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📚🐱Non-fiction Book Club! Nekos Blog 🐱📚
Hi I'm the person who uses the :nyan: emoji a bit too much, welcome to my blog! Thanks to my fellow history nerd 04MR17 for the nomination :yy:
I'll probably just do this over the summer, but I might carry it on, who knows?

About me :nyan:
Finished Year 13 (did history, English lit, geography and EPQ) and with results day out of the way, I can now confirm that I will embarking on a history degree this September unless we go under lockdown again!

My interests :nyan:
Watching Films :kitty:
I’m a massive Studio Ghibli film fanatic (hence my username and pfp being catbus from My Neighbour Totoro). Studio Ghibli are a Japanese animation film studio most well-known for films such as Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
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Here's a full list of all the Ghibli films I've seen since lockdown began
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📽 Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind (1984)
📽 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) - very good film
📽My Neighbour Totoro (1988) my all time fav
📽 Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
📽 Only Yesterday (1991)
📽 Porco Rosso (1992)
📽 Ocean Waves (1993)
📽 Pom Poko (1994)
📽 Whisper of the Heart (1995)
📽 Princess Mononoke (1997)
📽 My Neighbours the Yamadas (1991)
📽Spirited Away (2001) won the Oscars!
📽 The Cat Returns (2002)
📽 Howls Moving Castle (2004) soooo good
📽 Tales from Earthsea (2006) - underrated gem
📽 Ponyo (2008)
📽 Arrietty (2010)
📽 From Up On Poppy Hill (2011) - it's good if you ignore the incesty bit:eek:
📽 When the Wind Rises (2013)

Online courses :kitty:
Our teachers at school recommended us to do some MOOCs so we could write about it in our personal statements but I couldn’t be bothered to do any back then which is why I’ve taken the opportunity to do some now. I do all my courses on EdX and Futurelearn so you can find these courses on there if you’re interested.

Here's the list... (the ones in fancy colours were ones that I really enjoyed)
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🧙🏻The Manchus and the Qing (EdX)
🧙🏻Controversies of Empire (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻Vernacular Architecture in Asia (EdX)
🧙🏻The French Revolution (OpenLearn)
🧙🏻Preparing to Learn Online at University (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻Antisemitism: Its Origins to the Present (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻Creating Modern China: The Republican Period to the Present (EdX)
🧙🏻Preparing for University (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻Exploring Our Oceans (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻Visualising Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernisation, Protest, Modernity (EdX)
🧙🏻Migration and Cities (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻An Introduction to Japanese Subcultures (Futurelearn)
🧙🏻The Tudors (Futurelearn)
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Visualising Imperialism & The Philippines, 1898-1913 (EdX)
🧙🏻Invasions, Rebellions, and the Fall of Imperial China (EdX)


Reading :kitty:
From the title you've probably guessed that already :cute: I do read fiction as well but my passion is scouring the history section of Waterstone's. Feel free to suggest any non-fiction books that you think are worth reading! :bunny:

Here's a full list of the non-fiction books I've read since lockdown began
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📚 The Real Jane Austen – A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
📚The Autobiography of Malcolm X
📚 Crusoe’s Island – A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness by Andrew Lambert
📚 Its All A Game A Short History of Board Games by Tristan Donovan
📚Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie
📚 Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
📚 The Russian Court at Sea by Frances Welch
📚 Game of Queens – The Women Who Made 16th Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
📚 A History of The World in 21 Women by Jenni Murray
📚 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny by Ian Davidson
📚 Other Women: The History of the Mistress by Fiona McDonald

And here's a list of all the fiction books I've read since lockdown began
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📚The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
📚 Beloved by Toni Morrison
📚 Enchantée by Gita Trelease
📚 Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
📚 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
📚 Small Island by Andrea Levy
📚 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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And FINALLY, onto my goals for this summer!

1. Read more!
2. Learn how to cook – because I don’t want to be living on takeaway meals at uni
3. Finish watching all of Studio Ghibli’s films – getting there
4. Watch Despicable Me 1 and 2 – borrowed from school library, COMPLETE
5. Take pretty pictures of places around me on the rare occasions that I leave my house :sadpanda:
6. Read more books in my native tongue - must've accidentally deleted this goal when I was formatting this post
7. Do some MOOCs (online courses)

Links to updates! :snoozing: if you want to skip the banter in between
update #1 - 25.07.20 Filler update, on this day in history + music recommendations 🎹
update #2 - 26.07.20 Film Review on Tales from Earthsea + nostalgic throwbacks of Tokyo 🗼
update #3 - 27.07.20 Film Review on Despicable Me 🎬+ on this day in history
update #4 - 30.07.20 MOOC review 💻
update #5 - 31.07.20 Filler update, nostalgic throwbacks of Osaka + music recommendation 🎹
update #6 - 01.08.20 First non-fiction book review of the so-called non-fiction book club:shock:
update #7 - 03.08.20 Filler update, on this day in history + windows spotlight thing 📷
update #8 - 03.08.20 Photos of de seaside 🌊 and de moon 🌙
update #9 - 05.08.20- Film Review of Ponyo 🐟
update #10 - 07.08.20 MOOC review + window's spotlight thing 📷
update #11 - 10.08.20 Book review + music recommendations 🎹
update #12 - 12.08.20 Film Review 🎬 + on this day in history
update #13 - 15.08.20 Life update🦥 + on this day in history
update #14 - 18.08.20 Rant about the gov😡 + on this day in history
update #15 - 23.08.20 Random stuff 🦥
update #16 - 25.08.20 Another rant😡 + film review
update #17 - 28.08.20 Film Review (Parasite is sooo good:yep:) + nostalgic throwbacks of Firenze
update #18 - 03.09.20 Starting to wrap things up, Ghibli film ceremony thingy :dontknow:
update #19 - 06.09.20 Film Review on The Wind Rises 🌬️+ On This Day in History
update #20 - 11.09.20 Random stuff, Film Review, Song recommendation 🎹
update #21 - 13.09.20 Bucket List summary pt.1 :nyan:
update #22 - 14.09.20 Bucket List summary pt.2 :nyan: + Film Review
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Why is this site so full of rainbows?
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Ooo this looks interesting! You’ve read so much neko no basu!
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Why is this site so full of rainbows?
because rainbows are pretty! :nyan:
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because rainbows are pretty! :nyan:
Not really, I don't really find them interesting.
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Ooo this looks interesting! You’ve read so much neko no basu!
aww thanks
I'm a fast reader :rofl3:, I read that last non-fiction book in an hour at Waterstone's haha
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Not really, I don't really find them interesting.
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aww thanks
I'm a fast reader :rofl3:, I read that last non-fiction book in an hour at Waterstone's haha
Wow! :nyan:

Oh you are right! This emoji is fun!
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AUaihdiaohfasidoghzsadioghlIOHSD IFHLASIDGHSDIGUHL YOU STARTED YOUR OWN BLOG YESSSSS

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Finallyyyyyyyyyy
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Happy to be tagged :woo:
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Hey this looks really cool! I'm really interested in ancient history (I take Latin and Greek GCSE), though I haven't read many non-fic books on the subjects (a lot of fiction though!). A book I'm planning on reading after I've finished the book I'm currently reading is Rubicon: The triumph and tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland- really excited to read it!
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Hey this looks really cool! I'm really interested in ancient history (I take Latin and Greek GCSE), though I haven't read many non-fic books on the subjects (a lot of fiction though!). A book I'm planning on reading after I've finished the book I'm currently reading is Rubicon: The triumph and tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland- really excited to read it!
Ooh I'll add that to my to-read list :yy: What are you currently reading?
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Good luck! :hugs: you've read so many books :awesome:

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:hi: I've moved your thread to the Summer Beach hut (as that's where the entries are for the summer bucket challenge), but I can always move it back to the Creative Corner for you at any time, should you change your mind
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Yes! I’m definitely in! 😁
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Good luck! :hugs: you've read so many books :awesome:

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:hi: I've moved your thread to the Summer Beach hut (as that's where the entries are for the summer bucket challenge), but I can always move it back to the Creative Corner for you at any time, should you change your mind
Thanks:nyan:, I'll see how long I can keep this blog going on for haha:dance: Would you like to be added to the tag list?
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Thanks:nyan:, I'll see how long I can keep this blog going on for haha:dance: Would you like to be added to the tag list?
Yes please! I do love reading summer bucket lists :yes: :thumbsup:
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What area of history do you wanna go into?
I'm planning to do the same as you, history a-level then uni.
I'm into Anglo-Saxon England and the Middle Ages
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