Here’s my latest Vlog!
Watching Homecoming by Beyonce on Netflix and I have these lyrics stuck in my head - "I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves" - and I agree. .
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"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
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I'm currently writing a new blog post which will be up on my website in a few days. Checked out the latest one, yet? Link's in my bio!
Joker as a character, we all know, is intense and complex. And he's one of my favourite villains, if that's a thing. But in no way do I encourage evil or any mental illness be romanticized.
The Killing Joke is one of the best origin stories I've read and I loved the artwork! .
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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#repost because it's important! "Traders of Ivory actually want extinction of Elephants. The less Elephants there are, the more the price rises.” - The Ivory Game @netflix_in
Ask yourself, do you really want to be a part of something so brutal? Ivory business is strong because we demand ivory products - decor pieces including religious statues (the irony), jewelry, billiard balls, piano keys, and a lot of Ivory carvings; tourism and entertainment where Elephants are held captive to give us rides. The food industry is shifting with the shift in demand from animal to plant-based options. The Ivory industry can be eliminated with the same logic. If we end the demand, this brutality against elephant families will end too. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
In yesterday's blog, I've tried to give some facts on elephant personalities to sensitise us towards them as living, breathing, sentient beings. The link to the blog is in my bio, and I also talk about a story I'm writing with a baby Elephant as our protagonist. To have a look at the process and illustrations, follow me @llgeekayartll for more stories. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Animals are not here for us. Elephants are not here to provide us with their tusks. They're here with us. If anything, we owe Elephants a lot for they're the reason why forests survive man-made disasters. But we're running out of time, these magnificent beauties are on the verge of extinction. And without them, our ecosystems are bound to collapse. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
We need Elephants and Elephants need us to save them. We've already lost Indian Cheetah to climate crises, and if we're responsible for it then we also have the responsibility to reverse and restore our environment. 🌎 There's no planet B 🌎 .
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Endorphin, oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine ❣️
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The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of The Window and Disappeared is a hilarious read! But even then, I haven't made any progress since the last time I updated. And it's nothing to do with the book but I'm just not in the mood for anything that light and funny yet but I really hope to see Allan go on his bizarre adventures soon!
For now, I'm going to put this aside and continue reading the others I've started. There's an audiobook to accompany me while I'm working @llgeekayartll and two books - an ebook and a copy! Taking it all slow, though.
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"All this means is that in ten days when I look out to this spot, you won't be here. I don't know what I'll do then. At least you'll be elsewhere, where there are no memories." Gah!! This book! Elio and Oliver ❤️ oh and, if I remember it correctly, Find Me (the sequel to Call Me By Your Name) will be out in 9 days! .
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."
- They Called Us Enemy. ▫️▫️▫️▫️
I posted a blog yesterday about my top 5 reads this year and here's one of them! (Link's in my bio - linktree)
This illustrated memoir of George Takei takes us through his childhood to his adult life, highlighting one of the biggest and of the many traumatic events that took place in Japanese history. You get a sense of his innocence as a child, his rage as a teen and his determination as an adult towards what he and his family, like thousand others, were put through. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
The artwork is amazing and expresses the urgency of the story through every situation, beautifully! I haven't shared enough on my art page (@llgeekayartll) but I study a lot from @hamini 's artwork and art style. I really like her work!
If you haven't yet read the book, I cannot recommend this book enough! I wish I could get my hands on a physical copy for the experience because I just keep going back to this story ❤️ .
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...🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism." ▫️▫️▫️
If you haven't yet read Good Omens, you're missing out on a really really good book! Picked it up for one of @booksontoast book club picks and it's definitely a favourite now!
I talk a bit about it and four others on today's blog post! ▫️▫️▫️
Sharing my top 5 2019 reads on the blog today! Link's in my bio (linktree), have a look and let me know your top picks too! 🤓
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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As some of you know, I'm currently writing and illustrating a book based on a baby Elephant (May) @llgeekayartll and so I thought I'd share some books I take references/ideas/inspiration from for the story line also writing style. I'm still figuring out if I want the story to seem realistic, fairy tale-ish or a mix of both but I've been getting a few character ideas from this book called Nordic Tales. It's a collection of short fairy tales and some of them are creepy! ▫️▫️▫️
I share selected art work @llgeekayartll and to know what's going on in May's world, have a look at the stories I post. They're also hughlited! So make sure to follow ❤️
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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#throwback to my first Orhan Pamuk read! I did quite enjoy reading this rather unusual story! The only factor that stopped me from enjoying the book in all its glory was its slow pace, It took me a long to finish reading it despite it being only 300 pages.
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The narrator, Cem, welcomes us into his childhood when he worked as apprentice to a well-digger, at 16 years of age, in a small town outside Istanbul. Full of symbolism, we get to see the master well-digger as a father figure Cem never had a chance to look up to. Cem is also fascinated by a red-haired woman who plays a vital role in all phases of his life.
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Cem grows up with the books and stories he loves to read and devour. Little did he know that his own life will prove to be nothing less than the folklores and mystical stories his master shared with him.
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Pamuk sprinkled Turkish history and culture with some fascinating mythology and mystery all over the book. While I didn't necessarily like the characters, I did quite enjoy both the complexity and simplicity of the story line.
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.🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."
- James Baldwin .
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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You know one of the problems of being someone who reads multiple books at a time is that you lose track of the books you've started! I completely forgot about our 100 year old man! And it's such a fun read, idk what made me stop 🙆🏻♀️ I'm sure he has a better memory than I do 😐
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it's up to you. You don't have to be the leader of a global movement or a household name. It can be as small scale as chipping away at the warped power relations in your workplace. It can be passing on knowledge and skills to those who wouldn't access them otherwise. It can be creative. It can be informal. It can be your job. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as you're doing something." ▫️ Finished reading the book a couple of weeks back and I'm so glad I picked it up! I think I'll do a blog about it soon because there's just so much the book has to say.
I can't recommend it enough! It was also one of the books @chelseahandler read to prepare for her documentary called Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea. ▫️ The author, @renieddolodge turned her blog post into this beautiful book, one that makes us realise that we've been learning and following such flawed notions about what a "good" society is "supposed to be" that the only way we'll have love and peace and kindness in this world is by unlearning it all and restructuring everything on and with compassion. There's so much to make everyone around us aware of and so much to evolve and change! Every step, no matter how tiny, matters. .
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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I fell in love with @official_ceceliaahern 's writing right when I read If You Could See Me Now. That book is nothing less than magic, it truly can transform personalities if read by the right person at the right time. And since then, Cecelia Ahern is one of my go-to authors - for when I need some light in life, a break from all things heavy and dark, to bring my mind at peace - be it anything. Her books are the perfect escape and stories you can rely on.
A few years back I read Flawed and Perfect and it's been one of my favourite duologies ever. I remember reading the former with Mr. Doughnut and sharing all the plot twists with him and immediately placing order for the latter after. These were two of the stories that made me appreciate the ability to be flawed but perfect enough to always grow from there and be better. The duology shares a really important message with us readers and I often find myself going back to it.
An extremely simple, fast paced read but with an equally important depth to it, this duology is a must.
If you're a beginner reader or looking for something fast and simple, I'd recommend reading it! .
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.🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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Anywhere but the camera 😋
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The Raven Cycle wouldn't normally fall under my go-to genre list. I don't read many books that involve magic or any paranormal activity, but I've been hearing a lot about the series and from readers I share similar interests with. And so I decided to give it a shot.
Honestly, the book doesn't start all that strong. It seems weak in it's character building and didn't really manage to hook me on. This stretches till about say half way and I thought of discontinuing it. However, it gets much better after that, the story line settles and things begin to make sense. The characters come to life and you start becoming a part of their world. There's where I really started to appreciate and enjoy the author's imagination and creativity! I think since I've started to write my own stories, I've really started to respect the talent and skill it takes to write fiction and build a world from scratch. I've started reading the second book - The Dream Thieves - and it definitely has a much better and stronger begining! Hooked from the Prologue itself. .
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🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books and multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so let's opt for used, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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