Pandora's Anxious Adventure

I don't know what took my soul today but let me tell y'all about a young Average Gyal and her youth. Forewarning, today's post is brought to by my Indie playlist I made like 3 minutes ago. So a little backstory on this trip down memory lane, I went out tonight to a Caribbean event and the DJs KILLED it with their skills. I don't know why but it was trip down memory lane with all the riddims and ting. Anyways, I leave and almost immediately as I get in my car I knew I didn't want to play dancehall, reggae or soca like I would normally on a night like this. So my playlist reading the car plays the best song it could have EVER played... Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap. It was like the Lord knew what he wanted me to hear and this was it. So my drive home was just a radio station based on this song and one based on the artists. Most fun I had on the drive back home in a while. A baby Danielle, not even 2 years living in the States tbh. Look at the fresh face n

I read a lot. Like I was swallowing books whole as a child and then I went and got a Kindle and it was game over from there. On average I've been known to read about 2-5 books a week depending on the time of my life. The problem is that I only read a specific type of book. Romance Novels. Mills & Boon. Porn for Women. Yadda Ya and so forth. Let's be real I've been mocked, ridiculed and made fun for this by friends and family alike. Judged by classmates and honestly, I've judged myself as well. Becoming by Michelle Obama American Gods and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman So I'm going on a journey to read more books from different genres. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and say I'll not stick to finding books with a lil' bit of romance in them, but I am opening up the horizons. So more biographies, poetry books, non-fiction, books about things and books about nothing, maybe a little history here and there. I'm going to stick to the things I