Canva was created inspired by illustrations Volume 3, Five-Star Read Semi-Nonfiction Novella, 4.5-Star Read. Ghosts are coming together to support each other. A club started by a local group of ghosts that mix with humans. Stranger things have been known to happen. Such a positive demonstration of the reality of mental health. Through the readingContinueContinue reading “Talking Mental Health through Ghosts”
Category Archives: Young Adult
BorrowBox Audiobook: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter We will be people again, and not just Jews (Frank, A. ed. 2016). Photograph of Anne Frank on the Definitive Edition (2016). Includes the missing 5 pages found around 2001 by the Anne Frank Foundation. Anne Frank’s diary is more than a diary from a Jewish girl. It really depicts theContinueContinue reading “BorrowBox Audiobook: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank”
What am I Currently Reading?
TBR: To Be Read *: Book Rating (5-star max) Vlog: social media account where personal videos are regularly posted. Readathon: an act of reading as many pages/books in a certian amount of time. It can be a fundraiser. Upon recording this vlog, I have added more books to my current TBR list. Have I startedContinueContinue reading “What am I Currently Reading?”
Mulholland High: The Reality in Reality TV
Trigger Warnings: rape, sexual assault, family, friendship and relationship drama. UK Paperback Cover Mulholland High School, where pretty teenage girls meet pretty teenage boys, and you can always expect drama when it’s the setting for one of the most popular reality shows. The ‘it girl” of the show, Chole Winterheaven, is the mean teen asContinueContinue reading “Mulholland High: The Reality in Reality TV”
Falling in Love is Full of Ups, Downs & Landslides
The parents are now divorced and mum no longer believes in love. Well, not the love for a man. More like a love for sugar. Audiobook Cover via Google Play Mum set up a bakery after we all moved to an apartment. It seemed all she did from the morning, noon, and till night wasContinueContinue reading “Falling in Love is Full of Ups, Downs & Landslides”
Back to Manga: The Ancient Magus Bride, Volume 1
A creature with a skull for a head purchases an orphan with no penny to her name. Chise Hatori is troubled by visions and is sold as a slave. Chise soon discovers she’s been sold to an inhuman mage – a wizard who isn’t human. She’s rapidly spun into a world where the magic’s aroundContinueContinue reading “Back to Manga: The Ancient Magus Bride, Volume 1”
“Almost Fiction” A National Theatre, London The Corn is Green Review
A semi-autobiographical play, so almost fiction. “Emlyn Williams’ semi-autobiographical play, is given a bold new staging by director Dominic Cooke […] in its first London revival for 35 years” (National Theatre, 2022). Honestly, picking up the play script began when realising Nicola Walker was in the production at the National Theatre, London. Knowing nothing, I’mContinueContinue reading ““Almost Fiction” A National Theatre, London The Corn is Green Review”
The Magic of Hatmakers
Tamzin Merchant’s The Hatmakers The bravery of three young children and an actor with his confidence on the floor isn’t the team you’d expect to save London, England, from a war with France. Total brought for the front cover. The makers are at the beck and call of the throne for as long as anybodyContinueContinue reading “The Magic of Hatmakers”
The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James
#Audiobook #Audiobooksarerealbooks Perhaps not the best book to read, having just gone through a pandemic and a virus you still know little about. A confessed, non-lover of sci-fiction, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I initially thought. #Audiobook Lowrie and Shen are the last two humans on earth; the rest of the populationContinueContinue reading “The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James”
Starting Connie Glynn’s The Rosewood Chronicles
Undercover Princess #1 #Bookcover My first book by Connie Glynn and in The Rosewood Chronicles, a Young Adult fantasy book series. While I found this book at times rather predictable, I was hooked into who was threatening the Maradova throne. I thought I had it figured out at one point, and then I was provenContinueContinue reading “Starting Connie Glynn’s The Rosewood Chronicles”