When my book club last met, we talked about the ‘Read Your Color‘ test which assigns you a ‘reading type’. The idea is to look for recommendations based off your reading motivations rather than sticking within specific genres. We took … Continue reading what is my reading type? | Read Your Color
August rolls around, and my city becomes an overstimulating playground of thousands of shows, countless posters, and the streets are crowded. Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun last year and saw waaay too many things, so this … Continue reading my 2025 Edinburgh festivals round up
I love getting reflective about books at the end of the year and 2024 has been a great one for reading. I’ve found a few new favourites, visited some beautiful spots and shared bookish experiences with my loved ones. Here’s … Continue reading 2024 in books
The festivals were back once again and, for the first time in 5 years, I live in Edinburgh again! Between the Fringe, International, Book and Film festivals and various visitors, it’s been one hell of a busy month! As much … Continue reading Edinburgh festivals 2024 round up
‘You know someone ten years, twelve. You see all the ways they changed. You go on being friends.’ I was lucky to receive an advanced copy of Still Life by Katherine Packert Burke thanks to W W Norton & Co. … Continue reading Book review: Still Life by Katherine Packert Burke
It’s always nice to go back to London every now and then and fill up my theatrical well and last weekend was no exception. This time it was with my mum and sister and we had a great time hanging … Continue reading lovely lil london weekend
What a big ol’ bookish year this has been – I ended up reading the most I ever have (at least according to the years I’ve been tracking my reading)! As ever, I’ll be sharing some of my reading and … Continue reading 2023 in books
If you were going to ask me what my perfect weekend away would look like, last weekend was pretty darn close. I spent the weekend in London with one of my oldest friends browsing in gorgeous bookshops, eating some lovely … Continue reading The perfect London weekend
Another year down which has left me equally joyful and exhausted. Over the course of 3 weekends, I managed to catch 24 different shows during the Edinburgh festivals. More important than the shows, however, were the experiences I got to … Continue reading Fun times at the Edinburgh festivals 2023
We’ve done it again! And by ‘it’, I mean getting our butts back into the Eurovision bubble and it was the absolute best time. Last year going to Turin felt like a one-off once-in-a-lifetime opportunity but then the UK got … Continue reading United by music in Liverpool | Eurovision 2023
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