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  • A snapshot in time

    September 24, 2022September 25, 2022Bianca's Life

    Here's a snapshot of what I've been watching, reading, working out, and photographing.

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  • Photography challenge: lighting

    July 19, 2022July 19, 2022Photo Challenges
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    Natural lighting was the lesson for this photography challenge. Octy helped with a wistful pose, along with other lighting photos in the gallery.

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  • Photography challenge: colour

    July 13, 2022August 7, 2022Photo Challenges
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    This week's photography challenge is all about colour. It's all black and white, 1-2 colours and intentional use of colour.

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  • Fitness Challenge: The Push-up Challenge

    July 3, 2022July 3, 2022Fitness Challenges
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    In June I completed The Push-Up Challenge with 2,759 push-ups done. Here are my thoughts on the fitness challenge, and some gifs of my "achievements".

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  • Photography challenge: focus

    July 2, 2022July 13, 2022Photo Challenges
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    This week's photography challenge is focus. My assignment submissions used panning, but I've also shared depth of field and bokeh photos.

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  • What I’ve been reading – June 2022 edition

    June 19, 2022June 19, 2022Book Reviews
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    Mini reviews of what I've been reading is more fun for me than larger individual book reviews. So here are a few books I've read this year.

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  • Photography challenge: composition

    June 13, 2022August 7, 2022Photo Challenges
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    Today's photography challenge was all about composition. In my case, the composition of an octopus.

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  • Photography challenge: exposure

    June 3, 2022July 13, 2022Photo Challenges
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    My first photography challenge. Lesson 1 looks at exposure so I took a walk to the park. Octy came too.

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  • Back to the blog but different.

    May 29, 2022May 30, 2022Bianca's Life
    Two lazy pandas

    I'm back to the blog again. It won't be like before. I'll just blog fun stuff on what I feel like, when I feel like it, so I'll enjoy it more.

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  • Hello, Cruel Heart: a new Maureen Johnson story

    May 23, 2021May 23, 2021Book Reviews
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    Hello, Cruel Heart is Maureen Johnson's telling of Cruella De Vil's teenage years. It's a Disney story. Warning given.

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  • I am going on hiatus

    April 5, 2021April 5, 2021Bianca's Life
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    A reading slump turned into a writing slump and stress set in, so I'm putting this site aside for now. I hope you enjoy the posts so far. Mass Consternation is in hiatus.

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  • Master Class by Christina Dalcher – Book Review

    February 28, 2021February 28, 2021Book Reviews
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    Imagine if your school scores defined your live, your opportunities, your shopping trips? That's Master Class by Christina Dalcher.

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  • Before the round table with Cursed by Thomas Wheeler

    February 5, 2021February 5, 2021Book Reviews
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    I didn't know Cursed by Thomas Wheeler was adapted on Netflix or a King Arthur retelling when I started reading. Now I NEED to watch the series.

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  • The Last Wish – starting The Witcher series

    January 12, 2021January 12, 2021Book Reviews
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    After watching the Netflix series, I read The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski--the first book in The Witcher series... and wrote down my thoughts.

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  • Meeting Karou in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone

    January 5, 2021January 5, 2021Book Reviews
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    I'm in love with another Laini Taylor novel. This time it's the first book in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series.

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  • My 2020 End-of-Year Review

    December 29, 2020December 30, 2020Bianca's Life
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    Gasp. It's another year done and 2020 was a crazy one at that. In keeping tradition, here's my end-of-year review of things Bianca and books.

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  • Book Review: The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

    December 22, 2020December 23, 2020Book Reviews
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    Kate Mildenhall's second novel--The Mother Fault--is the story of a mother protecting her family in a dystopian Australia.

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  • Deathless Divide: a perfect sequel by Justina Ireland

    December 14, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    The sequel to Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is here. In Deathless Divide, Jane fights zombies, delusional scientists, sexism, and racism.

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  • An alternative Jack the Ripper story in People of Abandoned Character

    October 25, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    In People of Abandoned Character, Clare Whitfield tells the story of a possible wife of Jack the Ripper.

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  • 5 Strategies to Cope with Lockdown Life

    September 21, 2020December 18, 2020Bianca's Life
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    How are you surviving the COVID-19 lockdown? Here are five strategies that made it a little easier for me.

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