Maegan Mariee | Thoughts & Lifestyle

Hello Loves!

It feels like it's been ages since I did one of these posts, even though it looks like it's only been about a month. I was doing so well with reading one book after the next, but I kind of took a little break for no reason for a couple weeks. But I got myself together and finished reading the book I was supposed to finish ages ago, haha. So here we go!

So after having this in my possession for about a month, I had to kick myself to get reading it. I think I was in a little slump after finishing All The Bright Places by Jenniver Niven. It was such a sad and undesirable ending. I don't think I even did a review on it! You can find where I posted about it here in my last Something post, but I never went into much detail. You know it's a good book when you feel a bit depressed about it being over. This book was a bit similar, though it had a much happier ending!

The Things We Know By Heart by Jessi Kirby starts out rather depressingly. I'm not going to get into it and give out any spoilers, but the main theme of this book is about moving forward when you've lost someone close to you, someone you love. And as you'll probably be able to read from the main summary, the main character is struggling with the loss of her boyfriend, who was an organ donor. To help ease her pain and hopefully move on, she writes to the people that have received his organs. And every single one of them responds. Except one. You guessed it, the one who received his heart. The one organ that she feels is the main core of a person and who they are.

It's a very confusing, emotional, roller coaster of a ride throughout the rest of the book and I have to say I was a little annoyed sometimes when she didn't do something that she was supposed too. It would have made things easier, I think, but then again, the book would have been over way too soon and left a couple of empty strings. I gave this book a 3 star rating on Goodreads.com and I think you should check it out!

I'm currently reading A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire. 
What are you reading right now?
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Hello Lovelies!
I remember when I used to binge read blogs and see practically everyone doing little summaries of their days. I always enjoyed reading them because I liked seeing what people were up too and how they were feeling that particular day. I can't for the life of me recall seeing one being done recently, (if I've missed a blogger who does them let me know in the comments), so I thought I would start doing them myself. A lot of them used to be daily ones, but I thought I would do weekly ones and go from there. Plus who knows when something interesting would happen, haha.

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Hello Lovelies!
It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been keeping busy and doing the whole work grind thing. But I've also been shopping. ALWAYS doing that, haha.

In my journey through whatever store catches my fancy for the day, I was perusing the face cleanser aisle and found these charcoal strips by Biore. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I have blackheads on my nose like nobodies business. They've always been there and honestly, I didn't even know what they were until I was about eighteen. Talk about letting your skin go.

I decided why not try it? The scrubs I've been using haven't really given me amazing results, though they do make my skin feel loved. This was basically helping me double up on the blackhead war. Now, let me tell you... I didn't think these things were going to hurt. Whoops. Don't rip these off like band aids! Anyway, the first night I tried one of these, I was amazed. I didn't think it was going to literally RIP my blackheads out. If I had known that I would have gotten them a lot sooner!

Do you use pore strips and which ones would you recommend?

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