April Laugh is a graduate of English Studies.She just completed a journalism course with a specialisation in Creative Writing at the London School of Journalism. Her flair for journalism landed her reporting jobs with Silverbird Television and BattaBoxTv, Nigeria's first online television channel. Her landmark reporting jobs include live reports from the 2012 Fuel Subsidy Protests at the Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos. She is the brain behind Aprillaugh.com, a lifestyle website where she encourages people to live life to the fullest. April Laugh has written a couple of short stories, poetry and is currently working on her first book. She currently works with Hudson Petroleum as an Executive Assistant & Trade Operator where she displays her excellent organizational and communication skills.
I can relate with this writer: her journey, her irresistible love for food and desire for self-discovery. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught of mid-life crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the destruction of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover, she took a break from work; got rid of her belongings and travelled for a year- ALL ALONE! In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion with the help of a native guru. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly.
This is a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love. The memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the intricacies and consequences that real love, in the real world, actually demands. She fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. The couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces.They were forced by the American border to be sentenced to wed so they could live together in America. This book was everything I wanted to know about being committed and being in love irrespective of my society.
Maria, at a young age, is convinced that she will never find true love, she believed that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer ..." By chance, a meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute. She got fascinated with the art of sex and its pleasures for its own sake. This book gave me my first orgasm at 24; it was everything I needed to know about my body and pleasing a man.
I have a thing for authors with fine memoirs. On Writing simplifies the basics for me as a writer, how to deal with rejections and how to be consistent. It’s so clear, so useful, and so revealing. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection.
I bought this book when I was planning a holiday. It was a perfect companion during my trip; I have to admit that I devoured the entire Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in less than two weeks! Its sex, bondage, love and more sex, were a total escape, and I enjoyed every minute of reading it.
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