the rest is still unwritten

flowers made out of words!

it's scientifically proven that reading books in your spare time makes you more intelligent and attractive to just about everybody* and it's something which i neglected until recently. as an overweight, emotionally delayed tweenager, i loved the escape that came attached to a new story and would sit in my room for hours on end churning through pages of vampire slaying action just to head back out straight after to buy another one. i might be a bit slimmer at the start of my adulthood but very little else has changed.

this leads us nicely into my first segment which is called: "what the fuck are you reading?"

my wonderful friend (found here, being beautiful with beautiful things) nearly always buys me a book for my birthday/christmas and she hits the nail on the head every time. this time around, she bought me "damned" by chuck palahniuk, the guy who wrote "fight club", and it was no disappointment. it tells the story of madison, a 13 year old girl narrating her life from hell: it's riddled with shocking plot twists and macabre events (including a fistfight with hitler and cunnilingus performed on a giant via a severed head) and the cliffhanger leads perfectly to the second book of the trilogy.

as if "damned" wasn't enough chuck for me, it inspired me to have another bash at "haunted" which i attempted during my a-levels but couldn't stomach. focussing on an array of writers struggling to finish their masterpiece, it's set in an abandoned theatre and centres around character flashbacks revealing what still haunts them from the outside. infamous for it's "guts" chapter (seriously, wikipedia it before you eat), it turned out to be fantastic. warped, messy, cynical, extreme and realistic, i loved every word and wanted to start it all over again.

re-reading "carrie", "the mist" and "the girl who loved tom gordon", all by stephen king, was a good shout too. short books, ones you can blitz through, but rewarding all the same. the sequel to the shining, "doctor sleep", is on my shelf: brand new, unread and crying out to opened. i need to get on that. someone send motivation. and haste.

i honestly forgot just how happy i feel when i'm reading, escaping the real world and getting lost in the words of an entirely new place. i nearly always lean towards horror fiction: i guess i enjoy it more because it's the polar opposite to my real life, i'll never experience something so drastic. unless it's the zombie apocalypse, god i hope that happens soon.

why not get on amazon and buy some books for a penny? head to your local charity shop and attack the 50p section? more importantly, find time to read. don't spend 4 hours watching "50 life hack" videos. sit down and read that bloody book. you'll look good doing it and you'll probably have the time of your life.

what's your favourite book? read anything lately that you'd recommend? i'm always on the look out for new words to read and would love to hear from you. really though.

amazon books are a godsend, fyi.








*this mightn't be 100% factual.