2016 Blogging Resolutions||❤

Hi Guys,
It's been a long time since I've blogged and I'm just taking a break because I don't want blogging to feel like a job for me. I've just been watching TV, catching up with family, reading more books and just relaxing in general, Enough of my ramblings. Today I am going to share the blogging resolutions I have set for myself which I do hope to follow throughout 2016.

1. Schedule Posts

It might sound a bit basic but I really want to be ahead of myself with my blogposts this year, Instead of quickly writing a post and posting on the day, I want to be more organised like I was earlier in the year and get loads of posts done. This would mean that I would have to dedicate some time to sit down and just write posts for around 3 months in advance.

    2.Comment More

This one is a very important one. I want to be able to be more active within the blogging community, join in with discussions and create more blogging friends. I used to always comment on blogs but I kind of stopped for a bit so I would really like to discover new blogs and get to know the person/people behind them better.

   3. Write More Discussion Posts

I love writing discussion posts, it is one of my most favourite things to do and I want to write more of them. I feel like I want to voice my opinion more and discuss things other than books on my blog.

Those are my 3 main blogging resolutions which I will concentrate on most through the year, I hope that you guys have a Happy New Year and I can't wait to get back into the swing of things in 2016.

Keep Reading,

Naomi...xxx

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The Book Buying Addiction||❤

Hello there,

It seems like all I write are discussion posts but I'm not a big fan of writing reviews anymore and discussions are my favourite. Today I will be talking about the dreaded book buying addiction. By that I mean prioritising books over e.g. clothes or even snacks sometimes. Yes people, I will not buy my beloved peperamis so I can buy books. (I'm not allowed them but I buy them anyway from  Asda!). It has come to a point where I am buying books because I am feel sorry for myself or I buy books because I'm suddenly on Amazon for no reason. Please comment if you feel the same way.

I never used to buy books that often. I loved using the library, both my local and my school. I wasn't bothered to buy books and I was more interested in bad looking clothes and nail polish. That faze went on up until probably around May/June this year when I decided to stop spending money on crap and start to build my YA book collection. Although it might sound like an excellent thing it has become a complete addiction.

When I'm outside the first place which I rush into is Waterstones, where I proceed to grab as many books as I can. The worst part is the fact that my local Waterstones has a Costa on the second floor, who do the best hot drinks ever, and it just makes me feel so cosy and nice. Cosyness=books=buying books=drinking coffee&reading books. I'm constantly ordering new books with money which I didn't even know I had in my bank account and it has just become a norm to me.

The only reason I am writing this post is because I feel like I'm becoming more materialistic but at least I'm not addicted to buying designer bags!

Keep Reading,

Naomi...xxx

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BookTube&Blogging||❤

Hello,

Today I wanted to discuss two things I have experience in. One I have done for over a year and the other for 3 months. As the title does say, I am going to be talking about doing Youtube and doing blogging and the similarities and differences. Before I even start this I would like to say that both of these are equally as hard as each other and both are something I love to do even though they're time consuming!

BLOGGING
Blogging for me, when I started, was a way to express my feelings about books without anyone seeing my face and I was able to hide behind my computer. Even though my old reviews are utter bull crap, I still love them the same. I love how you can express your feelings through the written word and I can easily put my ramblings to size. Blogging for me is a way for me to keep my chill and I love the sound of the tapping of the keyboard keys. The problem for me when I blog is that I sometimes don't know how to put all the jumbled words down to a post because my mind is constantly thinking of new things to write. 

BOOKTUBE
If you might not already now, I have a youtube channel. I didn't really know that a book community existed on YouTube and I have quickly become obsessed. Luckils for me, my sister already has high tech and was easy editing software for me to use when first starting out (Adobe Premier Pro CS6) because she did film studies so I did have help with the technical side for my first video. The hardest thing about doing Youtube is that it is so awkward getting used to the camera and speaking to it without sounding boring or like a robot. 



Similar to  blogging, your first post is always going to be the one which makes you want to claw your eyes out. Both blogging and youtubing takes a very long time to adapt to and the editing of posts/videos is excruciatingly long but ends up being fun and simple after a while. The only downside I would really have for Youtube is the uploading process which takes sooooooo long whereas with my blog, I can easily just post it straight away. That is the thing which I really need to get used to!

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A 'Bad Feminist'??

Hello everybody!

This is inspired by my Buzzfeed, the YouTube channel which I binge watch all the time because they have so many colours.

This might be a controversial topic but, is there really such thing as being a bad feminist? I've seen this being said around YouTube by angry people storming over from the depths of tumblr and it just annoys me that people expect that if you believe in something then every single thing you say has to follow certain guidelines or it makes you a terrible person. I do not recall there being a handbook to Feminism being given to you as you proclaim your identity which is blessed by the ghost of Emily Davison. Come on people, just because you don't support one woman and her actions it doesn't make you a bad feminist, just because you didn't wear your feminist T-shirt to work it doesn't mean your a bad feminist, just because you don't have "I'm a feminist" tattooed on your forehead it doesn't mean your a bad feminist! 

Let us just recall the definition of feminism for a second:

fem·i·nism

ˈfeməˌnizəm/

noun

the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Oh look there, if you believe in what is said up there and you support and take action towards this cause I think that you're a good feminist personally. I do not speak for all feminist because I am a 14 year old, Teen Wolf and The 1975 obsessed school girl who has had enough of other feminists bashing other feminists and putting down other people for apparently being 'bad'. This post might make no sense at all and you are probably thinking "wtf is this girl saying" but I do have a lot to learn and I've only been on this earth since May 2001. Yes I have experienced extremely sexist incidents with men and women and I feel like I want to talk about it. I'm lucky enough to be born in a generation which in a way is moving forward and are getting a bit more stupid e.g. what are thoooosseeeee (argh it just makes me want to knock my head continuously on a plank of wood) but I feel as though my blog is a place for me to share my opinions which don't quite make sense.

So this post summed up; please stop calling people bad feminists; my generation is 50 shades of messed up as I said before with what are thoosseeeee; I am not very good at formulating my opinion in written form; I'm a feminist and happy.

Keep Reading 

Naomi...xxx 

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A Letter To Illuminae-A Book Review||❤

Illuminae
By Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Publication Date: 20th October 2015
Rating: 10/5 stars
*Thank You so much to Rock The Boat News for providing me with an arc of this book. This in no way differs my opinion* 
Dear Illuminae,
It has been only 30 minutes since I have finished you and there a whole load of books sitting in my goodreads for review but you were so special all that I had to get my feelings down. It is currently 11:32 pm and after experiencing you, I feel as alive as ever. Your action kept me on edge and your characters had me wiping tears yet to fall away from my eyes. I just want to dedicate a post to you and your wonderful content.

I had never read any books by the people who created you and I dove in with wool over my eyes. I had obviously had faith in you and I had been watching you from the side lines. When I had seen that I had been accepted my world lit up and I anxiously waited for you in the post. I am glad that I didn't start you straight away but waited until the moment was right. I must admit, I was scared to open you, I don't know why I felt that way but I just was. Although it took me almost a month to finish you, I wanted to indulge every single part until it was embedded into my memory. Your cleverness in the way you were written makes this unforgettable.

I loved your range of characters. You had the sarcastic, the witty, the optimistic and the pessimistic characters and as a whole made you awesome. You are probably the first book where the characters were intended to not be liked but I just couldn't bring myself to hate all these contrasting personalities hidden in 599 pages. Kady Grant was one fierce and intelligent female character who I admired for not only her bravery but her brains and knowledge. Nowadays not many characters are brain smart but only physically smart. Kady could code her way to crashing down superior systems and saving lives. All that just from one brain. Of course there  was Ezra Mason, the jock, the good-looking guy and you just couldn't help but fall in love with him as you go along. His ability to adapt to situations and his drive to live makes me want to create a real version of Ezra and have him all for myself. Carrie Hope Fletcher wasn't wrong when she said that book boys were better!

I also loved how you were written. You were a series of images, dialogue and transcripts. Your words created images and were shaped in a poetic way. The curved with the page and made you even more interesting. You had faces and names and you were perfect. You were mind blowing and emotional and for me the best of 2015. You have deepened my love for sci fi, you have made me want to code again and you have made me want to read you over and over again until you are battered with love. Thank you Illuminae for being such a awesome book and I don't think I will find anything as good as you in a very long time. I hope you see this Illuminae team, stay amazingly awesome.

Yours Sincerely,

Naomi...xxx

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The Secret Fire By C.J. Daugherty&Carina Rozenfeld-A Book Review||❤

The Secret Fire
By C.J. Daugherty and Carina Rozenfeld
Rating: 5/5 stars

*received in exchange for an honest review*
French teen Sacha Winters can't die. He can throw himself off a roof, be stabbed, even shot, and he will always survive. Until the day when history and ancient enmities dictate that he must die. Worse still, his death will trigger something awful. Something deadly. And that day is closing in.

Taylor Montclair is a normal English girl, hanging out with her friends and studying for exams, until she starts shorting out the lights with her brain. She’s also the only person on earth who can save Sacha.

There’s only one problem: the two of them have never met. They live hundreds of miles apart and powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep them apart.

They have eight weeks to find each other.

Will they survive long enough to save the world? 

MY THOUGHTS

OH MY GOSH. That is the only way to describe how I felt after I read this book. I was mindblown at the start and then the end just resurrected me then blew me up again. I was wondering where the rest of the book was, clinging onto the last words then sitting in silence for  a couple of minutes drunk on the awesomeness. If you could jump into my kindle and read the notes I made you would realise the impact of this book such as when Taylor's boyfriend was saying:
"Im the most popular guy at this school"-lol get a life m8
I'm not kidding when I say that I actually wrote that down when I was reading the book. Don't worry though, this book is not a high school drama where everybody is self centred

As the synopsis does say this book follows the lives if two characters Taylor and Sacha two teenagers with incredible abilities and they don't know why they can do such amazing things. Sacha is a lazy French teenager who turns up to school once in a blue moon, wears all black and can't die. Taylor is your high achieving student who is set for Oxford, dates none other than golden athletic boy of the school and weird things have been happening to her lately. Little do these two people know is that they rely on each other and together they have to save the world. The only problem is that they have never met.

What I really liked about the story was the progression of it and how as the reader could slowly see how these characters are as people. I enjoyed how, as much as it aggravated me in a good way as I wanted more and more after I had actually finished the book! I can't even explain how much I love it because I was squealing whenever  one thing happened and I sat there with my mouth is an 'O' shape and things progressed.

I loved how each chapter was in two characters pointe of view and how the book was set in two different countries. We as the audience did learn about the characters but not too much was given away about them and loads of things remained a mystery. I was also able to learn more about the outskirts of Paris and how people in Taylor's school behaved and I felt like a fly on the wall l, tuning into each of there stories.

I'm a bit out of practice from writing reviews so sorry if this one is utter crap. I might have to start blogging only once a week or getting a co-blogger because I am extremely busy at the moment with hell (school) which is keeping me away from blogging as much as I would like to.

Keep Reading,
Naomi...xxx

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Those Cliché Story Lines||❤

Hi everybody!

I'm back, when I say I'm back I don't mean say that I'm back then leave for a month without posting, nope. I'm back for real with a discussion post which has been on my kind over the past couple of days. My question is why do a majority of female characters in books fall head over heels in love then lose their common sense?

This question has been the cause of my many reading slumps

 For example, why does Cassie in the 5th wave always to running back to some Alien psycho dude who she claims she loves and would say "no you are not leaving me again!" Come on, let's be real here. If that boy wasn't my direct family I would drop him and run the hell away and protect myself. Nobody has time for good looking alien boys!

Enough with my rant up there but I'm just going to put my feelings out there and say that it us getting extremely boring that the lead always has to fall in love because guess what? It is so unrealistic. Yeah, yeah it is called fiction for a reason but come on at least make characters relatable! It's like a special Hollywood formula for books checklist which goes like:

1. Falls in love with bad boy/girl or an incredibly good looking person
2. Creeping staring at each other (*cough twilight *cough*
3. Oh no relationship problem e.g. love triangle or argument over something like a sword or hairstyle
4. The partner takes them stargazing or to a cliff or somewhere incredibly secluded
5. Oh another bump in the relationship
6. Either an over dramatic breakup or someone is saved from a dragon or a person with a gun

The End

I think that I have gone extremely off topic here but I just needed to let my formula out. I want some badass story lines on self discovery instead of "oh there is a relatively good looking person lets make them fall in love and buy ponies". I feel like this is a waste of time because I still will probably read, scream at and even enjoy these specially formulated books  as I am a sucker for cliche as much as it makes me gag.

Keep Reading,

Naomi...xxx

Do You Find Characters Falling In Love In Nearly Every Book Quite Unrealistic?

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