One of the joys of reading is finding those moments where a book seems to understand you – when a character thinks something you’ve always felt but never put into words, or when a plotline touches on a truth you didn’t even know you needed. But sometimes, you finish a …
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Books I Discovered on Social Media
One of the most unexpected perks (and occasional hazards!) of social media is just how easily it can influence your TBR pile. A five-minute scroll can turn into a full-blown book haul, and suddenly you’re rethinking your entire reading schedule because someone on Instagram or TikTok described a book as …
A Sport I Want To Try
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is A sport I want to try There’s none that I want to actually try due to reasons of chronic pain and mobility issues. However… Hi, my name’s Cassie and I have a current hyper fixation on tennis. I don’t know if it’s …
Do I enjoy shopping?
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is Do You Enjoy Shopping? Why or Why Not? The short answer is ‘hell no’. I hate it. So I have agoraphobia, autism and social anxiety so going to places like shops where there’s a lot of sensory input, a lot of people …
Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge catch-up
I’ve missed a couple of weeks’ worth of Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge prompts, some of which were ones I actually wanted to answer so let’s play catch up! Museums/Galleries I’ve visited/want to visit and starting with the disclaimer that British Colonialism was bad and artefacts absolutely belong with their own …
How I Feel about Staycations
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is How I Feel about Staycations Honestly, I love them! I’m specifically talking about staycations where it’s spent at home, rather than holidaying in the same country. However, we could also argue that all my trips to Devon to be with Li are …
Villains I’d Root for instead of the Protagonist
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is Villains I’d Root for instead of the Protagonist Polyphemus – the Cyclops from Homer’s Odyssey Now, I’m not saying he was innocent or completely faultless in his own downfall, but I do root for him over Odysseus. This statement can and does …
A Celebrity I’d Like to Meet
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is A Celebrity I’d Like to Meet and OMG y’all, even though I’ve been going to conventions for like 25 years, there are so fucking many. I think my first con was The first ones that spring to mind are Claudia Black, Lexa …
Hobbies I Used To Enjoy
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is Hobbies I Used to Enjoy and uh… hi, my name’s Cassie and I have ADHD, allow me to introduce you to my hobby graveyard So, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (or ADHD), for anyone who doesn’t actually know what it is or how …
Favourite Scary Monster
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is Favorite Scary Monster and while I don’t think I have a specific single favourite monster, I fucking love vampires. I grew up on a diet of Buffy and Anne Rice. I snuck into the cinema, definitely under 18, to see Interview because …