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May 26, 2014 Jen EdenLeave a comment

...I'd like to do every day: What would you like to do every day?

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You can now buy a copy of my book, Thrive, in paperback or ebook right here.

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Spent lots of time outside this morning enjoying the sunshine on a lovely long walk with the pup and then clearing the flowerbeds in our garden and doing some planting. Spending time in nature is beautifully soothing and always helps blow the cobwebs away. Now I’m nicely tired, and some of the week’s tension has seeped out of my body, I’m hunkering down with a good book.

After discovering @farida.d.author’s account earlier this week I just couldn’t resist treating myself to a copy of one of her books. After a brief flick through I can tell this is going to be one I savour in mouthfuls of “YES”. As I’ve grown up through my twenties and into my thirties, I’ve grown a steady and deep appreciation of writing that captures all the joy and frustration and magic and rage of the different experiences of womanhood in this world. Finding those words that have created a way to whisper and shout out of pages, even as we’re (still) expected to be quiet is thrilling and empowering. I have just finished reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo and it too brought me that ethereal sense of recognition. Despite not having lived the same experiences, the power of those words resonated somewhere in my gut. I laughed and loved and wept and raged and burned with Xiomara. The power of the written word is truly incredible and I am so grateful for everything it has opened to me.

I’m definitely late to the party on this one - working through a ridiculously long and awesome list of recommendations and discovered reads as I continue to try and diversify my reading habits - but I’ve just started reading Pet and I am LOVING it. The writing is deft and vivid, the concept hugely original and the way Emezi has woven different intersections of identity into the characters just feels so natural. I love discovering speculative fiction that feels entirely fresh and I have high hopes for this one based on the first four chapters.

Reposting this with an updated caption because having finished this book I have some *thoughts*...

Sending out more copies of Thrive today - I get a little thrill every time I receive an order and I am SO grateful to every single person who chooses to support my work. I have had more love for this little book that I ever dreamed and each time someone leaves a review, sends me a message to say how much they loved it, orders a copy for themselves - or even comes back to order more for friends and family - it brings me such joy.❤️ I’m currently working on a second, special edition of Thrive as well as a couple of other projects and every copy of Thrive I send out spurs me on with continuing to create. Truly, truly, thank you to everyone who has supported this journey. You have made my dreams come true and I appreciate you more than you know. ✨

Every morning before work I try to spend a little bit of time doing something I enjoy. Sometimes it’s reading a chapter of a book or watching an episode of whatever series I’m in the middle of. Sometimes it’s writing or drawing. This morning, I spent that time fulfilling a lovely request - I received an order for a copy of my book to be sent to someone as a random act of kindness! I was very touched, both by the gesture itself and that this person wanted to share my book as part of their kind act. It was lovely to write a personalised inscription for the recipient, along with the requested message from the sender, and put together this little package knowing it will drop through the letterbox as a complete surprise! It also brought to my attention that it is #RandomActOfKindness week so I’m thinking about what little kind acts I can do this week as well.

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