The Biggest Life Lessons Reading Books Has Taught Me What maintaining a daily reading habit taught me about life, growth, and myself.

If you’re lucky enough to have a library and the will to put down your phone for half an hour a day, you can read.

Here's why you should 📚

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The inevitability of the passage of time We say goodbye to the old and welcome the new in a flurry of highlight reels and camera roll dumps.

It's on my 2026 to do list to revive my Substack, as I've neglected it for months.

Trying to write and publish without being perfect this year so hopefully there will be more posts like these 🫶🏼✨

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My fave books of the year 📚🫶🏼

A perfect blend of fantasy, romance, historical & literary fiction which is all of my favourite genres.

You can read more about why these are my favourites here:

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Growing Up Adopted When Friends Didn’t Believe Me – and What It Taught Me What happens when your reality is questioned and how it molds who you become.

What happens when your reality is questioned, and how does it shape who you become?

In my latest blog, I share the challenges of having my truth doubted when I was a teenager, and the lessons it left behind.

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📚 November is #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) the month where stories take shape, one word at a time.

Thinking of finally writing that book? We’ve shared 3 tips to help you dive in, stay inspired, and maybe even hit 50k words.

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The nights are getting longer, but the sparkle’s just getting started ✨🔋

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3 Books I Adore But Struggle to Recommend To Others These are the stories that moved me deeply and stopped me in my tracks but are hard to recommend.

Really got the urge to write tonight - in this one I'm discussing some of my favourite books of all time, but also the ones I struggle to recommend to others 📖✨

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How I Broke the Cycle of Seasonal Depression on a Random Sunday Afternoon Free will is great. It can singularly destroy you and rebuild your life. Here’s how recognising it existed again shifted my perspective.

So I've recently written about struggling with SAD, even tho I'm an autumn girlie - it hit me this year!

Although I'm having lots of sad days in trying to find the joy in little moments and that's helping me a little. I wrote about it here 🖤

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4 Fantasy Novels to Curl up with This Autumn Lose yourself in these enchanting worlds that bring wonder to even the darkest of nights.

Autumn is the perfect time to pick up a fantasy read 🍂✨

Here are some of my favourites!

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I’ve Read 36 Books so Far in 2025 — Here are 5 You Have to Read From science fiction to great American classics, these are some of the best books I’ve read this year.

read more in detail about why I loved these books so much 🫶🏼

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I could quite possibly yap about these books for the rest of eternity 👀

have you read any?

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It was such an original book! I think I'll be thinking about it for a long time :)

‘Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled'

Thank you for following along today as we celebrated Sylvia Plath’s Ariel.
We’ll finish with an extract from ‘You’re’ from the collection.

The Ministry of Time is such an interesting read! On the whole I thoroughly enjoyed it 🧡📚

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It was a great reading month 🫶🏼📚

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This is incredible, heart breaking, emotionally powerful writing. I think it's hard for someone reading this now to grasp how radical James Baldwin was in writing this in 1956, but nonetheless the amount of emotion and feeling he packs into such a short book is nothing but astounding.

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Enemies and Neighbours review 📚

This was a 4⭐ read which was very insightful, but didn't quite give me the level of analysis I was expecting!

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The Real Reason Why ‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Endures 100 Years On Old sport, but new relevance: Gatsby’s got staying power for every generation

Is it the appeal of the glitz and glamour of the 1920s, or the timeless criticism of wealth which appeals to countless generations who read The Great Gatsby?

A bit of both.

2025 marks 100 years since it was first published, so naturally, I wrote about it.

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So true! 📚

The Real Reason Why ‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Endures 100 Years On Old sport, but new relevance: Gatsby’s got staying power for every generation

Aside from the glitz and glamour, The Great Gatsby is a novel that contains important messages about society, values and the way we live. Despite being published 100 years ago, it’s a novel that will stand the test of time with every new generation.

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Thoughts on my #currentread 📚

I'm only half way through but this has taught me so much about the history of Palestinian and Israel's actions in the last one hundred years. I would highly recommend it if you feel you lack the understanding of what's happening in the Middle East right now.

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