Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Promise of a suicidal father



Dress - H! By Henry Holland at Debenhams
Jumper - Next
Bracelet - Pandora

This dress is an absolute favourite of mine because of the collar and cute floral print, but it hasn't featured in a look since April (link to the blog post here) because I find dresses are difficult to, well, dress differently, and I don't want to be reported on Lookbook for reposting.

I want to point out that the title for today's post isn't a personal reference, but a paraphrased quote from the book I'm currently reading "A Tale For the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki (available from Amazon). It was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and so far I am really enjoying it, and it's teaching me a lot about Japanese culture, which I find very interesting. We tend to think of the world as a very small place now, with aeroplanes and the internet, so it's a shock to realise that places are still so different, and not everywhere has the ideologies of the west. 

The book is split between the diary of Japanese teen Nao, and American-living-in-Canda author Ruth, who finds the diary when it's washed up on the beach in a Hello Kitty lunchbox. I can't say much more because I haven't finished it yet but I really am enjoying it so far. 

Are you reading anything good at the moment? 

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green




I just finished reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and wow, what a great book! 

If you've read anything by John Green in the past, you'll know that he tends to ask the big questions in life in the setting of American teens, but this isn't just any teen novel, it's like the Mean Girls of teen books, absolutely perfect.

I'm trying really hard not to give too much away about the book, just be warned that I did shed a little tear at one point, and I never cry at books or films, so beware!




And yes, there are lots of lovely quotes - what else would you expect?