emma kath | 21 | english lit student | writer | reader
Hello all! This is a new ongoing feature in which I’ll be sharing some book-related places I’ve visited, and I’m calling it (oh so creatively, I know) Bookish Destinations! Yesterday I went to the new Penguin Shop in Toronto, which was opened in late August. It’s such a clever little space! The shop couldn’t be more […]
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A few weeks ago I was browsing Pinterest (as I often do) and I came across a pin of quote bunting, and I thought to myself (as I often do): I could do that. I’m fairly crafty to begin with, but this ended up being even easier than I’d imagined! It is time consuming, I’ll […]
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Souvenirs From Across the World is a feature created by Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books! It was created so all of us bloggers could get more acquainted with one another, sharing “our countries, cities, cultures, traditions, writers, authors” through blog posts, and then (if you want to) getting paired with another blogger and sending one […]
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I wasn’t going to post this today. I was going to write something else, comfortable in the knowledge that I knew (probably) what I was talking about. But then I went on Twitter today, and I came across a topic of much debate in my circles, one that I’ve danced around for a long time. So […]
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So there you are, merrily reading a book, you turn the page, and suddenly a great thing happens: maybe a character starts talking about an author, or you see a quote from a poem at the beginning of a chapter, maybe the book itself is based off an idea that originates from another book. It’s moments like […]
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Image Credit So I didn’t get a chance to write a litstyle post this week, what with my review being backtracked and such. For those of you who don’t know, litstyle is a weekly post on my blog aka ‘lifestyle for the lit-nerd’, which I post every Wednesday (except today, obviously). Next week’s post will be […]
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So I don’t know about you, but fantasy books seem to give me the worst kind of book-hangover imaginable. Not knowing what to do with myself, I usually drown my fiction-induced emotions out with music. Because that’s healthy??
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A lot of people would argue that technology cancels out much of the romanticism of storytelling. Dating sites replace real-life meet cutes, social interaction = social media, and the “narcissism” of the millennial generation is enough to send any reader in search of simpler times. But something these people don’t realize is that technology can be used […]
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