2017 Reading Forecast

My reading challenge every year is to complete twenty books. I'm quite a slow reader but usually this target is realistic. In 2016 I only read 13 books but this year I'd like to do a little more than that. This is a list of some of the books I'd like to read in 2017.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 
Room by Emma Donoghue
Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne
Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran 
Sailor Moon volume 1 

Dan and Phil Go Outside
On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

To finish this short post, Eddie who was being super helpful by sitting where I was trying to take a picture. So that's the plan for books next year. I'm hoping to review all the ones I read so you'll know if I don't finish them all. If you want to see my reading challenge from this year, I have a good reads page you can check out. Comment if you've read any of these books and let me know what you thought. That's all for now, thanks for reading

Paper Towns

On Friday this week my sister and I went to see the Paper Towns film and I loved it. Paper Towns is one of my favourite books so I had quite high expectations. I read the book a while ago so didn't really remember why it was a favourite of mine but after the seeing the film , that became clear. That's why today I thought I would share with you my thoughts on the film.

Erin Writes #4 The Fosters

Just when you thought I would stop talking about The Fosters, I come back with a whole post about it. But this isn't going to be me talking about how great the show is or the fact that I ship Jonnor like there's no tomorrow. This is, finally, another Erin Writes post. I made this series when I first started blogging and since then have only written three posts on it. There have been various different reasons as to why I only did three but more recently it was due to my complete lack of inspiration. I went for around two months without writing a single word for any of my books. It didn't bother me too much though until I started watching The Fosters when I realised how long it had been since I had written. 

All I Know Now Book Review

About a week ago I wrote a post about Carrie Hope Fletcher (which you can see here) and so today I decided I should write a review of her book. I'm quite a slow reader and All I Know Now only took about 10 days to read which is good, for me. And I found the whole book to be inspiring and one that I could just read over and over again.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

When I was around 12, I found Carrie Fletcher (Its Way Past My Bedtime) on YouTube. It was about 11pm and I had been watching Danisnotonfire when I saw a video he made with Carrie. I instantly knew who she was because a friend of mine had said she watched her channel. At first I thought I'll just watch one video but I think we all know that on YouTube that sentence is laughed at  frequently. Needless to say, I was awake till stupidly late watching all of Carrie's videos. I've always found I could relate to her in one way or the other. Back then I think it was because we both have curly hair, and my brother is also in a band (not a famous one, obviously. And to be honest I've never actually heard them before so they could be terrible but that isn't the point). Now I've come to find many more reasons that I find Carrie Fletcher so inspirational.

Charity Shop Haul

Over the past month I have been very lucky because almost every time I go into a charity shop I see books that are on my list to buy. This is great because they're super cheap especially compared to the price you'd pay in a book shop. So today I thought I'd share with you some of the things I've bought from Charity shops recently. 

London 2015

I have been awful at posting recently for many different reasons. But I'm not going to go into that now because I would much rather talk about London.

Erin Writes #3 Writers Block

I can go months without having a single word to write in my books. It can be very annoying, especially if I've set myself a deadline. And I find that if I force myself to write, it is never as good. So today I thought I would share with you some tips to help with writers block. 

The Taming of The Tights Book Review

The Taming of The Tights is the third book in Louise Rennison's Withering Tights series. I read the first two books a while ago and finished this one last week. I would give this book about three stars but I do think that's because I loved the first two so much that it fits in with them. If you haven't read or didn't enjoy Withering Tights, I don't think you will appreciate this book in the same way. (Warning: This review will contain spoilers!)

Life Update Type Thing

Today I just wanted to give a little life update of what I've been doing and some of my plans. First I'd like talk about why missed a post on Sunday last week. It wasn't that I didn't have time to write or anything like that, it was because I didn't feel like that day I had anything thing to write about. Even though I have notebooks full of ideas for posts, I didn't feel like any of that would be as good as I'd like it to be. I was disappointed that this was first time of the year I went off schedule but I would of been more disappointed if I wrote something I didn't like. 

 On a much happier note, I'm going to see Bethan Leadley (who is Musical Bethan on YouTube) on Saturday. I've wanted to go and see her on tour since she announced it, especially when I found out Dodie Clark will be with her, but I  couldn't find any one to go with me. Then yesterday my sister said she would come (which is good but I feel weird about dragging her along when she doesn't know anything about Bethan) and I'm so excited now because I'm sure it's going to be amazing. 

 Last week I had my third CAMHS appointment. (CAMHS is the place I'll be going to for therapy sessions.) I've been there before when I first had panic attacks and it was just a really great place. This time I'll be having ITP therapy (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) which is specifically for depression and I'm quite hopeful about it. So far, I've only really been getting to know the person I'm working with and even though therapy hasn't officially started, it feels like it's already been helpful. 

 I may have mentioned in another post that I've recently been having friend problems which for a long time have really been affecting me. Now I still talk about it sometimes and I do think about it but I feel now like that isn't as important. That's been helpful for me because it's been difficult to loose a friend who, my whole life, has been there and to not have all my school friends either. It's made worse because I'm not good at talking to people and making friends so a lot of the time I've been alone. This is still a problem I have but realising I need to let go of certain people in my life has been great.

 A few days ago I was watching Supernatural (which I do every day) and it was an episode about a group of friends who film everything in their life so they're basically filming 24 hours a day. This was something I found really interesting and decided to do something similar. I won't be filming everything (also the group of people in Supernatural turned into werewolves which I don't plan on doing) but I'd like to start because one day I'd like to make YouTube videos and this will be good practice. 

 Last week I went see Into The Woods which I wasn't really impressed by. It felt like they weren't sure which way to go with the whole idea. Like there were bits I found really funny but then others that were so serious that the humor was almost inappropriate. There were three things I liked about the film: Chris Pine's song (Agony), when Rapunzel's Prince fell off the wall, and the acting from all of the cast. I've also really been enjoying Hollyoaks recently as Crazy Will is back and as bad as it probably is, he's my favourite person ever on the show. So far in my reading challenge I have finished two books and I'm close to my third which is great because I think I'll be able to complete this years challenge. You can follow that on my Good Reads page here. 

 This has been a bit of an update of what I've been doing recently. Hope you enjoyed it, I just felt like sharing some of this with you. Remember, you can follow me on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter (there are links at the top of the page and the side) for more I've what I've been doing. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye

Amanda Prowse Christmas for One Book Review

This was the book I read over Christmas and only finished a few days ago. Over all I thought it was good as before reading I had extremely low expectations. My opinion was definitely changed. (Warning: review contains spoilers)

Erin Writes #1

The one thing in life I wish for most for myself is to write a book and have it published. It's my dream to see a book I wrote on shelves in Waterstones and it sounds strange but I wish that one day Carrie Hope Fletcher (who is Itswaypastmybedtime on YouTube) will read a book of mine.

November Shopping Haul

I'm not very big on shopping and I never tend to enjoy it but I received some money for my birthday that I thought I'd go and spend. Honestly I spent more money than I had hoped but I'm quite happy with what I bought so here we go:

First I bought a pair of Black skinny jeans from Primark (£11.00), a pair of thick black leggings from H and M (£7.99) and a plain black cardigan from Primark for £8.00 (not shown in picture). I only realised now how many black clothes I bought and already owned which may not be such a great thing.

 Three pairs of black ankle socks (£2.00). I had to buy these which are actually extra thick at the bottom because they're for exercise which is not something I'll be doing, I just had to buy socks with some way to know which belong to my sister and which are mine.

Next I bought this brown, small satchel bag from H and M for £19.99 . This was the only bag I found that I liked and I felt like a really needed a new bag because I've been carrying round a bright green, Adventure Time bag which isn't even slightly subtle.

 The last clothing things I bought were this red plaid shirt from H and M (£12.99) and a black dress with three quarter length sleeves (£12.99).

Finally I went into Waterstones which is probably the most important part of the day and I bought three books which are Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling, Grace's Guide by Grace Helbig and The Taming of the Tights by Louise Rennison. I am, quite obviously, very excited to read these books soon as I've wanted these three for a very long time.

That was my shopping haul from a few days ago. Comment below if you've read any of these books and let me know if they're good. That's all for now. Hope to see you next time, bye.

Birthday Haul

It was my Birthday last week and today I thought I would share with you some of the presents I got.

So starting with probably the main thing, I was given an Iphone 5c which was definitely something I needed as my old phone was barely even making calls anymore.

My Next presents are this toy dinosaur from my parents (toy dinosaurs have just become something they get me every year now), a Marvel comics advent calendar from my brother and a hand held mirror and drinking cup from Paperchase.

Looking for Alaska Book Review

I recently finished the John Green book Looking for Alaska and thought I would write a review for you. (This review will contain spoilers so if you do not like to know what happens then I advise you stop reading) 

My Book Collection part 2

Today I'm going to share with you the second part of my book collection. Again I haven't read all these books and I will give a star rating to the ones I have. So here we go:

Birthday Wishlist

My birthday is around two months away so this is quite early but I've been getting really excited so I decided to just make this now. You can see where to buy each of these things by clicking on the links below. So here is just the things that I'm going to ask for this year:

The Green Mile Book Review

Last night I finished reading The Green Mile by Stephen King which is the first Stephen King book and I really enjoyed it so I decided to write a short review. (Warning: this may contain spoilers)

My Book Collection Part 1

I was inspired  by Carrie Hope Fletcher to create a book collection post and because I own quite a lot of books, I'm going to do it in stages. I haven't read all these books and I will give a star rating to the ones I have.
So here we go with shelf 1: