Helloooo,

If anyone's reading this you probably already know who I am, but just in case: I'm Chloe, I'm 19 and I've just finished my first year at the University of Glasgow, studying for joint honours History and Psychology. I'm pretty awful at writing about myself, and anything else would probably be boring/irrelevant anyway, so I'll leave it at that for now. This is just going to be a reviews-based blog...if you want to know my deepest innermost thoughts (and/or look at pictures of cats), you're probably better off either visiting my tumblr or minding your own business.

I'm currently home from uni for the summer...14-ish weeks, meaning I have an abnormally large amount of free time on my hands (not that I spent much of term time focused on anything more important than alcohol/Netflix, but this is free time I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT). I also have a long, long list of books to read, some of which I've already started but then abandoned (some of which I've started multiple times...) and many that have been sitting on my shelf staring at me, making me feel guilty and lazy as I scroll endlessly through Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and 'Top Picks for Chloe', for months or even years now. 

With both these facts in mind, I have made the executive decision (is that phrase even appropriate here I don't know or care, it sounds good) to make, and hopefully at least sort of stick to, a summer reading plan. Making a full on plan inc. dates wouldn't make much sense right now as it's hard to predict when I'll be most busy/how long some books will take to read, but aiming for an average of 1-2 books a week, to account for the fact that some of the books I want to read are super long and there are some weeks I probably won't have time to read at all (but also for the large proportion of time away that will inevitably be spent lounging around with a book). I'm starting with Farmageddon (which is non-fiction, somewhat disappointingly not actually about the pig apocalypse but I guess pretty interesting nonetheless) and Charlotte Bronte's Tales of Angria. That was meant to be this week, and predictably I have already managed to fall behind, but should be able to finish them within the next couple of days. To compensate for the heaviness of those two I've set myself an easy task for next week anyway - Hunger by Michael Grant, the sequel to Gone and part of a dystopian YA series my younger brother has been trying to get me to read forever. Already made a sizable dent in that book and it's easy reading, so should be able to get back on schedule soon!

Assuming I actually make progress I'll review the situation re: what to read next this time next week; for now, I'll just list the books I'm planning to read and be on my way:

1) Farmageddon - Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott 

2) Tales of Angria - Charlotte Bronte

3) 1984 - George Orwell

4) Hunger - Michael Grant

5) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

6) The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton

7) Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

8) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

9) Animal Farm - George Orwell

10) On The Road - Jack Kerouac

11)  White Teeth - Zadie Smith

12) Lies - Michael Grant

Not sure how public I'm going to make this; mixed feelings re: Facebook, but I'll probably at least share it on Tumblr once there's actually something here.

Bye for now, prospective future readers/(more likely) future self...

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