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  • My experience as a political candidate – Lessons and Reflections

    My experience as a political candidate – Lessons and Reflections

    Hello friends, I’m back with a new post! I hope you’re all doing well  I know that this is very off-brand for this website (which will be going through its own changes soon), but I wanted to publish my feelings about being a political candidate for one of Malta’s political parties – Volt Malta. Malta’s General…

  • 2021 – A Year of Survival, Growth, & Coming Back to My Purpose

    Hello, my dear friends, It’s been a long while since I last posted something like this. An accompanying Instagram post will be coming up later, but there are a few things about this year that can’t be summed up in a caption. The Books and Media I’d like to shout out the books and media…

  • Being Bored

    Being Bored

    Busy or Bored? The latter can be healthier, here’s why.

  • The Book of Uriel – Elyse Hoffman

    The Book of Uriel – Elyse Hoffman

    Hello, hello, hello! We’re back again with another blog tour, and this was an interesting one! I’m quite picky when it comes to historical fiction, and this one sounded like it could be enjoyable, so I went for it! Needless to say, it was an experience – but overall, it was a good story! Information:…

  • The Power – Naomi Alderman

    Hello, my fellow book lovers!  I am back with another review! It has been a while since I read a book that made such an impact on me. It took me some time to finish this book due to other commitments, but when I was reading, I was ENGROSSED. This is a book that I…

  • Impactful Books I Read in 2020

    Hello again, fellow bookworms!  I hope that you’ve all been doing well. It’s been a rocky start to the new year so far, and I, for one, am trusting that things will get better soon. To lighten the mood, however, I would like to talk about certain books that made the crazy year of 2020…

  • We Are All Problematic, So Why Should We Expect Fictional Characters to Be Perfect?

    Hey everyone! I’m back with a discussion post today. Recent life events, and discussions I see on Twitter about problematic people, authors, and fictional characters have made me think about how at certain points our outbursts concerning certain characters may be more harmful to our understanding of human nature than we think. Here are the…

  • A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J. Maas

    A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J. Maas

    Today I will be reviewing a novella which forms part of the infamous ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ series, and one that I found did not live up to the hype of its predecessors. However, there are a few things that I would like to discuss about this book that I did enjoy, as…

  • On Accountability – Thoughts and Reflections

    Around this time last year, I wrote a short article for this blog about what I thought were the dangers of cancel culture and negative comments on artistic works. I thought it unfair and unnecessary to draw out so much negativity and bad will towards something that someone poured so much of their heart and…

  • The Hardships and Possibilities of COVID-19 – Thoughts & Reflections

    The Hardships and Possibilities of COVID-19 – Thoughts & Reflections

    Hello, dear friends! It’s been a while, and a lot has changed since I last posted on here. Like most of us here probably, the days have been a bit mixed. Some good, some not so good, some worse. Studying is proving to be a bit difficult at the moment as there are no definite…