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Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda’s Gokura-chou, vol. 1 by Akihito Sakaue is an incredibly unique manga in which they explore the importance of craftsmen in the Edo period, Japan. I wouldn’t normally jump straight to the artwork, but in this case I have to. The artwork in this manga is incredible. In its own right, a piece of art. The…
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Goth Chibis teaches the reader how to draw 24 goth characters that represent the goth subculture seen in film, television, anime, manga, and high fashion. One of my hobbies is… Read More
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Back then, a departure meant a beginning. More than departing, now it seemed to mean distancing, ‘moving off’. To be dead is to be absent/ To die is to set… Read More
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I’ve lived in Norfolk for heading on seventeen years and I still really don’t know it for its beauty that I hear a lot of people talk about. Bar National… Read More
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They say the heat’s driven the locals crazy, that it’s not normal – May and not a single drop of rain – and that the hurricane season’s coming hard, that… Read More
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I chose you because you were the most useless human whose story I had the displeasure of reading. The Rainfall Market is a coming of age, magic realism novel by Korean… Read More
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When a living person looks at a dead person, mightn’t the person’s soul also be there by its body’s side, looking down at its own face? As someone who has… Read More
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It was on a Saturday when I got a WhatsApp message from the husband. He asked me to look up the Bike Shed cafe in London. We were planning a… Read More
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…now there’s a new sort of fear; that one of us might get caught between the hands of a clock and never be seen again. Catfish Rolling is a myths… Read More
About Me
Hi, I’m Rachael. The aim of this website is to practice the art of slowing down and to work on one’s wellbeing. This will look different for everyone, but here you will find recipes, book reviews, cafe reviews and other creative and self-development activities I want to pursue at my own pace. This is a safe space for all races as well as the LGBTQ+ community. Read More
Currently Reading
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
(Literary Fiction)