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  About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger.  If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay.  After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports.  What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy.  I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...

Books I Am Taking To University

So this time next month I will be on my last preparations to go to university and being a book blogger the books I am going to take with me are very important, meaning I have given a lot of thought into the books I am going to take. I have around 30 books that I am going to take with me as I hope this can get me through to Christmas. As there are a lot of books I am just going to say what they are but you can find information on the books as the goodreads link will be left. So let's get started...

1. I Was Here by Gayle Foreman 

I Was Here

2. Half Wild by Sally Green 

Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2)

3. The Ask and The Answer and Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)                                         

4. The Almost King by Lucy Saxon

The Almost King (Take Back The Skies, #2)

5. The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin 

The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #3)

6. Drop by Katie Everson 

Drop

7. Sister's Red by Jackson Pearce

Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings, #1)

8. Seed by Lisa Heathfield

Seed

9. Trouble by Non Pratt

Trouble

10. Another Day by David Levithan

Another Day (Every Day, #2)

11. Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas

Dangerous Girls

12. The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury 

The Sin Eater’s Daughter (The Sin Eater’s Daughter, #1)

13. Darkmere by Helen Maslin

Darkmere

14. Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill

Only Ever Yours

15. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

16. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

17. Raging Star by Moira Young

Raging Star (Dust Lands, #3)

18. Undivided and Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman 

UnDivided (Unwind, #4)                                                                                             Challenger Deep

19. Soulmates by Holly Bourne

Soulmates

20. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)

21. Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi 

Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)

22. Harry Potter and the Philsopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

23. Fangirl and Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Landline
Fangirl


What books are you planning to read when you go back to school or for the rest of the year? Also if you want to know why I am taking some of these books, leave it in the comments below.

See you soon,

Amy


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