Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
Quiet by Susan Cain
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Friday, 18 October 2013
Book Wishlist
Continuing with my idea to create wishlists on this blog, here is a long overdue book wishlist.
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Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli
Mutton by India Knight
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Porto, Portugal 2013
This summer from the 12-19th of July we went to Porto in Portugal. It was just a simple city break along with going to a few beaches.
I did have a nice time, but I missed being in a place though where every local knows a good amount English and the weather was a little bit disappointing. It was cloudy all of the time, when it was in fact pretty sunny leaving some of us to become very burnt.
Other than that, I enjoyed seeing everything and walking along listening to my audiobook.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Instagram | September 2013
I saw a few bloggers doing these and I thought it would be a nice idea to do! Every month I will collate my instagram photos and reflect on/tell you about the past month. Hope you enjoy!
Top Row L-R
seeing wicked the musical, for the third time in manchester - bought lush's superbalm scalp treatment in order to sort out my horrible scalp - also bought 1D's lipstick...
Middle Row L-R
all of this row is basically me seeing mcfly at the royal albert hall (20th and 21st) for their ten year anniversary. it was absolutely incredible!
Bottom L-R
saw les mis whilst in london for mcfly and met carrie hope fletcher again - forever buying gay magazines for boy bands - selfie after i got my haircut
Monday, 9 September 2013
NY // 07 - Staten Island
From the ghetto~ area, we took the Staten Island Ferry and saw the Statues of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge and the glorious New York skyline in general.
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Summer 2013
I start college again next Monday and I just wanted to let out my thoughts about this summer.
One pretty god damn amazing event happened this summer, LeakyCon London. It definitely was the best weekend of my life and I'm still in denial that it's over. Other than that my summer has been spent in solitude. When I finished college my parents and I went on holiday to Porto, Portugal which was nice and that's all I can really say about it. We saw some lovely things but the weather was just a bit disappointing, because it was completely overcast all week. Of course the cloud deluded us to the presence and temperature of the sun, resulting in my mum getting very burnt and me moderately burnt. I got a good tan anyway, although my skin was peeling for weeks afterwards.
I've been quite unmotivated this summer and been using this idea I had to vlog as much as possible during this month which has been mildly successful. It hasn't been so successful when I've been lazy or my editing software hasn't cooperated. Before Leaky, I was going to bed at roughly 11pm, getting up at 10am, not going to get ready until 1pm and some points not finishing lunch until 3pm. After Leaky, I was going to bed at 1am and getting up at 12pm. I was still tired after this 11 hour sleep and this affected my motivation.
I haven't gone out a lot this summer due to money and I think I went to town once or twice. The days that my Ddad has been off he's gone on walks, but I don't usually enjoy those and I'm usually not awake by the time he goes out anyway. Being inside for most of summer has led to my Dad becoming worried that I'm becoming a social recluse...well I've been a recluse for a while now so clearly he doesn't know me that well if he's only just noticing that.
Other than some significant events, everything else this summer has been timid. In true Karis fashion, I've left everything that I wanted to do until the last week. Including some research task/presentation I have to do for dance.
The week after Leaky I received my A Level Results and they were pretty good as I got an A in Photography, B in Media Studies and a B in Sociology. The first result I saw on my sheet though was my Dance result which was a D. I was pretty much heartbroken, as Dance is a subject I'm passionate about and done since I was five. Particularly as I wanted to continue this subject and discontinue studying Media Studies. The head of department tried to convince me to carry on Media Studies, she did pretty much tell me that I would get a D in A2 althought that's just encourage me to work even harder to do better. I am going to resit this years theory paper though as I was 10 marks away from a C. I was sobbing for half an hour after I found my results, I'm very lucky though to have supportive friends and a supportive Sociology teacher to console me and feel a bit better.
I always say to myself I'm gonna try to blog more, but despite the load of work I've got to do. I'm gonna at least try to do a blog post a week (if I have an idea) in my spare time. Sorry for the very long post, but I hope you enjoyed reading :)
One pretty god damn amazing event happened this summer, LeakyCon London. It definitely was the best weekend of my life and I'm still in denial that it's over. Other than that my summer has been spent in solitude. When I finished college my parents and I went on holiday to Porto, Portugal which was nice and that's all I can really say about it. We saw some lovely things but the weather was just a bit disappointing, because it was completely overcast all week. Of course the cloud deluded us to the presence and temperature of the sun, resulting in my mum getting very burnt and me moderately burnt. I got a good tan anyway, although my skin was peeling for weeks afterwards.
I've been quite unmotivated this summer and been using this idea I had to vlog as much as possible during this month which has been mildly successful. It hasn't been so successful when I've been lazy or my editing software hasn't cooperated. Before Leaky, I was going to bed at roughly 11pm, getting up at 10am, not going to get ready until 1pm and some points not finishing lunch until 3pm. After Leaky, I was going to bed at 1am and getting up at 12pm. I was still tired after this 11 hour sleep and this affected my motivation.
I haven't gone out a lot this summer due to money and I think I went to town once or twice. The days that my Ddad has been off he's gone on walks, but I don't usually enjoy those and I'm usually not awake by the time he goes out anyway. Being inside for most of summer has led to my Dad becoming worried that I'm becoming a social recluse...well I've been a recluse for a while now so clearly he doesn't know me that well if he's only just noticing that.
Other than some significant events, everything else this summer has been timid. In true Karis fashion, I've left everything that I wanted to do until the last week. Including some research task/presentation I have to do for dance.
The week after Leaky I received my A Level Results and they were pretty good as I got an A in Photography, B in Media Studies and a B in Sociology. The first result I saw on my sheet though was my Dance result which was a D. I was pretty much heartbroken, as Dance is a subject I'm passionate about and done since I was five. Particularly as I wanted to continue this subject and discontinue studying Media Studies. The head of department tried to convince me to carry on Media Studies, she did pretty much tell me that I would get a D in A2 althought that's just encourage me to work even harder to do better. I am going to resit this years theory paper though as I was 10 marks away from a C. I was sobbing for half an hour after I found my results, I'm very lucky though to have supportive friends and a supportive Sociology teacher to console me and feel a bit better.
I always say to myself I'm gonna try to blog more, but despite the load of work I've got to do. I'm gonna at least try to do a blog post a week (if I have an idea) in my spare time. Sorry for the very long post, but I hope you enjoyed reading :)
Birthday Book Haul
The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Chopsticks: A Novel by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
My Idea Bookshelf, edited by Thessaly La Force
Thursday, 22 August 2013
LeakyCon Book Haul
Candor by Pam Bachorz
Boy Nobody by Allan Zadoff
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
NY // 06 - Ghetto/Subway/SoHo/Things
On our second to last day in New York, we took the Subway down to the Staten Island Ferry and took a boat across to the Island and saw the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty etc. (post on that coming soon)
The area we arrived in was quite a 'ghetto' area with a lot of signs of deprivation which I thought was a nice contrast and we then walked on to the SoHo area, where China Town and Little Italy was also located and did some more shopping.
I was really pleased with some of the photos I took whilst there, and they made a nice contribution to my photography exam project. As I was showing the negative contrasts, I experimented a bit with adding some gradients to the photos as well as doing a series of simply black and white photos to show the bleakness.
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