Emotional Baggage Check

We all have those moments when we feel a little down and lost, and we’re just looking for someone to listen to us, to advise or guide us. emotionalbaggagecheck.com allows you to anonymously vent to other anonymous members of the public.

Personally I think this is a great service, which provides a platform and a safe place for people to share their troubles and recieve advice from others. It is somewhere that you can go to anonymously admit or discuss things that you may feel uncomfortable saying aloud.

It is really simple to use:

Checking your baggage

To check baggage, click the link below, and click ‘check’ here you will be asked to provide an email address, (don’t worry, this will remain private, the other person will not see this address however their feedback will be sent to this address), then you can type in your worries or your ‘vent’.

Carrying baggage

To help somebody else with a problem, click ‘carry’, this will then take you to a page where you can read a ‘vent’, from here you can respond and/or send a song by tagging a YouTube or Soundcloud link. This will then be sent to the person, and you can know that you may have solved their problems completely or helped them along the way.

This is a brilliant service that may be potentially lifesaving. So please visit the page and have a look around and if you fancy post a concern or help someone out.

Click here to visit the site

The Book Thief (reviewed)

Before wanting to venture into the world of netflix and watch The Book Thief (as recommended by a friend) I decided to follow the ever long prophecy, “the book is better than the film”, and delved into the pages of the book.

The storyline is beautifully written, narrated from deaths point of view, following his curiosity of human nature despite what he can see upon collecting their souls. The way Zusak has written Liesel Meminger as a character, to show her naivety towards the war and the additional political influences, is something to marvel at. The reader becomes fully involved in Liesels childhood, alongside the dramatic irony, the novel builds up to an upsetting revelation.

We spend most time with Liesel and her brazen-faced best friend Rudy Steiner on ‘Himmel Strasse’ (Sky Road) where their continuous games of football seemingly never end, and the ever perpetulant Rudy asks for a kiss at every opportunity.

Liesel gains her title as The Book Thief when she begins to break into the mayors home through an open window and steal a book, for Liesel this is revenge for the couple telling her mama (Rosa Hubermann) that they can no longer afford to keep paying her to provide their laundry services.

From cover to cover, it is thoroughly entertaining, allowing readers to envolve themselves and become a part of the community of characters, right up until the novels close.

The prophecy is correct, the book is much better than the film.

Rating:
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