Have a read... "As i remember, i liked this entry when i wrote it"

As a writer, I wouldn't say I'm overly organised with what I write. In my free time, I will write a short entry of which maybe are a start or part of a story which I could develop but then after writing it and leave it saved where ever and forget about it - so now and again I'll come across a piece of writing which I would have written ages ago stored in different programmes, on my phone, tablet or laptop. They usually don't have a beginning, middle or an end but sort of show my way of writing. I found one a second ago, which as I remember I  liked this entry when I wrote it, well have a read anyway, it's just Hannah babble... I don't think I have blogged this one before... Enjoy!

The morning after the night before...

That Sunday morning it all changed, I mean I could not find even remember the night before. I had woken up next to a complete stranger with a beard. My head thumped and my legs ached. I am sat at my desk, and I hear an unfamiliar groan. I look round, the guy, in my bed... He is slender yet built, as if he runs maybe. His face, carved features and deep cheek bones, facial hair short, rigid and sexy. I brought him home. What did we do? What have I done? I question myself and all i  do is bite my lip and watch him. Covered waist down by my duvet, his chest lifting as he breathes. All I can do is observe. My flat no longer feels empty. I left the room and  into the bathroom to get my hands on some paracetamol, my head thumped yet I smile and giggle at the fact there's a stranger, a good looking man in my room. I continue into the  kitchen and make us some tea, carrying it up into the bedroom. He is still sleeping, I don't even know his name. Till I found his jeans, I found his wallet; tucked inside a piece of paper with my mobile number written on it and a driving licence. His name is Drake.
I sat on bed looking out of the window clutching a cup of tea and wrapped in my dressing gown.
"Good Morning" he yawned.
He was awake, talking to me and I can't even remember last night. I can hear my heart in the silence that he was expecting my reply.
"Good Morning" I chirped up to say. "I brought you some tea"
He sat up. His eyes where soft, dark and pleasing. His smile, beautiful and I felt drawn in... This awkwardness, was only I feeling it.
As I sat, I watched the birds outside my window, I felt him, I felt Drake touch my back. He moved his hand up on to neck, his hands felt amazing and still unfamiliar. My toes curled as I became shy. He pulled himself slightly closer to me and kneaded my neck. The curved movement of his hand. Subconsciously tilting my head, he began to massage my back with both of his hands. He stops, stroking my ear from behind. I turn to him, meeting his gaze. He smiles at me.
I lay beside him, we not saying a word, leaning on my elbow I face him has he faces me. His face an angels smile, my tummy flutters like the wings of a butterfly. I tint back and on to my back, I lay looking up at the ceiling. I listen to my breathing, I listen to his. I close my eyes. I am thinking about Drake, where did I meet him?
His lips touch mine, warm, soft and strong. I feel his sharp tongue touch my lips.

Much love x

#4...Book Review... Slam, Nick Hornby

Author: Nick Hornsby
Published: 2008

Momentarily finished a novel by Nick Hornby, I will be honest with you I had tried to read another of his novels a couple of years ago, forgetting which one, I wasn’t impressed and never finished it but I picked up this one ‘Slam’ up on Saturday and haven’t been able to put it down, finished it about ten minutes ago. The book was different to anything I had recently read and was a bit odd to get into at the beginning. The boy whom is telling the story is telling the readers his life but by a sort of diary entry or conversation with us.  Finishing the book I have come to interpret the title as a sort of metaphor for how Sam, the boy, is feeling though many parts of his life also a term used in his skating which he has to give up during the book. The book is about a very young couple around the age of sixteen; they are both quite quick to move into their relationship and do conclude with an unexpected pregnancy. Hornby describes the thoughts and feelings that a teenage boy would experience in this sort of situation and also shows how Sam comes to deal with different aspects of his life. Alicia, at the beginning is Sam’s girlfriend; the novel depicts how the two teenagers come to deal with the pregnancy, testing their strength for the baby and also for their relationship. Throughout the novel Sam seeks guidance in a poster of his idol, Tony Hawk, Sam feels that doing this he is getting answers and advice to help him with what is happening with his life influenced by the life of Tony Hawk within his autobiography. This, psychological but also how Sam grows to understand, and becomes mature with motivation for his baby, girlfriend and his self. By seeking guidance, I interpreted him reaching and seeking within himself, for the advice and support that he needs of which he receives nearing the birth of the young couple’s baby. There are many complications with in the story which Hornby explores including the teenagers relationship, their parents and also another baby born into the family from another source, Sam’s mother. The novel shows the accident which has become more common in society with in recent years, showing the lives that some young teenagers are living, showing the consequences and reactions of family members and school.
I did find the book a tad confusing in places as Sam moves forward in time and then back in time in describing how he is feeling, what he is worrying about, what he is expecting etc. Hornby gives a great insight into the complications of these teenagers’ lives, ending on good terms creating quite an inspiring story. I would recommend it but I must admit it was not the type of read I would have usually gone for but enjoyed it nonetheless. As the story line is close to many people I know, and I am unable to relate to; I do feel sympathy for the characters in parts, and begin to understand how their lives must actually be. I won’t give too much away, defiantly a good read and a coming of age novel to read. Overall I wouldn’t mind reading it again, and may invest in another of Hornby’s novels for my next read.

July 2013

Today is just today... And will be tomorrow tomorrow!

Gosh you know that awful guilty feeling when you buy a HUGE cake to share with the fam and munch it all before they are even home...? I feel very much like that with my publishing, my proofing. Geez, re reading something fiction and that you have written yourself feels odd as it is, but memories also flock back of the influences which made you write what you wrote. In will get there, I've decided on a paper back when its published basically because I moan when I read a hard back book as I carry a book everywhere but hardbacks are a nightmare in your handbag. So paper back for me, also concluding on my decision of using my own name, if in seven years i get famous and write a dozen more novels (that really isn't going to happen) I may change my name officially to Luna... Hahaa! I will proof it and publish this year! Writing children's book are much less complicated then novels I assure you. Less faff.

Much love x

Introduction...

Mikey climbs over the fence, Lucy is already ahead of him. She calls and continues running through the tall corn. The yellow pollen flying with in the breeze as she brushes past. Mikey runs after her, following her track left behind as she rushes through the crop. Lucy was 16, a calm girl with a huge sense of adventure. Mikey was 17, from the age of about 5 years, these two had been inseparable. Things where about to change though, from neighbours, to best friends, they were likely to become strangers again. School had ended for Lucy and she craved for a hard working career. Mikey was to join the army for training in four weeks from this run through the corn field. From the eyes of heaven, Lucy had always been behind the rest of the girls, into football instead of facemasks, climbed a tree for exercise not patrolling in short shorts along the promenade. Her maturity I suppose was lower than theirs too,  she never had had a boyfriend or craved affection from boys. No doubt she thought about it, thought about how her individual love life was too pan out. Mikey was different, although Mikey and Lucy were extremely close, she never really knew him. Lucy's long ginger hair flowing in the wind as she ran, Mikey behind smelling the sweet scent of her shampoo as he caught up to her. He inhaled. Lucy began to slow down, "we're almost to the middle" she calls back to Mikey.

The middle of the field held an enormous oak tree, breaches low enough to climb, tall enough to see the village. This was Mikey and Lucy's tree, since their childhood they would spend every evening sitting, talking in that tree. Lucy and Mikey reached the middle, to the tree, immediately climbing up to their branch... They would sit for hours having thumb wars, talking about life. But this time was different, they sat in almost silence listening to the tweets of swallows and blue tits above and around them. She knew she was going to lose him and he knew he was going to miss her. They sat and smiled together for one of the limited evenings they had left together. Mikey checked his watch and Lucy saw. "I suppose we better get back" he said, the sun had lowered and the sky was just dimly lit. Lucy agreed as Mikey stood to climb down and Lucy followed, he turned. Facing Lucy, standing taller and looking in her eyes, he leaned in slowly to kiss her. She didn't move, his head tilted and slowing moving towards hers, she watched his lips. Comforting and soft declining towards hers, she flashed her eyes to meet his and closed them. Their lips touched, for the first time.

Much love x

Blar blar blar back to the oldey

""She was ready to start again, to do the whole thing again, making tiny plans. After Apologising and moving on to the next occasion where they would walk down the seafront hand in hand, she wanted this. She did not want 'them' to be broken. She understood that things in both of their lives that did not run parallel. His decision was quick but she does not judge him for that, she only respects him more. She loved how he had done as his heart told him, what he really wanted, and did the best for himself.""
Prose

Gosh I babble...

Much love x

#3... Book review... The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown

Author: Dan Brown
Published: 2009

An amazing ending to the well know Da Vinci Code series by Dan Brown. The gripping story line and strange and chilling occurrences have the reader hanging on to every page. The novel is quite a long one and depicts an epic adventure of which Robert Langdon endures. While Robert Langdon meets so many new characters and situations, us readers can not help but guess what we think is going to happen just around the corner, waiting in suspense after every turn of the page. The story is hugely clever and gripping, the unimaginable also concealed  within its pages. On contrast to many of my reading recently I really enjoyed this one, some themes containing drowning, suffocation during the book, could be a tad unappealing to many, and also the length and the denseness of the story lines. The book does require a lot of concentration like the others of Dan Brown's series, overall It is a very satisfying read and a great story to follow.

May 2013

Been a busy morning, demolished a melon.

And spontaneously blogging reviews I have had saved on my PC...

Much love x

#2 book review... The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Author: Alice Sebold
Published: 2003

I first heard about 'The Lovely Bones' as a friend had mentioned the movie, influenced by the novel. I really enjoyed reading this book, it is an eye opening story, twists of first loves and romance contrasting harsh reality and death. The book is superbly written and i couldn't speak any higher of it. Underneath the 'not so nice' story line, the happenings spiritually and strong connections between the friends and family members make this book so beautiful and definitely one i would read again. The story is conveyed through the eyes of a young girl, Suzy. After her death, Suzy documents and watches her family as they entwine the mystery of her death.
A main theme of this novel is Love, love between family members, between friends, first loves, affectionate love, and also intimate love. There is a strong sisterly bond through the novel, and teenage lust for love in both sisters lives. It is a becoming of age story, and it follows the lives of a young girl's grieving family, most of all, Suzy's youngest sister as she grows up and become a young women while Suzy watches from above. This novel is such an easy read, and so delightful to follow, with ups and down that will have any reader weeping a few tears.

May 2013

#1 book review... Room by Emma Donoghue

Author: Emma Donoghue
Published: 2010

I was recommended this read by my colleagues which they had enjoyed. As soon as they mentioned how gripping the story was, not giving any important details I was fast to get online and buy it. The beginning of the book takes a lot of adjusting too. The book is written from the point of view of the five year old boy and written exactly how a five year old would speak. The young boy, Jack, talks about life, what he sees, what he feels and all the in between. Without giving too much away, in the first part of the book the reader experiences shock, sometimes leading us readers to be a tad uncomfortable with what the young boys sees and what he is describing about his horrible life situation. The book grabbed me so quickly I couldn't wait to know the end and i read it super quickly. I would recommend it to anyone to read. Donoghue explains Jack's life brilliantly , picking up on things in a young child's life that wouldn't usually have such a significance. While reading the book, i became attached to the characters getting quite emotional in some parts. 'Room' is a story entailing a very hard life, the novel contains themes such as rape, kidnaps and suicide so a reader whom has not read around these themes before would probably find the novel a tad uncomfortable to read.
I hadn't read a novel that contained themes such as rape, the beginning of the novel did shock me slightly and did leave me thinking 'do I want to carry on reading this?' But only in the beginning, as Jack is the one telling the story,  he grips to you so he can tell you his story, and as a reader all you can do is listen. I fully enjoyed reading 'Room' and will invest in more of Donoghue's fiction. 

May 2013

Change in the wind said i...

Well as I have used this blog before mostly for my own writing... I think I have decided to start reccomending reads, and novels of which I have read and loved. The 'think' shows much... This book reviewing may not last long... Hopefully get me into blogging again though. So a few book reviews may be 'blogged' ... I could have created a whole new blog, but for the sake of everyone else, I shall keep all my jibber jabber in one place. :)

So home from uni and I have tonnes of time and still not writing as much as I should... I'll give you the new, I'm publishing my novel this summer but it needs proofing at least twice so not just yet :) I am excited for that... I wish I was proofing by hand though... Silly technology. I am hoping that all goes well. Been told to think up a writers name but I'm quite happy with mine, maybe Luna Otto... Naa.. Mine is fine. So... To conclude...

Hello again, I'd like to say i'm back... After this semi understandable breakup, I'm motivating myself to write again! *claps self* I have aims for the summer, honest. I will get these done; finish proofing completely, start my uni report, eat less biscuits, don't get hurt again, wear my bikini. Done!

Now were all up to speed...

Much love x