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  About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger.  If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay.  After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports.  What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy.  I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...

April Wrap Up: O.W.L.S. Readathon and Reading The YA Book Prize

So it is safe to say that I have put off writing this wrap up for basically the whole of May because I read 36 books and I didn't want to write about them all. I did OK with reading The YA Book Prize, completing 8 of the 10 books, not reading Furious Thing and Knife Edge but I might get to Furious Thing soon. I also did well in the O. W. L. S. Readathon completing most of the challenges. At least I've learnt sometimes and I wouldn't expect another Wrap Up soon... Let's get started... Reading The YA Book Prize  I did say that I was going to take part in the Twitter chats that they host although I didn't get a chance to. Here are the nominees: A Good Girl's Guide To Murde r by Holly Jackson  Deeplight  by Frances Hardinge  Furious Thing  by Jenny Downham  Meat Market  by Juno Dawson  The Deathless Girls  by Karen Milwood Hargrave  The Gifted, The Talented and Me  by William Sutcliffe  The Places I've Cried In Public  by Holl...