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Louise June 16, 2020 Books

My Summer 2020 TBR

This Friday marks the real first day of summer, and I am not that thrilled about it, in all honesty. I’ve always hated summer and hot weather and if I could afford it (and there wasn’t a global pandemic) I would hop over to the southern hemisphere during their winter just so I could avoid the heat. I live in a house that is over a hundred years old, has a ton of insulation and no air conditioning, so summer is just awful for me. But anyway, since my hobbies involve staying at home and reading, summer is a great…

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Louise June 13, 2020 Books

Animal Crossing New Horizons Book Tag

I have played Animal Crossing every single day ever since I got it in April, and I have absolutely no regrets about that. I love how soothing it is to play and definitely helps me to feel better when I’m feeling down. If you play it and want to visit my island, let me know! This tag was created by Bec and Angharad @ Two Book Thieves! You can check out their original post here!

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Louise June 4, 2020 Lists

My Favourite Book Movies

I have a very strong belief that the movies are not inferior to books, and movie adaptations are definitely not inferior to the books that they are based on. If you ask me, there is a layer of snobbiness to the idea that the book is always better with no exceptions and I don’t agree with it at all. If you like the movie more, then that’s fine. If you don’t want to read the book, that’s also fine. But that is not what I am here to talk about. Today, I wanted to share some of my absolute most…

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Louise June 2, 2020 Books

Books by Black Authors I Want to Read

One thing that I really want to do is read more books by black authors because the amount of books I have read by black authors right now is terribly low. I did study some of Alice Walker’s short stories while at university but now I feel like that’s not enough. We should always make sure that we amplify black voices, but now we need to do it more than ever and support black authors. This post is only comprised of books that I want to read and haven’t read yet, but here are some videos and posts by black…

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Louise May 21, 2020 Blogging

5 Reasons Why I Won’t Follow Your Blog

On Tuesday, I spread a lot of passion and positivity by talking about my love for monsters (which you can read if you clickity-click *wink*). Today, I want to have an informative (I hope) and slightly passive-aggressive talk about something a little less positive. I want to talk about why I’m not going to follow your blog. We can’t be followed by every single blogger in the world and not everyone is going to be mutual with us. There are a lot of reasons why someone else won’t follow a blog, but these are my main five reasons. And no,…

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