Reading Is All There Is

Okay, so I finally did it. I read a Harry Potter book. It's been a long time coming, but I was never really interested in the stories until almost a year ago when I started my English major. I felt like it was a mistake that I had not read or even watched any of the Harry Potter movies. Or my fellow classmates made me feel that way, but it's okay. I actually did try to watch all of the movies with one of my friends. But we never finished. And I guess, I just lost interest. But I tried to give the movies a chance half a year ago and I was hooked. After watching the movies I got the sense that there were a lot of things left out - as is usual with movie adaptions. And I hate that. I need to know everything so here I am starting on the books. So far I am very invested! Here's a short summary: Almost all his life, Harry Potter has lived with the Dursleys who have made his life difficult. Harry's  room is a small closet space underneath the stairs. He only wears his cousin D...

If you don't know, Cassandra Clare is my all-time favorite author. Her work never disappoints me and it always reminds me of how much I love reading. Clare has a way of instantly pulling you into her Shadowhunter-Universe where you begin to feel all the same things as her incredible characters. She also amazes me in the way that she writes and creates characters with so much depth. I have an eternal love for everything Cassandra Clare has ever written!  "The Last Hours" is a new series in the Shadowhunter-world where we encounter some old and new characters. The first book is called "Chain of Gold" and we follow the lives of Will and Tessa Herondale's children, James and Lucie Herondale, along with their good friends Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia Carstairs, Christopher and Thomas Lightwood and many many more! If ever you were a fan of "The Dark Artifices" this is a series for you!  In "Chain of Gold" Cordelia Carstairs moves to London with ...