Being Unique Being Me Eve: artist

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

In this book Maya is an aspiring filmmaker and dreams of attending NYU but her traditional Muslim Indian parents don't approve. They dream of her marrying and staying at home and being a good girl as they dream.

However, after her dream seems within reach, an act of terrorism causes more violence in her life and not just to the public as she and her family face physical and verbal abuse.

She also has to battle with a crush on Phil she's harboured for years but as the pair grow closer and closer, things escalate till the future seems too hazy to hope for together...

The book looks at the future of a hopeful student but as she goes against all her strict parents wishes whilst she experiences love but also a terrorist attack that directly affects her life and unfortunately this is all too true an occurrence. It was a real book with deep issues that many people can relate to.

Monday, 6 March 2017

The Kicking The Bucket List by Cathy Hopkins

Iris Parker was eighty seven but has suffered a heart attack and sadly died, leaving behind her three middle age daughters, Dee, Rose and Fleur.

We first meet the girls at the will reading of their mum's after she passed away two months before. We soon learn why the sisters havent been in touch with each other and not just through their mum for years due to the argument that stopped them all talking was over their mum's care plan after she had a stroke. The sisters soon learn that they need to spend a year rekindling their relationships with each other to inherit the money left behind.

Dee lives in Cornwall but now her landlady has also passed away, her teo sons want to sell the house which currently means Dee is losing her house unless she gets her sum of will money sooner to allow her to buy, she relies on her best friend Anna for support through all the drama.

Fleur is a high power professional. Opposite it seems to how she was as a child she likes to come across as all put together and likes to have it all, a business success in property she is the richest money wise between them all.

Rose is secretly suffering behind the hard face mask she wears, a secret health war means her husband and kids are facing losing her and Rose just wants to not have to break her sisters hearts as well.

As the story goes on we are hit full force with the reality of coming to terms with changes, trying new things and the reality of death and its wake.

The story is endearing and adventurous as their mum and her two friends whom helped her set up the Kicking The Bucket List left Daniel a man unknown to the sisters at first, in charge of guiding them through the list as their mum beyond the grave forces them to become sisters again. However Dee believes Daniel is her soulmate whilst really he's taking advantage of his situation with the girls in an awful way.

Cathy Hopkins has smashed the chick lit genre right here, I love her young adult fiction but this shows how talented she truly is once again and more so. Brilliant and tear jerking from Cathy, thanks so much to her publishers for allowing me to review her latest book!

Goodreads Quotes

Eve beinguniquebeingme’s quotes

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."— Rosemarie Urquico

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