Tag: reads

• Book Review: The State We’re In

  Publisher: Headline Review Date Published: 4th July 2013 My Ratings: 7 / 10 Average Goodreads Ratings: 3.9 / 5 SYNOPSIS: What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every way. She’s a life-long optimist,…

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  October 8, 2013

  Book Reviews, Musing

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• oo1 ✦ Dangerous Mind ✦

  The night is long – shadows grow on my wall I’m calling out but no one’s home; Cause paranoia is the only friend I know Street lamps dimmed promptly at midnight, signalling the witching hours. A rented motorbike cruised along the Kan-Etsu expressway at a speed enough to give the common man a heart attack.…

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  June 6, 2013

  Adventure, blog, Dangerous Mind, Musing, Novelista

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• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | Prologue V

  {Prologue} Noemie Matsumoto’s 2017,South Korea When Noemie first laid eyes upon his handsomely flawed face, her heart squeezed with unexplained intrigue. Everything about him screamed perfection, right down to his seeming lack of passion for love, lust and women, which was totally atypical considering his type. Usually, a once-over was Noemie required to have men…

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  June 4, 2013

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• ♛ Scarlet Carousel | Prologue IV

  {Prologue} Eiji Saito’s 1999Fukushima Sunshine boy!  Back home in Fukushima, the old lady with the limp at the convenience store welcomed her favourite elementary school boy with a daily tube of chocolate mint candies. Before her passing, Eiji crossed the street twice a day just to say hello and accepted her gifts with great appreciation.…

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  June 4, 2013

  Adventure, blog, Catharsis, My life, Novelista

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• in itty-bitty pleasures we revel

  Couple of days ago I revived the much-missed feel of carrying dead-weight heavy books in my arms… by hitting the public library! Which, sadly I have avoided since, 4 years ago, I found actual shit between pages of Nora Roberts. By then I’ve forced myself to accept the fact that people do bring public books…

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  May 27, 2013

  Books, Café, My life

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