Video | My SWF & TeenCon2015 Recap!

Hey guys! Long time no blog. I know. I'm appalling. I don't know why you follow me. Any who, I thought I'd put this up for those of you who missed out on going to TeenCon. Hopefully it's an ok substitute. 

I'm on my mid-year break now, so I'm hoping that because I've suddenly got all this free time, this blog will become active once more. I'm keeping my pinkies and toes crossed. 

Hope you enjoy!

Video | March 2015 Wrap-Up.

Books Read:

When You Are Engulfed in Flames | David Sedaris

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggars

We All Looked Up | Tommy Wallach

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll

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So, that's what I read in the month of March. What did you guys read? Any stand outs?

Friday Reads | #1.

Books Mentioned:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott

These are the books I'm going to try to get through this weekend. What are you guys planning on reading?

Video | January Wrap-Up.

Video | Completed Series.

Video | Australian Authors You Should Read.

Books Mentioned:

Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden

The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Garth Nix

The First Third by Will Kostakis

The Starboard Trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

Melina Marchetta

Video | December 2014 Wrap-Up.

Books Mentioned:

Cross Stitch (Outlander #1) / Diana Gabaldon

Quiet / Susan Cain

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops / Jen Campbell

Daily Rituals / Mason Currey

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver

Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) / Alexandra Bracken

A Room With A View / E.M. Forster

I Was Here / Gayle Forman

Saving Francesca / Melina Marchetta

BEDJ #6 | Top 10 Books of 2014.

The Top 10 Books of 2014:

Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield | ✭✭✭✭ |

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg | ✭✭✭✭✭ |

The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski | ✭✭✭✭ |

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | ✭✭✭✭ |

Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang | ✭✭✭✭✭ |

Sabriel by Garth Nix | ✭✭✭✭ | 

Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas | ✭✭✭✭ |

The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann | ✭✭✭✭✭ |

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | ✭✭✭✭✭ |

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay | ✭✭✭ |

BEDJ #3 | What I Read In 2014.

Video | #xmasbooktubeathon.

Video | Book Haul #1.

Books Mentioned:

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

Angelfall by Susan Ee

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Lirael by Garth Nix

Abhorsen by Garth Nix

This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Video | November 2014 Wrap Up.

Books I Read:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

The Wrong Girl by Zoe Foster

The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

Book/s Currently Reading:

Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon

Video | 20th Century Books Tag.

Books Mentioned:

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Resistance by Owen Sheers

Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonneget

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett

Book Review | Fairytales for Wilde Girls

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A memory: Isola as a toddler, sugarlump teeth, skin still smelling of milk. Hair that curled without use of an iron and sweet dresses that didn't matter were dirtied. When she was old enough, she demanded the usual suspects at bedtime: The Little Mermaid, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast.

Even then, Mother's contempt for non-Pardieu fairytales was obvious.

'Hmph,' she snorted derisively, folding up her knees to perch on Isola's bed. 'Listen to me, Isola. The original Beauty's just an encouragement to young women to accept arranged marriages. What it's really saying to impressionable girls is, 'Don't worry if your new husband is decades older than you, or ugly, or horrid. If you're sweet and obedient enough, you might just discover he's a prince in disguise!'

Mother's Lasting Advice

'Never be that girl, Isola. Never pick the beast or the wolf on the off-chance he won't devour you.'

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Book Review | Z: A Book of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Book Review | 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Video | Linkz & Updates & Things

Beautiful People do NOT just Happen

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” 

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

(i just really love this video, ok?)

March Reads | 2013

Books:

Fall to Pieces | Vahini Naidoo | Goodreads

Sister Assassin/Mind Games | Kiersten White | Goodreads

Unravelling | Elizabeth Norris | Goodreads

Scarlet | Marissa Meyer | Goodreads

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas | Goodreads

The Madness Underneath | Maureen Johnson | Goodreads

The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater | Goodreads

Altered | Jennifer Rush | Goodreads

Sever | Lauren de Stefano | Goodreads

Video | Tour of Room.