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Under Rose - Tainted Skies, Louise Gornall

This book is a gem of a find. One that I just couldn’t put down once I started reading.

Norah Dean is agoraphobic. She literally cannot leave the house without inducing gripping panic attacks and blackouts. Her mom is pretty good at calming her down and making everything seem like it’s ok again. Until her mom ends up in a car accident and has to stay in hospital for a week leaving Norah at home alone.

Throw in a cute new neighbour who tries to make friends, Norah becomes increasingly more worried about her invisible illness and the new feelings she is experiencing towards kind, understanding Luke.

Norah has always been worried about her illness she hasn’t ever thought about the possibility of love. But is all that about to change?

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have you ever felt just not good enough for anyone? i just feel so alone

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Since You’ve Been Gone, Morgan Matson

When I first picked up Since You’ve Been Gone, it was because it was an inviting book. I had recently been reading quite short books that ended too soon and I was sad about leaving the characters. So I wanted a book that I could read when I had a moment as my life became more hectic. A book that I could go to when I needed to escape and check in with the characters.

Emily Hughes is a shy, timid seventeen year old who relies heavily on her best friend Sloane Williams to break her out of her shell and show her what she’s been missing. There’s parties, cool clothes, hot boys. Life is crazy and fun with Sloane. And then one day, Sloane and her family disappear without trace. No way to get in contact with them. Sloane doesn’t pick up her phone and Emily is left feeling alone. With a lonely little brother and her parents set writing a new play over the summer, what is she supposed to do with herself?

Until the letter arrives. A tradition between the best friends, Sloane writes crazy to-do lists to push Emily out of her comfort zone and take a chance at making life more exciting. To Sloane’s annoyance, Emily never completes them. But what if completing this new to-do list is a way to find Sloane and bring her back? That by doing all thirteen of Sloane’s instructions is a way to let Emily live life to the fullest?

Continue reading on my website - http://mybookishworld.weebly.com/book-reviews.html 

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First book review should be up soon☺️

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Since You've Been Gone📖 so in love with this book💕

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you showed me happiness and then you just took it away

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That's Life

It's time to realise that what we had is just a memory now. And I know it's still going to take time to get over him completely, but life has to move on sometime. I can't keep lying in the dark contemplating what life could have been like. It's time to realise that life is what I make of it. And I want to make it the best it can be.

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Rainy mornings make me smile☔️

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when does it stop hurting

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A funny thing called life

You know that feeling you get when you wake up in the morning, those hazy few seconds before you realise that you have to wake up and get on with your day? Those few seconds are amazing. Why can’t the rest of the day be like that too?

Although so many things happen during the day, the world doesn’t just stop. It will continue turning, giving us chances to grab the day and make it our own. And that’s what I’m going to try and do. Forget him. Spend my days with friends and becoming happier withing myself. And hopefully one day I can meet someone who is more appreciative of me and wants to make me happy, instead of casting doubts in my mind. 

I just want to be able to breathe a little easier. 

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Broken Heart

Right now I'm dealing with a heartache. I know I'm not the only person to be dealing with this kind of thing right now, but it's still really fresh in my mind. I was dumped on Saturday night. And I just don't know what to do with myself. I go back to uni soon and I just can't imagine myself writing essays and travelling on the train everyday after one of the best summers of my life. And I thought it would become the best Autumn of my life as well. That just wasn't to be. Maybe going back to uni will take my mind off it. Maybe. I've been trying to read and write my first book review but everything's just been so hard lately. He's just walked out of my life with absolutely no warning and deleted me off all of his social media sites. That part stings the most.

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Latest book haul😍📚

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New Blog

Hi guys. I know it's been a while but I wasn't lying when I said that keeping up a blog is hard for me. Anyway. It's been a bit of a difficult summer and I do miss writing so I have set up a new blog. I'm going to try and keep up both of these blogs. It would really mean a lot if you could check out my other blog as well and I promise I will try to put out a book review soon! mybookishworld.weebly.com/blog

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

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With this candle, I will light your way in darkness...

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Summer

I always decide at winter that it is my favourite season. But when it feels summery, like today, I realise how much I actually enjoy the sun on my skin. The smell of suncream and the beach. The cold shock of the water.

It makes me wish that summer was soon.