Category: Emotion
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📚 Book Review: Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
Genre: Cozy FantasyRating: ★★★★★Buy It Here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble I Didn’t Expect to Love This Genre as Much as I Do I would’ve never guessed that queer cozy fantasy would end up being one of my favorite genres—but here we are. Keeper of Magical Things surprised me in the best possible way. Julie…
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The Times I Was Here
My daughter is seven, and this is her second year playing softball. Instructional league. That beautiful, chaotic mix of learning and laughing, missed catches, tiny victories, and too-big helmets. She loves it. Lives and dies with every swing, every play. And I’ve found myself just… there. Not loud. Not hovering. Just steady.Watching—just a bit back…
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⛈️Inside the Storm: Reflections on Downpour
Some horror stories come at you with claws out—fast, loud, violent.Downpour by Christopher Hawkins doesn’t do that. It creeps in.Just like the storm in the book. The story centers on a father trying to protect his family from an unrelenting, corrosive rainstorm—and everything that comes with it. But what got under my skin wasn’t the…
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📚 I’ll Read It Eventually: Confessions of a Book Buying Addict
There are worse addictions, right? I tell myself that every time I walk out of a bookstore with a bag full of stories and the quiet knowledge that, realistically, I might not read half of them this year. Or next year. Or… ever? But that doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t just buy paper—I bought possibility.…
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One Year Later: What the Rain Taught Me
It’s strange how quickly—and slowly—a year passes. I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting, sorting through memories like old photographs, holding some tightly and letting others drift quietly away. A year ago, my mother passed away. It was one of those dreary, rainy days, gray and quiet—the kind where everything feels a bit heavier, colors…
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The Poet’s Journal: Reflections on Life Through Poetry and Books
Welcome to The Poet’s Journal Words have always been a refuge, a way to weave together the fragments of emotion, memory, and imagination into something that lingers—something that feels alive. The Poet’s Journal is where I’ll share my poetry and the books that inspire me, with the occasional behind-the-scenes glimpse into my creative process. Here,…