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Hi all! Today I want to take a post to mention my weekly 'what I have read this week posts'. I have been thinking about these for some weeks now. I came to realise how they were often similar. When something is repetitive, it can get a bit boring. Therefore, I have made the decision to lose the weekly blog post on Sunday, informing you all of what I have read.  Instead I will give you a monthly update on some of the stuff I have been reading. This will help make the blog more interesting. Now the Sunday blog posts are not going to appear and this is starting from this month. I do apologise if you did enjoy reading them each week. Nevertheless, I shall have my posts every week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for you to enjoy. So here's to a good book, a great character and an incredible author. Until next time, Thomas.

Hello everyone. As the theme of the month for this month and June is LGBTQIA+, I wanted to post some words with their definitions. I know sometimes people do not necessarily understand what certain words mean. But if we know more then we can be more understanding. It can also help us to better support people who may face challenges such as the LGBTQIA+ community. There might be words here that are familiar to you, maybe some that are new to you. However, it is not up to anyone to tell someone how they identify. Is it up to you as an individual person to identify in whatever way makes you feel comfortable. Be yourself and never let anyone switch off your light! Also, if you are in the closet and not ready to come out then that is fine. You can come out whenever you feel ready to and no one should judge you. Now I hope this helps people... Aegoromantic:  ‘ Aegoromantic ,  anegoromantic ,  autochorisromantic   ( Latin "a" and "ego", meaning "without self" ;  ...

Good evening everyone and welcome back to my blog. I may have been away but I did make it clear that I would return. So here I am ready to give you more insightful reviews and whatnot for the month of May. As we are in a new month I will be having a new author. Also as I have mentioned before, every two months we have a new theme of the month. The theme of the month for may and June will be LGBTQIA+ authors and works. This is because June is LGBTQIA+ history month and I wanted to celebrate a community I am part of. Not only that but I feel it is needed to celebrate incredible LGBTQIA+ authors and characters at a time when attacks against our community are so frequent. The allies are showing up though and that is a good thing. It can be tough mentally when people want to try and take away freedoms/rights that you have. Or even other people who do not deserve. But we must be strong. That is why I picked this as theme of the month. For May, my first author of the month is going to be gay ...

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. I wanted to say that I am going to be taking a few days away from my blog. This week has been mentally challenging for me and things have just been building. I hope you can understand that I need time out from having to focus on stuff to better myself. I am doing this so that when I come back, I can provide content worthy stuff for you to read on my blog. I do not expect to be gone forever, only a week or two while I heal. But I will back and will post on my blog. In the mean time, I hope you are look after yourself in what is a challenging and demanding society (in my opinion). Sometimes, we can keep going when we need to pause and that can lead to a burnout. It is good to take time out, say no or have time to yourself. That is what I am doing now. So I thank you for being so considerate. Until next time, Thomas.

Welcome back to my blog everyone. It is that time of the month where I give you the ins and outs to another bookshop that I have recently been to. This time, it is the Oxfam Bookshop in Coventry city centre. When I was on my travels, I found myself in Coventry. Now having lived and studied in the West Midlands, I knew about this bookshop. Funnily enough this was not my first visit here. Just as I remembered, they have a nice range of books and music despite being on the slightly smaller side. I noticed they still had a little collection of Doctor Who stuff! I am a big Doctor Who fan. Anyway, as I went nosing around, there was one book that caught my eye. It was this book: Sculpted: Poetry of the North West  (2013) edited by Lindsey Holland and Angela Topping. There is an introduction by David Morley who I have read before as a poet, teacher and editor. The important thing here though is that I picked up a poetry book and April (in case you were unaware) is National Poetry Month! I ...

What I have read this week… Hello everyone. Here I am at yet the end of another week, to disclose what I have been reading... 1: French! I am still at it with the French. I want to keep on learning and never stop. I came across a French GCSE textbook the other day that I had from ages ago. I am unsure why I have it as I never took the GCSE but I think I might use it to test myself. 2:  Mr Loverman  (2013) by Bernardine Evaristo. Currently I have this novel of Bernardine Evaristo on the go. I am keeping my lips sealed on anything for now... 3: Instagram. (Again) The reasons stay same. But this week I am been using Instagram for hope. The Supreme Court's decision here in the UK on what a woman is, is ridiculous. It only reinforces this misogynistic and patriarchal view of women should look like. How can someone immediately know whether each, individual person is a woman? Or a man for that man? What about intersex and non-binary people too? There was one person I read about who w...