When I picked up this book, the first thing I thought to myself was, “Truly, Tess, you do love torturing yourself.” The title alone was a dead giveaway that I was in for a world of pain and I needed none of that. Lol, not like anyone needs pain at any point. The first story broke me so bad, I suspended the entire book for two weeks. What I didn’t expect was for the same book that broke me to be the one that healed me, in a realistic bitter-sweet way. Presenting to you, my lovely readers,

I was in a “If I had known,” “if only” phase a while back, with so many things to tell the past me, things to guide her on, things to educate her on what is truly important. And that’s the thing about growing. With each day, we have things that we tell ourselves that we could have done better, things we tell ourselves that we could say better. Then imagine if we could have told a far younger version of ourselves these things. Would anything have changed? Or would we have meandered and circumvented only to end up right where we are now.

Music is one sphere I can talk inexhaustibly on. And that’s because music is not as surface level as most people place it to be. I am a firm believer in the fact that we are what we listen to and if that is true, that means music is so much more than rhythm, lyrics and sound. It’s far too profound than something that shallow.

“You’re going to lose this job, Khloe,” Carl stated gravely. “And I’ll be sorry to see it happen.”I wasn’t even in the mood for this. “Carl, please. Not now.”“Then when, Khloe?!”His yell caught me off guard and I lifted my head. He looked mad, but more than that, he looked confused.

Scattered thoughts can do a lot of things to you, and I guess that is why I found myself being immersed in a film that I didn’t think I was ever going to have the willpower to see. And because I didn’t want the reviews of the movie to either discourage or amplify my hopes, I only saw the cast, and that was all I needed to know. I loved Millie Bobby Brown from her epic acting in Sherlock Holmes, Angela Bassett is an OG, so of course I was interested in what role she played in the movie. I also saw that it was about dragons, and a fantasy-loving girl could nearly shed tears of joy. Here is the review of this maybe spoiler-filled movie(because I do expect everyone who was interested to have watched it by now).

The best thing about the holidays for me is the lack of guilt. Finally, I can read novels without feeling guilty that I should devote that time to studying my academic books instead. I was holding my breath. Holding it very hard as the school session drew to a close because I couldn’t wait to pick a book guilt-free once again. In my time away from novels, however, I downloaded a lot. And the reason why I’m ecstatic is because of the type of books I downloaded.