It's 2018. You want to have a blog. Your neighbour has a blog. Your local coffee shop has a blog. In fact, just about everyone has a blog. It's the rise of bloggers and influencers, changing the way we interact with social media. There's a whole new language of SEO, people learning to code and [...]
Shared Student Living: Dream or Nightmare?
Are you a student moving into a shared student household? Drama, dust and too much washing up may beckon. Living with your friends can be hilarious or horrifying. You can end up with lifelong buds or an awkward acquaintance from too many 'stolen milk' arguments. Alongside this bonding experience is the trepidation that is student [...]
How to be the best student lifestyle blogger you can be – advice, tips, tricks (collab)
Student life can be brilliant, funny, and challenging. My memories of university hold some of both the best and worst times of the past few years and it is definitely an experience that shapes you as a person. However, as much as it feels like you're all experiencing this together, student life can be wildly [...]
Book Review: The Dry, Jane Harper
Jane Harper's debut novel, The Dry, is as intense from the opening page to the last word. Last month I published my first ever book review, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. As fabulous as that book was (I was thoroughly gripped by the ending), I decided to move on from smaller suburban fires to [...]
Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng's novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is a tale of morals and motherhood, centred on a controversial adoption case and set in a suburban nightmare. Meet The Richardsons, a seemingly perfect family in Suburban middle-class America, and their new tenants; nomadic artist Mia, a single mother, and her shy daughter, Pearl. Celeste Ng perfectly captures [...]