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Changing up annafromuni
My bookstagram and book blog, both named annafromuni, have been going strong for several years now, but 2025 has been one of the toughest years yet for my creativity and time management. With PhD research and readings taking up a lot of my time, not to mention the added stress of intense reading schedules for…
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Can I Trust Bookstagram Recs Now?
After experiencing the highs, lows, hypes and underwhelm that Bookstagram has to offer, I started asking myself this question: can I trust Bookstagram recs now? I have caught myself a few times this year before I jumped on a bandwagon that I knew in my hearts of hearts wasn’t going to be for me. I…
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PhD Update: Am I A PhD Candidate?
After months of talking about it, telling you the stages I am at and what plans I have, you may be thinking to yourself ‘Anna, how did your presentation go? Are you now a PhD candidate?’ Well, friends, I can confidently say that yes, I am. My presentation went surprisingly well, even though I read…
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The End of Year Reading Crunch
As the end of the year nears and we enter December, one thing I know will be the talk of bookish social media is the reading goals set at the beginning of 2024. At this stage though, it’s more likely the talk of binge reading to try and get the numbers up and prove that…
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I’m Doing A PhD About Bookstagram, BookTok and BookTube
It is a strange combination. On the one hand, there are the intensive research requirements of tertiary education and academics, the long hours bent over a notebook, a cup of coffee steaming as the clock strikes midnight, and a near feverish drive to learn more, study more, understand more. On the other hand, we have…
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Is Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone As Good As I Remember?
It’s been some time since I read Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo’s YA fantasy that took the world by storm in recent years. With the popularity of the Netflix TV adaptation, the controversial second season and the show’s cancellation, I thought it was about time to return to the books and see what I remember.…
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What I’ve Learnt in My Year of Book Blogging
I’ve been writing bookish things on this blog for over a year. Honestly, time flies and it feels like it was only last week that I was posting every day of October (something I will talk about later because wow that wasn’t such a good idea). With a year’s knowledge comes a year’s load of…
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How Bookstagram Has Changed Since 2018
I remember a time where the trending YA books could be counted on one hand, when the cult classics of The Hunger Games and The Infernal Devices were still talked about ardently, TOG was getting more promotion than ACOTAR, and when the kinds of posts that would come across my feed were inherently simpler –…
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The Pressure and Subsequent Burnout of Bookstagram
Continuing from last week’s discussion post, let’s dive into the pressures of up-keeping a bookish social media account, specifically a Bookstagram account. I don’t have experience with a BookTok (and I will not be getting one anytime soon) but I will be mentioning booktoks as a part of the pressures of maintaining your brand and…
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Bookstagram – A Blessing or A Curse?
Bookstagram, the bookish side of Instagram, has been around for a long time. With reading online spaces like AO3, fanfiction.net for example, and the Millennial Gen-Z social media sphere of X (Twitter), Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook and Youtube, it wasn’t a surprise that when Instagram came around the book community would flock to the platform. Nowadays,…