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Books, Lifestyle, Monthly Rewind

Monthly Rewind: October 2016

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Looking back on this month, it was pretty boring. I read very little, wrote very little and worked most of this month. Aside from deciding to go on holiday to Morocco in December with my family, October was a quiet month.  I was overwhelmed with now having to work from home and having to go through UCAS on my own again, so I didn’t get much done this month, unfortunately!

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I read 5 books this month! Eek! It was such a slow reading month for me. Might be the same again because of NaNo.

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That’s it for this month! Tell me what went on in YOUR life this month! What sort of things were important for you this month? New obsessions? New TV shows? Or book? Any new song recs (I’m always open for new music!)? Best books you read this month?

Lifestyle, top ten tuesday

About the blogger!

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke And The Bookish! Each week, a new topic is put into place and bloggers share their top ten (or your own amount) accordingly.

  1. I’m a twin! – You know how every first day at anything often means you have to give one interesting fact about yourself? Well, this is my go to fact. And we’re fraternal as well.

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    Zakiyah and Me!
  2. I am the third child of five kids. (Growing up consisted of mainly ‘wooow how do your parents manage??’ I don’t mention the fact my mum is the eldest of seven….. I think five is nothing to her)
  3. Both my parents were born in Bangladesh, while me and my sibling were born in the UK
  4. I hope to study Anthropology and Geography in university. (that is if I get the grades ahah…. AQA crushed the hopes and dreams of many students this summer with their sociology exam, including mine)
  5. The reason I started book blogging was quite simple. I just wanted to talk about books I’ve read. I don’t come from a family that takes pride in reading books. And most of the books I’ve read, no one I know in real life knows what they are. I just needed a place to vent. Also, I want to be an author, hopefully, and using my blog and writing reviews actually help me a lot with my writing process.
  6. I actually started this blog back in 2013. I used it to upload my own writing and projects that I started but didn’t want to continue. But I went silent for a couple of years until I started college in 2014. And my friend from a gaming class got me into Goodreads after the drive back from Eurogamer that year. We did a thing where we went through the email we received from BookBub and chose the strangest book we found and read it together.Which later led me to restart this entire blog. Cleaned it out, learned how to use spellcheck, and began writing for reading and reviews.
  7. Contrary to how I seem in some of my reviews, I’m actually a very nice, easygoing person. While in some of my review, I’ve been told that I come across as rude. I am sarcastic at time, but I never aim to be malicious.
  8. Posting negative reviews scare me shitless. Especially when it’s a review of a well-loved book/series.
  9. I am currently watching;
    1. Criminal Minds
    2. White Collar
    3. OITNB
    4. iZombie
      I also realised I have a thing for crime shows lmao….
  10. I am currently reading (at time of writing)
    1. Wonder Women
    2. Been Here All Along
    3. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
    4. A Boy Made of Blocks
Lifestyle, Other

New Blog Banner!!

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At the beginning of the year, I was looking through my blog, wondering of ways I could improve it a little better. I hope to do more on this blog rather than just reviews only, which I hoped to do once I finish my exams in June. But I thought the best thing to start the new year was a new look. (okaay, new-ish) I looked through loads of WordPress themes and thought the one I’m using now is just right for my blog so I decided to make a new blog banner. My old banner had a cartoon version of me that I had drawn in my gaming class last year. But it’s been awhile since I’ve used a drawing tablet, so I asked my cousin to re draw it for me, in his style because I reaaally like his art style. So here’s the end result, and I love it!:

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You can follow my cousin on these sites. His art is amazing!

Twitter: @H_Kazuhira
Deviantart: http://harukazuhira.deviantart.com/

 

Lifestyle, My Year In Books

My Year in Books – 2015

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My Year in Books – 2015

Using information from My Year in Books from Goodreads, I decided to make a smaller, shorter summary of my Year In Books for this blog. And show you all my 5 favourite books I’ve read this year. (I was going to do 15 but I realised how long that would make this post.) I was actually really impressed with myself this year in terms of the books I’ve read. I made it my goal to read at least 35 books, and I remember setting that goal in my gaming class, thinking oh man that’s going to so difficult. But in the end I hit 35 before we even hit half way through 2015! And I also started book blogging in late December, early January so it’s been a full year since I’ve started blog and I’ve had so much fun writing for it. And having this blog has really boosted my confident in my career of becoming an author.
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