A Quick Update

Hello everyone! First of all I would like to issue an apology for being way too inconsistent with my posting over the past few months and then weeks after that after posting my birthday post. But I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that I made it to uni! I've been here for almost a week now and I'm loving it so far. Everything is moving so fast and it's so busy that I've barely had time to sit and think let alone write a post, and classes haven't even started yet! That being said, I'm not sure when I'll find time to post again but I will try and get at least one up a week for you guys, as long as I'm able. Thanks for sticking around and I hope to see you again soon!

A Very Belated Birthday

I'm officially the worst blogger in the world. Recently the blog hit it's 2nd birthday and instead of being on here to celebrate it, I was out in the world going through a pretty hard slump of, well, just about everything. I don't want this post to be something negative about how slumps suck and I don't want it to be full of false promises saying that I will be on here a whole lot more often so instead I'm just going to talk about this past year of blogging.

My Favourite Books of 2016 (So Far)

While I'm aware that this post would have been more suited to go up midway through the year, no one has ever said that I'm the most organised person in the world so we're going to roll with this. I also felt like I hadn't really spoken enough about the books that I've been loving this year and I want to thrust them into your (un)willing hands and tell you to take care of my babies.

#ThisIsWhoIAm: A Time Capsule Experience

In honour of the launch of Harriet Reuter Hapgood's brilliant debut novel, The Square Root of Summer, I have been invited to take part in Macmillan's #ThisIsWhoIAm campaign. To celebrate the creativity of the book and it's characters, Macmillan have asked me to put together a time capsule that represents who I am right now in Summer 2016. Today - May 3rd - people all around the world will be posting their time capsules showing who they are with the hashtag #ThisIsWhoIAm so if you enjoy this post you should go and check those out, and why not make your own while you're at it and join in on all the fun! I loved putting together my time capsule and I'm so excited to show you guys the things that I feel encapsulate this moment in time.

The Square Root of Summer publishes on the 5th May 2016, I have already read it and I thought it was a beautiful read so if you're interested on hearing more about it, or reading my review, check it out here.

2016 ARC April

You may have heard of ARC August happening in 2015 and yes, you guessed it, Octavia and Shelley of Read. Sleep. Repeat. are hosting it all over again - except in April!

Desktop Beauties - My Favourite Wallpapers

For those of you who were here during the Visual Week I did last May you'd know that I love typography and lettering especially when it comes to bookish things. One of the things that falls into that category is bookish desktop wallpapers. I'm a bit obsessed when it comes to having a variety of wallpapers to choose from so for all of those like-minded people out there I'm going to share two of my favourite creators of said desktop beauties.

Lets Talk: Hello, 2016.

Last New Years Eve I wrote a letter to the readers of this blog in which I gave myself some resolutions that I more or less stuck to. (As a matter of fact, I'm actually sitting in the same bed sheets that I was in last New Years Eve too). Now, I don't have any resolutions this time around, mostly because I'm happy with the way that everything is going, and well, what will be will be. I just wanted to write this post to say Hello to 2016 and to welcome everyone reading this onto this new adventure.

A Few Fave Blogs

I love reading blogs almost as much as I love writing one and I definitely have my favourites. There is just something about seeing your most loved blogs have posted something new and then immediately reading them. Catching up on Feedly is either the first thing I do when I wake up or the last thing I do before I sleep. Here are some of my 'must-reads'.

Happy Birthday, Flowers In My Books

Yeah, you heard correctly. Today, on the 2nd September, Flowers In My Books turns One. I must admit, there were times I didn't think we'd make it here. Blogging is a lot harder than I expected, but I don't regret a single thing. Here are some of the stats and highlights of this long, first year.

Captain Thorne Appreciation Post

Captain Thorne, Cadet Thorne, Carswell Thorne, Thorne, or as I call him - My Future Husband. Whatever name you know him by, you know that he needs some appreciation. Appreciation and love. I'm gladly going to give it to him. So here you go Carswell, bathe in your glory.

15 Post-Its In World After by Susan Ee

(I literally finished World After about 10 minutes ago and I'm rushing to write this post so I can move onto End of Days as soon as I possibly can.)

I wanted to write just your standard review for the whole of the Angelfall trilogy, but then I finished World After and I realised that there wasn't much more than I could say that wasn't in the first review I did for Angelfall. Instead, since I can't seem to stop tabbing things in this damn series, I'd show you a glimpse into some of my favourite parts of the book (aka 15 of 60 things that I couldn't help but Post-It note when reading World After).

Highlights - To All The Boys I've Loved Before

I'll admit it - I'm a highlighter. In my eyes, there is no feeling more satisfying that when you highlight a quote in a book.

Reading Challenges And The Challenges That Come With Them.

Okay...It's a little more difficult than I imagined. This is the first year that I'm doing a reading challenge and I really, REALLY don't want to fail but I feel like it is putting pressure on my reading and not necessarily in a good way. I'm not going to quit the challenges, I'm not one to quit halfway but there is something I need to address and ask you guys? Maybe? It's a tiny favour.

Series I Want To Read

My TBR grows at least two books everyday - that's a lot of damn books. One thing I've noticed, however, is that a lot of these are series. But wait, what books do I not buy often? Ones that are a part of a series. Yes, It's a problem. I figure that by writing this post it'll spark me into starting some series and getting the majority of my TBR reduced. Here's to hoping.

Welcome, FlowersInMyBooks

This all feels oddly formal so I'll probably just write up this post quickly so we can get to what we're all waiting for, THE BOOKS!

Sixteen year old me had been wanting to start a blog for a while, but never quite knew how to start, and now at Seventeen I couldn't be more excited to finally get down to business and start what I feel like will be a new chapter in my life (wow, are we really getting into book puns already). 

Anyway, I'm Natalie, and I love books (and talking about books) so much it drove my family and friends crazy so I thought 'hell, why not turn to the internet' since I've figured out after many years of using (abusing) tumblr that half of the people on the internet have already been driven to insanity, so another book blog can't possibly hurt too much? right?

I'd firstly like to thank Eve for the beautiful design I couldn't be happier with it and then there is Sandra  (Tea Between Books) who has been such a great friend to me over the past couple of months and who has really helped me get the balls to finally start my own blog (even though she won't accept that Michael Clifford is clearly the better member of 5 Seconds of Summer).