Some people like “childhood friends turn lovers”, while other like more edgy stuff like “enemies to lover”. When it comes to our favorite romance stories we have our de-facto, tried and tested, romantic tropes. ❤ And I am one of… Read More »Falling in love with my favorite romantic tropes over and over again!
So excited to share this! Two years ago I impulsively wrote a post about my reading habits with my psuedo-creative stats (read: gauge). I also did snippet of it on my ultimate throwback posts! But now, I’m making it official… Read More »Bar, graphs, and all things stats. Breaking down my 2019 reading habits!
My parents weird motivational speech was all about sibling comparison. “Look at your sister. Look at your brother.” But I always refuted it with the same speech: “I’m happy for them, but I’m not them. I have my own way.”… Read More »Everyone’s talking except me & it’s OK! Why I’m not feeling the FOMO!
They say withholding information is equivalent to lying. But when it comes to my online activities the little I share the better. I’m not sure if I’ve written something like this (maybe something similar) nevertheless it’s worth revisiting the topic… Read More »It’s OK to be yourself with reservation online!
I’m not the biggest TV watcher, this started when I fell madly in love with reading (which only started more than a decade ago, I’m late bloomer, you see). The only times I watch TV is when there’s a new… Read More »From paper to screen: what do I say to live action adaptation!!
Let me start this post with truest statement about human beings: we are not perfect. We’re susceptible to a lot of things and sometimes it ends up as a bad habit. And as another saying even describes bad habits as… Read More »It isn’t all rainbows and unicorns: here are my bad reading habits.
Being a shoujo fanatic (more like a romance genre enthusiast, and again, it bears repeating), I’ve seen romance stories developed in various ways. One was too quick for comfort. Others had so little development. Some were slow-burn romances (and I… Read More »How about making the love interest not too obvious?
The thing about reading (or anything that revolves about consumption of our fave fiction stories) is you’re bound to meet one that will resonate you. And sometimes you’re get to see yourself in the very thing that you read. Like… Read More »And it reminded me of me. When fiction imitates life?
When it comes to books, I try to finish it as much as I can. I just don’t like not getting closure. I’ve invested time on it already so might as well. But I realized in manga this is a… Read More »Does DNF means forever? The second chances for the unfinished ones.
I don’t try to hide this ever, actually, I’m very vocal about enjoying your stuff your way, that’s always been my forever motto when it comes to my entertainment, especially reading. The genre, demographics, or even the popularity don’t bother… Read More »Mainstream? Indie? The popularity of the series doesn’t bother me one bit!
Long before when I was still blogging for books, I dreaded getting that reading slump. Especially when I reviewed advance copies before. When my anime + manga got resurrected that bookish slump started to get longer: from days to weeks… Read More »Have I ever not read? Let me talk about that dreaded reading slump.
I don’t think I’m the only one who spare time in an activity where I look for new reads (even though I have like 124395047321 series on my TBR but I just need to have more, right? It’s human instinct… Read More »I found it and I read it on the spot: not placing a series on my TBR list!!
