Bria Lou Reviews

Hey Guys x I firstly want to say thank you to everyone who commented or left me a message on yesterday’s post. I was feeling really down and you really made me feel a lot better, and it means the world to me that you even commented in the first place, so thank you! Yesterday, I hit 10 months! I’ve been writing on this blog for 10 months! That’s amazing to me! I’m kind of surprised that I’ve managed to keep going, because I’m the kind of person who has a new hobby every week. But the fact that I am still writing on this blog makes me really happy because my blog is now a place where I feel comfortable. By this, I mean that I don’t really have to watch what I say. I am comfortable being my full self and saying whatever’s in my head (which is a lot!) And even more than that, it seems that a lot of you guys like to hear what’s going on in my head, which is such a crazy concept! Anyway, thank you so much for reading, commenting and following me if...

Hey guys x About a year ago, two of my friends started up a 'YouTube' club in our school every Thursday at lunchtimes. I was not into Youtube or YouTubers at this time at all, but I went along to the club each week to support my friends. And this decision was, without a doubt, one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. It's weird to think about how much YouTubers have impacted my life, and where I would be now if I hadn't ever discovered them. For example, I probably wouldn't be writing on this blog right now! And since I started watching them, my tastes for them have also changed. I started out by watching beauty gurus:   They were the most popular and they were who everyone was talking about, so I thought I'd check them out and see what all the fuss was about! The first two I saw were Tanya Burr and Zoe Sugg. Although I wasn't into make-up or fashion (and I'm still not really), I really liked them, mainly because of t...

  First of all, I made a post exactly like this about Louise Pentland about a month ago, which you can view here !   Carrie Hope Fletcher was the first YouTuber that I had ever watched in my entire life! I think I started watching her in 2012 (The next time I watched a YouTuber was in 2014 so you can see how far away I was from loving YouTubers!).   What happened was, for Christmas in 2012, I got McFly's book. I liked their music so I thought I'd read the book. I started on Christmas day and I became obsessed with them.   As I was stalking them on YouTube (Watching music videos and interviews etc.) I found Carrie. When I found out that she was Tom's sister, I really wanted to like her. I had a day where all I watched were her videos, and I fell in love with her. I just liked her personality and how funny she was.   However, I didn't realise how inspirational she was to me until last year. Some of these videos may tell you why:   ...

  DISCLAIMER: 1. This review will not get sexually explicit at all, so if you're worried about that - Don't be! 2. This review will mention some controversial topics (Such as domestic violence). Please don't read if that's a trigger for you! 3. My opinions on the film may be a bit controversial, but they don't reflect the author, cast or crew of the film. they are just my personal opinions on the film.             On Wednesday, three of my friends and I went to the cinema to see 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'.   My friends had no prior knowledge of the books and I had only read the first 3 chapters so we were all going in basically blind.   I don't want to go into the plot too much, but basically it is about a girl called Anastasia who is in her final year or uni and studying English Literature. One day her roommate Kate is sick, so to help her out, Ana interviews Christian Grey, who is something important to th...

  First of all, I just want to thank everyone who left a comment on my last post, wishing me luck for my op. It literally meant the world to me and made me feel so much better about it! I had it on Saturday, and I'm not fully recovered yet, but it went well!   Second of all, wow. This is my 200th post!   It's really weird. I've had this blog for almost 10 months this month, and I am now writing one of 200 posts. It's crazy!   I never expected to write 200 posts. I know how weird that sounds, but to have 200 separate ideas and be able to write passionately about (most of) them is a really big thing for me.   The biggest dream I have is to be a writer. This is in any sense, whether a full-time blogger or a magazine editor or a script writer, anything, I just want to write. And even bigger than this, my dream is to be an author. Right now, writing this blog is one of the only ways that I can practice my writing, and I think it's the best way! I ge...

  This is my first book review of February! I finished this yesterday and couldn't wait to review it!   Also, how cool is the author's name? Rainbow Rowell. I have no idea whether or not this is her real name, but I love it so much!   This book is about a girl called Cath (Cather) and her twin sister Wren. This is their first year at university and Wren has decided that she wants to be more independent, not relying on her sister so much. However, this is Cath's worst nightmare. What would she do without her sister constantly by her side? As Cath gets to university, meets her roommate Reagan and meets Reagan's friend Levi, she begins to panic. Is fiction-writing really for her? Or should she just stay at home and write fanfiction, which is all she's ever done. Cath has to decide whether to open her heart and her mind to new experiences, or to stay buried in the fanfiction that she knows and loves.   I don't think that my synopsis did the book jus...

I love to cry. This sound really really weird, but it's true. I think that crying is a really good way of letting things out and stopping yourself from getting stressed about a lot of things. Many people think that crying shows weakness, but I couldn't disagree more. For me, crying shows strength. It shows that someone isn't afraid to be vulnerable. Sometimes things get too hard, but rather than completely run away from the problems, crying allows us to get over it and move on, and I love that. Crying and movies is one of my favourite things, just because I know that, if I'm crying, it's been a really good movie and I'm going to have to watch it again. But, don't you just think that crying is really weird? Like, when we're upset, or happy, why does water come out of our eyes? I don't know the biology of this (but I'm sure that some of you do!) but I was just thinking about how weird it was the other day while I was crying. I...

Sorry this wasn't up last night! By the time I finished writing it, it was way too late to upload it, so I decided to do it this morning instead. But you'll still get a post tomorrow evening as usual! If you know anything about me, you know that I have a huge love and passion for books and reading. But I assume that a lot of you don't really know why I love books so much, or why anyone loves books so much, as I know a lot of people that hate reading. So I thought I would share some of these thoughts with you. First of all, I love movies. To me, movies and books are interconnected, in the same way that music and lyrics are, which may seem a bit odd to you. But in the same way that you can look at lyrics and make up a melody, I can look at words on a page and immediately see the scene in my head, as if I'm watching it in front of me. In this way, books are even better than movies - because we choose what the characters look like and where the scenes are tak...

Hey Guys x I had an interview yesterday (for a university) and in the interview, they asked me how often I write (creatively, not just generally). I know that the most obvious answer would be to claim that I write every day. But after thinking about it, I realised that I actually do write every single day, which came as a shock to me! When I'm writing blog posts, I don't count it as writing creatively because it's just a hobby that I really love to do, but it actually is creative writing, which is great, because creative writing is something that I want to study and eventually make a full-time career out of. I've never really had a passion apart from writing. I like things. Of course, everyone does. I also obsess about things. A lot of things. Mainly people. I have already mentioned that I am a massive fangirl. I am currently equally obsessed with Jack Howard and Ben Cook, and when I say obsessed, I mean it! I mainly live out my obsessions by watching You...

I said this to someone the other day (I can't remember who) and immediately noted it down to make a blog post out of it, just because it's a saying that I really love. To me, this quote means, if you're doing something that you hate, stop doing it. If you're hanging out with people that don't make you smile, should you still be hanging out with them? If you're reading a book and struggling to get to the end, stop reading it. Life is so freaking short. I mean, 100 years is the longest most of us can imagine living, and that isn't even really that long. But so many people don't even make it to 100. Imagine that. We have less than 100 years to make a name for ourselves in this world. And lets eliminate our first few years when we can't do much for ourselves. So say, we have between the ages of 10 and 80 (around) to make a lasting impression, to make our time on earth worth it. That's not a lot of time. It really isn't. Imagine looking ...