At the beginning of the month I told myself, "Emilija, it's time for a book buying ban. You need to save money and get presents for your loved ones. CONTAIN YOURSELF, IT'S ONLY FOR A MONTH. YOU CAN DO IT!" ... I failed.  Somehow, I acquired 26 books in December. Some were bargains from Amazon. 2 of these were books I chose as xmas presents, some were boxing...

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Well, I don't know how about you, but winter evenings for me mean chill time to the max snuggled up in a blanket by the fireplace with a cuppa in my hands and a book in my lap. I have compiled the perfect playlist for these evenings to play softly in the background.  I mean I'll be honest, Halloween has just passed and even though I love it,...

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I somehow managed to haul 18 books this month, even more than I did in September. 9 of these books were bought at a car boot sale and I paid like £7 for all of them so it's not as bad is it may look! One of these books I got from a subscription box, and one book not featured in the picture is It by Stephen King...

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I've been really looking forward to doing this blog post for a while now. &book is a curated monthly book subscription box. Wow, what a mouthful that sentence was. Like many other subscription boxes out there, it has a different theme every month and the book along with all of the goodies in the box are according to the theme. The October theme was POSSIBILITIES. I was sent...

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ALRIGHT FAM, THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG ONE. Grab some popcorn and a redbull cuz this shit is gonna get you high.  (I want to preface this review by saying that Three Dark Crowns was my most anticipated read of 2016. I shit you not, I had hyped up this novel so much in my own damn head that when I pre-ordered the book it was all...

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ALRIGHT FAM, STOP WHATEVER IT IS YOU'RE DOING AND GIMME LIKE 2.5 MINS TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK IN YOUR LIFE.  Do ya'll remember the masterpiece that was Imaginary Girls? Like, holy shit, I'm such trash for Nova Ren Suma and her writing style. I eat it up like it's cake of the highest quality. I shit you not, Nova Ren Suma does not disappoint with...

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GOODREADS BLURB: When Jill wakes up in a hospital bed with her leg in a cast, the last six weeks of her life are a complete blank. All she has been told is that she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy and had to be jetted home to receive intensive care. Care that involves a lawyer. And a press team. Because...

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So I started reading this book a while ago, then had to put it on hold because I had my dissertation to write and then exams, it wasn't because I didn't enjoy it. In fact, I was incredibly surprised by just how much I liked this book. You know, I'm actually not a fan of contemporary reads at all. Just not the genre I usually gravitate towards, but...

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I have found the perfect album. This is it. No, seriously. Listen to it, this shit is lit! No joke, I've had this on repeat for the past week and it's been getting me through the very painful process of writing my dissertation. Which speaking of, I'm procrastinating by writing this post, but what else is new? Keeping this short and sweet though. Just give it a listen,...

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So. It's that time again. I've been really bad at these, haven't I? But sometimes life happens, and sometimes (which is a lot of the times, actually) I just don't have a song of the week, ya know? I simply don't. But this week I do, so yay! It's a good song and very appropriate for this point in time as I'm home for the Easter holidays. This...

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I live in England. That sentence alone should paint a pretty clear picture of the type of weather I gotta deal with. I mean seriously, the more stereotypical you imagine it, the more accurate it is. It seriously feels like it never stops raining here, and if it's not raining then the sky is covered with a sheet of clouds. Now that I think about it, I actually...

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So, Imma 'bout to get real here for a moment or two. I'm feeling like shit today so instead of putting myself through the pain and going to my uni lectures (which would quite literally feel like walking through Dante's nine circles of hell), I decided to stay home in case something worse happens. That way I can make sure I'm in a safe environment, ya know? Fainting...

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As it's the new year and stuff, I, like any other regular homo sapiens on this magical planet Earth have been doing some thinking. And imma tell you what I've thought about. So I haven't blogged in a while, right? Well, that's because I had kind of lost all passion for blogging. For a while I didn't know why that was, I no longer seemed to have a...

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