Book #6

Ok after my very failed attempt at reading last week (I so wanted to love that book) I've picked out another book to read instead of buying one on my kindle. I think I'm going to read a book from my bookshelf one week then buy one on my kindle the following week. Once I've read all of my books, the one's I know I won't read again, I'll give to a charity shop :)

Anyway , this weeks book is 'How to be famous' by Alison Bond

The blurb

'Lynsey Dixon never plans anything. She has no commitments and no responsibilities apart from her job at a London talent agency that specialises in neurotic actresses like Melanie Chaplin. After keeping her calm head in a crisis, Lynsey is offered a transfer to Los Angeles to help Melanie settle into a new television show. Lynsey can recognise an opportunity when she sees one. An opportunity for serious star spotting and sunny days.

Melanie Chaplin is excited to be famous, but being famous can make you forget yourself. Soon she is wildly in love with a married man and pregnant by her womanising co-star, Fabien Stewart. Being a star can be stressful. And why, when her career is soaring, is she jealous of the young wannabes nipping at her Jimmy Choo heels?

Serena Simon is the most beautiful girl in the world. She didn't exactly choose Hollywood. When you look like Serena, Hollywood is the only place to go. She has a plan and it's working. Fame is only a photoshoot away. Any minute now someone is going to find out that this sexbomb is a teenage runaway, just fourteen years old.'

I think I might enjoy this one

Sxx

Book review #5 - One day

I failed big time with this weeks book. I was reading 'One day' by David Nicholls and I just couldn't get into it at all :(

When the film first came out I was dying to see it, but by the time I went it wasn't showing anymore. So as soon as I spotted the book I snatched it up......and forgot I had it. When I got my kindle I pretty much forgot about all of the books I had, until Monday when I was sorting through them and remembered I had this.

I read about a third of it and I honestly had to force myself to read that chunk of it. When I read a book I pretty much know after the first few pages whether I'm going to like it or not. I made myself plod on with this book because I've read and heard so many good things about it, but for me it wasn't all that great and didn't grab my attention.

Maybe I'll try again in a few months

Have you read this? What did you think?

Sxx

What I'm taking camping

Wooooohooooo I'm going camping at the weekend and I'm a little overexcited about it haha Me and my friends are staying in a wooden wigwam  for the night (how posh!) and usually when I go away I tend to do a  'what's in my travel make up bag' post over on my beauty blog so I figured let's post something similar on here. So I'm doing a clothes post.

Here's what I'll be wearing:

* White cardigan from store twenty one

* Black vest from Primark

* Green shorts from Primark

* Leopard trainers from H&M

* The North Face jacket from Blacks

* Rolling stones T-shirt from Ebay

* Burgundy shorts from Primark

* Converse from Schuh

Hopefully (if I can find my camera) I'll take lots of pictures of where we're staying and put a post up on Monday :)

Have a great weekend!

Sxx

The girl with the dragon tattoo - The movie

After reading 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' and loving it, I was interested to see how alike the film was. So whilst shopping in Asda I spotted Niels Arden Opley's version for £4.00 and after watching it I have to say I was quite disappointed.

So off I trotted to HMV to buy David Fincher's version, which I thought was 100% better. From the very beginning of the film it's very much the same as the book, Henrik is on the phone to his friend and police officer talking about the flower he got sent to him.

Both versions had a few differences. In both, there was no relationship with Cecilia, Blomvkist gets taken down to the basement of Martins house in different ways, the way Martin dies is similar in both films but different to the book, when Blomvkist gets shot it's in different circumstances (I'm 99% sure it was whilst he was out running, in the book) There were many more differences in Opley's version than Finchers, Id say that the main storyline was the same as the book, but for me the small details that were missed out/changed made me not so keen on Opley's.

The ending in David Fincher's version is pretty different from the book, but I shan't spoil it for you all! If you're looking to watch the film, I'd say read the book first then watch David Fincher's, it's much better in my opinion.

S xx

The numbers challenge -

Bit of a random title I know, but I couldn't think of anything else to call this post. So here I am again with a list and a bunch of challenges. I have no idea why I set myself up for these things, but they're usually the product of a very boring day at work. This time I decided to list the numbers 1 to 10 and next to each number write something I want to do (I'm rubbish at explaining myself) So for example, say I had wine next to number 4 I would have to try out 4 different wines. Making sense yet? I'll get on with the list and it should all become clear :P

1 - One different country (Woooo for a holiday)

2 - Two things that scare me (They say do something that scares you everyday, think I'll just settle for two things!) 

3 - Three things for charity

4 - Four different zoo's - Flamingo land zoo

5 - Five different cocktails

6 - Six different theme parks - Flamingo land

7 - Seven different foods

8 - Eight different landmarks

9 - Nine different cities

10 - Ten different flavour ice creams (I only ever have vanilla!! :O )


I'm unsure of what time frame to give myself to do this challenge..........let's say a year and a half. There's no way I'd cram it all into one year!

Wanna join in? I tag you all to come up with a list :P

Sxx

Book #5

Time for another book. I have to say that I'm pretty sad that I finished the 'millennium' trilogy! I'll have to watch the dvds now ;)

This weeks book is One day by David Nicolls -

What the blurb says:

'You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you. 15TH of July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after? And every year that follows?'

I'm really looking forward to reading this!!

S 

Book review #4 - The girl who kicked the hornets nest

This weeks book was Stieg Larsson's 'The girl who kicked the hornets nest'

I didn't get this review up in time (Sunday) due to the fact that I didn't finish the book before today. This is purely because I kept putting it down after a few chapters and having to make myself carry on reading, which I never found with the other two. I was really looking forward to reading this because I enjoyed reading 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' and 'The girl who played with fire' so much. This is my least favourite out of the three, for 2 reasons. 1 - The story kept going off a lot through the book, explaining background stories/details. Which I understand is important so the reader understands the full extent of the story, but it was literally every other chapter, and lasted a full chapter. I just think it would have been easier to swallow if these explanations were maybe cut down a little. 2 - There wasn't that much of an appearance from the two main characters. I understand she's laid up in a hospital bed so can't really be out and about, and he's out there trying to uncover the truth, but I'd have thought there might have been a little more of them both.

This is just my opinion, I'm not bashing the book at all I'm just stating why it was (for me) a little harder to read, and my least out of the three.

Anyway, on with the story -
To be honest I'm having trouble writing the storyline because the book baffled me with the continuous story jumping from one character to the next and the long in depth explanations of certain topics. Anyway, the jist of this is Salander is laid up in hospital recovering from, an operation to recover a bullet (or 3) in a hospital room, two doors down from her father (who was the one that wanted her dead) On the outside of the hospital Blomvkist, along with others, is trying to stop Salander's old psychiatrist from putting her back into an institution. He's also trying to uncover many secrets and conspiracies about the secret police - Sapo (who had dealings with her father) The murder charges have been dropped against Salander, however she's been charged with the attempted murder of her father, so it's all a race against time until her court date.

Towards the last quarter of this, I really got into it again. There's a lot of drama towards the end and I was once again on the edge of my seat!

Sxx