Hello! // Maud

Hello y'all,

How have you all been? I finally got a new computer so now I can write again. WHOOP!
I have been doing okay. GCSEs have started for Emile and I so we are awfully busy and it is stressful to say the least (especially with all my out of school things). But I'm getting through.
Right now I have around 7 pieces of homework (2 due tomorrow) and I really need to get on with it.
I saw that Emile had posted and thought I should do the same.

I just got back from seeing Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children in the cinema :-)
I wasn't nearly as good as the book but the end was so funny and it was different to the end of the first book. Yes, it wasn't the best film I've ever seen but it was definitely a good one.

On October the 13th, my friend Harriet and I are going to an event at Waterstones in London to see Lucy Sutcliffe, Lisa Williamson and Non-Pratt speak about 'Finding Yourself'. Im super excited and am really happy we managed to get tickets. Our favourite youtubers (Saskia and Lily) are also going so we will hopefully bump into them.

I haven't read in what feels like months. I have had no time to do anything (or thats what it feels like anyway). I am reading Asking For It by Louise O'Neill but I can't even really remember whats happening so I think I'm going to start reading Library Of Souls and make sure that I make time to read. I am trying to start thinking about myself more and hoping to start living happier.
Remember, your health is more important than grades. 

QOTD: What is your favourite subject at school?
AOTD: History or Drama :-)

Happy Living,

Life Update // Maud

Hello everyone!

I have been gone for a few weeks and I'm not going to say I'm sorry because I really needed the break. My head is in a much better place than it was a few weeks ago.
To be honest, BEDIA made me start to really dislike blogging. I felt like all the content was really horrible and rushed. I am happy that I ended it when I did because I want to really put effort into my posts.

I have quite a few things happening right now. The main reason I stopped writing in August was because my great great aunt died and I went to the funeral and everything was a big kerfuffle. The following week I went to Norfolk and we had little to no wifi (However that turned out to be a very good thing as in the week away (in the space of 2 days) I read It Ends With Us, It by Alexa Chung and Girl Hearts Girl by Lucy Sutcliffe. They are all great books and I totally recommend).
Since getting back, I auditioned for a remake of Cabaret with a activist group called LGBTQ+ Against Islamophobia. The audition went really well and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.

I  going back to school on Wednesday. I am certainly not looking forward to it but lots of exiting things are happening so I suppose it's not the worst. I am going to write a few posts in preparation for the school year but I am going to try to manage my busy schedule lots better.

Thankyou for your patience,

Ms Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Review (non-spoiler) and Currently Reading//Maud

Hello everyone,

I am so terribly sorry that I have not been writing recently. I have had a horrible past few weeks, I have just been really down and stressed but now I'm getting better so I though I would update you. this post is gong to be a Ms Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children review and a Currently Reading. 

Starting with the currently reading, I am about 130 pages into City of Bones. I haven't read in so long and I need to step up my game (I'm also sort of reading Frankenstein for school...). 

I'm enjoying it but not loving it at the moment. I hope it gets better ;/ 

I am also DYING TO READ HOLLOW CITY so I am desperate to finish CofB. 

Anyway, onto the review...

I absolutely LOVE MPHFPC! I just loved how the present tied in with the past.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is about a boy called Jacob who is from America. Ever since he was little, his grandfather had told him stories of great adventures defeating monsters and of these peculiar children that live on an island in Wales that he was friend with. Growing up, Jacob didn't at all believe at word of his grandfather and was told that his old age was getting to him. But one day, Jacob gets a phone call from his grandfather at work and everything starts getting very strange. 

This is the blurb:

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. it all waits to be discovered in Ms Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction with photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores it's decaying bedroom and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for a good reason. And somehow----impossible though it seems----they may still be alive. 

I really recommend this book to anyone who loves historical fiction with a twist! Go read it! NOW!

I promise I will start uploading regularly again, 

Lots of Love, 

Maud xxx