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  • On Emotional Abuse: Book Review

    This year I’ve read two books on abusive relationships that I quite liked; or rather what I liked about them was that they focused on a subset of abuse that is easily downplayed- psychological abuse. It doesn’t come as a surprise how psychological (emotional) abuse is overlooked because we as humans love evidence, proof, and…

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  • Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    No matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.” TL;DR: Girl makes Faustian bargain with darkness, Girl becomes immortal and forgotten. Girl sleeps with darkness, Girl meets boy. Boy remembers her. Girls falls in love with boy. Darkness sneers. 4/5, would recommend. SYNOPSIS: Picture this. 18th century France. 23-year…

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  • I Went Solo Picnicking and Here’s What You Need to Go for One.

    It’s summer and if there’s one activity introverts and extroverts alike can agree on, it’s picnicking. If you literally have nothing to do this summer, start with picnicking. I know because I am you and I woke up one morning and decided I was going to go picnicking. Here’s the thing with picnics. You don’t…

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  • The Romance Marathon I Should Have Done in February.

    I went on a Romarathon in May because I realised I rarely ever read purely romance novel and I was feeling empty, so I did what any logical person would do. Bought a bunch of romance novels with cartoonish covers and segmented a part of my shelf to them. Whether I felt better at the…

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  • Life Update

    Okay, so this was not even what I was supposed to be posting today but it was 5:52 AM and I spent the entire day watching The Office and reading You Deserve Each Other and Fangirl and I need to release something today before I go to work but when I opened my laptop to…

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  • The Woman Before Me – 4

    3. THE HOLE IN THE CEILING Silence. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to block out the noise.It was the kind of noise that came with such a cold, unsettling familiarity. I think of it like the buzz of an aircraft in the 1940s, right before an explosion. You recognise it…

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  • Perverse evil spirits, women that saved your crusty asses and failed matchmakers – MY FEBRUARY READS

    “Chereoge, where is your January Wrap-Up?” It is my opinion that January is a trial run month, that’s why you’re legally and socially allowed to leave your Christmas decorations up till 31st but the moment February starts, take it down! I don’t think I need to explain myself more than that. Since it’s Valentine’s Month…

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  • The Woman Before Me- 3

    3. THE BOY IN THE PHOTOGRAPH He bought her that dress for their traditional wedding. The one she never got to wear, because he never gave it to her. I hear her talk about it on sad days; how they quarrelled and he withheld it from her. I wonder if he still has that cloth,…

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  • On Relationships

    Breakups, moving on and new beginnings. Today I’m talking about something personal to me. Relationships and breakups and friendship breakups. I’ve not been broken up with yet. Every ‘romantic’ relationship I’ve had, I’ve ended on my own terms, but it doesn’t make it any less hard. (Ok, maybe a little). Sometimes I think about what…

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  • The Woman Before Me- 2

    2. THE SUBSERVIENT WOMAN Trevoh Noah once said “The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women.” I had known men like this but I was blind to the one who lived in that…

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  • The Woman Before Me- 1

    1. THE TEA-GREEN HOUSE Money makes everything look good from the outside. It creates the illusion of a perfect home. A one storey bungalow painted tea green with a roof the colour of the forest. Brand new cars parked in the garage, only used on special occasions. A german shepherd lying at the front doormat,…

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