What I’m Currently Reading #1

In a very short period of time I’ve gone from being someone who reads one book at a time to someone who reads multiple books at a time. I don’t like it, and, beyond one…

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10 books I should have read by now (but I haven’t)

This is such a shameful list. Like, there are some books on this list that I’m truly embarrassed to have not read. I probably wouldn’t even admit some of these to you face to face.…

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On the road to self-love

I have been saving this post for Valentine’s Day, a day when romantic love is celebrated and when often-overlooked-but-super-important self-love is slowly becoming more widely accepted. This isn’t to say that self-love is a new…

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Planner chat

I’m a meticulous diary keeper and planner lover. I was that girl in high school who used different coloured pens for different subjects, and keep everything colour-coordinated, neat, and tidy. When an ex introduced me to Moleskine…

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The Stella Prize 2016 longlist cover love

Earlier tonight the longlist for the 2016 Stella Prize was announced. It’s a brilliant list that leans heavily towards fiction, with 11 of the 12 longlisted titles fiction of some format (including novel, novella, and…

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8 ways to maintain motivation to exercise

If I’m honest, I have a love/hate relationship with exercise. I can go for weeks at a time with the motivation of a professional athlete, and then suddenly hit a slump where even the promise…

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I’m Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjørk | Audiobook Review

Listening to a crime novel as an audiobook is a bit of a risk. More often than not if I’m reading a crime or thriller novel, I’ll flip back to previous chapters at least once…

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Why I Blog Now | 2016 Edition

Why I blog now… That’s something interesting to think about. For those of you who didn’t know me a number of years ago, I started a blog in 2011 called The Crime Files. From the…

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