Good morning lovlies! So, you may or may not know that one of my new years resolutions was to read 30 books this year and I have to admit I have been majorly slacking. It may not sound like a great amount but it works out as 2 and a half books a month which, combined with working, blogging and general living, can be hard to fit in. I had a spurt when I was reading The Hunger Games and managed to get through them in about a week and a half but since then I have just lost all reading motivation. However, I have managed to get back into it and, once again I started a book (Wildflower, review WILL come soon!) but then got distracted by a much easier read and am happy to say I finished it within about six days. The book in question is Jo Nesbo's 'Headhunters' which I am reliably informed has been made into a feature film. The general storyline of the book features a man called Roger Brown who is a headhunter and an art thief on the side. He is introduced to someone he believes will be the perfect candidate for a postition he has lined up, however, things start to take a turn for the worst when he finds out this candidate is in possesion of one of the most sought after paintings in the world. Everything gets a bit messed up (great descriptions going on here) and there are some good twists and turns to keep it interesting. It's a definite page turner and I'd recommend it for an easy, yet interesting read. As a bonus, the proceeds from the book and the film go to the Harry Hole Foundation which is a charity set up to 'reduce illiteracy among children in the third world'. So even if you don't enjoy it you're still doing some good! 

I must crack on and read some more now. I wish blog posts counted towards my goal of 30 because I can safely say that if they did I would have far surpassed this a long time ago! Ah well, I put myself in this situation and I will not fail! Are you reading any interesting books at the moment? I've been recommended the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series as an un-put-downable series that's bound to have me pushing ahead in my resolution in no time, have any of you lot read them? I really hope you're all doing fantastically well and I look forward to speaking again soon. Au revoir! (Learning French was another resolution, clearly not got that far with that one yet.)

Good day! 

Here is the final review of the sixth book in my new year's resolution. I should really be either further through my 7th book or on my 8th by now but haven't quite managed that because I had a bit of a lull after finishing The Hunger Games. My opinion hasn't really changed from what I thought a while back when I was only about a quarter of the way through. It is definitely aimed more at the teenage audience than The Hunger Games was, and I found myself struggling to get through it just out of boredom. To me it seems the story is so obviously trying to appeal to those that liked Twilight and such stories, that it comes across as try-hard and contrived. Again, I do want to point out that I am obviously not the target audience for this and so my opinion probably doesn't count for a lot, but as it was recommended for those that liked The Hunger Games, I do feel disappointed. I would say teenage girls aged between maybe 12-16 would enjoy this but apart from that, I can't really see how anyone older than that would. The story is fine, it doesn't seem to go anywhere very fast and is incredibly predictable, but I'm sure for anyone who is in to werewolves and easy-to-read stories will find it mildly enjoyable. 

There are two other books in the series called Linger and Forever, but I'm not going to being rushing out to buy them. The first book obviously ends on a bit of a cliffhanger (predictable. obvious. blah.) but to be honest I just don't really care what happens to the characters. I feel bad doing a negative review and even worse because I'm doing a negative review of a book not aimed at me, but for those of you not in their target market and who may have been thinking about reading it I would say maybe try something else. But that might just be me! If you enjoyed it then great, I just don't enjoy stories like this and am just not really into the whole Twilight-esque stories that are going round at the moment. Sorry for being so negative but I thought there wasn't much point giving it a rave review if I didn't enjoy it and this blog is a place to express what I think so there we go! Hopefully the next one will be more enjoyable for me! 

The one I've started now is a biography called 'Wildflower'. It's about a woman named Joan Root who was a wildlife filmmaker and conservationist who was mysteriously shot dead in her home in Kenya. I don't tend to go for biographies but this seemed interesting and I definitely feel like I need to read something a little more intellectual at the moment! 

Will do an update when I'm part way through to let you know how it's going but for now, farewell and hope you're having a really great day!

Happy Easter everyone!

Here I am sitting with a warm cup of green tea and a half eaten Easter egg by my side. I'm tired today and suffering mildly from the over indulgences of having a good time with friends and family (i.e. too much drink). It has been a lovely weekend with a visit from my sister (which always ends up with drunken conversations in the kitchen) and a lot of time spent with my favourite people. Back to work tomorrow, no long weekend for all of us unfortunately but only four days and then I'm off to one of my favourite places on Saturday for a little one year celebration with the boyfriend. We're going down to our university town to relive those glory days and I am very excited! I do miss it an incredibly large amount, especially on days like this when I'm feeling slightly fragile. Let's just hope the weather holds up so we can make the most of it. I will be sure to take lots of pictures and give you a little insight into what we get up to :)

As for the hair, it's been just over 3 weeks with no heat (aside from the hair dryer when I had my hair cut) and it's feeling good! I've still been using the Tresemme Split Remedy line but am so tempted to pick up some other brands shampoo and conditioner to just give them a go because I get bored of hair care really easily. A couple of weeks ago I bought the Vo5 Hot Oil treatment, which I used the other day and I found it nice but didn't notice a huge difference. My hair has been looking a lot shinier recently anyway and I've actually had a few comments saying it looks lighter, which was an unexpected side effect of no heat (which it probably has no correlation with). But all in all I think not using heat has been very good for my hair and I feel as though it has grown quite a lot since I had it cut already. So all is good there.

I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of my followers, I've had quite an increase in the past couple of weeks thanks to blog hopping and general networking around the blogosphere and I am so grateful to each and every one of you and I hope you are enjoying reading and looking at my posts as much as I enjoy doing them. There are some really lovely people and gorgeous blogs that I've come across recently and I hope that what I'm putting on mine gives some of you the enjoyment that I get from reading yours. So thanks again and I hope you're all having a fantastic weekend!

Hello there!
So it's the end of week one of my no-heat, hair repair experiment and so far it is going well. It hasn't been particularly hard at all and has really made me think about just how much heat I was using and what I was putting my hair through everyday. It was completely unnecessary! Oh how we learn. I do feel like my hair looks shinier for sure, at the moment it doesn't really feel much different and I haven't suddenly got thick, flowing locks (I was hoping) but I definitely feel like I'm on the right track!

The Tresemme Split Remedy haircare that I'm trying at the moment is good, but I can't really tell if it has done what it claims to (repair split ends by up to 80% after 3 uses) because, well, how could you unless you painstakingly checked each split end in your hair! I do have my doubts as to how any hair product can claim to do that but I will certainly keep it up for the rest of the weeks to come because it is a nice line and I have hope in my heart.

As another addition to my ever-expanding arsenal of hair products, yesterday I purchased the Tangle Teezer, after hearing quite a lot about it and, of course, wanting to reduce the amount of breakage I have when I brush my hair. The only thing really that put me off buying it before was the price, £10.99. Now I know hair brushes can be on the expensive side of things here but it's just that this one in particular feels so plastic-y (?) and not in the slightest bit luxurious so I didn't think it seem to warrant that amount of money. However, I decided to go for it because I am hair obsessed at the moment and so far so good. I've used it on both wet and dry hair and it definitely does make it a doddle to brush your hair and teeze those tangles, so it's a thumbs up from me.

I will be sure to keep you updated with what's going on and whether I find any more miracle hair products to help me through this time! (A little melodramatic, possibly.) I have some more beauty posts on their way soon so thanks for reading and speak soon!