Up To Date.

Well yeah, decided to update this thing...tell you what I've been up to and shizzle!

I can't remember what I did before my holiday, so I'll start with my holiday.
I went on holiday.
To Cornwall.
With my bestie and her mum :)
It was fun :D
On Saturday we went there.
On Sunday we went to the Otter Sanctury.
On Monday we went to Boscastle.
On Tuesday we visited some Gnomes.
On Wednesday we stayed in.
On Thursday we went to the beach.
On Friday we walked into town.
On Saturday we came home.

Then I haven't really been up to much.
Haven't read much, this book is taking a while to get into (...I'm halfway through chapter 2...shhhh)
Went to G'ford with Amy on Wednesday. Did a trial run to college and then went shopping and then went to the cinema and watched Cars 2. Was awesome :D They had the Queen as a car :') and the Pope as a car :') In his pope-mobil :')

Yeah that's about it, up to date with my life :')

Oh! Apart from yesterday I dyed my hair black, tomorrow I am having my hair cut and am dying it blue and next Wednesday I should be meeting McFly.

WAHHOOO <3

Book Review - Plain Truth

 

Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult

A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country - and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the centre of the storm...

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to it's core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen year old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life.

When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusional big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life.

Congratulations Jodi, you have done it again.

Well where do I start, another amazing book writen by Jodi Picoult.

However I am still annoyed that there is ANOTHER courtcase in this book. I am sure that Jodi can only write about someone dying/being ill and there being a court case to do with this. And the ending of the book wasn't good, yet again.

This isn't going to be a proper book review, sorry yet again. I'm not in the mood for a proper book review :') But I will say that there are a lot of things in the book which did confuse me and I had to re-read. There was also a lot of medical language which confused me so I ended up just skim-reading a lot of this. However, it was easy to get the gist of the storyline without this information. 

Certain parts of the book are almost repeated throughout the book which kind of annoyed me.

However, just like all of the other books by Jodi which I have read, I have really connected with the main characters and understood their feelings. 

The book is told from two different 'sections'. The book is told from a narative POV, then from Ellie's POV. This goes on throughout the novel which I like as we see inside Ellie's mind more than the other characters. At some points in the book I felt as if me myself was Ellie, on the farm. I understood what she was feeling, understood her actions.

Like I said before, the ending of this book annoyed me. It's rushed. You find out what truly happened and then a few sentances later, wala, it's the end of the book. Oh. :/

But still a great book which I highly recommend :D

Book Review - The Wedding Girl

The Wedding Girl - Sophie Kinsella/Madeleine Wickham

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in the country, she didn't hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. 

 Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon, who is good-looking, wealthy and adores her, she is about to have the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable, all mastermined by her mother. Nobody knows about her first marriage, so it's almost as though it never happened - isn't it?

But with only four days to go, it looks as though Milly's past is going to catch up with her. Can she sort things out before her fairytale wedding collapses around her? How can she tell Simon? And worse still, how can she tell her mother...?

I started this book after my last book review and finished it halfway though my holiday, last Wednesday. I read most of it that day and it's not a bad book. It took a while to get into the book but it had amazing twists and turns in the book which did actually shock me.

However, I don't know if it is just my copy of the book or if something is wrong with all of them, but this book is the most grammatically incorrect book ever. Seriously. I am used to reading books and spotting one or two mistakes within the whole book but no, this book has loads. Literally every 4 or 5 pages there is a mistake. Wether that is a word which doesnt make sense within the sentance, a word after a fullstop which doesn't start with a capital letter, names which don't start with capital letters and also speech marks which have been placed in the wrong place. This literally ruined the book for me. I am impressed that I actually enjoyed the book because at every mistake I nearly screamed. My best friend is annoyed with the mistakes in this book and she hasn't even read it, she just put up with me complaining about each one.

This isn't a great book review because my main concentration on the book is the grammar...if it's just my book (which would be weird...) or if it's just one set of printed copies (still slightly weird...) but I can't find any reviews of the book online which mention the grammar...which is weird...

The book in itself is good and I do recommend it. The twists are great and I did actually gasp at a couple of them. But for me, the grammar ruined it...

 

Leo.

Leo is my cat.
He is an odd cat, but he is lovely.

I can't remember when, but it was either when we got back from seeing McFly in London (Radio:ACTIVE concert) or it was when we saw McFly in Portsmouth (UCATTIP concert) and I was wide awake and jumping around the hallway upstairs, scaring my cat. My mum went to brush her teeth, leaving the bathroom door open. My cat followed her in, getting away from me. He saw the running water from the tap and he used to love water so he jumped up onto the toilet seat then onto the sink. Well, that was the plan. But the toilet seat was up so he fell into the loo :') was so funny! My mum had to dry him and he's never really liked water since, never gone near a running tap :')

That's the story of my cat falling into the loo.

Laura
xoxox

Update On Things I Want To Do This Year

This was my list

• Do some scrapbooking so I finish (nearly finish) my McFly scrapbook.
• Buy a guitar and learn to play...atleast learn something!
• Stay at college.
• Get a job.
• Try and persuade my mum to let us get another cat...which is mine...
• GET AN OWL CUSHION!

So far I have done some scrapbooking; but am nowhere near remotely finishing it. I asked Amy if she wanted to do any and she said she might do after our holiday which is next week.

I have bought a guitar and can kinda play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but not with actual chords and stuff so it's not done.

I haven't started college yet so can't do that one yet...

I'm waiting till after my holiday to apply for jobs.

I nearly pursuaded my mum for another cat. We were going to go to Cat's Protection at the weekend and look, but she forgot and I didn't want to remind her :/ I haven't given up yet.

I am planning to leave some of my holiday money so I can buy my owl cushion when I come back

:D

Book Review - Tell Me Something.

Tell Me Something - Adele Parks

Die-hard romantic Elizabeth has always wanted two things in life - an Italian husband and lots of rosy-checked babies. When she meets fabuously sexy Roberto, she glides down the aisle and dreamily pictures holding their first little bundle of joy.

But instead they end up running Roberto's family business, where Elizabeth finds there's more to living in Italy than enjoy ice cream in the sun-drenched piazzas. She doesn't need to be fluent in the language to understand that her scheming mother-in-law and Robeto's beautiful, significant ex are hellbent on destroying her marriage. And when Elizabeth finds herself craving the company of a gorgeous American stranger, she knows her filthy, flirty thoughts about him are totally inappropriate. But there's no denying he sets her temperature rising...

Could it be that Italy is turning Elizabeth's love of romance into a desire for something far more scandalous and passionate?

First things first, I blooming loved this book. I started reading it last Saturday (I had a 2 day break between reading this and Making Up Your Mind...) and for the past two nights I've been up till gone midnight reading it. It's been a real hard to put down book which I have really enjoyed.

Before I started reading the book I knew that it was going to be a Chic Lit, Adele Parks is known for her Chic Lit writing. However, this is the first book of hers that I have read and I will most definitely be reading others.

There's not really much to say to review the book. I don't know why...it had some great little twists and I loved the ending <3 Especially that there is an Epilogue. I think that if there wasn't, I wouldn't have liked the ending so much.

The book is told from Elizabeth's POV. She starts off however by telling us about her childhood and her first ever visit to Italy. We then find out about her love for everything Italian, and how she meets Roberto. The chapters in the book are quite short which I like, some only a couple pages long. I like that in books as I can usually finish a chapter before having to urgently doing something or other.

The only couple of things which I don't like about the book, is that I feel as though the blurb sort of lies. It says about Roberto's mother and his ex are hellbent in destroying their marriage, and I totally get this on part of Elizabeth's mother-in-law. But to be honest, there is only a couple of chapters where Roberto's ex actually speaks...and nothing to do with destroying the marriage.

Okay so in the end, it is mainly to do with her.

But still...that's my only fault.

:D

Totally adored this book and recommend it lots and lots :D

Book Review - Making Up Your Mind

 

Making Up Your Mind - Jill Mansell

Lottie can't quite believe what's happened.

When you're a teenager in love with a widly unsuitable boy, you expect your parents to object. But Lottie's thirty now, a fully fledged grown-up, and she never imagined her children doing the same when she met Tyler Klein. He isn't widly unsuitable either, he's a catch. But as far as Nat and Ruby are conserned, he's the devil incarnate.

Wha'ts a girl to do? Is she only allowed to associate with men who meet with their approval? And doesn't she already have enough to worry about, what with errant ex-husband Mario up to his old tricks, beloved boss Freddie determined to catch up with old friends before life catches up with him, and best friend Cressida brazenly propositioning strangers in shops?

Everyone else needs sorting out. Well, that's fine - it's what Lottie's best at. Until the day she discovers that an attack of the hiccups can have the power - just possibly - to change your life...

Wow. First things first, I did read the blurb before reading the book but I must have somehow forgot about it as after writing this, everything makes sense. The book itself is actually pretty amazing to be honest, it's a great book and I love everything about it. When typing the blurb out, I actually started giggling when the hiccup part came up, remembering that part of the book. 

I love the fact about this book isn't told from anyones POV. It could have easily been told from different POV's like many Jodi Picoult books but it wasn't, it was writen in 3rd person which I liked as you found out more about the characters. Even though the book is based upon the life of Lottie Coyle, there are also mini plots which are about the other characters and Lottie one way or another is involved in these mini stories.

The book shocked me quite a few times actually. When finding out more about Freddie's past, I felt almost as shocked to find out what had happened as Lottie herself is said to have felt. (Does that even make any sense!?) Also the whole Seb plot. OMIGOD I actually screamed. I already knew that I didn't want him to end up in the picture, but I really wasn't expecting him to be like he was in the end. It was a complete shocker.

I love the fact that the kids are a major part to the book. The kids are funny, they make the book amusing and they add a real essence to the book. 

From the beginning of the book you are thrown straight into the 'action' and find out more about the main characters with in pages. 

The ending of this book I loved. For once, I loved it :') I haven't read a book in a long long time where I can actually admit I love the ending. Apart from Marshmallows for Breakfast which I reviewed a while ago...but the ending to that book has nothing compared to the ending to this book <3 I love love loved it :D

I might actually go as far as saying Jill Mansell might be a new favourite author of mine.

But I can't say much, this is the first book of hers which I have actually read :')

But it was GREAT and I HIGHLY recommend it :D

MSN IS GAY

Annoyance

My brother and his girlfriend are obviously pissed off with me and to be honest I find it utterly hilarious.

I had Robyn, Amy and Olivia round last night and so they didn't have to stay at home but they did. They should have probably figured out that as there was 4 of us...we would most likely be noisy.

I don't actually think we were that noisy. We were sat in the kitchen, music on, singing along, PLAYING CARDS. Cards for goodness sake! We were going to play on the Wii but we didn't as we were enjoying playing cards. If we had played on the Wii we would have made far much noise.

And then my brother kept going 'Laura shhh!' 'Laura shutup' 'Laura stop it!'

Then this morning they were being so loud and even though I was awake, the other 3 weren't. But they did wake up. That's one reason why I don't give a fuck that we were 'too noisy' last night, seeing as every fucking morning at 7 I usually wake up due to my brother making so much noise.

So yeah.

And then also my friends washed up, dried up and put away all of our stuff (I was playing cards...yeah) and they put away all of my brothers stuff...and yet no 'thank you' or anything.

Oh life is just wonderful, can't wait for my mother to come home and then she can have a go at me.

Fun.