A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Rating – ☆☆☆☆☆/5 The first book in this very popular young adult murder series is ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’. This book follows the story of high school student, Pippa Fitz-Amobi, who decides to investigate a murder that occurred five years ago in her small town for her senior year school project. The novel starts with Pippa deciding to take on the case of Andie Bell for her final project. Andie Bell was a popular high school student who was murdered five years ago and the official ruling was that Andie’s ex-boyfriend, Sal Singh, had killed her before commit ..read more

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The key takeaway from Atomic Habits is that the way to make big changes in your life, is to make small and easy changes that you’ll be able to stick with for a while. Focusing less on setting goals but instead creating systems is also mentioned frequently. The book has many really important points but in this post I’m just going to summarise the ones I think are the most important or useful. Getting 1% Better Every Day Big goals can often be ineffective and can be too unachievable and diffcult for us to do anything about them. Clear even says that a 1% increase every day means a 37x improvem ..read more

Recently I’ve been seeing lots of people do reading wrap ups for each month so I decided to do my own for the month of October. However, I decided to just choose 4 out of the 9 books I read this month to review so that I could go more in depth about my opinions on each of these books. These books are also not in any specific order but I have included star ratings and age ratings for each one! A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, Holly Jackson Rating – ☆☆☆☆/5 Age Rating – 13+ Pippa Fitz-Amobi is a teenager who loves true-crime. She wants to become a journalist so for her senior year project she deci ..read more

The fashion industry is constantly evolving and is therefore creating excess clothing that usually ends up in landfills Fast fashion is now a large business fed by low cost production systems. Creating new clothing designs every few weeks takes a toll on the environment. The industry has a huge environmental impact since it is manufacturing clothes that typically require gallons of water and harmful chemicals. This then emits extremely significant amounts of greenhouse gases. According to The World Bank, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of the world’s annual carbon emissions. The fa ..read more

This post will give you 10 tips to help you become more organised and productive. By following these simple tips you can build a productivity system that will keep your tasks, space and schedule organised! Do some admin every day for five minutes You could check your to-do list, update your calendar or maybe add a few new tasks to your to-do list. If you do these admin tasks in the morning it prepares you for your day, keeps your schedule and to-do list up to date and keeps you organised. 2. Create a time-blocked daily schedule There are many different ways to time-block. You could use a dig ..read more

Donna Galanti is a middle grade author who loves writing adventure and mystery books. Her new book ‘Unicorn Island’ will be releasing this week ( February 9-15 ). To celebrate her new release Donna has agreed to answer some questions about writing and books! Donna has even kindly provided me with an excerpt of her book that you can read at the end of this blog post.  If you would like to learn more about her visit Donna at donnagalanti.com. What advice would you give about coming up with new ideas and how to start writing? Coming up with new story ideas is one of the most fun parts about ..read more

It’s finally the winter which gives us even more time to read. With so much time on our hands, it is the perfect time of year to be cosy and read as many books as you can! This list has the perfect recommendations to get you into the winter spirit. 4. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens This is a classic Christmas novella written by Charles Dickens. It follows the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man who despises Christmas. He hates everything to do with Christmas from giving to charities, to the presents and even the carols. His business partner Marley had passed away a few years ago and from then ..read more

V V Brown is a musician, model, entrepreneur, and a soon to be author. To celebrate the upcoming release of her book ‘Lilly and the Magic Comb’, she has very kindly agreed to write an article about the lack of multicultural representation in children’s books and media. There is no such thing a niche. I cried my eyes out when I watched the video of the famous doll experiment by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, (1940). The experiment consisted of a group of black and white children who were given two specific variables to choose. One of the variables was a white doll and the other variable ..read more

One of the hardest parts about writing a book is writing the opening lines. These lines can tell you so much about the characters and can set the tone for the entire story. Therefore, I have created a list of the opening lines of some of my favourite books. I hope that this post is helpful and will give you some interesting book recommendations. Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard I hate First Friday. It makes the village crowded, and now, in the heat of high summer, that’s the last thing anyone wants. Checkmate, Malorie Blackman The General watched as his Liberation Militia commanders took their plac ..read more