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slow down & visit a bookshop

April 28, 2024April 28, 2024 nesskingsley

It was, naturally, impossible to walk out of the bookshop without purchasing one or two or, possibly, three volumes. Which I did. Who am I but a leaf, drifting on the rivers of fate?

Tagged book-review, books, bookshop, bookshops, cromford, reading, Rebecca Yarros, Sarah j maas, scarthin books, trains, ursula k le guin6 Comments
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2023 – it also happened

December 31, 2023December 31, 2023 nesskingsley

Our brains are not always the kindest things, but you have to keep going - joy comes with the morning, as the good book says.

Tagged 2023, books, clearly ambiguous, fiction, kathrine addison, life, new year, portugal, reading, the cabbages, the sixth extinction, travel, writing2 Comments
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the loneliness of being | reading log #2

November 23, 2023December 6, 2025 nesskingsley

Reading opens the mind, for example, I would never be able to live the life of a battle weary orc setting up a coffee shop, now would I?

Tagged Agatha christie, audiobook, cephalopods, ebook, hong kong, legends and lattes, pick up a book, reading, squid2 Comments
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so, we’re eating rubbish. noice.

October 27, 2023 nesskingsley

Lowkey really not the vibe 2023 needs.

Tagged audiobook, Chris van telleken, reading, ultra processed food, ultra processed people3 Comments
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busy-ness aka doing everything all at once

April 22, 2023 nesskingsley

We had many adventures, we caught some Shakespeare, some planes, some trains, some Ubers, and - just to make all things even - a boat. One could say that at this point, we are professionals.

Tagged reading, traveling, writing1 Comment

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