Hello again...

Sorry, I've been gone for a while.
Hello new followers!

Okay, so the reason I haven't blogged is because I've had a bit of a breakdown. College all got a bit much, on top of just every day pressures, and I had been feeling depressed for a while anyway. So I went to the doctors, done a few tests and was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I don't really know how to feel about it. idk. it's a weird one.

anyways, since my last post I've read quite a few books, and rather than write a review for them all, i'll just rate them out of 10:

the fault in our stars: 7/10
wonder: 7/10
peter pan: 10/10
looking for alaska: 8/10
catcher in the rye: 9/10

I'm currently reading The Hobbit, and it's amazing!

So that's all that's new really. I'll try and blog more with some more interesting things. idk what.

Toodle pip x

Book review: Naive. Super

so, one of the things that i'm really passionate about is literature. I spend quite a lot of my time reading, so i thought that from now on i'll do some review posts of the books that i've just read incase any of you were thinking about reading them, or looking for something new to get stuck into.

anyways, the book i'm going to review right now is called Naive.Super. it was written by a Norwegian author called Erlend Loe in 1996, and was very popular when it first came out. Since then it's been translated into a few languages (one of them obviously being english) and has continued to be sold world-wide.

it's looking a little battered because i've been carrying it around in my bag and reading it at every opportunity. before the book starts, it opens with a cute little quote...

the connection of this quote to the actual book becomes clear once you read on. 

The book itself is about a 25 year old male (who's name we never actually find out...) and the way he views the world. shortly after his 25th birthday, he moves into his brothers flat for two months while his brother is away at work. he meets a few people, and talks about his two friends (who he called the 'good one' and the 'bad one'). he also meets a few other people while staying at his brothers flat, all of whom seem to teach him something. further on in the book, the character gets a fax from his bother asking him to come out to new york where he currently is. reluctant, and persuaded by Lise (who you'll meet...), he goes, and seems to learn quite a lot about himself. 

I guess it's about someone trying to find a direction in their life, for lack of a better way to put it. Also, time, and whether or not it actually exists seems to be a reoccurring theme throughout the book.

The book does have some funny parts too, which make you giggle. And some really cute parts that make you smile and go "aw". 

here's my favourite quote from the book (it's taken from an email that he sends to a professor, asking him a series of questions which is why there are numbers)... 

lastly, something which i probably should have said earlier, is that it's written in a very similar way to The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and so if you liked that then you should most definitely give this a try! 

my overall rating for the book: 8/10

and the next book i'm going to read... 

i hope that some of you have found this review even a little bit helpful (i guess i'll get better at writing these things the more i do of them..)

but thank you for reading, and expect more of these coming soon! 

emma x

review: graze box

okay, so on monday i ordered my first ever graze box (although i clicked something and so got sent two), so i thought i'd write a little review on them incase anybody was thinking about getting one...

firstly, they were slightly smaller than i expected. saying that, they do have to fit through your letterbox, so i probably should have kept that in mind.

this is what i had in the first box...

lightly salted popcorn, billionaires shortbread, the herb garden and white choc raspberry cheesecake. everything was beautiful, especially the popcorn at only 96 callories! the fudge chunks are also very delicious. the only thing i didn't like in this box was the round herb biscuits you can see in the bottom right box, but that's just personal taste - they were a bit too savoury for my liking.

in my second box i had...

the love mix, made up of cherries, berries and apricots, toffee apple, coffee and walnut cake and mississipi bbq pistachios. being a lover of pistachios, i went straight for them. they were a-maz-ing! the toffee apples were so delicious, although a little chewy. the coffee and walnut cake has quite a strong taste, but luckily i like coffee, so i thought that it was lovely! again, there was only one thing that i didn't like and that was the dried apricots, but that's again just personal taste.

i'm not sure if i'd want to buy one of these every single week, but every two weeks/every month i think would be great. i'm about to go onto their website to see if there's any possible way that i can do that...

also, i emailed the graze team to say that i had allergies, and they 'binned' all of the products that i had missed that may have affected me somehow, which was really lovely of them!

price rating: 7/10 (£4 with delivery is really good for what you get...)
taste rating: 9/10 (would have been 10 if it wasn't for personal tastes)
presentation rating: 9/10 (the boxes are really cute and neat)
overall rating: 8/10 (i can't wait for my next one to arrive!)

28.01.13

so today i ordered my first ever graze box! 

it's due to arrive thursday, and i'm actually really exited.

i hope i get some bread or some popcorn or some tea and cake.

i'm thinking about writing a review of my graze box once it arrives, so hopefully you'll have something interesting to read rather than the usual drawl that i usually write. i've also nearly finished my book (naive.super), which i'm also thinking about writing a review of! 

so you'll hear something good from me soon... hopefully :-)

23.01.13

well, today was hectic to say the least!
woke at 6:45 like i usually do to get ready for college, walked to the bus stop in the rain. had psychology and english. then i had to have a meeting about my attendance. i thought 76.3% was aright, but apparently not. and my english teacher is worried about me because i'm 'talented' and have 'potential' but my attendance is letting me slip.

anyways, after college me and daisy went for lunch. we went to an all you can eat asian cuisine restaurant, and it was BRILLIANT. it's just a shame that jade couldn't come.

anyways, when we were in the restaurant we could see it starting to snow, but it wasn't sticking, so we didn't really take much notice. by the time we finished our food and walked to the bus station (via an indoor root), the snow had come down really thick and fast, and all of the buses and trains were cancelled. they managed to organise one bus to my town, and it was the only one for the whole night. i got on it, and what is usually a 15 minute journey took me well over 2 hours because of the insane snow.

i'm hoping that this means a day off college tomorrow so i can go sledding and make a snow man and throw snowballs. but we'll see.

oh, and i have one follower now, yay! i'm no longer just writing to myself. awesome.

i guess i'll write more when more happens.

p.s. westminster university are expecting me to send them a portfolio of my english work via email before the 6th of feb. hahahahaha. great.

22.01.13

umm, hello. so i guess i should start my blog with a little introduction to myself...

i'm emma-louise davies, i'm 18 and i live in a really small town in the south of wales, uk. i'm a second year college student studying english, art and psychology. i'm hoping to go to cardiff university to study english literature and creative writing.

i live with both my parents, my cat (ella) and my bird (loki/lucifer- it changes depending on if he's being evil or not).

i like reading, writing, painting, drawing and playing drums. my favourite books are hound of the baskervilles, a game of thrones, the perks of being a wallflower, alice in wonderland and the hobbit. i like music like connie francis, frank sinatra, the king blues, straight lines and chuck berry. 

there's not really a lot else to say about me... i promise my blog will get more interesting. 

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