A Memory Between Us by Sarah Sundin
Title: A Memory Between Us Author: Sarah Sundin Series: Wings of Glory, #2 Genre: Historical Adventure/Romance Age-Range: 15+ (upper young adult/adult) Era: 1940s (WW2) Setting: England Publisher: Revell Books Source: library Rating: 5/5 stars Content: 3/5. First, obviously, there is a war going on, planes are being shot down, people are dying/almost dying/being gravely wounded. […]
December 2016 Dares
Once again we come around to our dares. As I skipped the month of November dare-wise (as all I wanted to do was write At Her Fingertips, which I did succeed at), I have nothing to fill you in on. That’s right. This month you don’t get to scroll through my post laughing maniacally at […]
Hold Me Close by Marguerite Martin Gray
Title: Hold Me Close Author: Marguerite Martin Gray Series: Revolutionary Faith, #1 Genre: Historical Romance Age-Range: 13+ (young adult/adult) Era: 1770s (Revolution) Setting: Charles Town, Virginia Publisher: WestBow Press Source: author (in exchange for honest review) Rating: 4.5/5 stars Content: 2/5. No language. Little violence; mostly mentions of violence, uprisings, impending war, etc. A couple […]
A Coronation of Kings by Samuel Stokes
Title: A Coronation of Kings Author: Samuel Stokes Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy Age-Range: 13+ (young adult) Setting: medieval fantasy world Publisher: Samuel Stokes Source: author (in exchange for an honest review) Rating: 4/5 stars Content: 3/5. Lots of violence, though it’s not extremely gory at any time. Realistic depictions of war. I wasn’t disturbed by it […]
NaNoWriMo 2016: Wrap-Up
At Her Fingertips is officially finished at 66,172 words. Yesterday I wrote 8,611 which brought me to 65,978 words. I wrote the rest this morning. I’m pretty proud of myself. Last NaNo, I wrote 40,000-some words; the NaNo before that, it was 36,000. Both times, I barely made that. This year, however, it was easy […]
NaNoWriMo 2016, Update #5
Guess what? That’s right! I currently have 53,462 words. However, I made my goal (50,000) on the 25th. How many more words do I expect to get before November’s up? Well, at most I expect to reach 60,000 … but even that would be a stretch. I think I have that much material story-wise … […]
A Black Friday Sale
Because I’m amongst the insane group of people who live other peoples’ lives because theirs are just too boring (otherwise known as ‘bookworms’), great books made their way onto my “things I’m thankful for” list this year … as they have every year since I was six! It’s hard to choose favorites, but here are […]
NaNoWriMo 2016 Update #4
I decided to do the post today as I doubt I’ll have time for one tomorrow – and I’ll be at the beach, anyway – and I obviously didn’t have time for one Monday! 🙂 At 44,594 words (and I haven’t written yet today), I’m zipping along at a pretty decent pace. Can I write 5,406 […]
NaNoWriMo 2016 Update #3
Here we are this chilly (we just had our first frost! Which is weird, because it’s mid-November … global warming? XD Yeah, right.) evening. I’m writing my post. At least, I was. You’re reading my post. Hopefully. Wait … yeah, you’ve got to be reading my post. Or else you wouldn’t be able to know what […]
NaNoWriMo 2016 Update #2
The first five times (yes, five!) times I wrote the title, I wrote ‘NaNoWriMo 2016 Updated #2.’ Consider yourself updated. *sports reference* *confirmation of points received* Yep. My fingers type with no regard to my brain sometimes … Back to our regularly scheduled programming, my word count has now reached 28o46 words. Some days I write more, […]
Review Hiatus
Due to the rigors of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I won’t be posting reviews for the remainder of the month of November. In December, I’ll be picking up where I left off with the current review pile. I hope to finish the books on my list before January at which point I’ll be reopened […]
NaNoWriMo 2016 Update #1
At 14,588 words, I’m pretty proud with what I’ve accomplished this November so far. I think I could have done more … but there have been distractions. School, visiting siblings, an early Thanksgiving dinner, realizing that I haven’t touched my guitar in months and that the only song I practiced this year on my clarinet […]
