Auckland!! Where A Book?

Auckland, What a city! It is what I call a book lovers dream; it has a lot of independent bookstores if you look hard enough. So far, I have fallen in love with 3 of them.

The first being one that Is in the heart of Mount Eden , open 9-9 everyday including the weekends, with a great selection and it’s shelves filled with books, and even has a great loyalty system. It even sits near a great coffee shop, which is open from 6am till very late in the evening. It is one of the small gems that inhabit the inner city.

The second book store is one that was recommended to me by a friend at work, she said that it has such a large selection of books and is stacked from floor to ceiling with books, and boy was she right!!! This book shop, I take two trains to get too as it lives in an area of Auckland called Onehunga, and the name being ‘Hard to Find’ and no the shop isn’t hard to find, but It does have loads of selection that the big stores like Whitcholls or Paper Plus don’t have and it is like a Tardis, it seems small on the outside but is so much bigger on the inside and is wonderful and magical. There is the bottom floor, and there are two top floor sections and you could easily spend hours in there. There will always be a place in my heart for this store.

The third store being somewhat amazing, its name… Bookmark, and what a name that its. Bookmark lives on the main street of Devonport; it has a feeling of adventure to get there, crossing the ferry from the city to this store, which has so many choices and beautifully bound books, and dose of fresh air, mixed with that special aroma that comes from books. This book store becomes a part of your soul and once you leave you feel like you are leaving somewhere that you wish you could stay forever, but once you are outside you are just a few steps away from the water and the ferry, and even if you sit near the water to read or on the way back to the city on the ferry, you feel way more alive.

These three bookstores are only some of the many that lie within Auckland, so go out and explore, who knows what you will find or where you will end up. 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, what can I say, simply superb!! Pride and Prejudice is such a fantastically written book, one that no matter how many times it’s read It gives you the real emotion of each character and even though you know that Mr Darcy and Miss Bennett end up together you still fear that they won’t. 

Jane Austen is one of those authors that made each character real and unique, she makes you laugh, cry and at time angry and then makes you sad, I only wish she were still alive to write more books. I will always carry Elizabeth Bennett in my heart as well as Mr Darcy.

We Will ALWAYS Remember...

This week we the world have lost two great legends.... David Bowie and now the Great Alan  Rickman who played the sheriff of Nottingham in the 1991 movie Robin Hood and the Prince of Thieves and Professor Snape from Harry Potter just to name a few.

The news is devastating to all those who personally knew them and to the acting and music communities. The world will never forget them, may they rest in peace.

Jimmy Carr (Bucket List: Comedy Show)

Oh what a night it was! Just being able to watch how perform was priceless, and to hear that famous laugh of his was perfection. Jimmy Carr is a wonderful comedian. He is definitely a man to see.

What made the night more perfect, was being able to meet him and get his signature after the show. 

The comedy was gold, the evening great this is an evening I will remember forever.

Hello New Years!!!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years and here at the Nerd Over Haul blog we wish you all a great new year.

(Blog post will restart on the 11th of January)

Jumping off the Auckland Sky Tower (Bucket List)

What a magical feeling, knowing that I have not only completed something on my bucket list but I have jumped off the Auckland sky tower. This morning I was full of nerves, excitement, fear and uneasiness; now full of amazement that I have completed the jump.

Heading toward the Sky tower, I wasn’t that nervous but it was there, I felt somewhat calm. It wasn’t until I was in the jumping gear, and in the elevator the nerves finally hit, heading all the way up to 650ft (192m) just to have yourself jump off all the way down, I was determined to stop my fear of heights and do something that I would never do normally, and this was extremely outside my comfort zone! At the top in the jumping lounge the view out was nice, but the look down felt threatening.

After the few in front it was my turn to jump and getting myself to the edge was hard and even though I knew I was strapped in tightly with my harness and the actual bungee, I felt as though something horrible could happen. Once I was holding the sides seconds before I jump and I feel my heart racing fast, I was scared to look down and I was scared to jump; so when I was told to jump I thought I was going to freeze but I just felt myself jumping like my mind was a few seconds behind the moment and then there was the fall, something new, something frightening, yet quite exquisite.  The landing wasn’t so gracious at all but I was glad I had my feet on solid ground. I was so shocked that I had done it.

It had been a thrilling event, now that it was over and out of the jumpsuit and harness and had been given the chance to head up to the observation lounges, which was something else but going up the elevator the second time wasn’t as bad, up at the top observation deck, it was nice just to look over Auckland, the view was simply superb.

Now the event is over and I am never going to forget this amazing opportunity that I was given, it was something tat I thought I could never do, but now that I know I can do that, nothing can stop me now…..

Update - 18/11.15

Hello my dearies,

YES! I am the worst at updating this blog of mine but it is one that I do plan to update more frequently in the weeks to come. But where am I up to, I have completed, 17 books out of 80, so that is definitely something I am very proud of, I am currently reading the complete stories of Sherlock Holmes all 1408 pages of it in written order.I am currently roughly 480 pages in. 

I would have started earlier, but found myself distracted by one or two other books not on my reading list. But the end of year id approaching and plans are getting into place for more books from the reading list to be done, and the same is to be said about the bucket list that is one that I have found myself lacking in doing, it is something to bring me back out of the shadows of my mind and into the light of who I could be. As much as I enlighten my mind with books,

I must enlighten my soul with new and unknown wonders and push my soul and spirit to my limit. We all have monsters that stop us from exploring ourselves and the world; I do not want the monsters to win. So there are plans that are in the making and plans as they say must be followed!!!

Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime!!!!!