A Hungry, Happy, Hippie

I will be the first to admit I didn't like All The Bright Places , so picking up Holding Up the Universe was a leap of faith. But I surprisingly really really liked it. I just wanted to cry with how much I liked it and how great it was. I don't have a bad word to say about it. My favourite thing about this book was the diverse characters. Both Libby and Jack are very different from your stereotypical protagonist. Libby was known as America's fattest teen and she is now in a place where she has lost a lot of her weight but she's still considered 'fat'. And so her journey in this book is very much dealing with body image issues and also dealing with people who think they are above her because of her weight. Despite this, Libby is a bad ass. She is confident (although she falters from time to time) and super caring. She's an aspiring character for readers. Jack is a pretty diverse character too. He's half African American and Jewish if I remember c...

I don't know why I haven't been reading recently but I've just been in this really big reading slump. I think it's because I've been working more often now and once I finish work I just want to sleep or watch a TV show rather than have to strain my eyes to read. BUT, worry not, I have been forcing myself to read literally for the sake of this post! Although I have to admit even though I haven't been reading, I've been buying so many books it's unreal. Unreal to me and unreal to my bank account. Read I grew up reading The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (I mean I probably shouldn't have been reading the series when I was 11). Princess Mia and Michael was like the first couple I ever shipped. Everyone related to Princess Mia; I mean she's royalty but likes her cat more than she does real people. I was feeling a bit nostalgic and read the final book of the series and I had NO IDEA that Meg Cabot wrote a small sequel to the series called Royal ...

My friend Jade needs to stop getting me into books. I had a TBR set and then she made me read the first book of this series and then I literally stopped everything to read the other books in the series. I finished reading the Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking, or the Trylle-ogy   as I like to call it because I'm so witty. I slightly fell in love with this series. It's definitely not my favourite series ever, there were some faults I could find with it but it kept me hooked the whole way through. It kept me on the edge to the point that I read the whole trilogy in 2 days. This is an urban fantasy series but there are also many contemporary aspects to it which I love because the best fantasy books are the ones that read like a contemporary. This was also a self published series but it was eventually picked up by a publisher which I thought was cool. Non-Spoiler  This is about Wendy who's always felt like she never fit in wherever she went. She's had a lot of tro...

MY MIND HAS BEEN FRAZZLED EVER SINCE I FINISHED THIS SERIES AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. Now that I've let my utmost raw self come out, I think I can revert back to my slightly more normal self and continue this discussion. I've never really seen the appeal (until now) of the Mortal Instruments Series, I watched the movie (which I thought was great) and I had heard there were books but I had never actually bothered to do any research them mainly because I am not a big fantasy reader. I'm not a big fantasy reader not because  I don't LOVE fantasy novels but because they're usually really big book series that I will for sure invest all my time in and then after reading, will become OBSESSED with and then scout the internet for fanfiction, pieces of fan art, conventions in which the author has talked at, etc, etc ( see also: Harry Potter). And let's be honest, most times a major character dies and sometimes I'm just not mentally prepared for that. So l...