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You’re a regular office worker born with the ability to “see” how dangerous a person is with a number scale of 1-10 above their heads. A toddler would be a 1, while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. Today, you notice the reserved new guy at the office measures a 10.

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Makeup for OWeek space themed roof party (I was a sober rep). (at Lena Karmel Unilodge) https://www.instagram.com/p/ComaM7Dvkbp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Spring. (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiOsbirvH__/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This book is exactly how I feel about death. Also the way I love cemeteries. Read it, it’s wonderful. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgd11rnPmjK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Book. #165 Henry Hamlet’s Heart. Queer coming of age, friends to lovers, end of year 12. Way to make me miss Brisbane HHH. This book is really sweet, the characters were great, the banter was sublime and the writing was like poetry. …. “It’s one of those perfect blue winter-Brisbane days–bright grass, sun-ruffled trees and wind on the river–of which we only get about three each year.” …. “There’s so much history in his face. The square set of his jaw, the golden brows, the way his teeth grip the right side of his bottom lip. I can picture him when we were five, when we were eleven, when we were sixteen. How can I think of him like this? (How can I not?)” …. “I avert my eyes again. ‘Because … it just doesn’t make sense, I guess.’ ‘What doesn’t?’ he whisper-yells, exasperated. ‘Shh, God. For you to want me … that way!’ I burst out, my fingers twisting together between us. ‘I don’t get it.’ I breathe in. This is the big one, the thing that’s bothered me since the start. ‘Even more than the other stuff, I don’t get … What I am, to you.’ Len’s face shifts, a rolling thunderstorm. He leans in. Closer and closer, until he’s got me pinned between him and the wall. ‘You’re half of me,’ he says, his voice soft and serious. ‘What else is there?’” …. #ReadHarder #Bookstagram #AustralianAuthors #RhiannonWilde #QldLiteraryAwardWinner #BookstagramMadeMeReadIt #QueerRomance https://www.instagram.com/p/CfVxuYKvhSw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Why hello old friend, I remember you! Now I just need a hair cut (2 weeks away). #RedHairDontCare #Firey #CopperFTW (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce-idLcv1F-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Book #146 All The Bright Places - Jennifer Niven Everyone should read this book. But also don’t, because you will fall in love with Finch. A story about a girl learning to live from a boy wanting to die. …. “For once, I don’t want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundred different people, most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn’t worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs—here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves.” …. “I can drive away right now. If I drive away, Theodore Finch is still somewhere in the world, living and wandering, even if it’s without me. My fingers are on the ignition key. Drive away.” …. “You make me happy, Whenever you’re around I’m safe inside your smile, You make me handsome, Whenever I feel my nose just seems a bit too round, You make me special, and God knows I’ve longed to be that kind of guy to have around, You make me love you, And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.… I am crying—loud and hiccuping, as if I’ve been holding my breath for a very long time and finally, finally can breathe. You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.… I read and reread the words. You make me happy … You make me special … You make me lovely …” …. #ReadHarder #Bookstagram #SadBookBender #JenniferNiven #AllTheBrightPlaces https://www.instagram.com/p/CeqjwWRPbCM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ANU. Canberra (at The Australian National University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeiGMtKP_8-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Book 144. Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley. Oh this book. The writing is sublime. So heartfelt and beautifully heartbreaking at the same time. This book is about grief, heartache and love, and love letters. This book makes you fall in love with all the characters, but especially Cal. Also, who doesn’t want a letter library in their second hand bookstore? I know I’m off to find one! …. “Go to sleep,” his dad tells him. “It’ll seem better in the morning.” “No offense, Dad,” Henry says, “but unrequited love is just as shit in the morning as it is at night. Possibly more shit because you have a whole day ahead of you.” “No offense taken,” Michael says. “You’ve got a point there.” …. “Sometimes science isn’t enough. Sometimes you need the poets,” he says, and it’s in this moment, this exact moment, that I fall in love with him again.” …. “I’ll tell her about the beautiful, impossible thought that Cal might have, at the moment of dying, transmigrated. I’ll tell her that I think he had been transmigrating all his life: leaving himself in the things he loved, in the people he loved. He brimmed over the edges of his own life, and escaped.” #ReadHarder #AussieAuthor #AustralianAuthor #CathCrowley https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceh0Zxwva-eGqHjVc2tumByP36Q7MOZSJGJ6js0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Just finished this book. What an entertaining and fun and clever read. Highly recommend. That first sentence is a killer (pun intended). "Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once." Also this… “I looked around at the bookshelves, the crackling fire and the plush red leather chairs. ‘If we get out of here alive enough to sell our story, I’d say Hollywood would be pretty pissed if we didn’t use the library, don’t you think?’” While I’m happy HBO is making a limited series of it, I’m sad it most likely won’t be Aussie and set in The Snowy Mountains. Some of those one liners won’t work without an Aussie accent. #ReadHarder #AussieAuthors #BenjaminStevenson #MurderMysteryButMakeItFun https://www.instagram.com/p/CdW8m7BPySLjVgNQWtqqnAgk2cdbB6y1fLzFwo0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Book #80 Still thinking of this book. Oh my. Tears galore. What a heart filling beautiful sad story. “There were exactly four moments that defined my life. This was the first. And that was Poppy and me from that day on. Poppy and Rune. Best friends for infinity. Or so I thought. Funny how things change. It was the second moment that defined my life. A life without Poppy. No infinity. No forever always. Just … nothing. It was the third moment that defined my life. The night I found out I would lose the girl I loved. Knowing our moments together were numbered, I held on to her tighter, refusing to let go. It was the fourth and final moment that defined my life—losing my girl. And, knowing it, my pappa simply held me.” ….. That ending though. What happened? I mean I know, I just want the actual details…. “Our final adventure.” The perfect way to phrase it, I thought. “Our final adventure” #ReadHarder #SadBookBender #TillieCole (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcrtC-YvBqZjz7D4AhkhjzrRcRM38IpbVpwXbs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Autumn 🍂 (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CccZf1mvbU2AyGgmZiyxHV_TKEMaWTRz7omkqc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Read this ARC recently. Book 3 in the Heir to the Darkmage Series. Author Lisa Cassidy (highly recommend author) Honestly it’s such a good series. Lira is such a wonderfully flawed and strong character. Her story is so heartbreaking. I just want to wrap her up and hug her until she understands how amazing she is. “Now I know I’m never going to have anywhere to belong,” Barely any romance and great world building. It is a series that follows about 20 years after another series of hers (The Mage Chronicles). I would recommend starting with that series if you were keen. #ReadHarder #Fantasy #StrongWomen #FlawedWomen #RealWomen #Magic #AustralianAuthors #WomenAuthors (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbUATKfvnVBRURsUF04UIzCPuEvjC584iM3JzY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ANU stethoscope ceremony happened yesterday. I didn’t take any photos. But this was our gift. (at The Canberra Hospital) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaZZkhdvFTlvyox1a0Fqgf1naTaVxYU52XbA7w0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Pretty (but very chilly) Canberra. (at Telopea Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZjU7SUvvhtv74DZjyaB8YRlVljA4siLzUXoZ00/?utm_medium=tumblr

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When you A/C isn’t working but still tells you the temp inside your room. 😭🥵🔥 (at Lena Karmel Unilodge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZOaQvFPpr88CpvtMjX5hQCIzNfuckUTP2IfUo0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Feeling pretty fancy. But also broke! MacBook Air, iPad Air, Apple Pencil and free AirPods! Bring on my edumacation. (at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZGSjFEvZeRQbE4p6fGZdKVYeiztp9CS_abTFY0/?utm_medium=tumblr