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3 Ways To Spice Up Your Instant Noodles
There’s this trend these days on TikTok and Instagram reels and YouTube shorts on how to ‘hack’ your instant noodles. Ways to dress up the straight-forward and make something new out of the same old. As someone who was tired of the instant noodles she was having – someone who stopped eating instant noodles almost completely – this interested me. What sort of suggestions were there? What could I adapt for myself? And then I saw these videos and – I mean, I’m sure they’re great. I’m sure they’re tasty. But a lot of these hacks involve a lot of prep work, and when I want to eat instant noodles,…
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Books I Was Looking Forward To In 2021
I started a very ambitious blog post in 2020. I mean, at the time, it didn’t seem ambitious. It felt doable. Manageable, and with the amount I had read in 2020, it felt within my reach. And then 2021 happened, and slowly, I realised, no, I can’t do any of this, though I refused to admit defeat for at least half the year. RIP 2021 me, you had high hopes. Defeat wound up being admitted, this blog went on hiatus, and by the end of the year, I had all of one review up on the blog and had forgotten everything else I had read. I did read and write…
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What’s New In 2022
Has it been a ride to get to 2022 or what? It’s certainly felt like it! There were so many things I had wanted to accomplish in 2021, and while some of them I am working on, many things felt like they had fallen on the wayside. But it is a new year, and a fresh start. As I write this post, I sit in home quarantine at my parents’ place, meeting them after almost two years. My kids – the younger of whom is meeting them for the first time – are asleep, and I can make some headway on one of the things I want to accomplish this…
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blogging break 2021
It is September 2021. You look around you and you realise more than half the year has passed by and you’ve posted one review, completed one book, and been struggling to keep your head afloat while the world struggles around you as well. You started this post in July. I think the first I realised that this was okay was when I read Kate’s blog post How To Overcome Blogging Fatigue. Having a name for what I was feeling made me take a step back and realise, hey, it’s okay to feel burned out despite not having actually done much. The situation we are facing now is mentally and emotionally…
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BLOG TOUR; The Jasmine Throne ft. Book Review
You might have noticed I have not been active much – at all – since the year has started. If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you might know that I had a baby in January, and we’ve gone into lockdown again and adjusting to everything has really sapped my desire to read and blog. I’ve been reading a lot of fanfiction instead, but this book has been on my anticipated reads list since I first heard about it, so I was thrilled to get a chance to be a part of the blog tour! The launch post for the tour can be found here! I was hoping to…
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review; the shadow glass
Title: The ShadowglassSeries: The Bone Witch TrilogyAuthor: Rin ChupecoGenre: Young Adult, fantasyType: E-bookPublisher: Sourcebooks Fire In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life – and the fate of the kingdoms – hangs in the balance. Tea is a bone witch with the dark magic needed to raise the dead. She has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost… and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals. But Tea’s quest to conjure a shadowglass – to achieve immortality for the one person she loves most in the world – threatens to consume her heart. Tea’s black heartsglass only…
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review; when you ask me where i’m going
Title: When You Ask Me Where I’m GoingAuthor: Jasmin KaurGenre: PoetryType: HardcoverPublisher: HarperCollins screamso that one daya hundred years from nowanother sister will not have todry her tears wonderingwhere in historyshe lost her voice The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn’t always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers to fight for what is right in…
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jul – sept 2020; it’s a wrap
Surprisingly, this wrap-up isn’t late! The new organisational system I’m slowly trying to incorporate into my life is really helping. This past quarter has been equal parts a blur and so slow, I just want it to be 2021 already. But then, my second trimester during my first pregnancy was much the same. It’s just that the situation the world over isn’t really helping. The bright side is that we’re going out a little more – to places that are not too full of people and always wearing a mask – so we get a change of pace and of scenery. We actually just went to a beach again, had…
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#goodreadance2020; how did i do?
September has come to an end, and with it, the official #GoodReadance2020 as hosted by Shealea @ Shut Up, Shealea comes to a close as well. If you’ve seen my BookTube video, you would know that this was an initiative that really excited me, because I’ve been wanting to reorganise my Goodreads, and even the shelf I use for my BookTube filming. However, around mid-September, I wondered if I would even be able to cross off more than one thing on my short goal list. Let’s see how I did with each individual goal! Go through my TBR.I didn’t go through the ‘Want To Read’ shelf at first, instead going…
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review; this duchess of mine
Title: This Duchess Of MineSeries: Desperate DuchessesAuthor: Eloisa JamesGenre: Adult, RomanceType: PaperbackPublisher: Avon No man can resist Jemma’s sensuous allure… Except her own husband! Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery sent Jemma running from the ducal mansion. For the next nine years she cavorted abroad, creating one delicious scandal after another (if one is to believe the rumors). Elijah, Duke of Beaumont, did believe those rumors. But the handsome duke needs an heir, so he summons his seductive wife home. Jemma laughs at Elijah’s cool eyes and icy heart – but to her…