Writing Update | I'm Taking A Break...

Sometimes the need for a break is so large you crumble under the pressure to write. Words get lost and hard to find and what you do write never seems good enough.

NaNoWriMo | My First Try

As mentioned in my Blogger Jealously post, I took part in NaNoWriMo last November. It was a last minute thing and no, I didn’t reach the 50,000 word mark. I was debating whether to write anything at all, whether to carry on with the book I started or start a complete new one and by the time I actually decided an entire week went by!

With one week gone I wasn’t sure I would make 50,000 or anything even close to it but I started anyway. I put a stop to my social life to attempt to write every evening because I work full time Monday to Friday. 

Book Review | Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

Finding books you bought months ago and finding them to be extremely exciting is one of my favourite things. I bought this book almost a year ago when I decided to bring books into my blog and I finished reading it recently. My mind was blown and my heart pumped blood a little too fast around my body but this book was not being put down. 

Hey It's Okay... Relationship Virgins

Taking my inspiration from Cosmopolitans magazine and this article, I’ve come to the conclusion I am a relationship virgin. 

I wouldn’t know what a date was if it came and slapped me in the face. Sometimes I think a planned event with someone I quite fancy is a date, sometimes I have no idea cause it was only to the cinema. Is the Cinema a date? Do you have to formaly say it is one before it is?

Clueless. That’s me. 

Blogger Crush | Thumbelina Lillie

Following on from my Blogmas post I decided it was about time I praised the Bloggers that I love to read all the time. There a loads so this series will hopefully continue on for a while and I do every one justice.

Under Inspection | Soap & Glory Bronzer

Being a make-up novice bronzer was always something I would hear about and wonder "how do I use that?" Being a pale girl makes it exceptionally hard to find one that doesn't make me look like I've smeared mud all over my face or been a little too happy with the fake tan. 

Wishlist

This month my wish list is a little more brand inspired. Focusing on a brand which I haven't tried anything from and picking the products that, if my purse provided the cash, I would buy first before trying anything else.

Book Review | The Pirates Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Sequels are always good books. While they may not be to the standard of the first, they still hold a great appeal to avid book readers. Emerging yourself back into a world you've already begun to love is one of my favourite things.

Five Things I Shouldn't Like But Do

We all have guilty pleasures in life. Things we wouldn't boast about to the world but we enjoy in secret. We like to indulge in them and that is a really good thing.

Make Up Look | Kim Kardashian

As you all know, or should know, by now my friend Amy is a very talented make up artist and during the first afternoon of playing dress up Rhianne's face she chose to do a Kim Kardashian eye look on me. 

Under Inspection | This Works

Until I turned 20 I never used moisturiser. My mother used to hate it and she would always tell me that she has moisturised since she was 14 and the doctors say her skin is a amazing. Well mine isn't and I haven't managed to find one that fits my skin.

Blog Tour | When Darkness Comes by Bruce Blake

Normally I would be doing a review but with my current work/writing/life situation I haven't had the chance to delve into this wonderful world again. So instead here's the prologue. Don't tell me you're not already hooked!

Prologue

Am I ready to kill?

A cloud of swirling mist sighed out between Kuneprius’ lips, rising into the night to smear the glow of the winter moon. He watched it dissipate, then exhaled another long plume, blowing it out the way he’d seen the Brothers do when they smoked their pipes filled with sweetweed. Instead of swirling like the wreaths he’d watched them create, his breath came out a ragged column.

“Shh.”

Kuneprius cocked his head toward the urgent sound, an apology teetering on the tip of his tongue. At the last instant, he remembered himself and said nothing, pressing himself flatter against the side of the hill. Fildrian lay less than ten man-lengths away, but the Brother’s black hood and robe hid him in the darkness; despite his proximity, empty loneliness ached in Kuneprius’ chest.

Book Review | The Archived by Victoria Schwab

Booktube is probably one of my favourite and worst things I have ever come across. I even had to buy another bookshelf to be able to keep up with my worsening book habit. I need to find time in my schedule to stick reading back into it because since starting my new job I have fallen so far behind even though I was super ahead. 

April TBR

This year has been a good year for reading already and I'm hoping that will continue. Another month and another four books to read.