Holiday Reads | My Five Choices

One thing I love about Holidays is the 7 days I get to just read. I catch up on so much from my TBR -mainly from my kindle. They're so handy to take on holiday. So today is a post where I recommend 5 books I think you should be taking away with you the next holiday you have and enjoying a nice light(ish) read while you're led by the pool relaxing. Not thinking about work or any form of blogging/writing you need to be doing. 

Four Things Tag

Just like Jenny, I've been majorly stuck for blog post ideas. So stuck this one doesn't even get a photo! However, I've still got a few book reviews to write but for anything else my mind is completely blank, and I like to mix it up for you guys. So I stole her stolen idea of this tag. You can read hers here, and the one she stole here.

Response | Unrequited Love - My Letter to Laura

I don't think I have ever had a reason to write anything like this before until now. To understand this post you'll probably want to head over to superlatively rude and read Laura's, it's amazing and you won't regret it. Laura Williams you are a star and this is my letter to you;

Oh Laura, I feel like all my e-mails to you start like this. You don't mind right?

 

I totally get how you feel in your post Unrequited Love, in fact it was because of your amazing ability to write and connect that I wrote my own few posts under the title The Heart Monologues. It was hard and I was scared, but seeing as I'm not a "well known" or have a big following - no one commented, no one judged and I felt like a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. So firstly, I want to thank you for that, secondly I want to tell you about my HUGE accomplishment with my best friend/love of my life/I now dislike him.

Life | Demanding My Apology

There are a few times where I read Laura's work and think that doesn't fit with my life. I don't need to ask anyone for an apology. Then I was thinking about it and I guess maybe the people who used to bully me in school but then I thought, nah we were kids so I'm sure they've all grown up by now. 

Long story short, I concluded to myself that no-one in my life, good friend or not, needed to apologies to me. Then I met probably the most horrible person I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. 

Book Review | The Infernal Devices 1: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

I had been out of the reading game for a few years before I was lured back into it by the book bloggers and book tubers. The Mortal Instruments were some of the first books I started to read after my three year stint of not reading at all. Now I have a kindle bursting with books and a book shelf with no space on it. 

Book Review | The Charismatics by Ashley R Carlson

I first learned about this book through twitter. I was following someone who mentioned Ashley and that she was writing, so me being a novice writer myself decided to give her a follow. Then I found out she was publishing her first novel, read her post on Better Novel Project and then decided while I was on holiday I would read it. Not only to support someone I follow on twitter but because the blurb makes it sound like THE best story ever. 

The Love Hate Tag

While I run low on ideas and creep back into writers block I search for tags to do. So after finding this little beauty and basically forcing CJ to tag me in it, I've decided to do it. Insert purple devil face! You can find his post here, and I hope you enjoy my answers and that you take part too!

Book Review | Unbreakable by Kami Garcia

If there was one thing I never thought I would read it's a novel about ghosts. Ghosts have never interested me but mix it with secret and legion and clearly I am all in. 

5 Things Bloggers Think When Going Through Bloggers Block

Sometimes you just have no ides what words to put onto paper which others will want to read. Or that you want to read yourself. This could last for one day, one week, one month but no matter what length of time it is you soon find the same 5 thoughts going round in your mind.

Seasonal Thoughts | 5 Things I Hate About Summer

How it is mid-july already I do not know. This year is flying by and I feel like I have achieved next to nothing. I've given up my 63 thousand word manuscript, I got to 38K on my second manuscript, I started a new job in January and I've read some pretty awesome books but when it comes to summer, although loving the fact there is no rain, there are a few things I absolutely hate about this season. 

Book Review | Return to Bluebell Hill by Rebecca Pugh

My jealousy of new authors coming out of the woodwork is at an all time high after I met a few people who are writing novels, two of which have recently had their first ones published. While I sit here and throw away 63K words and wallow in my self pity.

However, I actually like the people who have written the books and Becca is no exception. With this little number under her belt, a heartwarming love story, I cannot wait to read more of her work and I am proud of her - even though we haven't met. 

Blogging | Internet Friends I'd Like To Meet

Since I started blogging, and openly speaking about the book I've been writing for 3 years I've met a few people on Twitter and honestly they're a pretty cool bunch of people, and sometimes we have conversations that just make me think - Hey, these people are awesome and I'd like to meet them to see if we'd be exactly the same IRL as on Twitter/E-mail. 

Writing Update | I'm Not Back...

...but I am attempting to write more. As you know a couple months back (except my shceduled posts) I hit the bloggers block hard and I haven't really written anything for at least 6 weeks straight for the blog. My novel writing has however increased but not as much as I would have liked. 

Monthly Review - May 2015

I've been thinking about doing one of these for a while. I've been subscribed to Nicole's Newsletter for a good 6 or more months and every month without fail she sends out the review sheet. So this month, in an attempt to kickstart my blogging again (don't hold your breath, this rut is horrible) I thought I would take part and share it with all of you. 

The Little Things

"I'm not that special" he said to me as I stood up. 

I smiled at him as I turned away and walked out the room singing to myself quietly, "you are to me."

I'm not sure if he notices the way I look at him, or how I try and get as close as possible to him when we are sleeping but I think this one just might be exactly what I'm looking for. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.