ByMarlida

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Hi! I did'nt post an update last week because the past two weeks have been aboslutely crazy and I never made the time for it. Sorry about that...

First of all, I finally finished "Trigger Warning"! Definetly one of the most speical books I've read (you can read my review HERE). It's so much to write about that book that I actually had to stop myself from writing anymore, since half the fun of the book is to read it yourself.

So, what now? I've kept putting "Shantaram" on hold, wich is really sad and kind of weird because so far I really love the book and it's written in such a wonderfully brilliant way. Still, I've been reading it for almost a YEAR now (that's actually crazy...), having long pauses and reading other books instead, and I honestly can't tell you why. I considered picking it up again now that I was done with "Trigger Warning", but... King won this round.

So, now I'm currently reading "The Bachman books", starting on "The Long Walk" wich is really interesting so far. I've heard that it's really good too, so I'm excited about this one. I'm also still reading "See You Tomorrow" by Tore Renberg, wich also is pretty good and have kept me up at nights lately because I can't put it down. On top of that, I found a classic online that I've heard about before. "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London. When I found out it was avialable online I just had to read it, and now I only have a few pages left.

That's the bookish part of the past two weeks. Except from that I've spent the time celebrating my birthday in Harstad and travelling to Oslo to celebrate my bestfriend's birthday! It's been so much fun.

My birthday is on the 1st of november, so it was only natural to throw a Halloween-party! I had the best time with so many wonderful people! I'm the one in the black and white sweater (I'm a burlgar).

The weekend in Oslo was really wonderful as well! We went to look in all the stores, and I dragged Synnøve and Ewa to my favourite bookstore in the whole world, located at Karl Johan. It ended up being kind of sad, since I really can't afford any books at the moment, and they had so many I wanted I almost died. On the evening we had a few drinks and went out to the city and had so much fun!

On top of that, I've been writing a whole new chapter of my story, and I'm so happy that I finally am able to write after the huge writer's block I've been having. It's probably because exams are coming up (in under a month!), and since I'm supposed to study, my mind finds every reason not to.

Also, I've noticed that I write best at airports... there's just something magical about it. Everytime I'm at an airport waiting for my plane, I get a thousand ideas and just have to find my notebook and write it all down. Hopefully I'll travel a lot more in the future!

That's about it. Next weekend I'm going to a really big media conferense, and it sounds so exciting! Really looking forward to it!

Another week has passed by! I feel like the weeks are just flying by and I'm sitting here like an idiot, not really understanding that exams and essays are coming up. I want to throw up thinking about it. Anyways, I'm currently almost finished with all the christmas presents for this year, which is crazy! I always start in December, right before I'm going home for christmas - but this year I'm so ahead it makes me surprised by my ability to actually do something smart for once.

This week I read Wake by Amanda Hocking, and I'm still reading Cress by Marissa Meyer, which is still an amazing book! I've also done some coloring in my coloring book, because I want to do everything else but to study for my exams and do essays about the history of typography and coding my damn portfolio.

(Amanda Hocking herself liked my picture on instagram)

I'm writing again, which is great, but I'm so stuck and not in a creative mood so I never really get to the point where I'm sitting down actually writing. I'm always just listing up ideas and stuff like that, which is great, but, I want to write. The same thing goes for fan fiction...

Today my boyfriend's parents are stopping by on their way to the airport, and so I've been using most of my free time to actually clean the house and get some laundry done. (As I said, I want to do anything BUT read for my exams). I've also made dinner for my boyfriend every day this week, which is kind of a good feeling to be doing something good. All though I forget to eat myself? Because I'm doing all these other things that doesn't require eating. A month ago or something I bought Sims 4, but I can't say that I have been playing it a lot since I got it. I made Ida and me and we moved into this nice house that took hours to build, and then, like thirty minutes out, Ida was making food and the fucking grill caught fire and she died. So... I'm just hoping that won't happen in real life.

(This was by the way on Halloween. From left my friend Anja, then me, we were both characters from Orange Is The New Black, and then there's Anette who was a purple minion!)

I also want to update you guys on some movie-related things, because, as it turns out; when you're cooking or cleaning the house it's always nice to have the tv on. So, I've been watching like six old movies that I found on netflix, and I'm kind of embarrassed. Like in the last few days I saw Clueless (1995), Material Girls (2006), She's Out of My League (2010) Beauty and The Briefcase (2010), The Stepford Wives (2004), Constantine (2005), Jumanji (1995), Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011) and Upown Girl (2003). THAT'A A LOT OF MOVIES YOU GUYS.

But, today I actually sat down and watched a documentary called; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief (2015), and I was shocked! It was such a good movie. And yesterday I watched Twinsters (2015) and I just loved it! So now you have two excellent documentaries you can watch this week!

ByMarlida

Ida's Weekly update (although it's about the past two weeks)

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