Update!

You know when books just grab you? I told my friend my book had me in a vice grip and that’s how it feels. The characters have me in the palm of their hands and I need to know what happens. I hate getting towards the end of a book and then you have to walk away and put it down and all of your thoughts are consumed with the novel, ‘I’VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS. LIKE, NOW.’ I’m reading Nicola Yoon’s Everything Everything and the characters have just got me. I NEED to know what happens to Maddy. And the prose is so beautiful and the text is so unique. So good.

So where have I been these last few months? Well. Self imposed exile I guess. But boy am I happy to write again. HELLO WORLD. I’ve struggled coming out of Uni, from a life of structure to a life of, well, no structure at all. If I want structure I have to impose it and that’s been hard for me.

But I’m getting somewhere now.

I look back at my time at Uni with fondness and the desire to reunite with my wonderful friends, rather than an impossible yearning to go back and change the way I acted.  More of that another day.

During my blogging hiatus I have been, of course, reading. I shall update you on some of the best:

1.       Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

I LOVED THIS BOOK. Oh Cath and Wren are just ideal flawed characters, who made me mad and then made me adore them. And Levi is just the ultimate novel hero. I tried to make my boyfriend into more of a Levi but he rebelled. Damnit. It was just so beautiful. The storyline swept me along with its nostalgic feeling of being my degree, the characters were well rounded and complex and the writing was so good. A rare book which made me want to instantly pick it back up again once I had finished. I have recommended this to everyone I know. I loved it.

2.       Am I normal yet? Holly Bourne

I want to meet Holly Bourne. This book was everything to me at the time I read it. I needed a bit of girl power, female lead, character defining reading and it was so perfect.  Her characters just made me instantly want to befriend them and shelter them and tell those mean boys to back off. I audibly groaned and gasped at their antics and gave the book a hug when I finished it. It was just so good. I was actually pained to take it back to the library and put it on the little shelf. I love her writing. There will be no more Georgia Nicolson in my life (Louise Rennison was my IDOL for so many years) but if Holly Bourne keeps writing these gems, I shall survive. I have How hard can love be? on my shelf ready to read soon.

3.       The Bees by Laline Paull

This book was like nothing I have ever read. A story of a bee hive which was so immersive, I was totally hooked on the characters and their way of life. I now look at bees in a totally different way. The book was beautifully written, intense and complex. The plotline had me turning the pages quicker and quicker.

4.       Not that kind of girl by Lena Dunham

Now, I’m not gonna say I loved this book (sorry Lena). But I had been meaning to read it for a long time. And I picked the right time. This book spoke to me from a voice not very unlike my own, slightly unsure, cautious but convincing (I like to think). Her need to express herself allowed me to start journaling again, with purpose. Some of the things she discusses I am less enamoured with, but overall, I get what she is trying to do and I applaud her. Also, Girls season five is on TV and I love/hate them all. Except Shoshanna, I just love her.

My brain is a sieve right now and that’s pretty much all I can remember, but I have maxed out my library loans a few times so there are many more hidden in the recesses of my brain. I’ll tell you all about them, if I remember, some other day.

I shall leave you with music, still one of my fave bands: Pvris. Lynn is just so preeeetty.

 

Thanks for reading, have a great weekend everyone J