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A afternoons ago one of my very good friends invited
me to go shopping with her and her cousin and that inspired this Blog post. Why
it inspired me was because this friend of mine shares One thing with me. And let
me just put that thing out there, AS a girl this may be a Shock Horror to some
but I HATE shopping. Sorry. Let me repeat. I detest Shopping. I hate it hate it
hate it. Oh Gosh the whole process, just the whole looking at the racks of
clothes and just ‘cruising’ in the shops, I, I just CAN’T deal with it! I think
it’s just mostly about how ‘over conscious’ I am about stupid things. It’s
totally normal for people to just walk into shops, look at the clothes on the
racks and maybe hold up a top against them to see how it looks. That just does
Not register with me. For some unknown reason i feel so uncomfortable doing all
of the above. I might find something that I like and if I go close to it to
look at it I’d just quickly pick it up and then put it straight down again. SO
to conclude this confession of a paragraph, just cannot shop.
But let’s move swiftly onto the main point of this
post and that is my love for shopping of one thing, and only one thing and that
is BOOKS. Yep, hands down I’m a huge NERD. But shopping for books is just so
much better than shopping for clothes, No one’s going to think you’re a freak
for squatting down to look at the books or if you’re picking up every other
book to read the blurb. And you can never feel bad after getting too much
books. But even though I love books so much I can’t help but sometimes think
that a popular hardback book can be so overpriced. £18.99 is waay too much.
So who said thrift shops are just for clothes. There
shopping centre which we a were planning on going has quite a big thrift shop
which was mostly full of books and clutter but when I returned there the other
day they had renovated and they had much more clothes and unfortunately much
less books. That literally used to be the shop I used to beg my Mom to take me
to ever time we went shopping together and I always come out with a bag full as
the pricing is ridiculously cheap.
So I thought to do a review on each of these books
because honestly a paragraph would not suffice! I will honestly treasure these
books forever. Most of the books that I brought I had never heard or read of
any of the authors, but even so they were ALL such amazing reads. Like one of
the book I read was called Waiting and the style of writing gripped me
straightaway even though it was published just a year after I was born.
There were so many morals and emotions in that book. It honestly left me feeling upset to
leave the fierce character of Manna Wu which I saw crumble through, as well as
the perfect buttoned up feelings of General Lin unravel. And it honestly melted
my heart seeing Shuya's happiness radiate through her as her unloving husband of
many years finally falls in love with her. Tune into my next blog to read more
about this novel and to find out the Author of this Novel too.
Till Next Time - M
