Category: Blog
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A Reader’s Reflection: Before the Social Media
What did reading before social media give me? Looking back on a lifetime of reading, I found a kind of luck no algorithm could ever give me.
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From Seed Tray to Pot: My Complete Potting Up Seedlings Diary
My first time potting up seedlings, simplified. The steps that turned tiny sprouts into strong tomato, chili, and basil plants.
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Review: Small Comfort
Five stories about money, ambition, and the dreams we hide. Small Comfort is full of bitter truths most of us are never taught.
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May 2026 Reading Wrap-Up: A Slower Month in Books
May handed me fewer books but two that wouldn’t let go. A biography that made me angry and a line about writing I had to read multiple times.
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Review: Departure(s)
Departure(s) has a beginning, an ending, and a hole where the middle should be, and three people whose memories bend the truth.
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Review: The Words that Remain
A man holds a love letter for fifty years but can’t read a word of it. The Words That Remain is a heartbreaking story of love and time lost.
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Review: Dream Count
Dream Count tells of four Nigerian women navigating love, loss, and betrayal. A premise with a promising start, but a finish that let me down.
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Literary Journaling: The Reading Habit That Healed Me
in Reading LifeLiterary journaling is how I write alongside my reading . It has strengthened my love of books and given me a little clarity.
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Review: The Things We Never Say
The Things We Never Say is Artie’s story, a history teacher asking if life is worth staying for. A light read, heavy with all we never say.
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Review: Yesteryear
Yesteryear follows a tradwife influencer pulled into the life she markets online. A bold take on gender and faith.
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Review: Audition
Audition by Katie Kitamura is a literary fiction about identity, performance, and the cost of the roles we play.
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Review: The Correspondent
One woman. Letters that say everything. Guilt, love, and grace hidden between every line and it is entirely yours to piece together.
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Review: The Names
A son. A name. A single moment that reshapes an entire family’s fate. The Names will make you take a look back at your own life differently.
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My All-Time Favorite Books
Some books you finish and forget. These ones stayed with me for years. Here are the books I’d recommend to anyone, without hesitation.
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April 2026 Reading Recap: 10 Books, ALMOST No Favorites
I read 10 books in April. This month, the last page of one book so intrigued me that I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
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Review: The Sentence
Erdrich wrote a ghost story that will make you laugh and break your heart on the same page. The Sentence is funny and devastating at once.
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Review: The Lion Women of Tehran
A theme-rich novel spanning decades and two worlds, soaked in friendship, freedom, and everything women have always fought for.
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What World Book Day 2026 Looks Like in Helsinki
On World Book Day 2026, I joined hundreds of strangers on the steps of Helsinki’s Parliament Building to read in silence for one hour.
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Review: The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet is a book with no plot, no ending, written for the restless souls who feel everything a little too deeply.
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Review: The Wall
Can a woman ever truly be free? The Wall is a haunting dystopian novel that will make you rethink every wall you have ever survived behind.
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Hobonichi’s 365-Days Check-Off Sheet as a Learning Tracker
I turned my Hobonichi’s 365 Days Check-off Sheet page into something that holds me accountable every single day.
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My First Balcony/Indoor Garden: Growing Chilli, Tomato, and Basil from Seed
Learn the seedling phase with me, a beginner growing chilli, tomato, and basil indoors for the very first time.
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Review: Broken Country
A buried secret, a shocking murder, and a love story nothing like you expect. Broken Country is the unputdownable read you did not see coming.
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March 2026 Reading Recap
March 2026 reading recap: fewer books, a Finnish obsession, and the moment I realized a great read can make or break an entire month.
























