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 At the end of 2021, I downloaded a reading tracking app called The Storygraph * because: 1. I'm a sucker for a new app 2. I love reading, but I can never remember what I've read and what I thought about it. Storygraph helps you to keep an eye on how many books you've read, and you can sort your reading list by genre, pace, number of pages, and mood. You can also give each book a star rating and a review (once you've finished it). You can also plot a graph of how many books and pages you've read each month as well. It's all very interesting to look back on. Especially if you're a big reading nerd, like I am! So, what kind of stuff did I find out from the app, after a whole year of reading?  Well, the app gives you the choice to set a reading goal at the beginning of each year, so I decided to aim for 50 books in 2021. By September, I'd reached my target, so I re-jigged by goal to 80 books in 2022. By the end of the year, I'd read a whopping 83 books,...

Did you know that fashions and trend cycles exist outside of the world of clothes and bags and shoes?! Like, we all know that bootcut jeans go in and out of style, and that florals will be right back on all the catwalks, come Spring/Summer 2023. That’s because there’s this huge industry that exists to discuss and analyse clothing trends, in an effort to make us buy more and more clothes every year. But did you know that art, architecture, interior design, and even poetry has fashions and trend cycles?  I know – I’m as shocked as you are! One of the recent trends in poetry that caused me to have this very obvious epiphany was the rise of the very, very, VERY long title. You know, the poem where the title is almost an entire sentence, or the poem where the title could be mistaken for the first line, shuffled up a couple of steps and highlighted in bold? Man, I love that trend! It’s such a great idea, and it allows the writer to jump straight into the action of the poem. Yes! Love it....