TheLifeofAmaka

Biochemist, Fashion designer, Lifestyle blogger, Photographer in training and bibliophile.

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Your YA novel title is:

A (object closest to you on the left) of (last thing you spent money on) and (your current emotion)

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A bottle of M&Ms and boredom.

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A couch of food and sadness.

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The only problematic thing with e-books is that after I’ve finished them I can’t put them on my trophy shelf, like a serial killer. 

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A section of my December TBR

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THE THIRTEENTH GUARDIAN: A REVIEW

My Rating: 4/5 stars! Cover Rating: 8/10. It is really beautiful and seems fitting for the storyline. Publisher: ThirteenthGuardian, 2019 Pu

There was something about this story that had me hooked, despite loads of distractions and putting it down, I was unable to let go. This is typically a Da Vinci code version 2.0, there was some sort of similarity but this took up the end days from the book of Revelation.

What I loved:

The spinning of the story was artful and thoughtful, although a work of fiction, the story draws life from the Book of Revelation about the end days. I had constant goose bumps because I was on edge and the description given to all of the cataclysmic changes that occurred were quite vivid.

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I’m still laughing with mine XD

via Drunk Austen on Facebook

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Boy Bands, Hate, and Other Reasons No One Will Talk To Me

Sounds like an angsty young adult novel. I’m in!

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Popularity, Hate, and Other impossible ordeals

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Boy Bands, Vampires and Other Things the Fairies Stole.

Keep them, please.

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Happy Endings, My Butt, and Other Things That Nearly Killed Me. 

Sounds accurate. 

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Chemistry, Hate, and Other Alternatives to Necromancy

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Macchiatos, Friday Kahlo and Other Big Round Things

I’ve never had coffee, so it took me a really long time to figure out that macchiato is an actual word…

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Love, fate, and other steps to madness.

Hey, actually…

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french kissing, frida kahlo and other things that nearly killed me

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popularity, the sun and other side effects of being 16

asdfghjkl im wheezing why is this so perfect jdndndndn

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Cake, my butt and other lies I’ve believed…

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Boy bands, the sun and other peculiar melancholies

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BOOK REVIEW||WINE AND WATER

TITLE: Wine and Water

AUTHOR: Hannah Onoguwe

PUBLISHER: Bahati Books

RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2017

GENRE: Contemporary romance (fiction)

FORMAT: Ebook

NUMBER OF PAGES: 259

BLURB:

A collection of twelve short stories set in Nigeria that explores all likely or unlikely combinations in love. A purse gone missing at a high society wedding in Abuja; polite insults exchanged in traffic on a sweltering…

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A NEWBIE'S GUIDE TO MAKING THE BEST OF LFW: MY EXPERIENCE ||LFW2018

A NEWBIE’S GUIDE TO MAKING THE BEST OF LFW: MY EXPERIENCE ||LFW2018

The struggle to put up this post was real sha!

Every fashion enthusiast’s dream is to be able to attend fashion week, be it Paris Fashion Week, London or New York. We all look forward to the seasons whether it be Autumn/Winter or Spring/Summer, fashion week is the most anticipated event in the fashion world and trust me if you’re neck deep in the fashion world, you do not want to miss out.

Sinc…

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MY HEINEKEN LAGOS FASHION WEEK EXPERIENCE||HLFW2018

Every fashion enthusiast’s dream is to be able to attend fashion week, be it Paris, London or New York. We all look forward to the seasons whether it be Autumn/Winter or Spring/Summer, fashion week is the most anticipated event in the fashion world and trust me if you’re neck deep in the fashion world, you do not want to miss out. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been anticipating Lagos…

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HELLO NOVEMBER || TALES FROM OCTOBER + LIFE UPDATE

*clears throat* Hey folks *dusts chairs and removes cobwebs* it’s been just a couple of seconds and I seem to have missed a lot while I was away.

HAPPY NEW MONTH AND HAPPY WEEKEND!!! FRIYAAAAAY!

A very enormous thank you to everyone who checked on me, trying to find out why I wasn’t blogging, thank you for pulling me out of my lazy state and getting right back into the action.

October was packed…

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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Ooh I've read 7 books out of a 100😆😆😆;

The secret garden, Oliver twist, Harry Potter, the Lord of the rings, little women, Animal farm and Da Vinci Code

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HELLO SEPTEMBER || TALES FROM AUGUST + LIFE UPDATE

Happy New Month!!! Damn! I’m 5 days late but like they say better late than never right?

As always, I’d like to thank you all so much for your comments and views in August, couldn’t have done all of it without you guys.

New fam fam welcome to lifeofamaka and my OG fam fam thank you for sticking around.

I’m trying to think back to August and I realized there really wasn’t a downside to it except…

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MY DESIGN PROCESS #01|| THE INSPIRATION

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body – CHRISTIAN DIOR!

Fashion houses run by individual designers started in the 19th century with CHARLES FREDRICK WORTH who was the first designer to have his labels sewn into the garments he created. Since then fashion has evolved all through to this day and it’s still evolving.

If you read my list…

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REAL TALK||ON MY GROWING LOVE FOR FASHION DESIGN

REAL TALK||ON MY GROWING LOVE FOR FASHION DESIGN

Growing up, I knew little to nothing about fashion, I definitely wanted to look good in what I wear (doesn’t everybody) but I really didn’t pay attention to fashion.

Fashion they say is in the air, well then what was in the air for me were books (still is though).

There’s a first time for everything which brings me to this: if this is your first visit to my blog, WELCOME, grab a seat and relax, I…

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10 BOOKS CURRENTLY ON MY READING LIST

10 BOOKS CURRENTLY ON MY READING LIST

Hey darlings, what’s up? TGIF babies, as usual you know I always spend my weekends at home, reading or working.

I fell in love with reading books as a kid, I have sisters who were/are arts inclined and so I got introduced to the world of novels quite early. I recall always reading their literature books, novels and I also tried my hands at writing and boy was I good…good times baby good times.

Bo…

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REAL TALK||WOMEN WHO INSPIRE ME

REAL TALK||WOMEN WHO INSPIRE ME

*Disclaimer: All pictures are gotten from Instagram*

There’s something about women helping each other either consciously or unconsciously and I think the sooner we women begin to actually support each other the better.

TGIF!!! Where’s it going down? Lol, I don’t know why I feel like nobody is actually out…if you are, have fun responsibly (although it wouldn’t hurt to let loose). Do as you please.

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HELLO AUGUST || TALES FROM JULY + LIFE UPDATE

HELLO AUGUST || TALES FROM JULY + LIFE UPDATE

Happy New Month!!! PHEW! The year is gradually coming to an end and my service year is ending soon as well.

You all know I love to appreciate you guys, so this is a SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU for the love, the comments, follows, views and likes, you are all extraordinary.

There really wasn’t a downside about July, I think the only downside was the late payment of allawee (monthly allowance).…

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