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Tag: Books & Writing

  • Reading Wrap Up #3

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    It’s almost six months into the year and I’m finally in the double digits on my reading challenge *throws confetti*. It’s been a busy couple of weeks but definitely time to check in with you guys and update you all on what I’ve been reading recently…

    The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks | E. Lockhart

    One year ago Frankie Landau-Banks may have been on one of the lowest rigs of the social ladder at Alabaster Prep School, but this year Frankie’s all grown up, poised for big things, and has gotten herself a enviably handsome senior boyfriend. On paper Frankie has a pretty sweet life, but standing in the sidelines and playing the ‘good wife’ isn’t cutting it anymore. No matter how intelligent she is the boys will always think of her as the sweet little Sophmore girl on Matthew’s arm. Oh how wrong they are! Frankie may be a girl, but she’s smarter than all of them put together…and she’s gonna prove it to them once and for all.

    Gotta love a bit of Lockhart YA to get yourself out of a reading slump! I was seriously struggling getting motivated to find time to read until I decided to have a flick through Frankie’s story. It’s a-typical YA but gosh is it heaps of fun to read. As per usual Lockhart manages to capture teen life in the upper echelons of American prep society whilst also slipping in some more serious themes about gender inequality during teenage-hood.

    Check out my full review on Blogger’s Bookshelf

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  • Haul | MCM Comic Con, London

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    Nerdy haul alert! I was at MCM Comic Con at London’s Excel Centre this past weekend and like the n00b that I am I didn’t take that many photos actually at the convention – I blame the heat and my brain functioning on like fours hours of sleep and the fact I was too scared to ask people if I could take photos of their cosplays. Nevertheless as with any convention I was in nerd heaven with all manner of merch and geek themed paraphernalia on show but I surprised myself with how restrained I was in terms of purchases. Here are a few bits and pieces I did pick up on the day…

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  • Introducing The Unabridged Writer: A Personal Writing Blog

    Guys, I’d like you to welcome in the newest addition to the RCagz blog family: The Unabridged Writer!

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    So the other day I was thinking ‘Hey, Ria you know you don’t have enough going on in your life both IRL and in the blogsphere? Why don’t you start up another one?’ Haha…HA!
    Yes, I’ve started yet another blog – this will be number four after Blogger’s Bookshelf and Feminist In Training too. I’m mental. I know, but let me explain a thing.

    So writing has always been a hobby of mine since way back when where I was copying out stories and put pen to paper with my overactive imagination since I knew how pick up a pencil. I’ve always loved creative writing and wanted to be an author growing up, but, as things do I reached my teens and fell off the writing bandwagon for a few years….until I did my first NaNoWriMo in my first year at University. I was immediately hooked on writing bandwagon again.

    Now that, coupled with starting all these blogs and getting in the swing of writing regularly seems to have reignited the spark to create stories again.

    I’ve kept my small hobby for writing quite private as for me writing is quite a personal experience, but if there’s anything I’ve learnt over my almost 5 years of blogging it’s that sharing experiences can be a really wonderful thing. So this is where this new blog comes in handy.

    The Unabridged Writer is a personal project chronicling my journey as I meander through writing. I kind figure if I make it public that I’m trying to write something, I’ll be held accountable for it.

    I’m hosting on Tumblr, so this definitely won’t be as formal a thing as my other blogs and it’s easier to share and reblog writing resources that way too. There won’t be a set schedule or regular posts, but I’d like to have a place where I can dump ideas and share my progress as I work on a whopping 6 semi-active writing projects (ranging from short stories to a whole season of a TV show to a fantasy series).

    You can follow me here if you have a Tumblr and you can check out my work in progress projects page here :)

    R.xoxo

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