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Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Secrets Of A Teenage Heiress by Katy Birchall

Living in Hotel Royale, a hotel for the rich and privileged, alongside her mum the owner and Fritz, her dachshund, fourteen year old heiress, Flick Royale.

We meet her first when she learns she can't vlog due to her mum giving her selfie stick to Prince Gustav to borrow for a while which promptly ensues her getting into all manner of trouble trying to retrieve it back to use. Her friends Grace and Ella are super excited to soon learn that Skylar Chase a favourite singer of theirs will be staying at the hotel. Then Skylar starts hanging out with Flick even introducing her to Ethan Duke, a high profile vlogger who asks her to the Hotel Royale Christmas Ball, expect chaos and laughs aplenty ahead!

Alike to The Million Dollar Mates series by Cathy Hopkins, Katy brings more humorous tales our way.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

My Rad Life: A Journal by Kate Schatz

This a journal is an empowering book for women and girls filled with influential quotes and illustrations of some of the most famous and idolized women in the world today.

The idea is that we can use this journal to express ourselves in any way we want, with our own doodles or quotes, stories, poems or whatever the heck you want to fill the space with!

It is a great journal to allow us to dream big of our life we want and how to achieve it step by step like the women mentioned have done.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Friday, 26 May 2017

Drag Teen by Jeffery Self

JT is a seventeen year old, gay guy who has boyfriend, Seth and best friend Heather by his side. He and Heather bonded over their body image issues.

Seth introduces JT to the idea of entering the Miss Drag Teen Scholarship Pageant as JT dreams of being a Drag Teen and is obsessed with RuPauls Drag Race, a popular real American TV show.

Missing out on his one chance of winning a scholarship at high school, his fathers set ideas for his life and spring break in New York on offer with a scholarship win possible he soon makes plans with Seth and Heather to get there and learn to be a better drag queen on the way.

Along the way, older drag queen Bambi teaches him make-up tips, Tina a kind old singer let's him use her old stage wear and wigs as well as coaxing his singing out of him and showing him he has power.

After a few minor hiccups they manage to get JT there and competes to win despite a sabotage effort by a jealous fellow drag queen. A surprise return of a helpful friend also shows life can spin you a lucky break.

A serious show of dedication all round and a powerful story about how your dreams can come true along with help from your great friends!

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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

Goodreads Quotes

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