Reading...Breakfast at Darcy's

I really love to read, which obviously helps being a English student, so expect to see some posts about books I've loved frequently appearing on this page!


Today I finally finished reading Ali McNamara's Breakfast at Darcy's, its taken me a while to get round to reading the book due to all my deadlines at uni. But I started it last weekend knowing that this week was my reading week so I should...read something, I don't think this was the type of book the lecturers were thinking of but oh well!

Breakfast at Darcy's Book Cover

I absolutely love the book cover, its just so colourful and it sums up the atmosphere of the book perfectly!


The story is brilliant and very original, which is centred around Darcy's new life on the island of Tara, and her struggle to cope with being in charge of the villagers on the island and making important decisions which could effect their lives forever. The story has twists and turns that you never would of expected, I don't want to give too much away so I will choose my words carefully, but I loved the characters especially Darcy and Dermot's obvious chemistry which Darcy is oblivious to and Megan's straightforward thinking which is true to young children (which I know all to well, due to my 10 year old brother). I will also admit that I had a tear in my eye in the final two chapters!


I'd highly recommend the book to anyone, McNamara has once again written a brilliant romcom book. If you loved From Notting Hill with Love...Actually, (which I really really did seeing as romcom films/books are my favourites, so this was the perfect book for me) then you will not be disappointed!!!


I really cant wait to see what she brings out next, one things for sure whatever it is I'll be buying it!

Exclusive Screening of 'La Luna'

La Luna

Today I attended a talk at my university by Daniel McCoy who was the supervising technical director of Disney Pixar's new short film La Luna, its such a fantastic animation! It has brilliant background music, and the story concept was lovely. It will be included with Pixar's new feature film Brave which comes out Summer 2012.

McCoy was a great speaker too, he had some great stories to tell about the production of 'La Luna' and he even held a Q&A session after, which was really insightful. I even plucked up the courage to ask him a question about how technology has progressed in animation and how they cope with it when creating a film. To which he answered that usually they pick a style/concept of technology to use and stick with it to cause less complications!


McCoy has even worked on feature films such as: Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and his own personal favourite, Ratatouille.


Take a look above at the great picture! : )

My Fist Post...

Here goes my first post: I hope you enjoy my blog its just a place where I can write about things that I have found interesting/am interested in! I may also write about stuff I've done or things I love. I'm new to this so be patient and I'll get there in the end! : )