Book Review #2 North Of Beautiful (Justina Chen Headley)

How far would you go to find true beauty? A glance in the mirror? A look in a magazine? Or in a life condemned at birth?North Of Beautiful is the heart-wrenchingly honest story of Terra Rose Cooper, an artistic and sensitive teenager born with a facial disfigurement. Her life exists in a small and boring town, stuck between following her dreams of art college and obeying her stern father's rules....
March 30th, 2014 at 05:53pm

Book Review #1 One Day (David Nicholls)

Heart-warming, insightful, tear-jerking...Just a few phrases that come to mind when reading One Day, the moving and intriguing novel by best-selling author David Nicholls.This Book illustrates the strong and honest relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, university sweethearts turned life-long companions. Finely crafted, each chapter is written to tell the story of the same day each...
March 30th, 2014 at 04:33pm

What Not To Do When Writing

Recently I've come across several mistakes or simply annoying things writers do on Mibba. Here is a few:1) When writing a story that has alternating points of view, try not to write an event in one chapter and then repeat the event in the next chapter from another point of view. Although you may want to get how the character thinks/acts in comparison to another character across to the reader, it...
January 12th, 2014 at 07:27pm

The Sunday Film Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley

THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY (1999)Staring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate BlanchettDirector: Anthony Minghellacontent certificate: 15running time: 139 minGenre(s): Psychological Thrillerrating: * * * * *Tom Ripley is a man struggling to make ends meet while living in New York City. He meets a man named Herbert Greenleaf, who believes tom went to university with his son, Dickie. Herbert...
November 3rd, 2013 at 08:42pm

Fanfiction Cliches

Okay, so recently I've found myself getting annoyed with the unoriginality of some fanfictions. By this, I do not been every single one, but it tends to be the romance themed fics.In almost every 'Romance' fiction, there is always a vulnerable girl and a man who appears to be out of her league. The girl in these stories almost always has depression of some kind, or a bad childhood. I find this...
November 3rd, 2013 at 01:35pm

top 10 favourite books: #1 One Day (David Nicholls)

I think what makes this book so different from others is how cleverly it's written. The story follows the relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew. Each chapter is of the same day a year later, on the anniversary of the day they met at university. The time span of the book is 20 years. It goes through each other's separate relationships and break-ups, triumphs and failures before they...
August 2nd, 2013 at 01:21pm

top 10 favourite books: #2 North of Beautiful (Justina Chen Headley)

At #2 is a really feel-good book. The story follows Terra, a budding artist ans entrepreneur. The only thing stopping her from going to arts college and achieving her dreams is the port-wine stain which covers half a face. One winters day her and her mother accidentally meet goth kid Jacob and his quirky, jet-setting mother Norah. They become friends and shortly go to china together. This is an...
July 29th, 2013 at 02:20pm

top 10 favourite books: #3 Stolen (Lucy Christopher)

Top 3 now...these books are all my absolute favourites!What made me love this book more than anything is how it's written. It is an ongoing letter to the man that kidnapped the speaker in the story, a teenager called Gemma.The story kind of follows the relationship between captor and victim, a Stockholm-syndrome relationship which is not quite romance but by the end, it is no longer hate.I don't...
July 29th, 2013 at 02:12pm

top 10 favourite books: #4 By Midnight (Mia James)

This is a vampire story, yet it is totally unique to anything I've read before. I bought it cos i wanted to read a good traditional vampire book, not one fully of sparkling idiots.So it's about a girl called April who moves from scotland down to Highgate in London. She goes to a posh new school and meets a girl called Caro, who although very pleasant to speak to, is a total conspiracy nut who...
July 7th, 2013 at 11:22pm

top 10 favourite books: #5 The Woman In Black (Susan Hill)

TOP 5 GUYS! and what better way to start than with a horror classic?I read this book about 2 years before the film was released, and i must tell you that it is a hell of a lot scarier than the film! (although the film is terrifying, not gonna lie). thing is, I was reading this while sailing a yacht around croatia with my family. And let me tell you, sitting in a cabin alone by a secluded island,...
July 7th, 2013 at 10:47pm

top 10 favourite books: #6 Season of Secrets (Sally Nicholls)

i was so exited about this book as it's written by one of my favourite authors, Sally Nicholls, who wrote the wonderful "ways to live forever".It is a mixtire of fantasy, adventure and tragedy and is completely different from anything I've ever read before!So basically a little girl called Molly is living with her sister and grandparents after her mum died and her dads trying to sort his life out....
July 7th, 2013 at 10:26pm

top 10 favourite books: #7 Skin Deep (Laura Jarratt)

At 7 is a truly heart warming book. Jenna was involved in a tragic car accident, killing her best friend and severely burning Jemma's face. Her life is a jumble of uncomfortable glances in the street, cruel comments in the class room and endless visits to the hospital. It lookes like life is always going to be and endless misery, until a traveller called Ryan comes into her life. Confident,...
July 7th, 2013 at 10:13pm

top 10 favourite books: #8 Infinite Sky (C.J Flood)

This is a wonderful, wonderful coming of age story full of emotion, charm, tragedy and young romance.Iris lives with her dad and brother since her mum left her dad. Her brother has gone off-the-rails and her dad struggles to keep it together. A family of gypsy's inhabit a field on their farm, and although her dad and brother want them gone, Iris falls in love with a gypsy boy. But things turn...
July 7th, 2013 at 04:16pm

top 10 favourite books: #9 Shift (Em Bailey)

I initially bought this book to take on holiday with me, as it looked interesting but not too complexed. y'know, just light holiday reading.Olive was once one of the popular kids in school, but after a suicide attempt and a stretch of time in teen mental ward, she returns to school to find her old friends have completely turned against her and she is the most uncool person in school. Then a girl...
July 7th, 2013 at 03:22pm

top 10 favourite books: #10 My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece (Annabel Pitcher)

I read this book a few years ago, and it certainly didn't disappoint.It is is the story of a 10-year-old boy called Jamie who's older sister Rose died in a terrorist bombing when he 5. It has destroyed his family, his parents have broken up, his dad is an alcoholic and his sister (Rose's twin) is rebelling.They move to the countryside where he befriends a Muslim girl called Sunya. The problem is...
July 7th, 2013 at 02:07pm

maddeningly unhelpful facts about me

Full Name: Bethany Susan Hamiltonage: 14Favourite colour: Turquoise, BlackHair colour: BrownEyes: BrownSkin: White w/frecklescountry: ENGLAND!!!! *happy dance*Favourite band: Black Veil BridesFavourite artist: DAVID BOWIE (pronounced Boh-y as in it rhymes with Joey, NOT baw-y like it rhymes with Wow-y)Favourite actor: Johnny Depp, David BowieFavourite comedian: jack Whitehall, Russel howard,...
March 26th, 2013 at 11:19pm

intro: start to my blogging

Hey! I'm Beth and i'm 14 years old.My english teacher told me to start blogging so I thought i'd give it a shot.My blogs will probably not be very long as I have little to say. I do, however have very strong opinions. I would never wish to force my opinion upon anyone because they are entitled to there own, but i do like being heard.My blogs will be about everyday experiences, new stories or...
March 26th, 2013 at 06:47pm