Hi October,
Your getting colder October. Recently we have been celebrating life. Life of my youngest sibling. We are all in our twenties now, my parents are able to go off and do their own thing, whilst we find out who we are.
Celebrating wasn't exactly something I wanted to do. I wanted to hide. I did. After celebrating a birthday, whilst everyone else did their own thing. I stayed in the four walls, reading and sleeping. I was just a bit unwell October, that being on my own and re build myself, ready for another set of days of living.
We are all thankful for the lives we have been given, we all try and make the most of it. Happiness and healthiness, sometimes need to recharge and it is those bad days where it may seem all is at lost. It isn't, we're just recharging for a bigger and brighter days.
Claire.
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Sunday, 11 October 2015
How to Build A Girl #Review13
Hello World,
I'm currently laying in my bed feeling like poo. So I'm not actually sure how well this post will sound. My brain is going really fast with everything I want to write down and I'm still feeling a bit feverish. Lets see what I have got.
During last week I have managed to finish How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran, just had to Google to check if I spelt the name correctly, as I am too lazy to go and grab the book downstairs. It's probably not a good start to a review, but I was really glad to have finished that book. I did struggle with it towards the end and by the time I finished it I was like "thank god for that!"
This is not because I thought it was a terrible book. I actually enjoyed it and I wanted to finish it, because I wanted to know how the book ended. I tend to be the same to books I don't even like, I still have to waste my time and read them because I need to know how it will end. (That is something I actually need to stop doing, because it angers me).
How To Build A Girl, is about a young teenager called Johanna Morrigan, or something. She is an overweight teenager who has lived through embarrassing moments and who parents are both out of work and have problems of their own.. So, Johanna a girl in Wolverhampton in the nineties, wanting to be someone else, who does not want to be herself. Decides she can do either one of the two options, kill herself or build a new person.
The book includes all these embarrassing scene with alcohol, sex and many musicians. Some are supposed to be laugh out loud and some just make you cringe. It really depends on your type of humour.
When I first started this book, I felt like I could relate my teenager self to this character. I to was a fat awkward teenager. Like Johanna, I developed this type of woman inside my head that I would like to be and started working towards her. A long the way, she has changed and altered slightly to suit myself more.
However, as I continued to read this book, I started to dislike Johanna. I just wanted to shout at the book, "Why are you doing that?!" "Don't do it, if you don't want to." She was starting to make me feel angry and just, Johanna was just becoming this person that I personally would have found too loud and too obnoxious.
I feel as if Moran had captured the struggles of girls during this difficult time. Confused and lost, only doing something they don't particularly want to do because it would only mean others will like them better. She captured the struggles of poverty during that time and even now for most teenagers. Moran has created a book that I think most people who believe in feminism should read.
To be honest, there is a big part missing from this post and it is hear in my head, but it is too jumbled up to be expressed into words. I might try and fix that later.
Claire.
I'm currently laying in my bed feeling like poo. So I'm not actually sure how well this post will sound. My brain is going really fast with everything I want to write down and I'm still feeling a bit feverish. Lets see what I have got.
During last week I have managed to finish How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran, just had to Google to check if I spelt the name correctly, as I am too lazy to go and grab the book downstairs. It's probably not a good start to a review, but I was really glad to have finished that book. I did struggle with it towards the end and by the time I finished it I was like "thank god for that!"
This is not because I thought it was a terrible book. I actually enjoyed it and I wanted to finish it, because I wanted to know how the book ended. I tend to be the same to books I don't even like, I still have to waste my time and read them because I need to know how it will end. (That is something I actually need to stop doing, because it angers me).
How To Build A Girl, is about a young teenager called Johanna Morrigan, or something. She is an overweight teenager who has lived through embarrassing moments and who parents are both out of work and have problems of their own.. So, Johanna a girl in Wolverhampton in the nineties, wanting to be someone else, who does not want to be herself. Decides she can do either one of the two options, kill herself or build a new person.
The book includes all these embarrassing scene with alcohol, sex and many musicians. Some are supposed to be laugh out loud and some just make you cringe. It really depends on your type of humour.
When I first started this book, I felt like I could relate my teenager self to this character. I to was a fat awkward teenager. Like Johanna, I developed this type of woman inside my head that I would like to be and started working towards her. A long the way, she has changed and altered slightly to suit myself more.
However, as I continued to read this book, I started to dislike Johanna. I just wanted to shout at the book, "Why are you doing that?!" "Don't do it, if you don't want to." She was starting to make me feel angry and just, Johanna was just becoming this person that I personally would have found too loud and too obnoxious.
I feel as if Moran had captured the struggles of girls during this difficult time. Confused and lost, only doing something they don't particularly want to do because it would only mean others will like them better. She captured the struggles of poverty during that time and even now for most teenagers. Moran has created a book that I think most people who believe in feminism should read.
To be honest, there is a big part missing from this post and it is hear in my head, but it is too jumbled up to be expressed into words. I might try and fix that later.
Claire.
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Hello October
Hello October,
October, I sometimes like to think I am an introvert. I prefer to hide in the four walls and read until my heart is content.
However October, it has become increasingly difficult to find the book so good it has me escaping the reality altogether.
I admire your month. But reality is hard to live in. Work, exercise and sleep. A little something is needed to fill that hole and create that little happiness. Books is one and little mini adventures is another.
Claire.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Hello October #2
Hello October,
I woke up to the sounds of you this morning. The rain was pelting against my window in the early hours of the morning, it was loud enough to make me stir. That was OK though October, because it made me smile today and I was warm in my bed.
A lot of people can take these things for granted October, but this morning that living of a warm bed, I was thankful October. Truly thankful October.
Today, was a dreary day for everyone. There was way too many downward smiles. They struggle October, for when it rains, they rain inside too October. October it is nothing against you, it's just many crave the sunshine to black skies, it reminds them of inner battles or darker times. It's hard to find the light in dark thick clouds. You know that, right October?
I know, because I rain inside too. Sometimes the rain just never ends. The sunshine comes through. Like today October, although it was raining. There was sunshine inside October.
I heard you this morning October and although today was difficult for others, I still held my smile.
Claire.
I woke up to the sounds of you this morning. The rain was pelting against my window in the early hours of the morning, it was loud enough to make me stir. That was OK though October, because it made me smile today and I was warm in my bed.
A lot of people can take these things for granted October, but this morning that living of a warm bed, I was thankful October. Truly thankful October.
Today, was a dreary day for everyone. There was way too many downward smiles. They struggle October, for when it rains, they rain inside too October. October it is nothing against you, it's just many crave the sunshine to black skies, it reminds them of inner battles or darker times. It's hard to find the light in dark thick clouds. You know that, right October?
I know, because I rain inside too. Sometimes the rain just never ends. The sunshine comes through. Like today October, although it was raining. There was sunshine inside October.
I heard you this morning October and although today was difficult for others, I still held my smile.
Claire.
Monday, 5 October 2015
Hello October. #1
Hello October,
It has been five days since you have joined us and yet like the star you are, you made yourself known with a majestic fog each morning.
It's strange to watch the world crave you. Especially in the Northern Hemisphere. It is even more strange to see you come a long and change everything around you. Me personally, I struggle with change and it takes me a while to adjust to the new ways. When you come around October, I admire the change, just like April.
Today, October I took in the full effect of what you bring to us. Your still early in your days October, but I can see the slight changes you are bringing. Within the green there are yellow, with hints of orange and red. Walking in the beauty of leaves, time October, it seemed to have slowed right down. The leaves are slowly changing around me and time has slowed down with them.
We know October, that time can speed up when we least expect it. In this world, you have watched us each year demanding for more time in the day, becoming increasingly stressed with ourselves for not getting those job done and not doing things for ourselves.
That why October, when time slowed down for me today. I slowed down my pace and smiled at the slowly changing leaves.
Thank you October.
Claire
It's strange to watch the world crave you. Especially in the Northern Hemisphere. It is even more strange to see you come a long and change everything around you. Me personally, I struggle with change and it takes me a while to adjust to the new ways. When you come around October, I admire the change, just like April.
Today, October I took in the full effect of what you bring to us. Your still early in your days October, but I can see the slight changes you are bringing. Within the green there are yellow, with hints of orange and red. Walking in the beauty of leaves, time October, it seemed to have slowed right down. The leaves are slowly changing around me and time has slowed down with them.
We know October, that time can speed up when we least expect it. In this world, you have watched us each year demanding for more time in the day, becoming increasingly stressed with ourselves for not getting those job done and not doing things for ourselves.
That why October, when time slowed down for me today. I slowed down my pace and smiled at the slowly changing leaves.
Thank you October.
Claire
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