Top Five Books I'm Looking Forward to in 2015

It is the last day of 2014, and looking back at the year I accomplished...pretty much nothing. My biggest hope for 2015 is that I actually manage to graduate - fingers crossed for that! I'm also looking forward to a lot of books in 2015, so...

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2014 in Review: Movies and TV

Even though I don't usually blog about movies or tv, I do like my year end list summaries.2014 Movies I saw this year (top 3 marked with an *)300: Rise of an Empire (3D Imax)DivergentThe Lego Movie*X-Men: Days of Future Past (3D)MaleficentThe Fault in Our Stars*Gone GirlLucy*BoyhoodThe Maze RunnerTotal of 10 ( 4 less than last year)Notable movies I...

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My Awesome Reads of 2014

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2014 in Review: Music

I bought 136 new songs this year (a bit less than last year) including two albums, Unrepentant Geraldines/Tori Amos and The Brink/The Jezebels. 2014 songs on heavy rotation (indicates top 5)Every Other Freckle - Alt-JPalace - The AntlersBeggin...

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Year End Mini Reviews - Diverse Books

I've been a supporter of the We Need Diverse Books campaign since its inception and as such, I seek out diverse MG/YA novels during the year to read and review. Here are a few of them (that I haven't already reviewed) from this year. See also...

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Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. LockhartPublisher: Hot Key BooksReleased: November 6th 2014 (this edition)My Rating: 4 stars out of 5Find it on GoodreadsFifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the...

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Year End Mini-Reviews - E-Galleys

Well, hello again! Since there are only 11 days left in the year, I'd better say a few words about some of the 2014 review books I've read this year in e-Galley that I haven't gotten to yet. Shall we?editThe Cure for Dreaming by Cat WintersIn...

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Top Five Favourite Books and Top Five Least Favourite Books Read in 2014

So since it's almost the end of 2014 (I can't believe how quickly this year has gone), I thought I'd do a post of my favourite and least favourite books. They'll be books I read in 2014, regardless of release date - please let me know your...

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Some thoughts (aka I'm procrastinating)

So I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation at the moment but I thought going online to complain about it would be less soul-destroying than, you know, actually writing it. One of the things that gets me is that my university is one of the only ones in the country that makes a dissertation in law compulsory. Most other unis (for a law degree) just...

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