Archives for January 2017

Better Than Dreams started out as a book blog called This Fleeting Dream, on which I mostly posted reviews of books that I’d borrowed from the library. After a few years I was lucky enough to be on the lists for a number of publishers, and I got to read many amazing books and attend exciting events with authors and other publishing people.

Through this blog I met the other co-founders of Bookish Brits, a collaborative YouTube channel, and then I went on to start my own channel, Better Than Dreams. After a couple of years running Better Than Dreams I decided I preferred that name and renamed This Fleeting Dream to match!

Now those YouTube videos are mostly archived, as I decided in 2023, after a couple of years hiatus, to relaunch my channel to document my TBR zero project.

This Second’s Obsession began life as a fashion blog back in 2006 when I was an undergraduate student. I didn’t have internet in my house so I used to spend my evenings in the college library, visiting my favourite blogs, saving their latest posts on a USB stick to read the next day at home, and posting on TSO. I used to write all my blog posts in Notepad during the day, and save them on a USB stick to upload at night!

In its later years it became a lifestyle blog, before I decided to pause updating it in 2022. It’s now an archive of book reviews and fashion thoughts from my 20s.