Life of a Short Indian Girl

I have reached adulthood! I can't believe I am 18- as nice as it is, I'm not about this responsibility... I want to be a child again. However, I'm lucky to have had a wonderful 18 years of life so far. But I was thinking about some of the things which I thought I would've done at this point in my life, so I thought I would share them with you! I hope it's more interesting than an account of the presents I got and what my birthday cake looked like (a cup of tea with biscuits, if you were wondering). So here goes, 18 things I feel I should've done by 18.... 1) Had a McDonald's breakfast 2) Watched Lord Of The Rings... o r Star Wars/Star Trek (don't shoot me for putting them in the same category) 3) Watched Elf or Love Actually - next Christmas for sure  4) Travelled First Class, and that's not going to change anytime soon!! Student life here I come  5) Eaten beef - intentionally anyway, who knows what I might have eaten without knowin...

You may remember early last year I posted about a book challenge , where I wrote about the books I was planning to read during the year. Now, it's safe to say I completely failed that challenge! Between having little time because of school work and finding new books I'd much rather read, I didn't get too far down the list. So instead I thought I'd write a bit about the books I did read as well as those I planned to read: Books from the list (which isn't many) The Girl On The Train - I decided to read this after seeing lots of amazing reviews of it on Amazon. When I started reading it, I was quite disappointed. The plot was confusing, it wasn't interesting and I didn't feel sympathy for the characters (even the alcoholic who's partner left her). However, I persevered with it because thousands on people can't have given 5 star reviews if it wasn't good, and I'm happy I did because it got SO much better. Although I probably wouldn't r...