So whats been going on...

Firstly I'd like to say a huge sorry to all of you wonderful people that read my blog... because I'm a negligent blogger and have not blogged about books in what feels like an eternity. Well I have a few reasons and these are in no way excuses but they will make it seem a little clearer:

• The start of university: Well I have gone back to university for my final year studying psychology and this entails some rather LARGE pieces of work including one which is a 10,000 word thesis on my area of expertise... as you can imagine this amount of work takes up a lot of time and right now it has to take priority. I haven't spent £9,000 a year to not complete and work my ass off for my final grade!
• Starting work: As many of the earlier posts may have made people aware, I haven't been in work for over 2 years and finally I have started a part time job in a local shop; although its only part time hours they are the usual hours where I find I read the most and hence has really disrupted my routine... but hey... MONEY... you know what that means right?!? Book haul blogs coming your way soon... hope you like.
• Stitching disaster: Well as you know I am also an avid stitcher; and in some ways I am currently more 'addicted' to stitching than reading... dom..dom...dom!!!! However I have undertook a huge piece for Christmas; for a lady who purchased the piece for her son who has 'special needs', I use quotations as I see this as a false label and a way of separating one version of normality from another... lets not start that rant! So as you can imagine I am getting rather close to the deadline and I still have a lot of work left to do and that is taking up the precious minutes I have to myself recently. Once its complete though I plan on slowing my stitching once more and focusing more on my reading and writing... I promise.
• A really big reading slump: Okay, so I know that people have really good motivation all year round for reading... but I've found that after read-a-thons and especially BookTubeAThon I hit a slump and unless I find the perfect book to fill the void immediately after I hit a wall and it can take a while to get out! Well I hit the wall and I hit it hard! To the point that a lot of books got packed away when I questioned why I needed so many? Happy to say I'm clawing my way out of this slump with some magical realism books and some high fantasy books!!!

My current TBR pile consists of two books; one of which I have already completed:

1. 'The Iron Trial' by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare:  This is the first in the 'Magisterium' Series which looks epic; I have completed this book just today and if I could sum it up in a few words it would be 'a dark Harry Potter'.
2. 'The Queen of Tearling' by Erika Johansen: I picked this book up a little time ago after hearing about it across BookTube and I never started it... however after hearing the movie adaptation will be soon I wanted to read it before then... then to make it even more important... Emma Watson will be starring as the main character which is frigging amazing!!!!! I honestly cannot wait for this to happen!

So I know I have just got back from a long break but please click the follow button --> and get my posts as soon as they are posted... please check back as I have several reviews and tbr's and personal challenges for next year; coming up soon.

Happy reading x

P.S. Would love to know what your reading... leave a link to your blogs or videos below and if you haven't got either of those feel free to just say what your reading... or even any views on the books in my TBR pile.