BLOGMAS DAY 1: MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG

Hello everyone! I thought that since this is the first Christmas that I've been actually blogging that I'd do blogmas! For those of you that don't know what blogmas is, I'll be posting a blog post each day until the 24th December. Some entries will be Christmas themed and some will just be a diary of what I've been up to for that day. I'll be posting these each day by 10pm. 

So, today is the 1st December and we all got to open the first door on our advent calendars. 

I have a Cadbury's advent calendar this year, so gutted I don't have a beauty one. Definitely a must for next year!

My dog even got to join in this year! I picked this advent calendar up from my local £1 shop for 50p (I don't get understand why it was 50p either)! Unfortunately they didn't have any cat ones!

I'm going to do a post dedicated solely to the Christmas decorations in my house but this is just a few pictures of our tree! Feeling all festive!

I also got a Superdrug order through the post today, I stocked up on my regular shampoo and also bought a few new items to try such as these...

I always use the Batiste dry shampoo but thought I would try a new scent for a change! I've never tried the heat protector spray though so will be putting my thoughts on here after trying!

So that's all that I really got up to today, moving on now to the purpose of this post. I love Christmas songs so much! I listen to them at the beginning of November... But if I had to pick a favourite it would have to be Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. It's a family favourite and reminds me of Christmas with my family.

What's your favourite Christmas song? Have you followed me on Instagram yet? My username is chelseapurplefig. 

See you tomorrow! 

Chelsea xx

Rebecca｜Daphne du Maurier Review

Hello again! This post is going to be slightly different to other things that I have written about before, and I would love to hear your feedback as to whether you enjoy this sort of post! So, this post will take the form of a book review about the classic text Rebecca, written by Daphne du Maurier. 

Can we all just take a second to appreciate how beautiful the cover is? 

As I study English Literature as a degree I am given a reading list of texts which I need to read over the summer in preparation for returning to uni in September. Whilst browsing the different texts on Amazon I decided I would start by ordering this and begin reading it- this decision was perhaps solely based more on the cover than the blurb but who could blame me?

As I began the novel I was intrigued and definitely wanted to read more. It began with the protagonist hopping from hotel to hotel, dreaming of a time past at Manderley, an English estate. I hoped that it would take place as an epic love story but this was not fulfilled within the novel. 

The novel was definitely interesting at the beginning, with aspects of a Gothic nature creeping in with the hints at a ghostly presence of the ex wife Rebecca. However, this ghostly nature again was not fulfilled.

I began to become uninterested in the novel and frustrated at the protagonist midway through. I dislike Jane Eyre and Rebecca definitely has qualities very similar to this.

However, as I began to finish the novel I sympathised more with the protagonist and even Maxim! I won't reveal why, as this would spoil the novel to prospective readers. 

Overall, I did enjoy the novel as I felt that there were many different twists and turns that I didn't expect. However, I didn't like how reminiscent of Jane Eyre the novel felt and the characterisation of the protagonist or Maxim at times.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any comments

xxx