Sunday Post | 23/03/2025 | Books & Babble

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Hello again! Had no motivation to post anything for the last few weeks but I'm trying to get better, promise!

This week has been a bit all over the place. Me and my brother have been doing the couch to 5K running plan and we were doing well for two weeks but circumstances have meant we haven't been for one this week at all so hopefully we can change that and start up again soon.

Work has also been stressful. Two of my co-workers have not been getting a long which has meant there's been lots of meetings and animosity recently and it's definitely having an effect on how I feel going to work. I work in a small nursery with about 8 staff in total so we're all on top of each other all the time and it's not really possible to stay out of each other's way. I'm really comfortable in my current position in the nursery, working with toddler room, but it looks like I'm going to be the one that has to switch roles to keep everyone happy which is frustrating for me. My family can tell I've not been super happy at my workplace for a while and keep encouraging me to find something else but it's hard to move on when you've worked somewhere for four years.

★ I finished Isola by Allegra Goodman earlier this week. I didn't know what to expect going into this one and starting off I actually struggled with the writing style. It's set in the 1500s and it definitely leans towards the more literary genre but I thought this was a really interesting story that had a lot to say about survival and privilege for young women of that time period.

★ I'm currently reading Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray and I'm really enjoying this one. I love that we're getting three points of view across the decades, Germany during WWII and during the time of the Berlin Wall and then NYC in 2020. What brings these POV's together is a mystery of two teenage girls disappearing towards the end of the war. The wartime sections are my favourite but so far this is a really gripping historical mystery.

★ I'm trying to catch up on Drive to Survive but only really watching bits here and there. I love this series but they definitely overdramatise everything!

★ Me and my brother have done a few cinema trips this week. First up: In the Lost Lands and omg, this was awful. My brother's friend said this was fun but I just hated every minute. The script was dire, the storyline predictable and the characters unbelievably flat. One to avoid. 1/5

★ We then went to see Opus on Thursday and this was a lot more interesting. This one revolves around a group of people invited to a reclusive singer's retreat for his new album release and things get batshit crazy. I really wasn't expecting some of what happened and the acting was pretty good. Not one I'd watch again but still solid. 3/5

★ Last Breath we saw last night and I actually really enjoyed this one about a saturation diver who gets trapped on the seabed with diminishing oxygen. Really interesting and more so when I found out it was a true story. What dampened it was the couple sitting next to us who muttered the entire way through, to the point I had to tell them to be quiet and then my brother went and told a staff member and then they finally shut up. It was really distracting so I felt like I missed a few important bits and had play catch up a bit. I really wish people wouldn't go the cinema if they can't be quiet for 2 hours! 3.5/5

★ I am absolutely loving the Jonas Brothers new song, Love Me to Heaven. It's exactly the kind of upbeat pop that I love to dance around to. I was never a Jonas Brothers fan in their early days but their latest stuff is so fun and catchy.

★ The fact that F1 is back!! I can't tell you how happy I am about this, the winter break was just too long and I've been anticipating the new season for months. Plus, as a McLaren girlie, the first two race weekends have been so fun to watch although not fun for my sleep schedule! Please don't let this winning streak end!