With Christmas one it’s way, I thought I’d make a list of stocking suffers. Here’s some things I wouldn’t mind finding in mine. Matilda Mug Book Earrings Banned Books Sock Library Card Stocks A Kiss Keychain Harry Potter Tights Gloves Book Tape Library Embosser Bookish Candles Exact Bookmark
NaNoWriMo 2014
This year I participated in National Novel Writing Month otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, and I won. For the first time, I succeeded at writing 50,000 words of a novel in one Month. Yes, it is as crazy as it sounds, and there were moments that I didn’t think I would have any ideas, and even some moments …
Review: The Willoughbys
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry | Website Publisher/Year: Houghton Mifflin Company | March 31, 2008 Pages: 176 Series: Standalone Genre: Upper Elementary Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, …
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors New to Me in 2014
Here’s ten Authors I’ve discovered this year and the books that I first read. I linked to the reviews I’ve done (which is only about half of them.) Author: Claudia Gray Book: Spellcaster Author: Joelle Charbonneau Book: The Testing Trilogy Author: Stacy King Book: Pride and Predjudice Manga Adaptation Author: Cat Patrick Book: …
Review: Alligent
Alligent by Veronica Roth | Website | Twitter | Publisher/Year: Katherine Tegen Books | October 22, 2013 Pages: 544 Series: Book three of the Divergent series Genre: YA Dystopian Format: Hardback Source: Own Amazon | Goodreads Summary (From Goodreads) The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered–fractured by violence and power …
Saturday Stories
I was inspired be a writing challenge: one sentence stories. So here’s three I came up with. Let me know what you think. ~I looked and saw my next door neighbor standing outside my window, on the second story of my house. ~You could cut the darkness with a knife, and when Susie did, there …
Top 10 Tuesday: 2015 Watch List
Can anyone else not believe that it’s almost 2015? It feels crazy that’s I’m making my watch list for next year, but it’s less than a month away now. So here are the books I’m looking forward to: The Heir by Kiera Cass– The Selection Series #4- I devoured the first three of …
Be Kind Please Rewind: November
I don’t even think I remember most of the month of November, so this may be a challenge but here are my top three: 1) I joined in with NaNoWriMo this year. I haven’t done this officially since 2009, but I decided to give it a go this year. Two days into it, I trashed …
Soundtrack Saturday: Christmas
I love music. It’s just another way to share some good stories. I’m also kind of obsessed with making mixes. Since I got my first laptop I was making mixed CD’s, and I still have most of them. Now I have spotify, which makes it easy for me to share my soundtracks with all of …
Versus: Mockingjay
Verses is where I put two mediums of the same story against each other IMDB | Goodreads First Off: the spoiler free points As soon as I sat down in my seat I remembered parts of the movie that gave me all the feels, and also decided where they would end the first …