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Hey everyone! Today I want to tell you about a new, exciting and beautiful young adult novel on the market. It's called The Scientist and is by the fantastic Elsie Elder, who is a dedicated and inspiring writer. This book is currently available to buy on Amazon.com and will shortly be available on Amazon.co.uk too. So, on to The Scientist! Let's jump straight in to the synopsis: "The Scientist is a story following Grace Fletcher, a sheltered, seventeen year old girl who has had the same three friends since before she could remember. Her reliance on her friends gives her a fierce opposition to letting anyone be alone, which becomes dangerous as her attempts to befriend Matt: a shy,  lonely boy implicates both herself and her closest friends in the massacre that he orchestrates. After suffering through the shooting, and losing Lucas: the boy she has fallen in love with, Grace must now attempt to forgive her oldest friends, herself, and the boy behind the gun...

Hey everyone, Another book, another bandwagon I was late for. I finally finished The Book Thief last night after reading it gradually for about four weeks then finally getting in to it properly last weekend. Narrated by Death who is, as it turns out, a very insightful and thoughtful person, this book also delves in to the world of Liesel, a young girl living in Nazi Germany who, as you may have guessed, has a tendency to steal books. I'll say no more about the plot... Because I have previously studied the holocaust and took a module called 'Interpretations of the Holocaust' I am interested in the ways that the holocaust and the WW2 are represented in history, media and literature. This book did a great job of being accessible to everyone and exploring the reality of Nazi Germany for the people living in it. Things I love about it It's exploration of the importance and power of language It's focus on underrepresented histories The pictures... ooo intr...

I'm stuck in a rut. All day I've been trying to write blogs, work on my novel, plan videos and I haven't got anywhere. Whenever I get an idea I over think whether it would make a better blog or a better video. And, as for other creative writing. I just have a block. I get this all the time, to be honest. Things keep stopping me creating. The last two weeks, the main things stopping me have been the avoidance of various other things such as going to the doctors, sending emails and being unable to solve internal conflicts. I feel too guilty/preoccupied about avoiding these tasks to create. I'm being very vague, I know. Another reason I find myself unable to create is because I obsess over  why it matters so much to me. Why do I want to blog? What do I have to say that's so valuable? Is there really any point? Does it just provide me with an illusion of progress and achievement? So, apparently, the solution I came up with was to blog about the things that sto...