The Invisible Man vs Invisible Man: A Faux Pas

So I’m in my final year of University, and I’m doing my last ever literature module on Civil Rights Literature of the 20^th Century. I’m loving it. 

The texts are diverse and excellent. We are following a fantastic documentary about the Civil Rights movement, and the texts relate to this documentary. We also spend a significant amount of time each seminar talking about the state of the current world (Donald Trump’s disastrous administration in particular) and drawing similarities.

So it’s a great last module to be taking at the end of University.

It’s also the first module in which I made the biggest faux pas of my University experience.

I got the books weeks in advance and felt pretty proud of myself that I’d been so organised. It was the fourth week in and this week we had to read The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. 

Or so I thought.

First Ever Kindle Read | The Art of Being Normal

  

I always meant to buy a kindle, but I never got round to it. When they were first introduced back in the day, I hated them. I was in my mid teens and I thought all bookshops were going to shut down, and the world was officially over. But I grew up. I realised that Kindles and E-readers aren’t replacing books in the market. That they are convenient and cheaper and easier to carry round.  I still adore paperback books and prefer them. But the thing we’ve all come for is the stories. The stories are what keeps me interested, not whether I’m reading it on paper or a screen.

But I never bought one. I never could afford to just drop £50 or £60 on something I didn’t really need. So when someone offered me a 1^st gen kindle as they’d never used it, I jumped at the offer.

The Martian Book to Movie | Review

“I Started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’. I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.”

Being late to the party as I always am, I finally got around to reading The Martian after hearing so many good things about it around the interwebs. Seeing as the DVD is coming out in a few days, I decided to be super relevant and promote the shit out of this FANTASTIC book and film.

The story features Mark Watney, an astronaut (and more importantly a Botanist) who is on Mars as part of the Ares 4 Mission when a sandstorm forces the team to leave. However, Mark is impaled, thought dead and has to be left behind.

Christmas Reads (that aren't all that Christmassy)

Now that we're on the Christmas holidays, and i finally have spare time again,  I felt I should address my poor neglected blog.  I thought i'd run over the books i'm currently reading (as there are a lot of them). 

I’ve been very non-committal with my reading habits lately, fluctuating between a few different books and never finishing them. I’ve had a pretty busy Uni month and haven’t found a lot of time to commit extensively to one book which has left me with a pile of half read, unfinished books.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare | Book Review

Disclaimer: this is a major head rant written immediately after finishing City of Bones where i hadn't had a chance to fully process all of the book and therefore definitely does contain spoilers (sorry!)

So a while back my dear friend Amy lent me the first three books in The Mortal Instrument series and I was super excited to read it, having seen SO MUCH about it in the booktube/YA world and it really was time for me to read it.

At first, I thought it was a bit slow. I wasn't really intrigued too much into the characters – nothing stood out to me as that interesting. But I was only 50 pages in, so I powered through, and I am glad I did!

More Than This by Patrick Ness | Book Review

 “We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we’d go crazy.” 

I don’t even know where to begin with this book. My sisters (thanks guys) gave it to me for my birthday, and in the height of procrastination, I figured it was time to read it, and thank god I did. This god damned book bundled me up into a little ball and shook me about until I was pretty much taken over with emotion.

Allegiant by Veronica Roth | Book Review

Disclaimer: this review was written as soon as I finished the book and so may not be fully coherent (there was just too much emotion).

I don’t even know where to begin with this. Allegiant is the 3^rd instalment and conclusion in the Divergent series. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Divergent tells the story of Tris Prior, a girl born into a society divided into factions that are separated out according to personality type. Tris, however, doesn’t fit into any faction; she is known as Divergent. And the story pretty much unravels from there. The second book, Insurgent, was fast paced and told the story of the aftermath of Erudite’s mass killing of the people of Abnegation. In the final pages, we were left with the knowledge that the outside world is ‘waiting for the Divergent’ to come and rescue them

And so here we are. I had this book for so long that I had to actually reread Insurgent before eventually diving back into the world of Factions (or lack of oooh spoilers)