Review | One Day by David Nicholls

A love story full of twists and turns and heartbreak makes this book a must have read of the year.

Having first watched the film when it first came out in the cinema, I was intrigued to read the book. Lying on the beach in Majorca was the perfect place for this romance novel, it was a hooker from page one; I just couldn’t put it down.

The novel opens with the main characters Dexter and Emma, celebrating their graduation and spending the night together, and this is where their romance begins. The day is St Swithins Day and this is where the novel follows them every day for the next twenty years.

The twists in the novel such as the parting of Dexter and Emma, in their early 30’s was what kept me reading, I just couldn’t not find out what happened to them, it was almost as if I was in their world, I had been transported into the book, which doesn’t usually happen to me.

Dexter was a character which really frustrated me, he was big headed and didn’t know what he wanted and just messed Emma around, although as the novel progressed we saw him in a different light, one which made us like him even more.

Eventually he was a character which we’d grow to love even if we didn’t want to.

I certainly think this is a book worth reading and one that didn’t fail to amaze me and I would happily read it again, and who knows I might have the same reaction to the ending again, and so may you.

This book is easy to get hold of and you’ll find it in most charity shops, so you’ll not only be getting a good book but a good bargain.

The book is well worth 4/5 stars, and should take pride on everyone’s bookshelf. David Nicholls has truly made this book come to life in this modern 21^st century age and the film won’t disappoint.

First week back at uni.

So we've been back in teaching for 1 week now. It's been pretty slow to start with because we haven't really done much as we are being told what we are going to be doing and so on and so forth. 

In English we are continuing on with our Cultural Fragments lectures and are looking at four more books (Frankenstein, The Rover, Macbeth and Beloved) these shall be interesting as I have never read them before. We are now moving on to a new module called Making and Reading poetry. This is going to be new to me as I have studied poetry in the past but I have always found it can become a little dry and boring. However my lecturers are very quirky and outgoing so I think they will definitely make my study of it a lot more interesting. 

This term we are only studying one module for Magazine Journalism, some may be a bit disheartened by this but I think as we had a very hectic and full on first term, with Splash and learning the basics to Journalism this is a well deserved break. 

We will be studying the module of Layout and Visualisation. This module requires us to find a 600 word feature that we will be expected to do the double page spread and magazine cover for. We are using Adobe In Design to do this, and this will all be new to me as I have never used anything like that, so it will be really good to learn the basics. 

As we are required to make mood boards of the things we like for the module I bought myself a A4 scapbook which was nicely priced at £2.99 from The Works, oh and I got a bit of student discount too. 

I think I am going to thoroughly enjoy this term as it will be interesting and allow me to develop skills which I may not have had before. 

Let me know what you're most looking forward to this term at uni. 

Velvet Magazine | Activate Pilates

This is my second published article for Velvet magazine.

Would love everyone to check it out and give me feedback!

http://www.velvetmag.co.uk/kick-start-your-new-year--now

Mad for Miranda

Here is my first piece written and published for Velvet magazine.

http://www.velvetmag.co.uk/mad-for-miranda

I am so proud of myself.

What do you all think? 

The ACCENT Nail

I have just been scrolling through my Twitter feed and I have just come across what is called the 'accent' nail. The idea is that you paint all your nails the same colour, except that of the one next to your pinky. You then paint this one a different colour, and it is said to make it stand out more.

I am yet to try this out, but I am going to have to try it out and let you know how it goes. Pictures will proceed this post. But for now here is an example of the 'accent' nail.

I really like this accent nail design as it really stands out from the neutral colours of the other nails besides it. Also how great is it that you can say "Yes I am wearing converse, on my nails!" 

What design would you do for your accent nail? 

None of the pictures shown are mine. 

Neglection

I am sorry for the neglection on the blog recently guys, I will get it back up and running.

3 month reflection? Needed!

So this term is nearing and end and it has been a whirlwind right. I have gone from being extremely happy and loving life to being very down and being on the verge of wanting to to quit and go home. I nearly quit in the first week when I first saw what we'd be doing in Magazine Journalism, I just didn't think it would suit me and if I would be able to do it. But now that I am about to submit my first 3 assignments for Journalism I am on a high and loving the course.

I have learnt so much about myself over the past three months of being at university. I have learnt the following:

• I am capable of living on my own. 
• I am capable of looking after myself, be this cooking, washing, cleaning and general stuff. 
• I am able to make new friends easily. 
• I am actually good at writing. 

Drawing on the last point, I never doubted myself but you don't want to be big headed about yourself and say 'I am so good at this,' when in actual honesty you may not be. But I know I am able to write coherently and I am so proud of the fact that I have been able to have my articles published. 

I have just uploaded 2/3 of my assignments and boy was that daunting! I didn't want to press the 'submit' button, never have I been so scared to press the left key on my laptop. 

What have your highlights of the last three months been?