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Another post inspired by my love for reading and my love for music, but this time? I’m going to be recommending you songs to listen to based on five different books that I’ve read this year. I really enjoyed putting this post together, so please let me know if you’d like to see future similar posts and if you’d like any more song recommendations based on the books mentioned in this post. Please also note that not all of these songs are in English but please don’t let that put you off listening to them and you can always google the English translations if you want! Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender Firstly, can I just say how much I loved this book. Secondly, here are two songs I think you should listen to after reading ‘Felix Ever After’: ·          Brutal – Olivia Rodrigo ‘They say these are the golden years, but I wish I could disappear, ego crush is so severe. God, it’s brutal out here.’ It’s safe to say that Felix definitely faces ...

 Being both a Taylor Swift fan and an avid reader means that I’ve, on numerous occasions, found myself listening to a Taylor song and thinking about a certain character or a book. I’ve seen a few people do this trend on both TikTok and Instagram, so I thought I’d have a go of it too and recommend you a book that I’ve read based on a Taylor Swift song that you love. ·          If you love The Lucky One by Taylor Swift, you should read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. ‘Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool. So overnight you look like a sixties queen’ Okay, let’s be real. I couldn’t write this blog post and not include this book. It’s packed full of moments and characters that will make you think of a plethora of Taylor Swift songs, but this one in particular always stands out to me. For more about the book, including trigger and content warnings, click here .   ·      ...

 For too long, POC have been told and made to feel like that in order to exist in predominantly white spaces, we must conform to their ways; therefore, erasing parts of our identities and culture. This is where a big part of internalised racism comes into play. Internalised racism is a huge, layered problem that many POC face. It can take a long time to unlearn those levels of self-hatred and to navigate through that intensity of identity crisis. Like I said, internalised racism is extremely layered and so it’s not easy to put one universal meaning on it. It’s different for everyone but the crux of it is the self-loathing due to one’s race/culture. For some people, it’s the physical attributes of their race. For some, it’s the stereotypes placed on that race/culture. Internalised racism ranges in how it affects different POC but the one thing that remains true is the impact society has on those intrusive, hateful thoughts against oneself. Growing up, I experienced internalised ...

 Happy November! Anyone else been streaming Red Taylor’s Version all day? Everyone say thank you Miss Swift for providing November’s soundtrack! I truly can’t believe how close we are to the end of the year. Which means this blog post is the penultimate entry in my Book Recommendation Series for this year. I really am enjoying doing them, so they’ll definitely carry on into next year. Now for some recommendations this month… This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron I read ‘Cinderella is Dead’ at the beginning of the year and immediately fell in love. So, when I heard that Kalynn Bayron was releasing another book – I was so excited. And she did not disappoint. ‘This Poison Heart’ is most definitely one of my favourite reads of this year. The story follows Briseis and her powerful, magical and sometimes deadly plant power. Briseis is left a huge estate in her late aunt’s will so along with her mothers, Bri leaves Brooklyn behind and heads to the estate in rural New York for the Summer....