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Blog Tour: Sneak Peek at The Eternal Sea
Those of you who have read and loved Everlasting I’m sure are waiting with bated breath for The Eternal Sea, Ange Frazier’s new sequel! With the cover still mostly under wraps, it’s hard to find out too much about the inner workings of the book. Until now. Angie has sweetly offered this sneak peek at The Eternal Sea up to you, my lovely blog readers! You can of course add it to your Goodreads, or your LibraryThing and wait eagerly for its June release. Hopefully this will sate you a bit for now. Enjoy. *** The tidal wind lifted the ivory lace…
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Blog Tour – Book Review: Red in the Flower Bed
The journey of adoption is beautifully depicted with the comforting imagery of a poppy flower who is welcomed into a garden family. It is a charming story of “seeds” being planted in the perfect place – exactly where they belong. Children and adults will enjoy this simple yet meaningful story and homespun illustrations. The book’s loving approach helps children to understand adoption. Andrea Nepa has captured the essence of adoption and family, and has illustrated it beautifully with images and poetry that even a small child can comprehend and enjoy. –From Goodreads Book on YouTube: My Review: Red in the…
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Guest Post: M.M. Bennett
Not too long ago, I was reading a fine book–Young Nelsons ~ Boy Sailors during the Napoleonic Wars–about the education of Francis Austen, brother of the novelist, Jane Austen, who entered the Naval Academy at Portsmouth in 1788, when he was aged 11. And listed among the required subjects which he would study and master during his two to three years there were, writing, arithmetic, drawing, Navigation, Gunnery, Fortification and other noteful parts of Mathematics, as well as French, Dancing, Fencing and the use of the Flintlock. Furthermore, his education was expected to encompass Geography, Chronology, Navigation, Spherics, Astronomy, Latitude,…
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Book Review: Stake That!
Two sisters—as different as the sun and the rain. For one, getting into the Blood Cover is to die for, but it seems destiny has something else in mind… Rayne McDonald had it all figured out. Get turned into a vampire, become the mate of the Blood Coven leader, and live the high-life for all eternity. Too bad the head vamp took a bite out of her twin sister by mistake. Now, not only is Rayne still not a vampire, but she learns she’s a slayer instead—destined to destroy vamps gone bad. After being recruited by a secret organization, Rayne…
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Movie Review: The Losers
Every once in a while I find a movie that I want to chat about with others, but unfortunately there’s no one around. SO you, my dear reader friends, get to hear my commentary? Aren’t you the lucky ones? *** Are you a fan of action movies? Do movies with quick moving plots and lots of explosions make you smile inside? Is your weapon of choice a rocket launcher? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then The Losers is definitely a movie for you! After being trapped in my apartment yesterday sick, I needed an escape. The…
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Guest Post: Edward L. Fairley
Earlier today I had the opportunity to share my review of The Handbook for Increasing Your Relationship IQ with you my lovely readers. Now I’m very happy to have the amazing Edward L. Fairley stop by for a guest post as well! For your reading pleasure, right from Edward himself. *** I was conversing with a young lady a few days ago and she was determined to share with me how horribly her boyfriend treated her. She grew frustrated that I didn’t allow her to share or replay the past memories/scenes in this so-called horrible movie that she was starring in.…
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Book Review: The Handbook for Increasing Your Relationship IQ
Rather than rehash typical advice for couples, Edward L. Fairley offers some unexpected twists to conventional thinking that provide the reader with what sounds and feels like “inside information” even about the most intimate of communications. He does not shy away from specific instructions about how to navigate sexual intimacy and communicate differences in assumptions, interpretations, and expectations. — See more at Edward’s website Why I chose this: My first thought when I saw this book was how different it looked than most other “self-help” relationship books out there. That alone prompted me to give it a read! My Review:…
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Juggling commitments.
It’s a neverending paradox for me. See, I’ll get bored and pick up something new to fill my time. That new hobby then becomes the sole thing I pay attention to, until I realize that I’m letting other thing slack. Inevitably it all becomes an issue of juggling. How do I fit everything that I both need and want to do in the amount of time that I have free? The logical part of my mind says “Why do you do this to yourself?”, while the other part curses at it and slams the door. Yep. That’s me! I don’t regret my…
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Follow Friday Time!
What do you do besides reading / reviewing as a hobby?? Lots of things! Baking, video games take up a lot of my time, and of course designing blogs for awesome people out there! Sometimes I wonder how I actually fit it all in. What very popular and hyped book in the blogosphere did you NOT enjoy and how did you feel about posting your review? For me that book was Forget You by Jennifer Echols. I felt so bad posting a review that didn’t match everyone else out there. It’s just that the book didn’t really speak to me. It…
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Book Review: Pocket of Guilt
The Schulz family, all members of the Mormon church, is trying to survive in Germany, during and after WWII. When Hitler invades Poland and the war officially begins, the family is quickly feeling its strain, as they have less and less food to eat. Anna Schulz often stands in line for hours, only to find the market shelves empty. This becomes the least of her worries though, when, one by one, the men of the Schulz family head off to defend their country. The story follows Dieter, the middle son, just 10 years old when the war begins, as he…