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Benefits of Reading on Personal Growth

How Reading Has Taught Me Patience One of my biggest struggles has always been a desire for the outcome/end product to be immediate. Whenever I set goals I tend to end up dedicated an insane (and unhealthy) amount of time to it right from the beginning and try to achieve it all at once in the shortest amount of time. It has lead to a lot of frustration, and anxiety at times. Similarly, when those goals or habits that I was working towards don’t end up sticking (as is obviously going to be the case) I end up with a…

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Books

The Benefits of Dream Interpretation

Book Review: The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary  Author: Nancy Wagaman        Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐/5      IBSN:978-0-9985459-3-9 “The moment you wake up from a dream, you already know what it means. The answers lie deep within your consciousness where the dream and its symbolism were created, right where you left them when you woke up.” Have you ever woken up from a dream in utter confusion, questioning what on earth was going on in your head while you were asleep? This is essentially how I feel every night. Dreams remain an elusive part of our psyche. Often you hear that dreams are trying to…

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Books

Only Human (Book Three of the Themis Files)

“We’re not heroes. No one is. Every movie we watch, every book we read, we see people who can solve every problem, face every danger all on their own. But in real life, Vincent, we just call the cops. That’s what I did.” Only Human* Author: Sylvain Neuvel             ⭐⭐⭐.5                      Publisher: Penguin I have been meaning to get to this book review for weeks now, having finished the book in September, and even featuring it in my September Reads. However, the full review just never seemed to want to get written. After some pondering, I realised why that was. I wasn’t…

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Books

Book Lovers Gift Guide 2018

What to get the book lover in your life! Some of the links in this post contains affiliates. This means that at no additional cost to you, if you purchase something using my link I receive a small commission. We’re coming up to that time of the year again where you will inevitably be stressing about all the gifts that you need to get for people before Christmas and the New Year come around. As if thinking about the sheer number of gifts you need to plan for isn’t hard enough, the thought of facing the crowded shops and never-ending…

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Books

October Reads 2018

October was an interesting month for me, bookwise. While I had put up a recommendation of spooky Halloween themed books earlier in the month, I found myself reading all different kinds of books, from horror to romance, to short stories and non-fiction essays. This month was definitely the definition of diverse reading. Sometimes I can find myself reading too heavily in a specific genre, and while I love what I am reading, sooner or later I’ll find myself in a rut as I can’t find the perfect book in that genre anymore, or the perfect book to satisfy me at…

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Books

Canongate Myth Series: Girl Meets Boy Book Review

Author: Ali Smith                                  Pages: 164                              Publisher: Canongate ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Nobody grows up mythless,’ Robin says. ‘It’s what we do with the myths when we grow up that matters.’ A modern day re-interpretation of the myth of Iphis by Ovid, Girl Meets Boy is Ali Smith’s 2007 contribution to the Canongate Myth Series. Like all in the series, Smith’s addition is relatively short, but packed with intention and triggers for incredible worldly insights. In fact, the length of these novellas is quickly becoming one of my favourite aspect of this series, as it allows me to think more deeply about the…

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