Author: Riza @ Pages and Coffee Cups
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Photo Diary: Rediscovering Lagan
I’ve walked this path a lot of times already. But somehow, whenever I visit, I always feel renewed awe. I never knew it could transform to this extent.
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Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3.5/5☕ | If you like a short atmospheric book that explores moral dilemma amidst complacency of the majority, and what it means to hold on to your values – Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These might be for you.
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Taking Stock #9: On Healing (September ’23)
“Taking Stock” is a series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | And so here I was: Chasing the last days of summer. Welcoming a new (transitory) phase: my favourite season, Autumn. And I think it’s working out beautifully.
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Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
4/5☕ | In true Matt Haig fashion, The Midnight Library offered up a lot of life lessons and nuggets of wisdom that will stick to most readers’ hearts – as it stuck to mine.
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Photo Diary: Random Autumn Walks
It’s the tail-end of October and here we are again with a random autumn photo diary. Armed with a dirty chai latte from one of my favourite coffee shops and my trusted camera, I went out to explore and appreciate the fall colours once again (for the nth time, I know).
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Photo Diary: The Early Days of Autumn
It’s no secret that I am in love with Autumn. And as the season transitions and the leaves begin to change colours, having my usual walks admiring all my favourite colours coming to life is something I’ve been looking forward to for weeks now.
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Review: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
4.5/5 ☕ | Heartburn is a short but sweet offering from the patron saint of romantic comedies which follows a food writer who, while in her seventh month of her second pregnancy, discovered that her husband is in love with another woman. 40 years into it’s publication and I feel like it still holds up.
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Taking Stock #8: Slowing Down (August ’23)
“Taking Stock” is a series where I try to slow down and take stock of where and how I am right now. | As much as I don’t want to be one of those people that casually says “August slipped away like a bottle of wine”, it is very much true.
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Edinburgh of my Dreams (2023)
One item in my never ending bucket list in life: a (dark academia) photoshoot in the literary city of Edinburgh. It was a nice place and time to take out my Kafka in the wild after a while, a book that has accompanied me on various travels since 2015.
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Reading Diary: 25 Thoughts While Reading Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s Normal People could be a bit disjointed at times, but in those moments where it make sense, it’s profound and heart-wrenching and the writing is up there in some of the most beautiful conveyance of specific feelings I’ve ever read. And for that, I felt like it deserves to have a place in…
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