books
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Can You Handle a 17-Hour Reading Marathon?
I recently did a reading challenge that included reading for a certain number of consecutive hours. And with my own alterations I hopped in on the trend. It was… an experience. One I am not sure I would recommend. But… Continue reading
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Finding Your Next Read: Essentials and Recommendations
Throughout my time of 12 months, as a blogger. I have discovered that there are many people who like to read. Though, there are many more who want to read, but don’t know where to start. If you are one… Continue reading
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Night Light
The night light was switched on and off on an average of 30 time a week. Making that maybe 4 times a day. Once when the family woke up. Then when the family went to sleep. And the rest two… Continue reading
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One of Us is Lying
By Karen M. McManus Book Review by Janhavi When the outsider, “Simon”, has a gossip website where your deepest darkest secrets are likely to be posted. How far will you go to protect them? I read this a month ago… Continue reading
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The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
Book Review by Janx Blurb: One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back In Mr. Hirasaka’s photography studio, in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. With a… Continue reading
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Book Review by Janx Its already the end of September and most of us still haven’t asked the person we like for a cup of coffee. And reading slumps eat away at our brains and bones, the way the thunder… Continue reading
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Elizabethan Era info
The Queen: The later queen of England was born to King Henry VIII and his second wife; Anne Boleyn. Soon after her birth, her mother was executed after an annulment of her marriage to the king. Anne was executed for… Continue reading
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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Book Review by Janx I am not a big fan of dystopian works that are as old as I am; but after much persuasion from close friends, I managed to pick this book up and put it on my shelf.… Continue reading
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A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
-Vikram Seth Analysis and Themes… -Janx 🙂 The poem relates to the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An attempt at capturing the shock, horror and gore that came over people in those sudden moments where their lives changed forever. The… Continue reading
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Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review
When we sit down to read, we expect some things from a book. We expect fuubutsushi throughout and characters who have sophrosyne by the end of the book. We like to have frissons by the time we are done with… Continue reading
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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…
Not a book review, By Janx 🙂 I recently finished reading this amazing piece of literature, and I absolutely had to share it with you people. This book has been the death of me for around a month and if… Continue reading
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Little life…
I was 5, When my mother told me, To wear a dress, And host a tea party, I did it, And it did not suit me, So, I put on blacks and blues, But kept my pretty shoes, And hosted… Continue reading
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Lovers of the stars…
In the dark of this cold night, I sit alone, A poet of melancholy, I stare out the glass, That separates me from the sky, And it’s wild wind, Should it drive my mad mind, Insane, I stare and stare,… Continue reading
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Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Book review by, Janx Rom-Com has been an ever-loved genre of our times, one I have felt quite reluctant towards for long. But after hearing all the praise for the latest pieces by Lynn Painter, I was intrigued to check… Continue reading
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My City
[Verse 1] It’s been years now, Looking through my window, Holding my coffee tight, But tonight, I have a million things on my head, A lifeless existence goes ahead, I’m trying to win this race, But don’t know if it… Continue reading
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