Hey Guys,
So some series of books can suck, I mean sometimes you read a book and think one book is enough but with other books that are just total page-turners and you just need more. more. more.
Which is why I thought I'd share with you guys some of my favourite series of books in the hope you will discover a whole other world...
1. Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
This series honestly makes me so happy, I have mentioned the Lightning Thief- which is the first book- in the "Five Books I swear by" post (http://ladyoftherivers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-five-books-i-swear-by.html) and every single book in this 5 book series is at good as that. I freaking love them. The story is so believable ,to me anyway, which means I will happily read them again and again to enter once again Percy Jackson's world.
2. The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
This is the less known series of books by Cassandra Clare, which I prefer to the original Mortal Instruments. These are set in Victorian England which is amazing because the love in the characters takes ages to form because they are all so polite. Even though it is set in a historical era is most defiantly not historical fiction. Although she added a little love triangle in the books they are written so well that the love triangle makes the book rather than take away from the books- which is what I feel happened with the Mortal Instruments-.
3. Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
These are the books my childhood is based off and questionably the best series ever written. Although i am a bit biased, I mean my middle name is Lucy after all... But i love these series because they just deliver an amazing world so perfectly. literally even reading the Magicians Nephew creates this expanse of land Aslan needs to fill- and that's not even his best book.
The best book in the whole series is of course The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I could write a whole blogpost about this book. What it means to me. How great it is. How much i love it.
But i wont... I will use the power of constraint and just say read the books. You will not be wasting your time.
4. Laura Ingles wilder books by Laura Ingles Wilder
These also are the foundation of many a childhood memory, creating games, trips and conversations because these books are also incredible. Written by a true American traveller in the 18th/19th century ( I haven't read them in a while so i can't remember the exact date) but they are so good. If you want to know what living life rough and with nature. Read these books, where getting class for a building they MADE by themselves was a massive deal.
Now I know i have left Harry Potter out but I think the world wide fan base and the billion dollar market sprung up around it shows its success.
Love,
LadyoftheRivers x
( Sorry there are not pictures I have no camera at the moment so... Just use your imaginations...)
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Sunday, 17 May 2015
The Dunce
Hey Guys,
Whoa, two posts in two days... I need to slow down...
But anyway seeing as you guys enjoy them here is another wordy, chatty and a little be deep blogpost.
I don't know if anyone of you have spotted but often in my posts there are some errors like a missed out letter or something that just didn't sound the right way-although it did in my head-.
This is because i am dyslexic ( seriously that I one hell of a word to spell, surely if we're dyslexic they should have given us n easier one to memorise and spell...)
But anyway I am one of the 375,000 pupils in the UK with dyslexia, so yeah extra time friends...
And for a long time I might have used dyslexia as an excuse, I'm not proud of it but in year 9 I used to beg and beg my teachers to let me give up Spanish as it was so hard... However, my teacher said I could not so I didn't and last year I managed to get a B in my Spanish GCSE and went to Salamanca. Which meant I had the confidence to take for essay subjects this year...
So what I'm trying to say is that even though for the rest of my days I am going to have to deal with my friends sighing as I ask them for the millionth time to tell me that guaranteed is most defiantly NOT spelt with a Q ( I am still convinced it is), have my essays underlined with red as both my teachers and my computer remind me that punctuation is compulsory not optional...
Anyway, what I trying to say is that if you are one of the fortunate people like
I just wanted to let you know as this blog is about me blogging what I am doing at the moment and with exams happening dyslexia is something I have to battle especially hard right now.
Love,
Ladyoftherivers x
Whoa, two posts in two days... I need to slow down...
But anyway seeing as you guys enjoy them here is another wordy, chatty and a little be deep blogpost.
I don't know if anyone of you have spotted but often in my posts there are some errors like a missed out letter or something that just didn't sound the right way-although it did in my head-.
This is because i am dyslexic ( seriously that I one hell of a word to spell, surely if we're dyslexic they should have given us n easier one to memorise and spell...)
But anyway I am one of the 375,000 pupils in the UK with dyslexia, so yeah extra time friends...
And for a long time I might have used dyslexia as an excuse, I'm not proud of it but in year 9 I used to beg and beg my teachers to let me give up Spanish as it was so hard... However, my teacher said I could not so I didn't and last year I managed to get a B in my Spanish GCSE and went to Salamanca. Which meant I had the confidence to take for essay subjects this year...
So what I'm trying to say is that even though for the rest of my days I am going to have to deal with my friends sighing as I ask them for the millionth time to tell me that guaranteed is most defiantly NOT spelt with a Q ( I am still convinced it is), have my essays underlined with red as both my teachers and my computer remind me that punctuation is compulsory not optional...
Anyway, what I trying to say is that if you are one of the fortunate people like
- Orlando Bloom
- Albert Einstein
- F. Scott. Fitzgerald
- And of course me ( and my sister)
I just wanted to let you know as this blog is about me blogging what I am doing at the moment and with exams happening dyslexia is something I have to battle especially hard right now.
Love,
Ladyoftherivers x
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Am I invisible?
Hey Guys,
Everything here is incredibly stressful, a levels have just started and I am panicking.
Hope if you are facing the dreaded exams, you're surviving and crushing it....
But. I wanted to take a break and blog about something that I'm questioning,
Am I invisible?
I don't know if you guys ever think this but seriously let me gives some examples...
I always get spoken over, I don't know if its because I have a quiet voice but if I try and speak louder I get told I'm shouting? But also in text form when I'm ignored time and time again if I am on a group chat or something I'm sorry if this sound like I'm complaining but it just been something I've often wondered about and i just a bit tired of being seen in this way.
Also I seem to be the stepping stone. This means I introduce certain friends to some of my other friends and then I'm rejected like mouldy cheese. This scenario has happened countless times but probably the most hurtful was recently when my long-time close friend has found a new group of friends at first I was the most supportive I have been and honestly encouraging her to go and hang out with them. Until. She literally threw that back in my face by telling me I was no longer fun to be around because I was panicking about exams and she would much rather be with her new friends and wished she was hanging out with them while spending time with me. This felt like a slap in the face. To many of you this probably sounds mundane and stupid to be angry over this but it was just one thing out of many examples I could give.
So I have come to you guys to ask you a question.
What can you do when you out grow a friend?
It's like those awesome clothes you had when you were younger but then one day you paused. looked at yourself in the mirror struggling to fit into that top, do the buttons on that coat and to move in those jeans. And knew, it as time to say goodbye.
And that feeling is like some friends. My mum calls the "fair-weather friends" cause they're only around for the good times, but when things go hairy they run away faster than the road-runner...
So in answer to those two questions.
Yes, i am going to be invisible, maybe it because I try to be kind so people think it is okay to step over you- anyone else with a kind-looking face get my problem?-.
But to outgrowing friends yeah, it sucks that it happens, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do know, maybe just see how it pans out.
Let me know if you ever struggle with these things...
Love,
Ladyoftherivers x
Sorry this was so melodramatic but blogging helps put things into perspective and just love to have a rant and a blog...
Everything here is incredibly stressful, a levels have just started and I am panicking.
Hope if you are facing the dreaded exams, you're surviving and crushing it....
But. I wanted to take a break and blog about something that I'm questioning,
Am I invisible?
I don't know if you guys ever think this but seriously let me gives some examples...
I always get spoken over, I don't know if its because I have a quiet voice but if I try and speak louder I get told I'm shouting? But also in text form when I'm ignored time and time again if I am on a group chat or something I'm sorry if this sound like I'm complaining but it just been something I've often wondered about and i just a bit tired of being seen in this way.
Also I seem to be the stepping stone. This means I introduce certain friends to some of my other friends and then I'm rejected like mouldy cheese. This scenario has happened countless times but probably the most hurtful was recently when my long-time close friend has found a new group of friends at first I was the most supportive I have been and honestly encouraging her to go and hang out with them. Until. She literally threw that back in my face by telling me I was no longer fun to be around because I was panicking about exams and she would much rather be with her new friends and wished she was hanging out with them while spending time with me. This felt like a slap in the face. To many of you this probably sounds mundane and stupid to be angry over this but it was just one thing out of many examples I could give.
So I have come to you guys to ask you a question.
What can you do when you out grow a friend?
It's like those awesome clothes you had when you were younger but then one day you paused. looked at yourself in the mirror struggling to fit into that top, do the buttons on that coat and to move in those jeans. And knew, it as time to say goodbye.
And that feeling is like some friends. My mum calls the "fair-weather friends" cause they're only around for the good times, but when things go hairy they run away faster than the road-runner...
So in answer to those two questions.
Yes, i am going to be invisible, maybe it because I try to be kind so people think it is okay to step over you- anyone else with a kind-looking face get my problem?-.
But to outgrowing friends yeah, it sucks that it happens, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do know, maybe just see how it pans out.
Let me know if you ever struggle with these things...
Love,
Ladyoftherivers x
Sorry this was so melodramatic but blogging helps put things into perspective and just love to have a rant and a blog...
Sunday, 26 April 2015
Finding your passion.
Hey Guys,
Today I thought I'd write about something which is close to my heart. Having a passion.
I think it is so important of have that something which drives you on, makes you wake up on a rainy Monday morning and makes you want to strive forward and achieve.
For me this, as I have probably mentioned, is history specifically Tudors and Early Plantagenets. Whether it is watching, writing or reading about it, I just get this feeling that this is what I'm meant to do.
However recently I have been challenged in this area, this is because I am studying history for a-levels which are very soon ( you might have noticed this a I'm shortening my blogpost and not taking many blog pictures until they are over) so that means revision and tests. The tests I have go t back are so disheartening that I just wonder if my passion is still there.
But it is. So much so I made a couple of little Etsy purchases spurred on by the Tudors...
So what is the deep message of the this, just keep you passion alive, do something that increase your love for it and if you haven't found your passion, you will find it or realise it ( for the longest time I didn't believe history was a passion of mine I thought I was just a little interest. But then I realised I really could not go without it)
I hope this helps or inspires anyone
Sorry the posts are so short and a bit deep at the moment... Blame exams!
Love,
LadyoftheRivers x
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
We all have that one friend...
Hey Guys,
Recently I've been noticing the many different aspects of my friend group, I then watched a couple of videos about " We all have that one friend..." and I thought it would be fun to share with you the friends I think I have in my friend group. If you can't spot these in your friends... maybe your that friend.
1. The friend who can eat anything and never gain wait. aka The metabolism I wished I had.
I defiantly have this friend. She is absolutely lovely but she does eat a sizeable amount of sugar. But never puts on any weight... she doesn't even work out. I feel like I just stare at he with envy when she eats Doughnuts and Haribo for breakfast with a Chocolate spread sandwiches for break, a big-ass meal with an afters for lunch coupled with coke and crisps....
I mean, she eats all this and still looks great... I can't even eat all that and if I did, I'm sure I get like mistaken for a whale or something...
2. The friend who knows everything and HAS to tell you.
This one doesn't have to be top of their class but just has a bunch of random facts in their head which will make anything you say invalid. I surprisingly have two of these friends and end up avoiding having arguments or any type of discussion for fear of being cut down by their many, many, many, facts...
3. The friend who obsessed with that one thing.
This was for a long time me in a friend group ( Whoo, Tudors) but the responsibility now has shifted onto my friend's shoulder. She is obsessed about her music and bands. Cue posters, stickers, merch, t-shirts just everything under the sun that relates to at least one of her bands. I just feel bad I can't join in her mourning for MCR or almost weeing herself when a new all time low song comes out.
4. The friend who forgets everything.
Whether its birthdays, meetings, or even my name. I have a friend who has a brain like a sieve. But suddenly in exam season when the whole year she's been forgetting all the friend stuff... she remember everything for her exam. But still complains her memory is awful.
5. The happy friend.
This friend can be both a curse and a blessing. When your in a grump she is the last face you want to see. Her happy, positive vibes only persona is not something you want to be greeted with when its a Monday morning and you have the mother of all hangovers. How ever if you want a pep talk, to laugh until you cry and have a good old natter to this friend is the best.
6. The woe is me friend
This is the friend who's glass is defiantly half empty. No matter how many biscuits and cups of tea you make for this person they will never see the brighter side in life. However, just when you are thinking they're depressed they can have surprising mood swings.
These are just a few friends I've spotted let me know yours in the comment and I hope you have a great day
Love,
LadyoftheRivers
Recently I've been noticing the many different aspects of my friend group, I then watched a couple of videos about " We all have that one friend..." and I thought it would be fun to share with you the friends I think I have in my friend group. If you can't spot these in your friends... maybe your that friend.
1. The friend who can eat anything and never gain wait. aka The metabolism I wished I had.
I defiantly have this friend. She is absolutely lovely but she does eat a sizeable amount of sugar. But never puts on any weight... she doesn't even work out. I feel like I just stare at he with envy when she eats Doughnuts and Haribo for breakfast with a Chocolate spread sandwiches for break, a big-ass meal with an afters for lunch coupled with coke and crisps....
I mean, she eats all this and still looks great... I can't even eat all that and if I did, I'm sure I get like mistaken for a whale or something...
2. The friend who knows everything and HAS to tell you.
This one doesn't have to be top of their class but just has a bunch of random facts in their head which will make anything you say invalid. I surprisingly have two of these friends and end up avoiding having arguments or any type of discussion for fear of being cut down by their many, many, many, facts...
3. The friend who obsessed with that one thing.
This was for a long time me in a friend group ( Whoo, Tudors) but the responsibility now has shifted onto my friend's shoulder. She is obsessed about her music and bands. Cue posters, stickers, merch, t-shirts just everything under the sun that relates to at least one of her bands. I just feel bad I can't join in her mourning for MCR or almost weeing herself when a new all time low song comes out.
4. The friend who forgets everything.
Whether its birthdays, meetings, or even my name. I have a friend who has a brain like a sieve. But suddenly in exam season when the whole year she's been forgetting all the friend stuff... she remember everything for her exam. But still complains her memory is awful.
5. The happy friend.
This friend can be both a curse and a blessing. When your in a grump she is the last face you want to see. Her happy, positive vibes only persona is not something you want to be greeted with when its a Monday morning and you have the mother of all hangovers. How ever if you want a pep talk, to laugh until you cry and have a good old natter to this friend is the best.
6. The woe is me friend
This is the friend who's glass is defiantly half empty. No matter how many biscuits and cups of tea you make for this person they will never see the brighter side in life. However, just when you are thinking they're depressed they can have surprising mood swings.
These are just a few friends I've spotted let me know yours in the comment and I hope you have a great day
Love,
LadyoftheRivers
Sunday, 19 April 2015
The General Election...
Hey Guys,
If you live in the UK you hopefully will be aware that there is an election on the 7th of May to decide who will run our country for the next five years.
As a politics student I think it is vital we participate as much as possible in order to choose who runs our country.
I know people like Russell Brand say we shouldn't vote by personally I think that we can't have a say when we don't put forward an opinion or fight the ruling powers
Women, listen up, I want to personally say vote because of what the suffragettes fought for, without them many of us ( and many men) would not have the vote. So I want to vote in order to show my solidarity with the move.
But back to the election. For all you over 18s please make the decision either Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives. Think before you vote. Please don't throw your vote away on a party. Read the manifestos and make an educated guess. I know this is heavy but I think it is an important topic.
If you live in the UK you hopefully will be aware that there is an election on the 7th of May to decide who will run our country for the next five years.
As a politics student I think it is vital we participate as much as possible in order to choose who runs our country.
I know people like Russell Brand say we shouldn't vote by personally I think that we can't have a say when we don't put forward an opinion or fight the ruling powers
Women, listen up, I want to personally say vote because of what the suffragettes fought for, without them many of us ( and many men) would not have the vote. So I want to vote in order to show my solidarity with the move.
But back to the election. For all you over 18s please make the decision either Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives. Think before you vote. Please don't throw your vote away on a party. Read the manifestos and make an educated guess. I know this is heavy but I think it is an important topic.
Hope this helps or at least informs you about the biggest event in 2015.
Love,
LadyoftheRivers x
Monday, 13 April 2015
Not Ready for This.
He Guys,
This month has been very broken up for blogposts as I have been away a lot because I firstly went Sicily and then a family holiday to Cornwall. Where there is zero internet but now I am back.
But school. Tomorrow. Panicking.
So I thought I would take a few minutes to write a quick blogpost.
I don't know if anyone is ever ready to go back to school- I know I never am, so I thought we can support each other if you too are going back to school/uni and are facing the dreaded exams...
So here is an inspirational quote which I hope helps you (even if only a little bit)
This month has been very broken up for blogposts as I have been away a lot because I firstly went Sicily and then a family holiday to Cornwall. Where there is zero internet but now I am back.
But school. Tomorrow. Panicking.
So I thought I would take a few minutes to write a quick blogpost.
I don't know if anyone is ever ready to go back to school- I know I never am, so I thought we can support each other if you too are going back to school/uni and are facing the dreaded exams...
So here is an inspirational quote which I hope helps you (even if only a little bit)
So I thought this would be a good one to start with as it kinda helps me hope that even though life is a bit rubbish and hard at the moment you still can have good moments ( getting a bit cheesy now...Sorry...)
Hope you liked this short little update-y post.
Love,
LadyoftheRivers
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