Holly's blog

I was tagged by Julia Sappire on Youtube to do this tag on my Booktube channel and thought I'd share my answers on here too! Here is Julia's video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ZmflT0TFo

There are two Twenty One Pilots Book Tag's on youtube and the one I am doing was created by Booksoverparties. Her video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NzLEJmKQ9M&feature=youtu.be

1) Stressed Out - Pick a book which you wish you could turn back time and read for the first time again.
Angel fall by Susan EE.



2) Ride - Pick a character who goes on a decline (gets worse mentally) throughout a book or series.
For this question I pick the character of Othello from Othello by William Shakespeare.

3) Fairly Local - Pick a book or series that takes place all over the country and/or world.
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare. I won't say who travels all over the world as it will be a spoiler if you haven't gotten that far in The Mortal Instruments series.

In August I read Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne as part of my TBR for the Booktube-a-thon and I really enjoyed it. I'd even go as far as to say that it is my favourite book I've read so far this year and I thought that I'd do a book review on it!



This was my second Holly Bourne book, the first book I read by her was The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting which I had quite neutral feelings towards but I thought I should give her writing another go as Carys from Carys On Reading loves The Spinster Club trilogy, of which Am I Normal Yet is the first instalment.

Am I Normal Yet centres on Evie, a sixteen year old girl who suffers from OCD and anxiety and as a result has been in and out of hospital and takes medication. Evie has just started sixform college and wants to have as much of a normal life as possible whilst slowly coming off of her medication. She wants to make friends, get a boyfriend, go to parties, go on dates, get good grades and just live the life of a normal teenager. Whilst at college she meets Lottie and Amber who quickly become her best friends and they all realise how important feminism is and start their own feminist club!

I loved the friendship between the characters of Evie, Amber and Lottie and they were all so well developed. I also loved how the settings and the characters were all realistic, which sometimes doesn't happen in YA contemporaries. The book also dealt with mental health in a respectable and educational way.

My one and only problem with the book is a conversation the girls have near the beginning of the book. The girls have a discussion about feminism but during this discussion Amber and Lottie discuss how "all boys are the same" and "all boys are bad". This to me is the opposite of feminism as feminism is equality for all and how can you expect people to respect you if you don't respect them. One way this is redeemed however, is by Evie who says that talking like that isn't feminist and gives feminism a bad name, the girls also learn from this mistake and redeem themselves later on in the book.

Overall, I love the book and it is a great fast and entertaining read that is full of friendship and feminism!

This is my last summer before I (hopefully) start university! This has meant that I've spend half my summer worrying about A level results, whether I've chosen the right course/uni, what I'm going to do etc, and the other half just relaxing and making the most of my time before I move into uni.

I work weekends at a big clothing store in my town meaning I don't get much free time at weekends and I end up spending most of my weekends talking to angry or impatient customers. However, I love  my colleagues and will be sad to leave them when I start uni, it also means I appreciate my free time in the week a lot more!

I'm not the most sociable of eighteen year olds and don't go out clubbing or drinking with friends, but I do enjoy seeing my boyfriend in the week and meeting up to go shopping or to the beach with various friends. I've also been spending a lot of time reading and improving my Booktube channel, if you're interested my channel name is Hollythebooklover and my channel can be found here.

I'm enjoying myself and the amount of free time I have before my life begins to get hectic and busy when I start university. I hope you're having a good summer! :D