My Current TBR List

1. The Elite by Kiera Cass

I just finished The Selection and I NEED The Elite

2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

I've wanted to read this for ages!

3. The Mortal Instruments series

Why have I not read these yet?

4. Night School by C.J Daugherty

I've wanted read it since Amber (The Mile Long Bookshelf) reviewed it!

5. Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter by Louise Pentland

I love Louise's YouTube and I've heard VERY good thinks about her book

6. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

I know it's not out yet but I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fangirl and I'm CRAZY excited for Carry On

7. Attatchments by Rainbow Rowell

8. Landline by Rainbow Rowell

9. Fortune Cookie by Cathy Cassidy

I've read the rest of The Chocolate Box Girls series so I kinda need to read this last book in the series!

10. Five Things They Never Told Me by Rebecca Westcott

I've read Rebecca's other two books and loved them

11. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Again, I've wanted to read it since Amber reviewed it!

I, obviously, could list 100 more, but I wanted to keep this short and sweet.
What's on your TBR list? Comment below!

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Title: Fangirl
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 459
Source: Bought from Whitcoulls

Cath, like the entire world, is obsessed with Simon Snow. She owns tons of Simon merchandise: posters, t-shirts, all the books, and her own fan fictions based in the world of Simon Snow. She's obsessed with her latest and most popular fanfic, Carry On, and needs to complete it by the time the eighth and final book in the series is released. But she can't, however much she'd want to, spend all her time writing fic. She has University, classes, her twin sister, Wren, Levi, her roomate, Reagan.

'A tale of fan fiction, family, and first love.'


Ever since I took Fangirl out of my school library a couple of months ago, I've been able to answer the impossible question most bookworms have trouble answering; what's your favourite book? I love Fangirl, and I love Rainbow Rowell's writing style. It's a very relatable book (aren't we all fangirls?) and it's an absolutely gorgeous story.

This is the first book I recommend to people when they ask me for suggestions, and I'm so excited for Carry On, that comes out later this year! If you manage to get your hands on a copy, read it...you won't regret it!

The Struggles Fangirls Face

1. Annoyed friends.

Any fangirl will know, that it's very difficult not to talk about the things we love. We'll talk about our fandom to our friends, to our family, to our teachers, to random strangers on the street... And as a result of our obsessing, our friends get a bit annoyed. At the beginning they're acceptive, but then they get a bit sick of us talking about our Fandom...




2. Misunderstanding Parents

Screaming, hyperventilating, and blabbering on and on about our favourite things... our parents think we're mad. They don't understand the concept of  'fangirling' and give us weird looks when we randomly shout out when we see something exciting that affects our fandom. They just don't get it.






  3. The Feels

Even though we may have never have fallen in love, had someone cheat on us, had our sibling blown up, or had someone we love die of cancer, we know how they all feel. Because we've read about them.  We've read tons of books about people falling in love, so we can give love advice to people despite never talking to the opposite gender. That's not the problem though; the problem is when we're reading about the emotions. We fall in love with the character we're reading about; we feel our hearts shatter into a million pieces when they die.



4. Inspired by...

You know how after you finished the Hunger Games, you wore your hair in a Katniss braid for months? How, while you were reading Harry Potter, you dressed in red and gold? That's because when you fangirl over something, everything you do is inspired by your fandom. You dress like them, talk like them, listen to their favourite music, watch the movies they mentioned in the book. This annoys our friends and freaks our parents out even more, but trust me, it's only normal for a fangirl.


5. All Nighters

And you can't call yourself a fangirl, unless you've only survived on two hours of sleep on some days. There's just so much to do; reading the books, watching the movies, watching videos on you tube, reading fan fiction. So much to do before you fall asleep. That's when coffee comes in handy (or sugar, if like me, you actually hate caffeinated drinks.)










Comment more struggles fangirls face below! I know number four wasn't really a struggle, but what the heck.

CHERUB: The Recruit by Robert Muchamore

Title: CHERUB: The Recruit
Author: Robert Muchamore
Pages: 339
Source: Kindle (though I borrowed my brother's Paperback copy for the photography!)

When 11 year old James Choke's mum dies, he finds himself whisked away into the world of CHERUB: an association that uses children to help save the world. In this first book of the CHERUB series, James goes through 100 days of horror, a.k.a basic training, and goes on his first mission.

Despite it not fitting inside my usual reading genres, I really enjoyed this book. It could be written in a more advanced way, but the writing style improves as the book goes  on. My biggest complaint is that none of the characters are particularly likeable. James is the biggest idiot I've ever read about, and his friends are just as, um, charming. 
They've got a really gripping plot though, and are a really fun, light read. 

This was really short but I didn't know what to write about it. :)

Paper Towns Movie with Jamie McDell

Today was so exciting! I entered a competition to win two tickets to go see a preview screening of Paper Towns with Jamie McDell, and won! (Jamie is a New Zealand singer (and my favourite singer) and a fellow John  Green fan. Check out her music here.) So my friend, Sophie, and I went to the Cinema, along with several other teenage girls. The cinema room we were in was called the LUX lounge, and was just as fancy as it sounds. There were very minimal seats in  it, but the few seats that were there were big, comfy, and had buttons on the arm rest that controlled the back of the seat and the foot rest!

On our seats were goodie bags, which contained a copy of the book, a bar of Whittaker's Chocolate, and a bottle of water, held in a fancy brown paper bag. Also, I happened to be sitting across the aisle from Jamie McDell. How cool?



The movie was absolutely phenomenal. Despite a few minor changes, it was very true to the book. There was one part in the movie especially, that all you John Green fans will freak out at; I know I nearly screamed at that part! (#imafangirlidontdocalm.)

After the movie, we went into the foyer and Jamie sung us the sing she write inspired by the movie called "Paper Girl." I loved it! We then got pictures with Jamie and got things signed, and the premiere was over. It was an awesome experience, and I hope to do something like it again!

(Left to right): me, Jamie McDell, Sophie

Paper Towns by John Green

Title: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Pages: 336
Source: Bought from Whitcoulls for $22.99

Q has always been in love, and intrigued by, Margo Roth Spiegelman. After nine years of not talking to one another, Margo takes Q on a one night adventure, that he'll never forget. But the next day,she's gone.

With the help of his friends Ben, Radar and Lacey, Q finds clues Margo has left behind, and the four of them try to solve the mystery of Margo Roth Spiegelman.





I really, really liked this book. I saw that the movie was coming out, and decided to read it (which is what I did with TFIOS). I think that John Green is a really talented author, and  this has got to be one of my favourite books.

It's really hard to compare with The Fault In Our Stars, because they're both so different from one another. I can't wait to read some of his other books!

For a starters, the cover is awesome! I mean, look at it! And the plot was really well thought out and just as well written. If you get the chance, read it! 

Childhood Favourites

My top 5 Childhood Favourite books, in no particular order.

1. Rainbow Magic Series

Do you guys remember these books? The ones with the fairies? I absolutely adored them. My favourite was definitely Gemma the Gymnastics Fairy, for obvious reasons. I think these were some of my first chapter books. To be honest I still can't believe that they're still making them...

2. Lettice the Rabbit

A series about a rabbit who did very un-rabbity things such as dancing, and flying a plane, stole my heart when I was younger. I loved the dancing one especially. I don't really have much to say about these books! They're cute, and the pictures are adorable, and I'd recommend them to any little girl!



3. Anne of Green Gables

I discovered this book when I was ten, and it was my first classic. I loved Anne and all the crazy things she'd get up to, and her imagination was vivid, like mine. I still recommend this to everyone! A memory I have of this book, is that two other friends were reading it at the same time as me

4. Jacqueline Wilson

When I was around 6/7 ish, I fell in love with Jacky Wilson. I own over 20 of her books, and still
enjoy reading them. Some of my favourites when I was younger, were Vicky Angel, Double Act, Secrets, Cookie, and Hetty Feather. She's a really talented author.

5. Geronimo Stilton

I was about 7 at the time Geronimo Stilton became really popular. I loved them, and they were nice easy reads as well (even for a 7 year old!) All of my friends loved the Geronimo Stilton series as well. I started going off them a couple of years later, and haven't really read them since. I might introduce my younger brother to them...



What are your childhood favourite books? Is it one of these? Comment below!

Bookworms vs Normal People

Thought I'd do something non book review-y, so, as you can probably tell from the title, I'm going to compare bookworms to normal people!

Watching a movie based on a book.

Normal people: "OMG I loved that movie!"

Bookworms: *annoys everyone during movie pointing out things they added or missed out from the book* 

Getting a day off school.

Normal people: *Hangs out with friends* *socializes* *has a life*

Bookworms: *reads* *reads* *reads*

Getting told off during class.

Normal people: gets told off for being on their phone

Bookworms: gets told off for reading/daydreaming about the book they could be reading

Staying up till 4am.

Normal people: *partying* *you-tubing*  

Bookworms: *reading* *fangirling*

Going shopping.

Normal people: *buys bags full of clothes* *buys tons of CDs* *buys lots of DVDs*

Bookworms: *buys the entire book store*

Birthday lists.

Normal people: 

- chocolate

- clothes

- DVDs

- CDs

- Vouchers

Bookworms:

- books

- books

- books

- book vouchers

 I know this is stereotypical,but it was just for fun! Can you think of any more? Comment them below!

Chloe by Design: Making the Cut

Title: Chloe by Design: Making the Cut
Author: Margaret Gurevich
Pages: 384
How I got my hands on it: I borrowed it from the school library

Chloe has loved fashion for years. So when her favourite Fashion reality show on TV, Design Diva, creates a new version especially for aspiring teen designers like herself, she just has to enter. With backstabbing "friends", and stressful challenges in the audition process alone, will she even make it through to the first round?

This book frustrated me to no end. Admittedly, the cover has got to be one of the most gorgeous covers ever, and the book is scattered with pictures drawn by the incredibly talented Brooke Hagel. But, as the saying goes, 'don't judge a book by it's cover.' The beginning of the book, though written very neatly and cleanly, it had nothing exciting, nothing "extra" to make it stand out, but by the middle of the book, the writing had improved, and by the end, it was amazing. Though it's not a book I'd recommend to everyone, it was a really interesting read. The plot was very well thought-out and fascinating, and though it could've been better written, I enjoyed it. 

The amazing drawings of Brooke Hagel

Off the Page

Title: Off the Page

Authors: Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Pages: 372

How I got my hands on it: I borrowed it from the school library

After Delilah finally gets Oliver off the pages of his book, both Oliver and herself expect a happily ever after. But this is real life, and Oliver's not in the book any more. At the end of Between the Lines, the book that came before this one, Oliver switches places with his look a like, Edgar. Now Edgar's feeling homesick inside of the book, whilst Oliver couldn't be happier, since he finally has Delilah, and he's out of the book. But the book doesn't like all of these changes. The book tries to right everything, back to the way it was. But when other characters, besides Oliver, start switching places with people in the world, they need to find a way, quickly to give this fairy tale a happy ending.

I loved this book. I've read the first one over and over again, so, obviously, when I saw that they'd written another book, I freaked out. I become emotionally attached to book characters (to be honest, what fangirl doesn't) and found myself crying in parts of this story. It's such a cute, romantic story that I'd definitely recommend to other readers!