Reading, Buys and Flipping the Bird

Ah, Friday! A day to meditate on the things you learned, the struggles you faced, the people that enriched your life the past week. In short, A DAY TO CHILLAX YO. I did some work for my work (keeping it real), and then I started reading a book that just arrived in the mail. 

I may love clothes, but I have been buying more books than clothes over the past half year. I guess graduating and the accompanying freedom of mandatory reading finally resparked my love for books. I used to be the kind of kid that read four books a week, but all of that lessened during my days at Uni. I'm glad to revisit that part of my personality.

I'm reading City of Dragons right now. I'm not the biggest fantasy fan out there, but Robin Hobb is one of my favorite writers so I jump at any new book she publishes. Her Farseer, Liveships and Tawny Man trilogies have everything an exciting read should offer: captivating characters, adventure, a huge in-story realm and real political and social issues worked into the chapters. If you are in any way open to fantasy novels, I strongly suggest you check her out! Her new Rain Wild Chronicles trilogy is OK, not her best but still a fun read.

ANYWAY, you can't buy JUST books ya know. So last tuesday, I went shopping. And this is what I bought.

earrings: H&M - boots, sequin dress: Forever21 - coat/cardigan: Pull&Bear

I'm looking forward to showing you all of these in outfitposts. I feel like I've gotten a lot better at buying stuff I actually love rather than trash that spoke to me in the moment. No use for holding a big closet sale and getting rid of the clothes you don't wear to fill it up again with new stuff you won't wear now, is there? So I'm definitely buying stuff more consciously now. 

The boots are very cheap, but I've already worn them a lot and they are SUPER comfortable and look super classy, especially considering they cost me 30€. If you're interested, they're also available in black. The coat/cardigan hybrid is WAY classy and perfect in every way: light but warm enough to wear year round when the temperatures ask for a coat, dressy like a blazer but comfortable like a cardigan, and the knit, tweed like look of the fabric looks really expensive. The sort of piece that might just as well be COS rather than Pull&Bear, if you catch my drift. 40€.  

And the dress! Aaah the dress. I have never owned a sequined dress in fact, and I can not WAIT to show it to you and have the light play on it like I'm a giant disco ball. Can't believe it only cost me 28€, it looks SO much more expensive. And of course, the earrings are perfect for my current Chav Chic obsession. You see, I bought wisely.

A lot of talk for a few pictures, I probably bore you to death but I'm talkative today, SORRY! To make it up to you, here is a picture of me wearing my new cardicoat, flipping off a cardriver that leaned out the window to whistle at me while I was having my picture taken. My boyfriend just kept snapping and I was delighted to see he caught this whimsical moment so I can show you all how I am in my natural habitat.

I'm off to read a bit more now, catch ya later! In the meantime, tell me what you like to read.