Wednesday 31 July 2013

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt!

Hello everybody!

How are we all this fine Wednesday? Me? I am tired, I've been working out a lot recently in a bid to get fit for my summer holiday which is just a month away now, and have been doing Cassey Ho's a.ka. Blogilates POP H.I.I.T (High Intensity Interval Training). Trust me they work, in both getting you fit and making your muscles ache!

Anyway on to today's post which is the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt! Please pardon my extremely full and messy bookcase, I am fully aware that I need to buy more! Let's jump right in!



My Book Case!!

Monday 29 July 2013

Books I Did Not Finish! - 29/07/2013

Hello everyone and welcome back to Book's I Did Not Finish!

It's not exactly a happy Monday for me, rain. *sighs* is it raining where you are too? Well don't worry I'm here to cheer up with my ramblings about why I couldn't finish a book. At least I hope it will be somewhat entertaining.

This weeks instalment features another series! Let's here it for all the series out there that started off good but just got worse and worse!

Hush Hush & Crescendo
by
Becca Fitzpatrick




















Tagline: A FALLEN ANGEL . . . A FORBIDDEN LOVE

It's another YA paranormal romance! Can't really be anything else can it. I've said it before I'm a sucker for a good love story and when it's a forbidden love story, even better. The difference with this book is that the paranormal side is angels. And I know that's a pretty common 'creature' to use today but when I first picked this book up I hadn't actually read a paranormal book that had angels in it. That is why I originally chose to read it.

Friday 26 July 2013

Books On My TBR List!

Hello everyone!

Happy Friday! So today I thought I would share some of the books that are currently on my tbr (to be read) list. Who knows maybe some of these will show up again in a books I did not finish or a monthly favourites. Let's dive right in shall we.


Wednesday 24 July 2013

Trailer Talk! - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!

Hello everyone happy Wednesday the week is almost over!

Today I present a trailer analysis. I haven't done one of these for a while so I thought it was a reasonable time to do another. The trailer I will be looking at today is.... (well you can already see in the title can't you!)

The Hunger Games : Catching Fire!


In my last trailer talk post it was more of an initial reaction versus how I felt shortly after watching the trailer. Now I saw this trailer on I think it was Saturday, and if any of you follow me on Twitter then you know how excited I got over it so needless to say it has taken a few days for me to calm down and actually analyse the trailer properly.

Now have you watched the trailer? If not go watch it now before continuing on below!

Monday 22 July 2013

Books I Did Not Finish! - 22/07/2013

Hello everyone I can't exactly say happy Monday can I? Mondays are rarely something to be happy about. How was your weekend?

Welcome back to another edition of Books I Did Not Finish. Today's instalment features a series.

Starcrossed 
by 
Josephine Angelini

Tagline: Destiny Brought Them Together The Gods Will Keep Them Apart

I'm not sure if I ever told you that I hate History. Yes I can't stand it, it bores me to tears, all except for two Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. When those topics were discussed in history class you can bet your bottom dollar I was paying attention when normally I would be trying to not fall asleep. So this is a retelling/ re-imagining of the Iliad, it's an angst ridden forbidden romance with and Ancient Greek twist, I wanted to read it the first moment I saw it. 


Friday 19 July 2013

This or That Tag!

Hello Everyone Happy Friday!

So where I live the weather is forecast to be pretty nice tomorrow so I am heading to the beach and will be taking Game of Thrones with me.
Any way enough with the rambling, today I present to you the This or That Tag combining, beauty, books and Random! Enjoy!


Makeup:

1. Blusher or Bronzer?
I have naturally rosy cheeks so it would have to bronzer for contouring.

2. Lip gloss or Lipstick?
Always Lipstick I can't stand lip gloss especially when it's windy and your hair sticks to it, it's not very pleasant!

3. Eye-liner or Mascara?
I have really blonde eyelashes so always mascara.

4. Foundation or Concealer?
Concealer! Foundation never covers enough!

5. Neutral or colour eye-shadow?
definitely neutral, I rarely wear colourful I shadow.


Wednesday 17 July 2013

Despicable Me: Minion Nails!!

Hello everyone!

So on Thursday I headed in to Manchester to do some shopping for my holiday. Like the beauty junkie I am I saw that Boots were having an offer on where if you spent £30 you would get £7.50 worth of advantage card points obviously I couldn't pass this up. (Please note this offer was for one day only! Thursday 11th of July) So I picked up the remaining products I would need to create a nail design based on the cute Yellow Minions from the popular film Despicable Me!

So if you want to learn how to create this fun nail design just read on!


Monday 15 July 2013

Books I Did Not Finish! - 15/07/2013

Hello everyone and welcome back to Books I did not finish! This is my 3rd post on this topic and today we are going to look at.

The Hollow
by
Jessica Verday

Tagline: A love like no other . . . 

I'm a sucker for a good romance novel, at the time this book was released I was also a sucker for a good paranormal romance novel (curse you Twilight!) I have long since grown out of this stage and I don't think I've read a paranormal romance for over a year so with that in mind it has been a while since I last picked up this book.


Friday 12 July 2013

I HEART Summer Tag!

Hello everyone!

So this week in England summer has finally decided to show up! Okay maybe it showed up in London a while ago but I live in the north west and the weather has been really hit and miss recently, we've had nice weekends here and there but this is the first time we have had a solid week of high temperatures. So I thought I would celebrate the summer in this post, since it may be my only opportunity given how short lived a British Summer can be. (For reference last year we pretty much had one nice week in May in the north west, the rest was cloudy, with 90% chance of rain.)

So without further adieu let's jump right in to the I HEART Summer Tag!


Wednesday 10 July 2013

Coming Soon! The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones!

Hello!

Welcome to the Wednesday post. This week with just over a month to go I shall be compiling the trailers, and plot to deliver to you a preview of the upcoming film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the best selling novels by Cassandra Clare of the same name.

You may remember that in November last year I did a trailer comparison of two films one of which was this film. For a little back ground knowledge on how I feel about this film already you can read that post by clicking here.


Read More After The Jump!


Monday 8 July 2013

Books I Did Not Finish - 08/07/2013

Hello!

Here is the second instalment of books I did not finish. Unlike my first instalment (which was a series) today's is just one book (though it is part of a series, I think it counts because I couldn't even finish the first book). You've heard me mention it before I have never tried to hide the fact I didn't like it.

It's about witches.
A sixteen year old girl.
Recently made into a film.

Can you guess what it is?

Say hello to the best-seller by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.......

Read More After The Jump!

Friday 5 July 2013

Get To Know Me In 20 Questions!!

Hello again everyone!
Welcome to my Friday post, as I mentioned on Monday I am working on a posting schedule. I'm still figuring out exactly what kind of posts I want to do on my selected days but as soon as I have a schedule and format I'm happy with I will dedicate a post to it so you all know. 

Today's post is something I have never done before. Because this is a blog that is based solely on my personal opinions on different subjects I figured it was time you got to know me a little better so here are 20 questions to help you get to know me a little better!

1. What is your eye colour?
I have green eyes

2. Scary movie or happy endings? 

I will only watch scary movies that involve gore. Is that weird? basically stuff like The Ring, or The Grudge that mess with your head freak me out and I can't watch them. The Ring still gives me nightmares. So I'll say happy endings.

READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP!


Wednesday 3 July 2013

Tag! My Top 2 Books From 6 Genres!

Hello everyone,
as promised it is Wednesday and here I am with another post for you all. Today's post is as the title says, my top two books from six genres tag. This is a tag that was started by Benjaminoftomes (click the link to see his video) in the YouTube book community. So let's dive right in!

Category Number 1: DISTOPIAN!

DIVERGENT by VERONICA ROTH

Look guys, I don't know how many times I've said this now, it's one of my favourite books, I couldn't not include it! So Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago where society has split into 5 factions which are, Abnegation, Candor, Amity, Erudite, and Dauntless. At the age of sixteen each citizen will choose whether to stay in the faction they were born in or to move to a new faction and never see their friends or family again.

BLOOD RED ROAD by MOIRA YOUNG

I freaking LOVED this book. It was just plain awesome for once, the girls soul focus and attention wasn't on falling for a guy, it was all about saving her little brother. She didn't want to get involved with the guy because she didn't want the distraction but you know every young adult book has some form of romance so she obviously gave in eventually. I am yet to read the sequel normally I would reserve judgement but I can tell you now I'm not going to like it. Why? LOVE TRIANGLE! That's why, for the love of god, why ruin the potential of the first book by using such a generic and tired old plot device.


Monday 1 July 2013

Books I Did Not Finish! - 1/07/2013

Hello everyone I am currently working out a weekly posting schedule that I want to stick with. My plan is to post Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I think that gives me enough time to plan and write my post's.
So until further notice Monday's will be Book's I did not finish.

Now I know what you're thinking. There can't be that many right? Wrong! There are a lot, but it won't just be books I did not finish it will also be series I gave up on. So with out further ado here is the first book I did not finish! (Which actually is a complete contradiction because it's a series I gave up on)



The Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner


I have never owned up to not finishing this series and I mean never. Why? Because it's so popular and so many people love it, it just feels weird that I hated it. I am of the opinion that it is vastly over hyped. I mean it's a New York Times Best-seller, that had to count for something, but apparently not. This book (Maze Runner) according to Good Reads is recommended for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent! Are kidding me? Really? I love Hunger Games, I freaking ADORED Divergent (it's one of my favourite books) Maze Runner in my personal opinion is not in the same league as those two series, I'm sorry it just isn't.

So let's learn a bit about the book, here we go with the synopsis/ blurb: 

"When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade - a large open expanse surrounded by stone walls.

Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they've closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day a girl is sent up - the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. 

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind."

Now if we are being totally honest here that synopsis didn't make me want to read this book at all. It sounded okay, but nothing special. Yet I bought it anyway, I mean the first time I picked up The Hunger Games I didn't think it was my cup of tea and I ended up staying up until 5 am to finish reading it so I thought maybe it will be the same with this. I was wrong. The book wasn't even okay, it was mediocre at best I wasn't intrigued, the scenes in the maze didn't get my heart racing, I didn't find 'the creepers' all that creepy. It was just a plain old mediocre read that if I could go back in time I would tell myself not to buy.

One thing I don't think I've ever told you guys that read my blog (I may have done, things slip my mind a lot) is that I go through my book reading with one general rule. If nothing of interest has happened 100 pages in then it is not worth my time. I feel this is plenty of time to set your story and introduce your characters, I mean there has to be something exciting going on when you hit around page 100, and to be fair to Maze Runner, something did happen, so despite feeling a little bored I persevered and by the time I had finished the book I wished I hadn't. I'd give Maze Runner maybe 2 stars at best, if I'm feeling generous but it just wasn't one of those books that gripped me. Honestly I didn't even like the main character, he just seemed really annoying and boring to me. 

Now then the other two books in this series, The Scorch Trials, I think I read maybe 2 chapters and never picked it up again. I don't know if I was busy and just forgot about it or if I made a subconscious effort to find something to do other than finishing reading it. Either way it sat on my desk at uni until I moved home for the summer where it has been sat in my book shelf untouched until I pulled it out for the picture. 

So The Death Cure, I never read it. Now your probably wondering why I own it if I never read it. Well The truth is I had heard so many good things about this series so I wanted to buy them all I just never got round to it. Then whilst on my lunch break at Uni one afternoon I went into an outlet shop call The Works, they were selling the entire series for something ridiculous like £3.99 so I just couldn't pass it up and bought the entire series then and there. So I can't really say I regret buying them because I paid less than £2 each for them. 

Now then I have seen on Good Reads (that website I frequent a lot and am kind of addicted to) that the Scorch Trials is the highest rated of the series. And honestly when I read the blurb for the Scorch Trials it sucked me in and I couldn't wait to read it, then I finished Maze Runner and because that one bored me to tears I could never really convince myself to read on any further so now here is your chance to convince me, 
what's your opinion do you like The Maze Runner series? Let me know in the comments and lets see if you can convince to me buckle down and finish this series! Rest assured if I do decide to finish it you will see a series review, but only if I finish all 3. I can't promise I'll read the Kill Order too, that might just be too much to ask.

see you next time.

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