Thoroughly modern millennial

Author: Ria

  • Bookshelf Tour

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    So I thought I’d share something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while now and give you guys a little bookshelf tour. Not all of these books have been read, nor are these every single book I own (I have some stashed upstairs/residing in my sister’s room) and the collection is ever growing (God Bless cheap charity shop finds!)
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    Jean Ure collection/Karen McCormic books/New Moon & Eclipse, S’Meyer/Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson/Twilight: Director’s Notebook/Stormbreaker & Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz/Marked, PC & Kristin Cast/The Accidental Billionaire (aka The Social Network), Ben Mezrich/Virals, Kathy Reichs
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    A Place Of Secrets, Rachel Hore/Perfect Match, Jane Moore/Awaken, Katie Kacvinsky/The Little Flower, /Wicked, Gregory McGuire/Labryinth, Kate Mosse/Firebird, Susan Gates/Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
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    McFLY: Our Story/Will Grayson/Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan/Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan/Paper Towns, John Green/War Of The Worlds, HG Wells
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    The Fault In Our Stars, John Green (signed!)/North Child, Edith Pattou/Looking For Alaska, John Green/Icefire, Chris d’Lacey/Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger/An Offer You Can’t Refuse, Jill Mansell/I Heart New York, Lindsay Kelk/Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, Kazuo Ishiguro/Anasi Boys, Neil Gaiman/One Day, David Nichols/Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro/The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter, /The Merlin Conspiracy, Dianna Wynn Jones/Coram Boy, Jamil Gavin/The Help, Kathryn Stockett/Glamour, Louise Bagshawe/Remember Me?, Sophia Kinsella/Sabriel, Garth Nix/The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling/The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
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    An Abundance of Katherines, John Green/Old School, Tobias Wolff/Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson/Warm Bodies, Issac Marion/Struck By Lightning, Chris Colfer/Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro/Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chboksy/The Forest of Hands and Teeth, ??/The Gospel Of Judas, Simon Hawer/The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler/The Secret Lives Of Dresses, Erin McKean/The Prophecy of the Gems, Flavia Bujorbookshelf 6 
    Divergent & Insurgent, Veronica Roth/The Hunger Games: Tribute Guide/The Hunger Games & Catching Fire (MockingJay with le Sis), Suzanne Collins/The Maze Runner & The Scorch Trials, James Dashner/The Declaration & The Resistance, Gemma Malley/Delirium & Pandemonium, Lauren Oliver/The Looking Glass Wars, Seeing Redd & Arch Enemy, Frank Beddor/The Hunger Games Movie Companion
    bookshelf 7 Empire Magazine’s Harry Potter collectors edition/Harry Potter: Books 1-5 UK children’s edition, 6/7 UK adult editions
    From the top photo, down, I first have fiction from my teen years, then the books are blocked in colours (black, green, red blue etc). I then have a shelf for dystopian-uptopia/continuing series (but mostly dystopian/utopia) and then the beloved and rather battered copies of my Harry Potter books. 
    The idea for colour co-ordinating my shelves came from booktuber The Readables, who’s bookshelves are much more impressive than mine, as well as the many other bookshelf tours I’ve been chain-watching on YouTube. 
    Hope you enjoyed that :) don’t forget to check out what I’m reading on GoodReads and keep up with anything I (or any of our lovely team) are reviewing at Blogger’s Bookshelf! 
    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • This Week…

    Insta March #3
    – presents for Mum – day trip out with the fam… – …to good ol’ Wagamamas – a few cheeky purchases this week – vain – snow…wtf? – March Company – Day #183 – Day #184 – breaking spines – Day #185 – morning sunshine – Day #186 – Day #187 – Red Nose Day cake splurge – starting Brave New World – two books for £1! – AVPSY…aka everything ends – 
    Coming to you from a very sleep deprived and delirious state, courtesy of Team Starkid posting the final of their Potter musical trilogy (A Very Potter Senior Year) online this weekend….le sigh it’s tough being an obsessive fangirl sometimes lol. 
    Anyway…from my photos are looking little more colourful thanks to the lighter mornings. Though freak weather week (i.e. sunshine, SNOW, and rainy downpours) are just plain confusing. I got a good chance to shop last Sunday, have been soaking up fashion magazines and blogs again, not to mention the fact that I finally caught up on fashion week coverage! I’m itching to get back to fashion content again, now I just gotta find the time to write it =/
    In more global blogger news. I’m assuming most of you reading this will have seen that Google are getting rid of GFC/GoogleReader this Summer. As GFC is where most bloggers get their follower counts and is undoubtedly the easiest way of tracking and following blogs, you can imagine most bloggers are freaking out a little. 
    Never fear! I’ve been on BlogLovin for a while now and it seems like most people are migrating themselves over to that platform to follow blogs anyway. I found a simple guide to importing your GoogleReads blog over there thanks to Twitter, just click here. Et voila! All the goodness of GFC in, much easier platform. I’ve also been trying out Feedly, the interface is very different but is another nice GFC/BlogLovin platform.
    So don’t forget to start following me on BlogLovin’ below (am also debating getting a HelloCotton account for ease but we’ll see!)
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    soundtrack: Explosions (instrumental) by Ellie Goulding

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo

  • A Little Inspiration | #1

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    *all images sourced via Pinterest
    A little Spring inspiration, seeing as we had some lovely sunshine at the beginning of the week…despite the freak snow storm in the middle of it all!

    Keep on wishing…
    R.xoxo