BOOK Review: The Espressologist by Kristina Springer

Do you ever feel like you are tired of these never ending apocalyptic love stories, full of super powers and unexistent creatures, with dramatic cliff hangers and emotional rollercoaster going till the final chapter? I do.
Sometimes, I want to read something, that is more "down to earth", especially when going through writer's block or simply being in a bad mood.
One day, when I was feeling like that, I came across this book. It was probably about 5 or even more months ago, but the positive feeling it gave me is still there. I will probably end up rereading it again sometimes soon, just to get some inspiration.
This story is a pure light. It's one of these rare plots that contain no real sadness, something you smile at, from the page one till the very end. I don't want to describe more, because anything I want to say, can be a great spoiler and I want you to open this book without knowing what to expect. Just know that it's deliciously good in my opinion and you will most likely end being a coffee fan after reading it.
If you want to know more about it or the author, just click on the pic above. As for now, I give this one 9/10.

P.S. Kinda spoilerish, but eh, for those, who read this book already: let me know which coffee do you think describes your personality and why?

Another P.S. I am definitely a chocolate latte or something like that. Haha xx

BOOK Review: Beware of Bad Boy by April Brookshire

Finished reading this one yesterday night, only to find out that it's the first book out of three in the Beware of Bad Boy series...
I try not to involve myself with book series... because, okay, I am impatient. If I read a story, I WANT to know how it ends and, I can't last waiting years for it.
Angry bookworm mode.
That aside, lets talk about this book now. I found it quite readable, though the humor (yes, I like characters, that have a good sense of humor) wasn't one for my liking. It was also a bit disturbing trying to follow the main plot through all these teasing and nearly sexual scenes (they are like in every chapter), but I got to the finale and no, I don't regret reading this book.
Except...I don't want to read what happens next either. This could be transformed into a beautiful ya romance book, with keeping these three dots in the end as "they ran away and lived happily ever after". It could all fit into one single book and be amazing to read. BUT NO, lets make it 3! *still on angry bookworm mode*
As for the characters, I felt like all attention was given to the main couple and the rest are just...you know, like a furniture. Poorly written, some even pointless (in my opinion), some I know absolutely nothing about, still.

The finale (as the most of this book) was so predictable, that...cliche much. All summed, I would give this one 5/10.

Confession

When I was a kid, I had no friends.

My mother did not approve of me 'socializing' with kids, who lived nearby and through years, when I asked her why she wouldn't let me play with other children, she always used to reply "You were weak".

I've never been a problematic child, nor did I have any problems with my health. I never understood why she would call me weak.

But now I do.

Once though, she letted me go play outside with that group of girls. They all seemed friendly, but I was new, so I felt the distance between me and them, even when we all played one game. Maybe, it would fade if I managed to stick around any longer and they would start trusting me more, if only. I remember, they turned all mean to me, out of the sudden, and it was literally the first time someone would say something rude to me and about me with absolutely no reason, and I had no idea how to answer to that. I felt bad, but I also realizied I would never use their own weapon against them. I just couldn't say anything rude about a person I barely knew and I did not want to anyway.

I just couldn't be mean.

I went home that day and never talked to those girls again. I never tried to befriend anyone ever since that day.

I still remained friendly. It's something you hardly get rid of, you know, so when I went to school, I was nice to everyone in my class. I guess that's why I wasn't considered a loser with no friends.

I was that girl, who never invinted anyone to her birthday celebrating.

In middle school, I was that girl, who had no time for personal life, because she studied alot.

In high school, I was that girl, who never went to parties or school events.

I was weak. Not physically, but emotionally. Because I knew, if someone ever hurted me - I would never bite back, and the only thing I could do is to avoid.

Avoid at any cost.

I never noticed the changes in myself until when I went to college. I had to come out of my shell and when I did so, I felt strong.
And I thought, wow, girl, you did it, you became confident enough to find so many freinds, to go out, and basically live the life.

I never noticed how I lost my greatest ability - the power to forgive people and leave negativity behind. I lost my ability to feel, to be open to this world and people in it. I became even worse than those girls, because now I craved remorse for every pain I felt and anger, that ruined everything on my way, including myself.

I laugh at those who say that life is about becoming better than you are now. How come I upgraded myself, but it feels so wrong?

Life is about letting pain in and fighting it inside, because as long as you feel it, you are alive. As long as it aches, you will never make someone you love feel that pain. Because when you feel nothing, you no longer care how badly your actions affect people around you.

Life is about being that weak little girl, because that's when you are the strongest. xx

REVIEW: MaXFactor "False Lash Effect" mascara (in brown)

Here is the beauty product of the day and my number one mascara for fall and winter time. The packaging is pretty mysterious, if you ask me...too plain.

Now to why it made its way into my favorites list. I know a lot of girls want their mascara to give their lashes full dramatic effect, but in my case, I don't want my lashes to look false, instead I want to keep them as natural looking as possible by adding a little bit of volume or length. Before buying this one, I have been switching between Maybelline mascaras (and they seemed fine, if only they didn't show my already dark eyelashes so black and didn't get dry so quick), but
then I thought "time to try something else, girl" and my choice was picking brown mascara instead of black.
I searched high and low, through so many "affordable" brands until I came across this one, pretty much the only brown mascara I found. I've never used anything from MaxFactor brand before, and I was kind of scared to give this one a try, but since the first time I used it - I fell in love.
This one lasted for 6-7 months until it got dry and there wasn't much of a product left, since I used only this mascara on my eyelashes, usually in 2 coats. It does give volume (I loved the thick plastic brush), but somehow manages to give me much required "I did not put 4 coats of mascara to achieve this volume and definition" look, which I think is great for when you are wearing a natural makeup look, or even for those, who don't really like using mascara at all.

It really does give full natural looking eyelashes effect, as stated on the packaging.

So far, 9/10.