Friday 16 October 2015

Lets Talk: Catching Up

Friday 16 October 2015

It feels like I haven't updated you guys in a while on what's been going on and what I've been up to so I wanted to take time today to write a post that catches you guys up on what's been going on. I've also been feeling a lack of connection lately between me and the readers and my posts and the entire community in general so I want to use this post as a way to get some things off my chest, too. Like a cheap therapy session, except probably not as deep.

Wednesday 14 October 2015

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Wednesday 14 October 2015
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time.But the first sun rises and sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong. Far away, in their village, her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air. Back at the palace, the words she speaks to Lo-Melkhiin every night are given a strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to the rule of a monster.
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Sunday 11 October 2015

Thoughts On The 'Fangirl' Culture

Sunday 11 October 2015
The word 'Fangirl' usually brings along with it a lot of negative connotations, for most people I'm sure they picture screaming, crying, hysterical girls ogling the new boy band on the scene but for me, the definition of 'Fangirl' or 'Fanboy' is very different. For me, Fan-whatever means someone who loves something and is not afraid or embarrassed to be excited about that thing. I just want to discuss this a little bit because it's something that has been playing on my mind a lot and I want to get it out.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Twenty Before Twenty

Wednesday 7 October 2015
I'm a huge lover of Bucket Lists but I've never been one to stick to them and continue to cross things off or even make much of an effort to complete the things on said Bucket List. Hopefully, by putting my Twenty Goals Before Twenty list on this blog you guys will keep motivating me to complete this list and I won't just be someone at university who hasn't done anything that they've wanted to do. I might explain some of these just to give a little insight but I'm sure you'll get the gist of most of them.
I did make a Pinterest board for those who would rather see the list in picture form but some of the goals are not on the board.

Sunday 4 October 2015

Mini Reviews: Contemporary Edition

Sunday 4 October 2015







Mini Reviews is a feature that I post whenever I want to review some books for you guys but don't have the words or the feelings to flesh them out into a full review so instead I do a mini rave or a rant and let the powers that be do the rest of the work.