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* I have received this book for review from the publisher but this in no way affects my review * Title: Bygone Badass Broads Authors: Mackenzi Lee Source: From Publisher Publisher: Abram Image Rating: 5/5 stars ( Goodreads | Amazon ) Book Summary: Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name,  Bygone Badass Broads  features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling,  Bygone Badass Broads  gives new life to these historic female pioneers. Starting in the fifth century BC and continuing to the present, the book takes a closer look at bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside the traditional gender roles of their time. Coupled with riveting illustrations and Lee’s humorous and conversational storytelling style, this book is an outright celebration of the badass women who ...

My head feels like a mess right now.  My whole body doesn't know quite what to do and I feel like I have a billion different things in my head right now but I have no idea what to do.  Part of me wants to say that I feel numb because I kind of do but at the same time I am feeling a million different feelings that I kind of don't know what to do.  I'm in a shock kind of, my body just doesn't know what to do. Run? Hide? Fight the world? But nothing? I mean I guess not quite nothing I'm writing this so that's something.  All of this started because I've had a rough couple of days. On the outside my life seems fine, I've been reproductive, have been doing work, even today, I have tried to put on a nice front but inside it feels like I am collapsing under the weight. I think a part of me won't let me stop. I know that if I don't continue something might make me stop. It's like I am trying to run away but I'm not.  This post is ...

I have been volunteering with Vteam , my university's volunteering team, since the first year at university and I have been asked by them to share my experiences as it is Student Volunteering Week for the rest of the week.  Over my experience of university, I have had many experiences of volunteering including at the Colchester Film Festival which I have done which is basically volunteering, knowing the schedule and marshalling people as well as watching films on some occasions which is the best of both worlds.  Over the past couple of days, I have also been taking part in volunteering opportunities myself and although I had some bad experience as you will read later, the skills and enjoyable that I have had generally are a great way to get skills without having a job and you have fun too.  So let's get started with my volunteering experiences... Sunday 18th March: Junior Park Run  For this volunteering opportunity I decided to help out at the Junior Park...

* I have received this book for review from the publisher but this in no way affects my review * Title: The Epic Crush of Genie Lo Authors: F. C. Yee Source: From Publisher Publisher: Amulet  Rating: 3/5 stars ( Goodreads | Amazon ) Book Summary: She annihilates standardized tests  and  the bad guys. Genie Lo is one among droves of Ivy-hopeful overachievers in her sleepy Bay Area suburb. You know, the type who  wins . When she’s not crushing it at volleyball or hitting the books, Genie is typically working on how to crack the elusive Harvard entry code. But when her hometown comes under siege from hellspawn straight out of Chinese folklore, her priorities are dramatically rearranged. Enter Quentin Sun, a mysterious new kid in class who becomes Genie’s self-appointed guide to battling demons. While Genie knows Quentin only as an attractive transfer student with an oddly formal command of the English langua...

* I have received this book for review from the publisher but this in no way affects my review * Title: The Belles Authors: Dhonielle Clayton Source: From Publisher Publisher: Gollancz Rating: 3.5/5 stars ( Goodreads | Amazon ) Book Summary: I am a Belle. I control Beauty.  In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle's powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle - the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets, and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater - and far darker - than she ever imagined. When the queen asks Camellia to break the rules she lives by to save the ailing princess, she faces an impossible deci...

It was a silent night at the bus stop. Everything was quiet, eerily quiet for a Friday night. Too quiet. With that the night was broken. A boy was walking towards the bus stop, with his friend who was talking loudly. Beer bottle in hand, it was clear that the pre-drinking that been in fall force. The boy’s friend was yelling that the boy had broken up with his girlfriend earlier that night. “Forget Alice man. Drown your sorrows in drink. Tonight, you will be a man. A free man.” He said, slurring his words as he spoke, walking towards the road rather than on the pavement. Being scared for his safety, the boy was unsuccessfully trying to get his friend out of the pavement. Attempting successfully, the boy said to his friend, “I think we need to get you home.” The boy himself was not drunk, he had so wanted to be, but he thought that he was going out for a film night with his girlfriend, but this didn’t happen, instead the breakup did. One text later and his girlfriend was gone. ...