Matti May Hardie


I love to read, but it pains me to say that so few of them get the recognition they deserve. So I wanted to use this post to talk about some of my favourite books that I love and I wish more people know about.

Children Of The Most High by Anna Scanlon
I got this book from a giveaway on Anna's blog and it intrigued me straight away. It's about an amish girl called Rebecca who is raped by her boyfriend, but when she told someone about it, it was brushed off and she was told to forgive him and put it in the past. Feeling abandonned and lost, she finds consolation in the most unlikely of places.
This is a really beautiful book that tackles a really touchy subject that is always going to be current (sadly so). I really enjoyed it and I'm really looking forward to reading the sequel. The only criticism I could give it is that it was a bit too long and it goes on a bit too much.

The One Before The One by Katy Regan


Okay, I know this sounds like a chicflick... well... it kind of is but! It's not just any chicflick. It's about a woman called Caroline who, two months before, had called off her wedding with her childhood sweetheart, and she's racked with guilt about it, drowning her sorrows in Pinot Grigio. Oh, and meanwhile, she's got an undeniable crush on the married Toby Delaney. Then, to top it all off, her little sister Lexi turns up on her doorstep, saying she's come to stay for the summer.
It's both cringey, heartwarming and hilarious all at the same time, plus it's beautifully written.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham


I borrowed this off a friend last summer (still haven't given it back - whoops) and I read it in about a week. I will warn you now, it will depress you, but it's so worth it. It's about a girl called Tessa who has been diagnosed with cancer and hasn't got long left to live. With this in the forefront of her mind, she writes a list of everything she wants to do before she dies. The book is basically her battling with cancer and trying to complete the list. It's one of the few (very few) books that made me cry, it beautifully shows how she's forced to fast-forward her adolescence so she doesn't feel like she's missed out of anything. It isn't the most joyous book in the world but it's amazing nonetheless.

The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice


I wanted to finish this post off on a good note with my favourite book. I have read this book countless times and I fall in love with it every time I read it. Set in 1950, it's about a girl called Penelope, living in a vast mansion in post war Britain with her mother and her brother, yet all Penelope really wants to do is fall in love. When she meets Charlotte, who invites her to tea with her aunt Clare and her cousin Harry, everything changes. Especially when Harry asks to pose as his new girlfriend, to make his famous and beautiful american ex-girlfriend jealous, which makes everything swirl out of line for Penelope.
This is an amazing coming of age tale which has romance, drama, shocks, and I have no idea why but I love it.

What books do you love that don't have enough recognition?

Matti x
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I’m going to try and not make this the most depressing post ever because I feel like that’s all I post nowadays and that’s not what I want this blog to turn into so let’s try and keep this upbeat, okay?

Let’s just say that I don’t reaaally know what I’m doing with this blog anymore. This started off with me posting (crap) beauty posts and the occasional lifestyle post thrown into the mix too just to make it a bit more interesting. But as I’ve tried to grow my “brand” (please don’t virtually punch me for saying that, I’ve already done it myself), I’ve moulded this blog to make it a bit broader and generally more interesting for both you, the reader and me, the blogger. Problem is, I’ve kind of hit a plateau, and I don’t really know what I want to do with this blog anymore. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love this blog with all my heart, and I want to write it for years and years and it will always have a special place in my heart - but I don’t want it to get stale either. 

I’ve found myself wanting to talk about different things, like hairdressing and k-pop, or mental health or sexuality, but often I stop myself because I’m afraid that people aren’t going to be interested in that, so they’ll stop reading. Slowly but surely, I’m basically writing the same posts over and over, no original, fresh content, just rehashed, dull-as-dishwater, follow-the-heard, crap that is totally boring and that even I wouldn’t read (which is rather bad when you think that even the blogger whom the blog belongs to wouldn’t read her own stuff, isn’t it?). I’m no longer proud of what I’m putting up, and I’m even getting sick of looking at the same design all the time. and it’s the that I realised I needed to take action.

I thought about it long and hard and decided to take a break from Matti May Hardie for 1 or 2 weeks to decide a lot of things, without having to pressure myself to write posts that I know will ultimately get deleted. This whole blog shall be going offline for one week (sob) as of the 25th and will be going back up either on the 2nd or the 9th. During this break, I’m going to be rethinking everything about this blog, down to how my pages are laid out and how I start the posts. I wouldn’t call it a rebranding, because it’s not, it’s just a bit of change, a spring clean if you will. 

Until then, I have a couple of pre-written posts that will be going up so don't worry your pretty heads about that.

Matti x
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