Literature & Book Reviews
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A review of Fiona Gibson’s The Woman Who Got Her Spark Back Eyes on the shelves, scanning for my next read, I knew I was searching for something optimistic. The books already placed on my bookshelf promised struggle, sadness and no guarantee of a happy ending. To crush the hopelessness I was feeling, I needed…
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It’s a feral, agonising and aesthetic film. But it’s not Wuthering Heights. I’m on my third read of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, having first read it when I was fourteen. I didn’t fall in love with the novel and its flawless complexities until I was seventeen, because at fourteen I didn’t fully understand the novel.…
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Welcome to Love is in the Pen, my new literature and book review series! I grew up watching Jennette McCurdy almost every day and I fell in love with her Nickelodeon character, Sam Puckett, instantly. It was only upon the release of her incredible and raw 2022 memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, that I…
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As an English literature student and bookish baddie, I couldn’t resist but begin my 2026 blogging with a reading wrapped. According to GoodReads, I’ve read 19 books and 5,421 pages in 2025. Not a great score, and leaving the year quite far behind my reading challenge, which was 30 books. I’m setting myself the same…
Diary of a Happy Goth 