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Small Town Girl: Crazy People

7:35 AM / BY Envy
Source Nothing much ever happens in my hometown near Rotterdam. Sure there are a few crazy people around: the paedophile from down the street, the mentally handicapped guy who likes girls a little too much and one or two violent drug addicts. But they keep quiet and if you didn't already know they where there, you'd never know. How different it was in London, where the crazy people are impossible not to notice. I saw...

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In Love with Languages

4:17 PM / BY Envy
I don't know about you, but I don't fall in love very often. It's been over a year since I had any genuine feelings for anyone and to be honest, it was starting to worry me. How was it possible that I hadn't felt butterflies in my stomach for such a long time? I was an expert at awkward crushes in high school, where had they all gone? I started thinking long and hard, ignoring...

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Envy Style Reviewing: Kitty Hawk and the Tragedy of the RMS Titanic*

7:43 PM / BY Envy
A few months ago, when I was asked to review the first book in the Kitty Hawk series by Iain Reading, Amazon had one job: send me the first book in the series. You can imagine how surprised I was when I received the fourth book instead of the first. To be honest, I'm very glad Amazon made this mistake. I fell in love with the cover right away and the story sparked my interest...

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Almost Gave Up on Writing

6:56 PM / BY Envy
I had been doubting about my writing skills for quite a while when I thought about quitting it alltogether. I hadn't put pen to paper in weeks and as summer left, so did my creativity. My mind, once full of wonderful stories, was blank and boring, the thoughts coming out of it dull and  My blog was affected by it too: my posts were uninspired, writing them was like a chore. I was about to...

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Dark Arts and Death Eaters

7:00 PM / BY Envy
I promised myself not to freak out and fangirl. I promised to behave like a responsible adult. I promised to look at everything with amused interest. I should've known better... Yay for bad quality pictures! Months ago, when my parents decided to go to London, I practically begged them to let me do the Harry Potter Studio Tour. My dad, stubborn as he is, decided that it was absolutely unnecessary to buy tickets in advance....

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