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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...
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Popsugar Reading Challenge 2015 Round Up

So at the end of last year I discovered the  Popsugar Reading Challenge  and I thought it looked interesting because for someone who just reads YA I thought that it would be a good way to make my reading more diverse. I thought that I would talk about my progress, the ones in bold being the ones I have read and the ones in italics the ones that I need to read. Let's get started...  1.   A book with more than 500 pages :   Demon Road  by Derek Landy  2.  A classic romance :  Pride &  Prejudice  by Jane Austen     3.  A book that became a movie :  Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist  by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn  4.  A book published this year :  All The Bright Places  by Jennifer Niven  5.  A book with a number in the title:  Just One Day  by Gayle Foreman  6.  A book written by someone under 30 :  The Bone Season  by Samantha...
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October Wrap Up

So it's the end of yet another month and this means that I get to discuss the books I read in October. October was meant to be the month that I read all the creepy books that I bought to University with me but I only managed to read one horror book this month, even then, this was from five books. I didn't read that many books considering the amount of work I have had for University but anyway... Let's get started... Number 1: Just One Day by Gayle Forman   After loving Gayle Forman's other series the "If I Stay" Duology, I was really excited to read this book. It had been getting amazing reviews by people who didn't enjoy the If I Stay novels and I did really enjoy it. Although I found it slow, especially at the beginning and it taking me such a long time to read, it was a really nice book to read. The characters were really enjoyable and were well-written and the book had amazing writing and had a plot which was really good for someone who was st...
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Book Review: Paper Dandy's Horrorgami

* I have received this book for review from the publisher but this in no way affects my review * Title:  Paper Dandy's Horrorgami  Author:  Marc Hagan-Guirey Source:  Received from Publisher Publisher:  Laurence King Publishing from Midas PR Rating:  3/5 stars Summary of Paper Dandy's Horrorgami from  Goodreads : Paper Dandy's Horrorgami features 20 kirigami (cut-and-fold) designs based around haunted houses and scenes from horror films by the creator of the successful Horrorgami blog and exhibition. Each project features step-by-step instructions and a template that you remove from the book. You then follow the lines on the template, cutting and folding to make your own kirigami model. All you need is a scalpel, a cutting mat and a ruler. Clear cutting tips help you with the tricky stages and give you an order in which to complete your work, while photos of the finished model show you the final design. Suitable for...
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Characters You Didn't Click With

It's Tuesday which means that it is time for a Top Ten Tuesday post. This week's topic is top ten characters you didn't click with.  The Top Ten Tuesday feature was created by The Broke and the Bookish and more about it can be found  here . Let's get started... Number 10: Lena from the Delirium series Although I do like Lena she can at times be very annoying especially when it comes to her image. I wouldn't say we didn't click it, it was more of a misunderstanding.  Number 9: Tally Underblood from The Uglies series I haven't read this story in a long while but it is one that I need to get back into although I do have some problems with Tally herself which prevents me from continuing this series. The problem again is with her looks which also is the main bases with this series. Number 8: Gally from The Maze Runner series I can't really talk about this one without spoilers from the Death Cure but even in the Maze Runner we jus...
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