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Lockdown Funk

Working from home has its benefits, but since my time started in lockdown and my schedule was disrupted, its been difficult to get back into a routine. This routine extends into my reading and weekend plans.

Reading is just a mere thought and every time I think about it I shy away. I just don’t want to. Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

I picked up Nevernight by Jay…

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Review - The Silkworm

Review – The Silkworm

By Robert Galbraith – Mystery

“The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them.”

Reflecting on the first mystery from this series, I feel like this was more well rounded and more fleshed out. You had the element of the mystery but you also learnt so much more about Cormoran and Robin. You got to see their professional relationship progress so much more to become stable and well…

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Quarantine Reading

An apt image from New York for this year in general.

Well isn’t this a little strange. 80 percent of us are stuck at home with nothing to do… well almost nothing. I am still working from home. Being in marketing, my job never stops but it does slow down a bit. With Easter coming up and with more time on my hands with 2 hours added back to my day now that I don’t have to travel anywhere, I am…

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Review - Sanctuary

Review – Sanctuary

By V.V.James – Mystery

” Sanctuary’s the sort of place that’s good at making you feel not good enough. “

I have searched and searched for something about this author but I cannot find anything. All I know is that it does not read like a first novel. I believe this was written by a seasoned author. But of course i’m not completely sure.

Set in small town America, this world has and uses…

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Review - The Whisper Man

Review – The Whisper Man

By Alex North – Thriller/Mystery

“The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads”

Imagine your child stating they heard a whisper coming through the window. Not only that but on another night, you find them opening the door to someone talking to them through the letterbox in the door. All of this after kids have been going missing then coming up dead.

The whisper man…

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Book Review - Chernobyl

Book Review – Chernobyl

by Svetlana Alexievich – Non Fiction

“ Is there anything more frightening than people? ”

When I was a child, I vaguely remember hearing something about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and how it changed the USSR almost the world. I wanted to learn more about it since the TV show aired, and I listened to the podcast to hear from the directors point of view.

Within the podcast, they…

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Book Review - All Our Secrets

Book Review – All Our Secrets

By Jennifer Lane – Mystery/Crime

https://jenniferlane.co.nz/

All our secrets is set in a small town in Australia, Coongahoola with the Bagoola river running through it. The river children, that were born in the aftermath of the infamous River Picnic, start to go missing one after the other.

Hundreds of believers (termed “the Bleeders”) also turn up in the chaos and make a camp next to…

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Bookstores and Expectations

I am a book lover that LOVES going into a bookstore, whether for old or new books, and looking for hours and hours at the titles. The thrill of the hunt (especially in secondhand bookstores) seem to be a draw for me to get me into the store. The only issue I have, at least in New Zealand, is the limited books available.

Don’t get me wrong, but all of the big and well known literary fiction is…

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Book Review - The Hoarder

Book Review – The Hoarder

by Jess Kidd – Literary Thriller

“ Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe. ”

Maud Drennan is an underpaid care worker who has been given a new case. A man who made the last carer run away, and he was meant to take no crap from anyone. Cathal Flood is a tempered Irish man who now…

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Are Kiwi Authors Hiding?

Are Kiwi Authors Hiding?

I just picked up a new book by Elizabeth Knox on a whim whilst out to get coffee.

When I read the blurb before buying it, it stated that it was a book about journeys. It passes through London, Norfolk (my home county) and through to Auckland, New Zealand (my current home). From this and it’s fantastical story, I had to pick it up. It just sounded too good!

When I look at the Author bio, I…

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Book Review - The Chalk Man

Book Review – The Chalk Man

by C.J Tudor – Thriller

“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.”

The story follows Eddie and his friends and alternates between his childhood experiences and adulthood relationships. It seems that events just happen one after the other with little to no breaks in between.

I didn’t foresee the twist at the end, but I…

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What's Caught My Eye

What’s Caught My Eye

I have a mount tbr (to be read), so this post really doesn’t help me, but there are sooo many good books that I wan’t to read.

A small novella (which is the only reason I have bought it!).

“Adriane is an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel. She and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable…

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Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett

Foundryside – Robert Jackson Bennett

All things have a value. Sometimes the value is paid in coin. Other times, it is paid in time and sweat. And finally, sometimes it is paid in blood.

The start of a new trilogy, this is by far one of my favorite books of the year. Set in a world where the magic is controlled by carvings called scrivings, that are placed on objects to make them perform other functions or perform better…

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7 Weeks of Hell

My coach recently put me on one of the hardest deadlift programs out there around 7 weeks ago.

When I first started, my deadlift was 108kg/238lbs. Throughout the 7 weeks there was many tears shed, lots of penguin walks and much over eating to be had.

At the beginning of this week I pulled 125kg/275lbs from the floor. Thats a 17kg/37lb difference!!

The program is a 3 day program consisting of…

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Managing your injuries

Following on from my previous article, I am not all well at the moment. In fact, my husband has told me I am broken. Since that last post, I have had the flu, gotten my appointments for the ENT and respiratory unit, and had an MRI on my left hip that has shown I have a 2 cm labrum tear.

The good news is, is that I still have cartilage around my hip and the labrum has not pulled away…

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Weekend Reads Records

This is where I will keep all of our weekend reads so you can see what we are currently reading and have read previously.

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Will eating more veggies an fruit help?

For the past 3+ years my body has had infection after infection.

I had a scare of sleep aponea at one point which took me down the road of the sleep test and trying out a machine before the test started. Thankfully it turned out I don’t need it. What happens instead is I don’t get enough REM sleep. This is typically when I sleep on my back.

So what I needed was to go to an ENT. I’m still waiting…