goals

My 2021 Reading Goals

2021… Mom always tells me not to wish my life away, but when it comes to this year, I want it to be over. It’s not just the pandemic that has made this year miserable, and I know that the whole situation is going to be over as soon as Big Ben chimes saying it’s 1st January. But, I just want this year done. It’s not been great.

It hasn’t been good when it comes to reading or blogging either. I never really try to set myself personal or book goals when it comes to the new year, because I know myself, and I know full-well that I won’t stick to them.

But I’ve decided to switch things up this year and set myself some goals. So, here they are! …

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12 GOOD Things That Happened in 2020 | Discussion

12 GOOD Things That Happened in 2020 | Discussion

I know that I’ve spoken a lot about how awful 2020 was, but I want to take a moment to try and remember some of the good things that happened this year. There hasn’t been that many, but I’m sure I can think of some. I had originally planned to do 20 things, but when I started writing the post, I genuinely couldn’t think of 20 things… So, you get 12 instead! 😂

Most of these are positive personal things that have happened to me this year, others have been good things that have happened in general. So, without any further ago, let’s get into the list! …

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Lockdown Ruined My Reading Habits | Discussion

Lockdown Ruined My Reading Habits | Discussion

I know that everyone is talking about how rubbish 2020 was/is, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. But one of the things that I wanted to concentrate on today was how lockdown actually ruined my reading.

At the beginning of the year, I set my Goodreads goal as 50 books, which I thought was reasonable. It was 1 book a week (ish), and that seemed like a goal that I could achieve quite easily.

WELL… that just wasn’t the case, was it?

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Ways to Help the Terror of 2020 | Discussion

Ways to Help the Terror of 2020 | Discussion

Everyone knows that 2020 is a write-off year. Things just couldn’t have gone more wrong with the world, and with the deadly typhoons in the Philippines, this year shows no sign of slowing down and making things easy for us.

Rewind to 1st January 2020. We had just sounded the new year in with friends, family, and fireworks. Everything was going good: I was working a couple days a week alongside studying for my Masters in creative writing, and life was good.

But I guess it was never meant to last. Not even for a couple of days…

(Links to places where you can donate to different causes are at the bottom of the post)

Content warnings: death, Coronavirus, animal death, police brutality

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Blogging Self-Doubt | Discussion

Blogging Self-Doubt | Discussion

This blog post will probably make zero sense… Or it might make perfect sense. I don’t know. However, this post simply follows my train of thought of when I was writing about how I felt about blogging, and how I felt about my own personal blog. It was kind of hard to write because I was worried about how it would be viewed, and I was constantly thinking that no one would understand, blah blah blah. But you know what? I wrote it anyway. So, here we go… …

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How I’m Coping During These Stressful Times | Discussion

How I’m Coping During These Stressful Times | Discussion

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!

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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

Things I Wish Book Boxes Would Change | Discussion

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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Audiobooks Count as Reading: A Discussion

Audiobooks Count as Reading: A Discussion

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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