Category: General
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Reading in the Winter
The cosiest of seasons, apparently. Winter is no sooner started until the Christmas and New Year festivities are already ticked off the list, essentially leaving January and February to make up most of the season. Christmas is a great time for readers in general. There’s a chance to be gifted books and give some to…
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Books I Couldn’t Put Down
Many people, especially those in the business of reviewing books, will often exclaim about how they could not put a book down. It is sort of a dead phrase to me. But, as someone who can take quite some time to finish certain reads, there have actually been quite a few occasions where I couldn’t…
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We Read More Than We Notice
All of us do a great deal of reading in a day, except we just don’t pay much mind to it. Take yourself, for example, you’re currently reading this post, but I am willing to bet you don’t really count this as reading. When I say that we read more than we notice, I mean…
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Reading in the Autumn
The autumn months are generally where the world begins to wind itself down and slow off for many people. Of course, students go back to learning, jobs often face the end of year crunch, and many people feel the pressure of Christmas looming just three months ahead—but autumn remains cosy. For the bookish types, autumn…
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Reading in the Summer
Summer is the time when you’re supposed to be outdoors, enjoying the world and generally not being cooped up indoors. But we can’t all be outside 24/7, so I think it is best to utilise the long evenings and downtime of summer to get some reading in. Depending on where you live, summer is a…
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One Year of The Steady Read!
It has been a whole year since I first published my review of Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, which marked the beginning of the website as an actual place for content and reviews to be hosted. However, as I have alluded to in other posts, this website has existed before in differing locations and versions. At…