May Playlist 2016

I'm on the last day of my vacation, before I start school again tomorrow! Only a few weeks left until summer vacation! To get me through those weeks I've made another playlist. Keep reading to see what I've been listening to lately.

The chain - Hazel Hayes & Dodie Clark (cover)

Ex's and Oh's - Elle King

America's Sweetheart - Elle King

I told you I was mean - Elle King

High - The young rising sons

Misguided ghosts - Paramore

Grow up - Paramore

I forget where we were - Ben Howard

Ophelia - The Lumineers

Learn to trust - Bad Suns

3AM - Meghan Trainor 

As per usual, a lovely mismatch of songs that I will be blasting throughout May. Wanna join me? 

Monthly wrap up April 2016

April has been a massive reading month for me. After being stuck in a reading slump for the past three months, I have finally been able to find books that seem interesting enough to me to actually read them! A round of hurrahs for Goodreads reviews! So, without further ado, here are the books that I've read this month!

Am I normal yet? - Holly Bourne

All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left to tick off her list…

But relationships are messy – especially relationships with teenage guys. They can make any girl feel like they’re going mad. And if Evie can’t even tell her new friends Amber and Lottie the truth about herself, how will she cope when she falls in love? (Goodreads)

How hard can love be? - Holly Bourne

Amber, Evie and Lottie: three girls facing down tough issues with the combined powers of friendship, feminism and cheesy snacks. Both hilarious and heart-rending, this is Amber’s story of how painful – and exhilarating – love can be, following on from Evie’s story in Am I Normal Yet?

All Amber wants is a little bit of love. Her mum has never been the caring type, even before she moved to California, got remarried and had a personality transplant. But Amber's hoping that spending the summer with her can change all that.

And then there's prom king Kyle, the guy all the girls want. Can he really be interested in anti-cheerleader Amber? Even with best friends Evie and Lottie's advice, there's no escaping the fact: love is hard. (Goodreads)

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. (Goodreads) 

Kindred Spirits - Rainbow Rowell

If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. So when she decides to queue outside her local cinema to see the new movie, she's expecting a celebration with crowds of people who love Han, Luke and Leia just as much as she does. What she's not expecting is to be last in a line of only three people; to have to pee into a collectible Star Wars soda cup behind a dumpster or to meet that unlikely someone who just might truly understand the way she feels. Kindred Spirits is an engaging short story by Rainbow Rowell, author of the bestselling Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Carry On, and is part of a handful of selected short reads specially produced for World Book Day.

The manifesto on how to be interesting - Holly Bourne

Apparently I'm boring. A nobody. But that's all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you're very welcome.

Bree is a loser, a wannabe author who hides behind words. Most of the time she hates her life, her school, her never-there parents. So she writes.

But when she’s told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. Six steps on how to be interesting. Six steps that will see her infiltrate the popular set, fall in love with someone forbidden and make the biggest mistake of her life.

Marked - T.L. McDonald

When 17 year old Hanna Harper agrees to see a local band at The Iron Knife Club with her two best friends, she has no idea her life is about to change forever and that everything she thought was impossible...isn't.

Marked with a mystical symbol by a dying boy, she's thrust into a world she never imagined existed where her eyes are opened to the reality that fallen angels are very real, and very dangerous. And with just one look from their soulless black eyes, they can take everything from you.

And now, because of the symbol and the secret it contains, a secret she must protect at all costs, those black eyes have set their sights on her.

Relentless - Karen Lynch

Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened. She lives a life full of secrets and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s own very powerful gift.

In her quest for answers about her father’s death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara’s world upside down and is determined to protect her even if it’s the last thing she wants.

Sara’s life starts to spin out of control as she is hunted by an obsessed vampire, learns that her friends have secrets of their own and reels from the truth about her own ancestry. Sara has always been fiercely independent but in order to survive now she must open herself to others, to reveal her deepest secrets. And she must learn to trust the one person capable of breaking down the walls around her.

Reasons I fell for the funny fat friend - Becca Ann 

It’s stupid to fall for your brother’s ex. It’s even worse to enlist another’s help to win the ex over. But Brody is desperate and Hayley, his partner in American Sign Language, is more than willing to lend him a few tips.

She’s the school’s matchmaker,’ and with her bizarre and positive personality, Brody finds her easy to talk to, even about the most awkward situations. Hayley’s tips seem to be working, but as Brody learns more about his matchmaker, he starts finding reasons to spend time with her, and not the girl he thought he was in love with.

But Hayley isn’t ready to fall for anyone. Labeled the “Funny Fat Friend” within her group, her self image makes it impossible for Brody to share his feelings without Hayley shrugging it off as a joke.

Convincing her Brody can, and did, fall for the “Funny Fat Friend” turns out to be harder than simply falling in love. 

Eight books in total, pretty good right? I wonder how many pages that is...

March playlist 2016

The sun is starting to break through bit by bit, the cold winds have mellowed out a bit and I've even spotted a few daffodils by the side of the road already! In the bloggersphere, a new month means a new playlist, so that's what I'm sharing with you today! Keep reading for the tunes I'll be blasting this upcoming month...

Heartbeats - José González

Follow the sun - Xavier Rudd

The sound - The 1975

UGH! - The 1975

Love me - The 1975

Lovely - Twenty One Pilots

Fake you out - Twenty One Pilots

Endlessly - The Cab

Call me in the afternoon - Half Moon Run

Mind over matter - Young the Giant 

Quite soft songs this time, it seems to be the theme of the month... How about you? 

February playlist 2016

To get back in the swing of blogging, I figured to post one of my favorite posts to make: a playlist! February is going to be a busy month for me, school is starting up again, I'm still trying to find a job and I want to finish at least three more chapters of the book I'm writing... Music is going to be a necessity to get me through the month!

 I love you - Said the Whale

Savages - Marina and the Diamonds

I see fire - Ed Sheeran

 
Last hope - Paramore

Playing god - Paramore

Vicious love - New Found Glory

Kiss me - Six pence none the richer

Isaac - Bear's Den

She hates me - Puddle of mud

The phantom of the opera - The phantom of the opera (2004)

Let's see if this playlist is going to help me get through the month!


 

 

January playlist 2016

A new year means new music, at least for me it does. And what better way to do that than with a playlist? January is going to be an incredibly busy month for me, so I'm going to need a lot of music to get through it. Fingers crossed I make it through!

Bashful Creatures (album) - Hippo Campus

Cry Baby (album) - Melanie Martinez

I can do better - Avril Lavigne

Everything back but you - Avril Lavigne 

Everglow - Coldplay

7 years - Lukas Graham

My silver lining - First Aid Kit

Renegades - X Ambassadors 

Wig in a box - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Glory and Gore - Lorde

LA Devotee - Panic! at the Disco

Don't threaten me with a good time - Panic! at the Disco 

As per usual, the weirdest combo of songs, but that's what it's going to be like living with me! Sorry mum and dad! :D 

My new year's resolutions

As is customary for every blogger to share with the world at the start of a new year, I have put together a list of all the things I want to change in 2016! Some will be life related, other school, I'll figure it out as I go along...

1. Start working out daily.
I don't do exercise, like, at all. Which I know is awful and it will probably kill me or something, but I'm just so darn lazy! The thought of getting of my butt and actually do something that requires moving, makes me exhausted. So, for the past few years, I simply refused. But that stops now. This year I'm going to put in the effort to get a healthier way of living. I've decided that since I hate cardio with a burning passion, I'm not going to put myself through that. Instead, I've found a couple of fun dance-y type workout videos on youtube that I'm going to try to follow along. For the people who want to workout with me, I've listed a few of the videos below. 

2. Figure out the school situation.
The past couple of months have not been the easiest in school. A lot of things have gone wrong with the project I'm working on and to be honest, I'm freaking out about it. It feels like it's all slipping through my fingers and I can't stand that feeling. The solution? Getting my sh*t together!

3. Drink more water.
I drink two half liters of tea every day, but that's not nearly enough to survive on. So, I'm going to need to up my water intake every day. Drinking a lot of water is beneficial for so many things, like clearing up your skin, strengthening your hair, losing weight...


4. Spend more time with friends.

I'm a recluse, a hermit who likes to spend her days cooped up in her room with her laptop and her books. But this is not very normal behaviour for a nineteen year old. I like to jokingly say I'm nineteen going on ninety, but I actually resemble an old lady more than I'd like to admit. 2016 seems like a good year to change things up a bit.


5. Experiment with makeup more.
I love makeup more than anything in the world. So much even, that I'm going to get my degree for Allround Makeup Artist after I get my degree in Creative Business. But lately, I've been kind of slacking in the makeup department. To be honest, I've been kind of stuck in a rut and it's time to get out of that. For christmas I received quite a bit of new products, so I'm all set to get going with the new trends! 


6. Finish one of my books.
I'm currently writing about eleven or twelve stories. All of them are over 50 000 words, but none of them are actually finished. Ridiculous, right! This needs to change. I've already picked the story I'm going to be working on this year, so fingers crossed!


7. Read more.
I think this one is on a lot of people's resolutions lists. School has taken up so much of my time lately that I've barely had time to read a book or two... Such a shame...


8. Watch more movies.
I have a notebook filled with a long list of movies that I haven't watched yet, but really want to. So far, there are about 200 movies on there and it's time to start making my way through it!


9. Blog every week (maybe even twice a week).
With school and other stuff going on, I've kind of abandoned my blog for a few weeks. Writing a blogpost migrated to the bottom of my to do list and this coming year I'm placing it in the top three. 

10. Live more for me and less for others. 

To go along with my love for makeup, I have a serious obsession with fashion. Kooky, quirky and slightly weird pieces are my favorites as well as a healthy dose of leopard print and short skirts. Not everybody might like my style, but I honestly adore wearing exciting outfits. It makes my day a lot better knowing I'm wearing something extravagant. Some of my fashion icons are: Fran Fine (from 'The Nanny), Clemence Poesy, Audrey Tautou and Emma Watson. All of them are different, but they have one thing in common: femininity! I get scared of what other people will think of me when I wear that certain skirt or that top and it's geting ridiculous. 2016 is the year I'll be wearing what I want and not what other people expect me to wear. 

 

What are your New Year's Resolutions? Planning on keeping up them? I probably won't, but it's nice to think I tried...