Category: Blog
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Set Quality Standards for Your Blog
How high do you set your own bar? That’s a question you’re going to have to ask yourself whenever it comes to writing for a blog—your blog. Ideally, you should be setting your standards somewhere between what you want to achieve and what is comfortable and practical for yourself. I’m all for quality, but you…
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The Best Device for Blog Writing
To run a blog means that you have to have at least one computer in your possession (as doing it entirely from a phone sounds like some form of divine punishment), but what type of setup should you strive for? And what sort of device suits your needs? In this post, I’m going to use…
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Tips for Your Yearly Reading
Readers, especially in the age of social media, like to place a large emphasis on their yearly reading goals and habits. Personally, I actually quite like this, which is why I want to offer some tips and suggestions to help spice up your year of reading. I hope you’ll consider some of these, even if…
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Bad Book Tropes: Incredible Detectives & Contrived Plots
As my scathing review of I’m Travelling Alone implied back in the middle of 2023, I’m not keen on the detective/crime/thriller genre—or at least that’s what I thought until I read Tokyo Express earlier this year. Then I realised it was less about the genre and more about the ability of the author. Whenever I…
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A Bookshelf Is a Must
Regardless of how ‘into’ reading you are, a bookshelf is a must for everyone’s home, even if it is mostly for show and decoration purposes. You might question why you should have a bookshelf, especially in this age of Kindle and digital media. But the reality is that no matter how paperless and fully digital…
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Getting Through & Avoiding Bad Books
Assuming you won’t take the advice to just set a bad book aside, here are some things that might help you get through a particularly boring or bad read. Hopefully you’ll never have to use much of this advice, but we will all encounter a bad book that fails to engage us at least a…
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Bad Book Tropes: Enemies to Lovers
As a genre, enemies to lovers has really picked up in recent years. Maybe I’m not the right person for the genre, as it not only seems to be more popular with female and younger readers—but I prefer romance as just another element of a book, rather than its whole personality. This is my reasoning…
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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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How to Make Reading More Cosy
Reading is an inherently cosy activity. It’s about losing yourself in a novel’s world, or by enjoying the process of learning about a real-world person or event. But there are various ways we can make our reading more cosy and comfy, playing into the romanticised sentiment that seems to be all over social media nowadays….
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Pacing & Achieving Your Reading Goals
As someone who suffers quite a bit from reader’s block and burnout, I’ve come to realise the importance of pacing your reading habits (even if I, myself, am still prone to surges and drops in my desire to read) and setting attainable goals. What many readers do is establish a quantitative yearly reading goal, such…