Burning Impossibly Bright

Hello and welcome, and a Happy New Year! 1. Best book? I've read the smallest number of books in a year this year than I've ever read since I started blogging and to be honest I can't think of one stand out amazing book that I absolutely adored, so I'm going to cheat and pick three really good ones that I'd like to recommend, and an amazing series.       She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter 2. Book you were excited about and thought you were going to love more than you did? The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey - There was so much hype surrounding this but I just couldn't finish it. 3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book? Phoenix by SF Said. So much fun! 4. Book that you read in 2013 that you recommended to people most? Ooh. That's a tricky one - I recommended Divergent a lot but I read that a couple of years ago now... Um, for this year's...

So it's a bit of tradition over here for me to make a list of all the bookish/bloggish etc things that I want to accomplish over the next year, forget about them and then remember about them about the week before the new year and be a bit annoyed with myself. So here are my resolutions from last year! 1. Read at least 95 books.  2. Finish Harry Potter.  3. Comment more on other blogs. 4. Finish something I started writing.  5. Post at least 10 times a month.  Well, I did warn you. I have literally done none of these this year! Though it's not technically 2014 yet so I suppose there's still a chance I could get 95 books read! I was close, though! I think I'll have had 93(?) read by the new year, which I am still pretty happy about. But the others? Well, they were kind of lost causes from the start, but it's nice to optimistic! I like setting myself goals even if I don't achieve them. Or remember what they actually were... Anyway, here are mine for 2014! 1. Actual...

So I think I'm going to be ending this year on a kind of depressing note, blogging wise. As the title would suggest, I've been feeling a bit connected from blogging, from reading, from the blogosphere lately. It's only until now that I realised that that was the way I was feeling. I thought I'd just been in a bit of a slump as per usual, but it's been going on for what feels like forever now and I just wanted to address that properly. It comforting to have been able to read so many posts of late about this sort of thing, because it's nice in a way to realise that even the most talented, wonderful bloggers out there have slumps like everyone else. I'm not going to give up blogging or anything, in case you're wondering. That's not the way to go about fixing this problem, I don't think. Well, personally, for me anyway.  I just feel like for the past year at least that I have come to a complete standstill with blogging. I love it and I mostly do it f...

So, I've already done a top ten list for my favourite books of 2013, but I've liked a lot of stuff this year and I want to share the love for all the films, tv shows, games etc that I've really enjoyed and haven't spoken about as much on the blog. So, here we go! Movies I have two favourite films from this year: Catching Fire, which I blogged about and absolutely loved, and The Way Way Back, which I did not blog about, but also absolutely loved. Catching Fire was everything I wanted it to be, and it exceeded my expectations. It was pretty much incredible and I have yet to see a fan of the books who didn't like it. The Way Way Back, while not being based on a book or anything, felt like a YA novel. It's a coming of age story about an awkward teenager and it's probably the funniest film I've seen this year, and one of the nicest, and I just really loved it. It's made by the same people that did Little Miss Sunshine (I think?), which is one of my favour...