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Meet Sarah Dessen

Posted on 22 September, 201123 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

So yesterday I had the immense pleasure of seeing and meeting Sarah Dessen! She was in Toronto, at the Eaton Centre for yesterday and today, talking and signing her latest novel What Happened to Goodbye. I’ve been a fan of hers since I was in high school, when I read Someone like You, and have been…

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Review: Rebel Angels

Posted on 20 September, 20118 November, 2012 by Ikhlas

Libba Bray’s Rebel Angels is the 2nd book in Bray’s well-loved Gemma Doyle trilogy. Rebel Angels continues the story of Gemma Doyle and her struggle with the magic of the realms, as she tries to fit in at Spence Academy for Girls and moves one step closer to finding her mother’s best friend and killer, Circe. After…

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You + Me

Posted on 17 September, 201113 October, 2012 by Ikhlas

You. You stand there, eyes open, glaring. You can’t understand what I’m saying. Why I’m saying it. All you know is what you want. What you need. You can’t hear me. And don’t know how to listen. You twist and you turn my heart, make me cry and beg for mercy. You don’t stop because…

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Catching up (again)

Posted on 11 September, 201111 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

Hello. How’s it going? So you may or may not have noticed that I’ve been a teeny bit lazy about updating this blog. Its weird, because when I’m in school and am on a schedule, I’m way more on top of things than I am when I’m at home and not doing anything. Very weird….

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Becoming Ikhlas

Posted on 7 September, 2011 by Ikhlas

I didn’t realise I was brown until I was 4 and a half years old. I didn’t realise I was different until I was the age to start school. I didn’t realise there was something different about me. I thought I was like everyone else. Unlike everyone else, I was an only child. Well, until…

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