This poem was first published on Medium.
Warning: This poem talks about death, including child death, and
graveyards.
Honestly, I have no idea what corner of my brain this
came from.
😅
Sweet Decay
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13th October - What animal do you think best represents your personality?
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15th September - What’s one thing that’s always in your fridge?
Firstly, nothing to do with fridges, but — it’s my birthday today!!! Woo! :)
I’m on a bit of a Kinks vibe at the moment.
(…No, not that type of kink — keep it clean, dearest nerdlets. I mean the legendary rock/pop 60s band, The Kinks.)
I love The Kinks — their music is beautiful and complex in a way that few non-classical composers can claim.
A few months ago I saw Sunny Afternoon — a musical about the band’s early years — in Cardiff, and I’ve been on a Kinks-vibe ever since.
(My auto-generated Spotify mixes are now very confused by the way — my tastes are so all over the place that they don’t know if I’m 17 or 70. Neither is true — or maybe both, who knows?
Either way Spotify keeps rec'ing such excellent combos as The Rolling Stones and Sabrina Carpenter, The Beatles and olivia rodrigo, The Monkees and TX2 *shrugs*)
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Since my To-Be-Read (TBR) list is continually growing, from time to time I like to throw together a list focussing on some of the (often diverse) titles on there.
I figured that this time around, I would feature 3 books which I added to my list because I’ve seen the film adaptation.
This being me, though, they’re probably a little on the obscure side — because since when can I do anything ‘normally’? (Lol.)
Sometimes you have to take a look at your task list, and prioritise in order to get sh** done.
Sometimes we have to prioritise stuff that we’d rather not prioritise in order to free up time/energy for other stuff later.
(As annoying as that can be when you just wanna starfish on your sofa and wait for the summer to end so that you can freaking think again. …I really hate the heat, can you tell?)
It’s too hot to think.
It’s too hot to do anything except stare vacantly at my laptop for a while.
But I said there’d be a Nerd Church post… so now I have to write a Nerd Church post. (Good luck, dear readers…)
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Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme-thingy where people answer a different question each Tuesday
- it's currently run/hosted by Roberta @ Offbeat YA, Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, and Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell.
16th June — Have you ever been surprised by a book that you didn't expect to enjoy?
I’m Queer 365 days a year.
June is Pride month - the month where LGBTQ+ people celebrate and commemorate the Stonewall riots, as well as our right to exist and be the people we are.
(Here in the UK June is the month, but due to scheduling quirks, events pretty much take place all summer.)
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2nd June 2026 - What are your favourite beach reads?
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19th May 2026 - What is your favourite flower?
I love gerberas.
I always call gerberas ‘happy flowers’ — they’re bright and beautiful and, so long as they’re not wired (bad florists *sprays with water bottle*) they freaking dance.
Warning: This post briefly discusses mental health issues (Bipolar disorder)
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Since my To-Be-Read (TBR) list is continually growing, from time to time I like to throw together a list focussing on some of the (often diverse) titles on there.
Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme-thingy where people answer a different question each Tuesday
- it's currently run/hosted by Roberta @ Offbeat YA, Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, and Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell.
5th May 2026 - What toppings are on your ideal pizza?
Ermahgad I love pizza!
Pizza is my favouritest food :)
My dearest nerdlets, there are some topics which appear in the bookish/writerly/bloggerly interwebs again and again — and one of the most common of these is writer’s block.
(Which, yes, I’ve talked about before too.)
Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme-thingy where people answer a different question each Tuesday
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I plan on dipping in-and-out of it if and when I feel like it - I figured it was a low-pressure way of posting a little more regularly here on Dora Reads (...and hopefully I'll be right about that!)
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Don't deceive yourself...this is not a love story.
- Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Certain Dark Things is a vampire novel.
…It’s also entirely unique.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the author, describes the book as 'neon noir' - which is as good a label as any for this inventive, interesting, and compelling, mash-up of styles and genres.
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Since my To-Be-Read (TBR) list is continually growing, from time to time I like to throw together a list focussing on some of the (often diverse) titles on there.
Warning: Brief refs to Depression and trauma
I've been going through a lot of my old blogposts lately.
It's both an attempt to defeat the forces of entropy...
...and to possibly get back onto Google Adsense (it's a whole thing, I talked about it a few months back, so check that post out here if you're interested.)
And... it's been interesting.
Like, genuinely interesting - way more than I thought it would be.
Basically, I was not aware of the sheer volume of stuff I have written over the course of the last 11 years - it's a lot. (Lol.)
And a lot of the things that I've written are a lot better than I remember.
(...which is probably once again proof that I'm my own worst critic 😅)
