Products on my Beauty Wish List April 2023

I always have a Wishlist which is constantly growing. It doesn’t usually just have beauty products on it, but books, food, clothes and all kinds of other things. Today I am sharing with you my Beauty Wishlist. I will do my book Wishlist, but it’s soo long I am having to try and console it to make the post a readable and not too long post. It was really difficult to work out which items are my…

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My Favourite Beauty Bloggers/ Youtubers

I’ve recently been on a bit of a beauty vlog binge watch. I literally haven’t watched anything else in the last week, (well apart from old Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare episodes, and Book Blogs) and I think I’ve become a little obsessed. I used to watch beauty videos all the time when I was at university back in 2012. But the ones that I have actually started to really enjoy are not the ones that I…

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3 step makeup for busy mornings

Some mornings we are so busy that I really struggle to get 5 minutes to myself to be able to do my morning skincare routine or my usual makeup. After 5 years of juggling a child and trying to keep my skincare routine up I have managed to give myself a hack which I think works well. I might be completely wrong, but I make no claim to be a professional makeup artist or beautician. I have come up…

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What I'm Reading - April 7th-14th

As usual I haven’t got just the one book that I’m reading at the time, but have a few. Albeit not as many as I usually have on the go, as I realised that I had just too many books that I had started and not finished yet, that I had to decide to discard some from my reading pile. Instead I have managed to get myself down to a very large and still growing TBR list, and just 2 books that I have…

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Psychological Thrillers

My favourite genre to read has to be a good psychological thriller. There are so many things about them that I just love and make me unable to put them down. My nan first got me into this genre of writing as she has an extensive collection of books which I used to (and still do) dip into and read from. And one day I pulled out a book which changed the way I read forever. I can’t tell you which…

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Death and Croissants - Ian Moore Book Review

My first initial thought on “Death and Croissants“, was that it reminded me very much of an episode of “Father Brown” or “Death in Paradise”. Which for those who don’t know about these T.V. shows, are satirical murder mysteries with an unexpecting man being drawn into a mystery surrounding his work and life. There is also usually a beautiful woman who is there to help them out in the…

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My TBR list for April

After my fail of last month, I have decided to make my TBR list a little shorter. I have decided that rather than trying to finish all of the books I am currently reading I would rather read something that I am going to enjoy a bit more. Not that I’m not enjoying the books I’m currently reading, but that I don’t think that “mum fiction” is my “Thing” at the moment. So what I really mean is that…

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Sundays consist of reading and relaxing for me. Today I have managed to almost finish my current read, and get myself in such a zen calm state that I’m ready for what the new week has to bring for me!

Behind Closed Doors - BA Paris Review

Behind Closed Doors is a psychological thriller at its finest. It is exactly the reason I gravitate to thriller novels, it was gripping, full of suspense and unputdownable as I read it in one sitting – which for me is a miracle! Brief Synopsis Grace and Jack seem like the perfect couple. Everyone is envious of them, and wants to be like them. But there is something a miss about the whole…

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Soo much to read, too little time to read all! How do you decide what you will read next?

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides Book Review

The Silent Patient, is a psychological thriller about a therapist who has become too invested in a murder case. The minute I finished this story I knew I needed to wait a few days before writing my review as there was a lot to think about before deciding how I was going to rate this book. Brief Synopsis Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand…

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Reading is my escapism. But I've just realised I literally escape into worlds which aren't that different from my own. Maybe it's just the thought that another woman is going through the same things as me that I find comforting.

It's either that or I go for a dark and twisty Thriller. There is no in-between.

Hmm perhaps I should try reading something fantasy?

What I read in March 2023

March was a little bit of a tough month for me reading wise. I had some goals of at least a book a week with the hopes of being more like 2 books a week and really I think I did well in the speed I read. I was averaging at 1 books a weekend! The problem was the weekdays. I had every intention to read as much as I could during the days, but with a baby and the school routine I just ran out of…

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Unboxing "A Box of Stories" March 2023

For a long time I have been thinking about joining a book subscription box. The idea of having a number of surprise books being sent to my house every month, for me to read just sounds so tantalisingly sweet! And so I started researching the different kind of Subscription boxes available out there. Believe me, my lovely readers! There are HUNDREDS of different kinds of subscription boxes out…

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