Book Review- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier and Stone Cold by Robert Swindells

Hey Chickens,

Todays blogpost will most likely be short but knowing me, I'll find something else to write about at the end making it longer than intended. My intentions of this blogpost is to write a two reviews. One on the book The Chocolate War which I finished earlier this week and Stone Cold which I finished last night. These are two very different books but honestly, I loved them both and needed to share them with you. Just now, when I was searching up the author for The Chocolate War I found out that there is a follow up book for it so like, I'm definitely going to have to read that.

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier-

Very quick, short and basic summary of the story-line is:

There is a secret society at a Catholic school called the Vigils that kinda run the school. Trinity (the school) has an annul Chocolate fund-raiser which the students need to sell 20,000 boxes of Chocolate. The Vigils give this kid an assignment to do with the chocolate sale an from there it all goes wrong.

I actually really liked this book. It took me a while to really start getting into it but after that I was full on invested into this book. The ending was probably my most favourite part of the book and I was satisfied with the ending (this was before I found out about the second book). I was so excited when there was a second book because it will continue on with the story and The Vigils and the school. I really like Robert Cormiers writing and there is a few more books of his that I looked at on Booktopia that I like the look of.

Stone Cold by Robert Swindells-
Again, a short summary of the story-line-
This book is about homeless young people in London. It follows the story of Link (who is homeless) and how he become homeless and how he survives and him meting people. There is also a serial killer in London killing all the homeless people.

This book is only 133 pages, so I read it in about two nights and I just didn't want to stop reading it. Not much happens and it is a fairly slow moving book but it is written really good. The serial killers parts are very believable and it actually feels kinda creepy. It's a very good book to read because it feels so real. I liked the ending, it was good. I do feel like the ending was a bit rushed but I liked the way it was wrapped up.

I'm so sorry I've been so inactive recently, it's just stuff gets in the way and time gets away from me. In other news, on Tuesday night I'm going to see Black Panther (I've heard so many mixed reviews on it) an I'm really excited. I might post a review on it on Wednesday night but I'll see how I go. Also, I was just looking around and the Chocolate War is also a movie, like what. It is also one of the most banned books in America and I will admit, it is a bit inappropriate but it's nothing any teenager or adult doesn't know about.

Also, this deserves it's own little sentence because THE WALKING DEAD COMES BACK ON TOMORROW NIGHT. I have so many question and I can't wait because I love The Walking Dead so much. Ever since I went to Walker Stalker at the start of February, I'm just like ok, Walking Dead, come back on. And cause I met Austin Amelio and Steven Ogg, I'll be like, I've met them in real life, I have pictures. As you can tell, I'm very excited. 

Thank-you all so much for reading this blogpost, I hoped that you enjoyed it, if you did make sure to let me know. I'm sorry if this blogpost doesn't have much to it, I've been writing parts of this all day between homework and doing stuff in my room. At the moment, you may have noticed, I'm uploading every Sunday, I'm going to try and start uploading on a Wednesday as well, but I'll see how that goes. Anyway, I love you all to Jupiter and back but until next time, bye
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New products: Pop Vinyls and Books

Hey Chickens,

Todays blogpost is going to be a new type of one. I'm going to be talking about new products that have come out recently that I like the look of. I'm not sure how this is going to go and if you'll like it but I just thought it could be a good blogpost. Also, I'm not going to say that I invented this concept, it has been around for ages.

Books-

On Wednesday night I ordered a few books off Booktopia (they should be coming early next week) and 2 of them are a bit different to the normal types of books I read but I really like the sound of them. I got Tex which I already know it's going to be good because I love S.E Hinton. One book I got which is about a band with a bit of a love story in it- Struts and Frets by Jon Skovron. The third book I got is like a full on YA love book which is definitely not my style but I liked the sound of it. The book is called Anything to Have You (by Paige Harbison) and basically it's about a girl who falls in love with her best friends boyfriend which is a classic thing that would happen more than you think. I don't know when these are going to come but I'll update you on my Instagram and on here.

Pop Vinyls-
Now, when I went to Walker Stalker I got to see heaps of the new Walking Dead Pop Vinyls and honestly I love them a lot. I'm waiting on a Simon one but it's all good. I really love the King Ezekiel Pop Vinyl cause it just looks so cool. I do think that we need more of Rick, like c'mon, what are you playing at Funko. I always saw in the Pre-order section that there are new Lord of the Rings Pop Vinyls coming out and I saw so excited because how doesn't want a giant tree, gollum and Aragorn in their room. Another Pop Vinyl that I want is from The Hobbit and it's Smaug and I first saw this at Walker Stalker and he looks so cool but he is bigger than all the other Pop Vinyls and that just makes a bloody cool dragon even cooler. I do feel like Smaug was a bit hard done by in The Hobbit but anyway. Last but not least is Care Bear Pop Vinyls are for Pre-order. When I was younger I loved the Care Bears and some of you may remember a few years back at the Royal Melbourne Show I brought a toy of a Care Bear. I'm not gonna lie, they do look a little scary but I think I'm going to need them all because I bloody loved them when I was younger.

For the past couple of days I have been thinking about when I want to post my blogposts and I thought I might post a blogpost every Sunday night. For the past few weeks that's what I've been doing and it's been working quite well. Over holidays I get more blogposts up because I don't have school but I'll keep you updated about this.

Also, quickly before I end this post, I just wanted to say to everyone, please go and check out my blogpost from last week about Walker Stalker because it means a lot to me that blogpost and I worked really hard on it so please go show it some love :)

Thank-you all so very much for reading this blogpost, it means a lot to me. This post was a bit strange, it didn't really come out the way I intended it too but I want to do another one of these all about new makeup so maybe that one will be better. I'm sorry I've been so inactive this week on my Instagram, it's been a strange week and things have happened and time also just got away fro me. Anyway I love you all to Mars and back but until next time, bye
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Melbourne Walker Stalker Con 2018

Hey Chickens,

Yesterday I went to the first ever Walker Stalker Con in Melbourne. I didn't post anything on my Instagram story because I was so happy and so excited about the whole entire day, I didn't even think about doing it. Basically, this was one of the best days of my life and I'll never forget it. I really hope Walker Stalker Con comes back down to Australia next year because this was so good and I would love to go again.

This post won't have a lot of pictures mainly because I have a fair few pictures of myself and I don't want to show my face as I like to keep my identity private. If you haven't seen any pictures from Australian Walker Stalkers than out the front they had a look a like of the front gates to Alexandria and they had the sign.  

I saw almost every single panel for the Saturday event- I saw the Alexandria crew, King Ezekiel, The OG crew and I watched part of the Hilltop panel. I didn't see Katelyn Nacon singing but I did hear her. I got a few photos of the actors at the panels and I was really surprised. Tara is one of my favourite characters (they all basically are my favourites) and I didn't really like Alanna Masterson. I did really like Tyler James Williams and if you didn't know, he was in a Lab Rats episode so the year 4 Emma inside me was screaming because I loved Lab Rats. I loved seeing Scott Wilson because who didn't like Hershel but the person who surprised me the most was Irone Singleton because he was just really cool. He shared a bit of his childhood and I found it very inspirational. I'm pretty sure he grew up in Atlanta and he was a crack dealer (if you don't know what crack is, it's a drug) and he didn't know his father and his mother was addicted to crack and what he was saying was just so inspirational. No surprise here, I loved King Ezekiel (I don't know how to spell his real name), he was just such a confident and open guy- it was the same with Irone Singleton. Something that was really funny was in the OG crew panel, Michael Rooker came out onto the stage and got the crowd going about if T-Dog dropped the key in the first season on purpose of if it was an accident. Thinking about it, in the Alexandria crew panel, some guy was asking a question for the guy who plays Aaron and he had mistaken him or Tom Payne, the guy who plays Jesus, then to make it worse when Tom Payne was on a panel, they mentioned the same guy and it was soo funny.

I got a photo op with Austin Amelio and holy shit, it is my favourite photo ever. My makeup looks flawless in it, which I love. I'm a very pale person and it's funny cause Austin Amelio and I are like the same paleness. He was so nice and I just can't get over that I got to see him as well as meet him especially because Dwight is one of my favourite characters. I also got a selfie with Steven Ogg (When I went to go write that and whenever I think of Steven Ogg for some reason I think Simon Pegg instead of him but anyway), Irone Singleton and Michael Cudlitz. When I had a selfie with Irone Singleton, he asked what grade I was in and I'm in Year 9 and then he started asking me about my grades. I do kinda try at school and my grades aren't the best so he said to me to keep working at it and keep trying and to just keep going because it will work out and I really like that because whenever I think this is so shit, I don't know how I'm gonna do it, I'll think of what he said because it really stuck with me. 

At the Walker Stalker place, they had this little stand that were selling icy-poles and they were $5 bucks but it was amazing. I got the Watermelon one and if you ever see them at an event, please go and buy one because you will not regret it. All around the building, they had different places with walkers you could go and have a photo. They also had a bike to represent Darrell's bike and they had the leather jacket with the wings on the back. Foxtel had a little section which was playing Walking Dead episodes and they had a few cool pictures in that area.

Another really cool thing was, we parked where the rides normally are when the Royal Melbourne Show is there. Before then, I had only been to the Melbourne Showgrounds for the Royal Melbourne Show and I didn't know that there was car parks there and I found that cool. After Walker Stalker, I went back into the city and I got a hsp from the same place I got one on New Years Eve. I also went to 7/11 and got a glazed donut. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of donuts but I bloody love Krispy Kreme glazed donuts, they are amazing. 

 I honestly had the best day. I was just so lucky that I got to even see the actors and I've got to meet and have a photo with 4 of the Walking Dead cast is just a dream come true. I'm not trying to brag about my day or anything, I've said this before but I like to write these posts to look back on and you guys seem to enjoy reading these posts. Thank-you Walker Stalker Con for putting on such a great event and thank-you to all the current and past Walking Dead actors that came out to the land down under.

Thank-you all so much for reading this blogpost. I hope that you enjoyed reading this post, if you went to Walker Stalker Con in Australia, comment down below or dm me if you enjoyed it- like I said, I had the best day ever. Remember to go check out my last blogpost which I posted on Wednesday and it is a review on the new Maze Runner movie. I love you all to the Moon and back but until next time, bye
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The Maze Runner- The Death Cure review

Hey Chickens,

So this blogpost is basically just going to be a movie review, nothing too special. I always say this when I do a book review or film review but I find it really hard to write about it without giving away the whole story line or plot or basically just give away spoilers but I promise I'll put in a warning if there is any spoilers. But enough rambling on how I can't write, lets get into review the last installment of the Maze Runner series.

I went to go see this last Tuesday and honestly I went for like the whole afternoon. It went for around 2 and a half hours but I felt a lot longer than that- not that it dragged on or anything. I did really like the movie, I watched the first two at the cinema and loved them so I was so excited when this one came out. I've always felt like the Maze Runner series isn't as big and mainstream as the Hunger Games for example. The actors in it are kinda big names now, but the films themselves seem just that little less big and I like that. I really love the Maze Runner and the storyline and the whole entire idea of it. The film itself I really loved- it was my favourite out of the three. I love how everything was tied up and I love the cast of the Maze Runner, they all worked so well together. There was a few tears shed in the cinema, if you have seen the movie, you'll know what I mean (I don't see that as a spoiler because I haven't said what I cried at, I could have cried because I saw a bush). I'm like 65% sure that it's still in cinemas so if I was you, I would definitely go and see the film because it's really good and worth watching.

Walker Stalker Update-
This weekend is Walker Stalker and honestly I'm so excited. Everything is organised, everything is set up, I've been stalking the Walker Stalker website. I'm going on Saturday and I've been looking at all the Walking Dead casts Instagram and stalking them as well but I honestly can't wait. I'm going to upload a blogpost on Sunday about my day.

Has anyone seen the new Rimmel releases? Honestly, I don't know if they are going to send them out as PR but if they don't, I think I'm going to have to save up and buy them because I honestly love them. The blush palette looks stunning and the highlighting palette looks so pretty as well. I don't think they are out now but they have been posting pictures of them on their Instagram page. Actually, last weekend, I went shopping and in Priceline I remember seeing them at the Rimmel station. The new Maybelline Burgundy palette I need. It is so beautiful, I can't even explain it because it speaks for itself.

Thank-you all so much for reading this blogpost. I really hope you enjoyed it. It was a bit all over the place but if you have the chance, definitely go and see the new Maze Runner. Also, Kylie Jenner, all of our questions for the past however many months. I love you all to Mars and back but until next time, bye.
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Covergirl Peacock Flare Mascara Review

Hey Chickens,

I have survived my first week back at school and honestly it wasn't even as bad as I thought it would be but that is not what this blogpost is about. This blogpost is going to be about the new Covergirl Peacock Flare mascara. I got this in the mail on Tuesday and I've been using it since then and I have mixed feelings about this mascara so lets get into this post.

I love the packaging of this mascara, it is like a metallic type blue with black and it is actually really pretty. A really helpful and nice aspect of this mascara packaging is on the head of the mascara has a rubber strip to hold on to when your applying it and it keeps it very sturdy. The colour of the mascara is a more natural black (I received this in the shade 'Extreme Black') and the colour isn't too intense. The actual formula of the mascara is really nice. It says that this mascara 'provides clump-free volume' and I can confirm that. The mascara doesn't clump at all, not when it comes out of the bottle or when it goes onto your lashes to a certain extend.

The mascara brush has interesting bristles. Depending on how you apply the mascara it will look super pretty or really clumpy and like you have spider legs coming off your eyes. When you're applying the mascara to your top lashes, if you like curve and twist the wand up your lashes it won't clump and it will look really pretty. If you try and apply it like a normal mascara (just pushing it up) it doesn't look very nice, at least for me when I tried it, because the bristles don't cover every eye lash. My biggest tip for this mascara is a little goes a long way. When you apply a small amount, it looks nice but when you apply a fair few layers it will clump it. This mascara is so shit for your bottom lashes. Because of the way the bristles are it doesn't apply to every bottom lash and will just clump up onto one or two lashes.

My overall opinion of this mascara is it is good. It isn't my all time favourite mascara but in no means is it not good. My only real problem with this mascara is the bristles, the formula is great and it looks really pretty on your top lashes and it would look nice on your bottom lashes, if they bristles were shaped differently. Should you buy this mascara, yes, if this is the type of bristles and mascara wand that you like, definitely buy it when it comes out.

Thank-you to Coty for sending me this mascara, it is very much appreciated. 

This mascara will be available nationwide (Australia) from February 2018 at Priceline, Big W, Coles, Target and selected pharmacies.

The RRP is $21.95

Thank-you for reading this blogpost, I really do hope you enjoyed it. If you have tried this mascara, be sure to tell me what you think of it. Next week in blogposts, I'm going to try and post three. The new Maze Runner film review, a books review and on Sunday I will be posting my Walker Stalker post. I'm going to Walker Stalker on Saturday and I'm honestly so excited to go, I can't wait! I love you all to Venus and back but until next time, bye.

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