V Festival

I am lucky enough to be going to this again :) I can't wait!

I know I said I would create a post with loads of pictures last time, and I did try but the pictures took ages to upload and I got bored and distracted and ended up never trying again. To be honest, the pictures weren't that amazing, I was nearer the back for the best artists. So i'll just list who I saw (as reminder to myself as well as for your information):

• Kassidy (I think) - I hadn't heard of them before, they were a group of four guitar players and they actually sounded really good. There was hardly anyone there as they were the first group on and the camera was always on us, that was fun
• Big Country - they were okay, my dad had actually seen them when he was younger
• Aloe Blacc
• Kids In Glass Houses
• Olly Murs - the atmosphere for Olly was so good, everyone was dancing and singing and I think it probably helped that it stopped raining
• Bruno Mars
• Jessie J
• Lostprophets
• Kaiser Chiefs
• Razorlight - it had just gotten dark and their backdrop thing was 'Razorlight' in big light bulbs, it was absolutely amazing
• Arctic Monkeys - but only from really far away, we were too tired to walk nearer the front
• Dizzee Rascal - heard him play, don't really listen to his music so just sat near his stage, he was the last act on that stage so I was super tired by this point!

It was a really good day. I don't think we got up much earlier than we would have for school and the journey there was so easy, just one train a couple stops and then a bus specifically for V Festival. 

We didn't explore the place that much, we most walked between two stages because there was always someone on we wanted to watch. There were loads of food stalls, but the food was quite expensive, but I think it was worth it for the foot long hot dogs and curly fries ;).

There was also a Just Dance thing that I had to see but then they wanted us to dance on this small crowded dance floor so we left. There was a Coca-Cola thing but I think it was the opposite side of the park and we never got there...

I only went for the Saturday so I didn't see that much, I really wanted to see Ellie Goulding though but unfortunately she played on Sunday :( but at least I was lucky enough to see the few I did.

This year I will be camping, and I've never been camping before so it should be interesting. The Killers are headlining, which I really can't wait for! I have wanted to see them for a couple of years but I've only ever seen them playing one place during school time, so I'm glad to get this chance.

When it came to getting the tickets it was so stressful, we wanted to get the same camp as our other friends who got pre-sale tickets but they had sold out so we ended up getting camping and coach tickets so we have to go all the way into London to get the coach back the way we came! And it's compulsory to get the ticket. It's a bit annoying but I'm so glad to have tickets and for everyone to be together.

I was just looking at the V Festival website about camping and everything and they said there would be theme park rides and film viewings on Friday night, which is good (when you camp you go there the day before) and the more I was reading the more excited I was getting, it is going to be too much fun :) bit worried about the washing situation though.

Enchanted

I just downloaded the new Taylor Swift album. I know it's not really new any more because it's been out a while, but i've only just got it, so it's new ;). It's absolutely amazing. I didn't realise it would be so good, I was kind of sceptical because I hadn't heard much about it and I'd only heard one song from the album. But I love it. Especially the song Enchanted, its so different to what I have been listening to so it's lovely. I also like The Story of Us, Better than Revenge and Mean. I haven't listened to all the songs enough to judge all of them as I only got the album a couple of days ago and I have to go to school :/.

I like the cover of the album too :).

I also downloaded some music by other people like Green Day, Good Charlotte, Ellie Goulding and 3OH!3. My iPod is getting full. I think it's about half full now, I deleted some music from it that I didn't really like any more so I managed to save some space too ;).

The Shadow of the Wind

I've just finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and it was amazing, and i'm sure it's no coincidence that the author has a beard! It was lent to me by the one and only Physics friend, and I think it was even more mysterious than she said!

It's a story set in Barcelona in the mid 1900s and is about a boy, called Daniel Sempere, who is brought up around books. One night his father takes him to The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which is where he finds the book that has been waiting for him since he has been born: The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax. After staying up all night reading it, he wants to find more of this authors work so consults Barceló, an influential man in the city's second hand book trade. He is willing to buy the book for a very substantial price, as there have been mysterious disappearances of collections of Carax's books, due to a man called Laín Coubert who, in Carax's book, is the Devil. 
As Daniel gets older he befriends a man called Fermín Romero de Torres and begins to search for answers to the disappearance of Carax and his books, and for the reason why people are trying to stop him, are following him and lying to him.
It is an incredibly well written book. There were some very scary parts in the book and I felt how the characters were feeling at those points. At times I thought I knew what going to happen, I was sure of it, but then I would turn out to be completely wrong. It's a really good book, filled with twists and turns and answers and more questions and I would definitely recommend reading this!
Thank you for the recommendation Physics friend :).


I've also read a book called Fallen by Lauren Kate. It was about angels, like Hush Hush and Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick. It was good, and I really liked the ending. I was worried it wasn't going to be very good because the book wasn't as good as I had thought it would have been but the ending made up for it. This book was also filled with mystery but it was much easier to guess what was going to happen than in The Shadow of the Wind but not because it wasn't written well, it was because  The Shadow of the Wind was just written too well!

I have been reading a lot of books recently. I think it's due to the fact it's the Easter holidays, and I have a lot of work and revision to do and I don't want to do it. So I just spend my days reading and/or eating. I still have a whole list of books to read though:

1. Pretties by Scott Westerfield (sequel to Uglies) then the third book: Specials, then the forth: Extras.
2. Torment by Lauren Kate (sequel to Fallen, and there's a third book, Passion, coming out soon).
3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (also recommended by the Physics Friend).
4. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (which is a four part series and Alex Pettyfer is going to play one of the characters in the film ^.^).
5. Lies by Michael Grant (sequel to Gone and Hunger, and then the forth book, Plague).

So altogether that is 12 books to read! I've never had to do so much before, hopefully they'll all be good! It may take a couple years to get through all of this though, I do sometimes have a life ;).

Oh, another thing I wanted to mention was that I was listening to Katy Perry's album, lent to me by Lauren (thanks) and E.T. came on, and for some reason i've only just discovered it and it is amazing So check it out if you have the time :).

P.S. during the Summer Holidays and I don't have any work to do i'm hoping my blog will become a little more exciting than me just talking about books all the time. So be prepared for awesome ;).

Rolling in the Deep

I have finally finished I Am Number Four. It was a really good book. I think it took me so long to read because I only had time to read it late so only read a couple chapters a night and the pages had a lot of words on them! It was much easier seeing the film and then reading the book because my imagination is absolutely terrible so I didn't have to make up what the characters looked like. Yay! This also worked well for Twilight.

My brain is lazy...

In the film there's this great song by Adele called Rolling In The Deep, which is also my blog title for today. It's very good so you should definitely check it out.

So thank you Sam for telling me about that book and film and song. They're all great! :)

I decided my Lent thing will be to do more work. And if I don't do any work for a whole day I will donate £1 to charity. Lent has lasted 5 days and I already owe £2 but those days off were totally worth it ;)! But I caught up on all my work today. And i've been doing ict coursework in the mornings so the usage of my time has been a lot better. I really need to start my biology flash cards again, but i'm still slightly heartbroken after losing my last lot of flash cards so re-writing them is physically and emotionally challenging.

Here's a pretty picture for today (and also what I had for lunch yesterday <3 ):