After a touch of quick maths yesterday, I discovered that if I read on average four books a month (not an insignificant amount) for the rest of my projected life, I will have read about half of my TBR as logged on the website StoryGraph. This being a website, and a relatively new one in... Continue Reading →
A House of Bootlegs
Growing up in a house of bootlegs, and developing my own music collection.
Lisbon: A Digest
Four days is enough to see Lisbon well. Here is the Late Romantic dot com guide to this city break.
How To Study – tips, hacks, suggestions, advice for academic success
The method of studying is probably harder than the content, and I've got some ways of making it easier.
Amp It Up: Exploring Live Albums
How do you feed your burgeoning love of live music without entirely emptying your wallet? As a veteran show-goer, I'm here to share my most loved performances, as well as a guide to the most famous festivals of the 20th century. What more could you need?
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – Your Friend’s Bilingual Kid
Let's be real, your friend's gift is less important than the one you'll get their kid, and this is definitely the category I find most difficult to shop for. The child doesn’t have to be bilingual - this is a general guide to children of all ages who you may not know very well (my... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – Your In-Laws
More specifically, this guide is for the in-laws who have everything. It isn't specific to in-laws: it can be your own parents or your boss or anybody to whom you do not want to gift anything too personal, anything too intense, or anything too jokey. You want to get them something nice (commensurate with your... Continue Reading →
November is for gift guides.
November is for gift guides. I always want these proposed Christmas lists to come out earlier rather than later to give you time to actually buy them: either to go to the store and get them, or to get them shipped and wrapped in plenty of time; to give you time with the Black Friday... Continue Reading →
Some Thoughts On The Eras Tour Film
Hi, it's me, a veteran gig-goer, film fan, and card(igan)-carrying Swiftie, here to break down the Eras tour movie and tell you what you want to know. Beware setlist spoilers and biased criticism.
Porto: A Digest
Four days is enough to see Porto well. It's a city for shopping, walking and chilling - ideal for a city break.
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