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Hannah Marie Brankley
Life In My 30's
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    2024 | 2025 | Lifestyle

    Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025

    Hours 1 January 20251 January 2025

    Well, another year has come and gone, Hello 2025! New year, new start. May all your dreams come true in 2025! 2024 Recap My 25…

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  • This bingo card is designed to motivate reading in the new year. To win, players must complete 3 squares in a row โ€“ horizontally, vertically, or diagonally โ€“ by reading books that fulfill specific criteria. These criteria include reading the 12th book on their 2025 list, a 2024 release on their TBR they missed last year, a book under 500 pages from their physical TBR, the last book they bought, a book from a series on their TBR, a debut novel, a book with "new" in the title, and their oldest book on their TBR. One square is a free choice, allowing players flexibility. This bingo card, created by @afictionalplace, is a fun and engaging way to challenge yourself to read diversely and achieve reading goals in the new year.
    2024 | Books

    โ€˜Jump Start into Januaryโ€™ – Book Bingo

    Hours 31 December 202415 January 2025

    Welcome to the “Jump Start into January” book bingo board! Iโ€™m thrilled to finally share this with you! Over the past year, I created these…

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    Book Challenges For 2025 // Bookmas Day 12

    Hours 12 December 202412 December 2024

    For the final day of Bookmas, I thought I would highlight a few different book challenges. In case you are still looking for a challenge…

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    Final Book Haul Of 2024 // Bookmas Day 11

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    As I put my reading plans for 2025 together, I wanted to ensure that any books I still needed were accounted for in one final…

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    Let’s Talk…Books That Have Been Neglected // Bookmas Day 10

    Hours 10 December 202410 December 2024

    As part of my reading plans for 2025, Iโ€™m aiming to tackle a lot, and with that, I wanted to highlight a few of the…

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    Hours 9 December 20249 December 2024
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Hannah Marie
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Today marks my 12th year recognising World IBD Day Today marks my 12th year recognising World IBD Day whilst living with IBDโ€ฆ but this year, I found myself asking a question I never thought I would.

Do I actually still have IBD?

After 3 surgeries, having everything from the ileum down removed and now living with a stoma, my Ulcerative Colitis is no longer active. Thereโ€™s nowhere left for the disease to flare in the way it once didโ€ฆ so where does that leave me?

Am I someone who had IBD? Or am I still someone living with it?

In todayโ€™s blog post, I wanted to explore that question because IBD is so much more than just a bowel disease. Even without active disease, I still live with the effects it left behind.

A stoma gave me my quality of life back after years of immense pain and failed treatments, but it isnโ€™t a cure. Itโ€™s a management route with its own ups and downs.

Iโ€™d love to know if anyone else with a stoma has ever questioned where they fit within the IBD community now ๐Ÿ’œ

Link: https://hannahmariebrankley.com/world-ibd-day-2026-do-i-still-have-ibd/

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Lovely meal out last night with loved ones to cele Lovely meal out last night with loved ones to celebrate my brother and Iโ€™s birthday at @casabiancausk ๐Ÿฅฐ

Highly recommend the spaghetti carbonara! ๐Ÿ˜‹

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From winter to spring ๐ŸŒธ #2026 #LifeRecently From winter to spring ๐ŸŒธ

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I feel like this book is on many people's favourit I feel like this book is on many people's favourite lists... Do I add it to my TBR?

Day 284 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a black cat on the cover ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›

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Even when the supermarket only has a small selecti Even when the supermarket only has a small selection of books, I find em ๐Ÿ˜‚

Day 283 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a skull on the cover

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Look what came! ๐Ÿ˜ Scroll to see which book I got Look what came! ๐Ÿ˜

Scroll to see which book I got for my first Aardvark book club box! I am so excited to read this, and I'm so happy we now have Aardvark in the UK.

Day 282 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a creepy doll on the cover

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Apologies, this post is late; there are so many go Apologies, this post is late; there are so many good books this month and whittling them down was difficult.

I also had to account for the 25- yes, you read that correct, 25 kindle book I bought in this month's 99p deals ๐Ÿ˜…

Here are the October releases that are on my radar:
๐Ÿ“š The Haunted Librarian by Auralee Wallace
๐Ÿ“š The Dues & Don'ts of Magic by Delemhach
๐Ÿ“š The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Huneycutt
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๐Ÿ“š Barb Jacobs Just Won't Die! by Tanya Pell
๐Ÿ“š When the Night Comes Knocking by Katherine Daniel
๐Ÿ“š Snowed Inn by Valerie Bowman

What did you add to your October wishlist?

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