Practically Alice

It was only apt that I wrote my last ever blog post as an undergraduate English student and titled it with a book title. Tomorrow I sit my final exam of my degree; after this I will be in a perpetually reading/drunken stupor for two weeks before I start working. Life is good. Remembering back to finishing first and second year, this ending feels weird. Some people I'll never see again in person, and others I will cling to like limpets. Everyone seems to be blindly going forth into their own adventures (be they big or small) and I think that's incredible; we've all grown from these gawky English students to adults (ish) (pretending to be) (we're not adults, noooooooo) who have a voice. If I think back to myself when I was a meek and mild barely-eighteen year old, I chuckle. I was so blissfully unaware, so clueless, and not all that happy. It's taken me three years but I think I'm finally at a place where I feel relatively less like a headless chicken and more...

Reading Austen in the park earlier made me want summer to come so much faster!  Over the past three years of my undergraduate English degree I have culminated a somewhat small (read: large) collection of unread books. Gathered on my multiple trips to the two Waterstones in Lincoln ( 1  and 2 ), Lindum Books , and various charity shop raids, these books have lay relatively dormant on my bookshelves at home and university. Here are 10 of the masses that I'm most looking forward to delving into this summer: 1) The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss; the sequel to the incredible The Name of The Wind , this hefty tome promises to enchant just as much as it's former friend. I've had this for about a year now, but haven't had the time to delve into it's 600 or so pages. I cannot wait! 2) I am Malala: The Girl who stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban  by Malala Yousafzai; One of the first books I bought when I started working at Waterstones in 2...