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Thoughts of a Bibliophile


Summer time is definitely the time when most of us pick up a book and fall in love with reading again, after a long and stressful year with little time to take a break to read. I do read throughout the year but they tend to be super easy romance stories that take me a day or two to read and there isn’t much storyline them. I love reading these books when I’m at school as they give be a bit of a break from having to really work and read difficult texts. However, In the summer I like something a little bit more challenging.


Recently I picked up the book ‘Slated’ by Teri Terry (isn’t that such a great name?) from the Young Adults selection in my local Waterstones after many of my friends saying I had just to read it. As it’s from the YA section it isn’t a very difficult read and I did get through it quite quickly but the storyline was definitely different from my usual soppy romances. I won’t go into too much detail as you may want to read it but I’ll just give you a general idea of what it is about. It begins with a young girl being given to a new family after she has been ‘slated’ – her mind wiped so she has no previous memories – and she is set to start a new life with this family. They are told that they have been slated as they were criminals and this is their second chance in life however things begin to happen and Kyla (the main character) isn’t sure they have been told the whole truth.

I really love these kinds of dystopia novels, the type that takes this world and changes it into something uncomfortable – something that we can never image the world turning into. I think that this book makes you think a lot about today’s society and you can definitely see how the world can be changed into what it has become in this book. I love that it is set in London and around and there were some references to the M25 which I have been stuck on many a time for a few hours at a time.


I feel that there aren’t many characters in this book that you can connect or relate with as Kyla herself feels quite isolated and separate from the other kids at school and her family, however, you do start to route for some of them. Kyla is my age and although I am obviously quite different as still have all my memories, her struggles with things are very similar to what teens go through at school and in general life.

I really enjoyed reading this book and can't wait to go and get the next in the series. There are three in the series and I am sure that I will have finished them all by the time the summer has finished! Have you read any in this series? What is your favourite genre to read?
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Every year, I always say I must do the race for life this year but I never actually do but this year I managed to get my but into gear and sign up! I ran the race this morning and after having a nice hot shower, I'm sitting down, watching the Wimbledon Final and writing this post. I ran the 5k race this year with my friend and hopefully next year I will be able to do the 10k - or the mud run which looks so fun! When you sign up for race for life, you get sent a little pack that has your race number, a speech bubble to write a message for those who are running for someone, and leaflets with information about the event (I did try to set up an online donation page but it sadly won't work for some reason but please click here to donate to the race for life page).


I feel like I didn't really get hyped up enough and felt that I should have prepared more and got involved in the whole event a lot more, encouraged more people to take part and I left a lot of things to the last minute (as you can see in the photos I am not wearing my race for life t-shirt as it didn't arrive in time!). So next year I want to have a lot more fun with the event  - maybe dress up a bit (for some reason I really want to wear a tutu???) and raise some more money for this amazing cause. 


Cancer is such an evil thing that affects so many people - the people we love and the people who care and support their loved ones and its hard to come across someone who hasn't been affected by this horrid disease in some way. Today, two people in four will survive cancer, a statistic that seemed unreachable a few years ago, but cancer research aim so raise this to three in four in the next twenty years, and then hopefully we will all survive.


At the race, there was a large amount of people running, walking and jogging for this cause, all there in their pink (I saw a couple of pink flamingos too) ready to race a fight cancer. The weather wasn't great but that didn't stop everyone there from doing a slightly embarrassing warm up and then all heading off the complete the race. There were people there of all ages, running for so many people and it was really lovely to see so many people coming together for a great cause, and that was only the people in my area so think of how many people there are running all over the UK. There were stalls there selling food and some bouncy castles which I think were mainly for the kids *insert sad face* and everyone who was there had volunteered which is so amazing. After the race, we were all given a water bottle, a pain au chocolat and a little army chain to say that we are part of the Pink Army which is so lovely. 


It is such a great cause so please donate to Cancer Research and if you didn't race this year, definitely sign up for 2017, you will have a great time and make such a big difference. Have you taken part in raising money for a charity? 
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Hi, I'm Kizzi, and welcome to my blog! I am a UK blogger who loves to talk anything book related!

The main genre I read is fantasy as I love their elements of weird and wonderfulness!

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