This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is about those required reading books – the ones that get handed to you with a sigh and a syllabus, and you steel yourself for boredom… only to discover that, actually, you love them. For me, there are three standouts: 📚 Oliver Twist …
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🗺️ Weekly Wednesday: Fictional Worlds I’d Like to Visit
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is A sport I want to try One of the best parts of reading is the quiet ache you get when you finish a book and think: I don’t want to leave this place. Some fictional worlds are chaotic and dangerous (looking at …
Favourite Things to Do in the Summer
I’m very much a solar-powered llama, a “give me sunshine and snacks” kind of summer person — not the hiking-in-the-heat type, but the “let’s make a day of doing very little in a pretty place” kind. Summer, for me, is all about slowing down and savouring the little things. Here …
Books I Love That Became Films or TV Shows
One of my favourite things (and also one of the most nerve-wracking) is when a book I love gets adapted for the screen. Sometimes it’s magic. Sometimes it’s heartbreak. And sometimes it’s so bad it sends you right back to the book just to wash it out of your brain. …
Five Thing I Wish More Books Talked About
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 …
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 …