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“One, I feel very confused about where I want my life to go. What kind of person do I want to be? How do I want to contribute to the world?” - Michelle Obama ✍🏻 Michelle Monday featuring Becoming, my #currentread and my new favourite read. I never want this book to end! I’ve book marked so many quotes and passages that I love, including the segment when Michelle Obama talks about when she started a journal. In fact, it inspired me to return to my own journal after a very long absence from writing in it. Yesterday, I spent some time chronicling my thoughts and feelings on paper and it felt so therapeutic to let the words flow. I realised how much I missed it, especially after reading many of the previous entries. I’ve always kept a journal, but have been more sporadic in recent years. Now that I’ve begun again, I look forward to resuming one of my favourite writing habits, in between reading this amazing book! ✍🏻 Have you read Becoming? Has a book ever inspired you in such a way? Do you keep a journal? ✍🏻 #grimdragon - “Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world.”

Slayer Sunday...Yesterday’s #grimdragon prompt was “You’re not special. You’re extraordinary.” and I completely forgot to use this photo that I had planned for the prompt and used my Sleuth Saturday photo instead! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 So here it is tonight instead! 😆 When the prompt is a Buffy quote, I cannot miss the opportunity to post about one of my favourite shows ever. 📺⚰️🦇🧛🏻‍♂️📚 Still beloved more than twenty years later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has all the ingredients for the perfect show - a strong female central character, an eclectic friendship group (the Scooby Gang), humour, a strong and sharp script and the element of surprise. In keeping with the theme of the quote, the inclusion of Dawn may initially have seemed completely left field that undermined the audience, but never underestimate Joss Whedon who knew exactly what he was doing after all...For non Buffy viewers, I will keep this spoiler free! So if you haven’t watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer yet, what are you waiting for?! Don’t miss out on one of the best tv shows ever! 📺⚰️🦇🧛🏻‍♂️📚 Are you a Buffy fan? Why do you think it has such an enduring appeal?

Sleuth Saturday featuring some of my favourite detectives, many of whom remain childhood favourites. I’ve loved detective stories from an early age and have always admired authors who can write and weave a great detective story that is full of clues and red herrings before the detective solves the mystery. 🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏻‍♀️ Do you enjoy detective stories? Do you have a favourite detective? 🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏻‍♀️ The gorgeous Arthur Conan Doyle print is by @itslauracrow and you can get 20% off in Laura’s shop if you use my code CROWREP18! 🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏻‍♀️ #grimdragon - “You’re not special. You’re extraordinary.”

Happy St. Valentine’s Day and a Throwback Thursday to my teenage Sweet Dreams book collection! For anyone not familiar with Sweet Dreams, this was a series full of teen romance stories. While I still love having my collection, I couldn’t help noticing the lack of diverse representation on the covers when I took my collection off the shelf to photograph. Do you think diversity has improved within literature in the last few decades? Did you read the Sweet Dreams series? Do you still have any in your collection? I would love to see them! 😍💖

“Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.” - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 💖 Happy Galentine’s Day! A day that celebrates female friendship is definitely one to embrace! Who are your favourite fictional female friends? 💖 #grimdragon - Queens supporting Queens

Treat Tuesday featuring lots of great book mail that I received from publishers last week and some proof copies I picked up at work at @rossiter_books. I can never resist the lure of the proof shelf at work! 😆 I picked up children’s book Enchantée by Gita Trelease, which has a stunning cover and is set in 18th century Paris. It has echoes of Les Miserables with a magical twist, and will be published next week. I also picked up @junodawson’s next book Meat Market, which is due for release in May. It is a YA novel set in the fashion industry, exposing its dark side and its predators. A completely different book that also caught my eye was Period Power, which looks at women’s menstrual cycles and how to utilise them. The book also focuses on self-care and highlights new concerns like using natural sanitary products, which is something that is becoming more prevalent in our awareness of reducing plastic and chemical laden products. 📚 The latest book mail I received from publishers included thrillers Darling and One More Lie. Darling is currently out now in paperback and is described as a complex relationship between stepmother and stepdaughter, while also dealing with racism. One More Lie by Amy Lloyd is due for release in April and tells the story of Charlotte, who is trying to start afresh after spending her childhood years in prison. But even with a new identity, the past has a way of catching up with her...Having met author @eyeslikesquares at work, I’m even more excited to read this book! 📚 The final book featured is Annelies, which is a novel of Anne Frank and is described as a haunting what-if, while also honouring Anne Frank’s legacy. The book is available now in hardback. 📚 With so many great books to read, it is difficult to decide what to pick up next! Which book would be the first on your list?

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