Through Waters Deep by Sarah Sundin
Title: Through Waters Deep Author: Sarah Sundin Series: Waves of Freedom, #1 Genre: Christian Historical Adventure/Romance/Mystery Age-Range: 13+ (young adult/adult) Era: 1940s (WW2) Setting: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Source: library Rating: 5/5 stars Content: 2/5. Some violence, nothing too graphic. A lot of suspense. No real sexual content except a few […]
A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin
Title: A Distant Melody Author: Sarah Sundin Series: Wings of Glory, #1 Genre: Christian Historical Adventure/Romance Age-Range: 14+ (young adult/adult) Era: 1940s (WW2) Setting: California (USA) and England Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Source: library Rating: 5/5 stars Content: 3/5. It’s actually really clean. I tried to explain it up here, but it got too long. […]
An Ordinary Knight by H.L. Burke
Title: An Ordinary Knight Author: H.L. Burke Series: An Ordinary Knight, #1 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Adventure/Romance Age-Range: 12+ (upper middle grade/young adult) Setting: a fantasy world Publisher: H.L. Burke Source: bought with birthday money 🙂 Rating: 3/5 stars Content: 3/5. Mild romance. There’s one guy who’s sort of a lady-chaser, so. There’s that. Pretty mild violence. […]
Plotting Crash Course: The Day Before NaNo and Dares
Okay, let me start out this post with saying I will only be posting sporadically throughout November. I plan to give you a general update one a week – I’m thinking Mondays or Thursdays. I’m also planning to reblog the two posts I’ll be making on Send the Light (we finally got organized thanks to […]
Plotting Crash Course, Day Four: Cheat Sheets and a Break
Well, we’ve only got a couple more days until NaNoWriMo starts. I’ve been doing a lot of work to get myself prepared – such as spending all afternoon and evening yesterday reading a random book which has nothing to do with NaNo Prep. Yep. Subtle sarcasm … Seriously, though, folks. Lately I’ve been working a […]
The Centurion’s Wife by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn
Title: The Centurion’s Wife Author: Janette Oke and Davis Bunn Series: Acts of Faith, #1 Genre: Christian Historical (Biblical) Romance/Adventure Age-Range: 12+ (upper middle grade/young adult/adult) Era: first century AD (Jesus Christ’s time) Setting: around the area of Judea Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Source: downloaded a free ebook copy Rating: 5/5 stars Content: 2/5. Some violence – mentions […]
Plotting Crash Course, Day Three: A New Book and a Perfect Review
This has been very much so a crash course … even more so than expected! I’ve done about a quarter of the posts about this as I expected to (but, to be fair, I intended to start in September and then stuff happened … blog parties, deciding to publish a book I had no intention […]
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Title: Austenland Author: Shannon Hale Genre: Contemporary Romance Age-Range: 14+ (young adult/adult) Era: contemporary Setting: New York, USA and England Publisher: Bloomsbury Source: library Rating: 4/5 stars Content: 3.5/5. It’s been a while, so I don’t remember exactly. Some cussing, but extremely rare … and unnecessary in my opinion. I just remember one or two words. A little […]
October Character Studies ~ Costumes
First: OH MY GOSH!!! She liked my idea. Is the world collapsing on you or is it just me?!?!?! Wait a minute … why would the world be collapsing if I actually thought up something good that someone liked for once instead of a bunch of mindless blither-blather? Well … I don’t know. Maybe because everything’s been kind […]
Class of ’59 by John A. Heldt
Title: Class of ’59 Author: John A. Heldt Series: American Journey, #4 (can be a stand-alone, too) Genre: Time Travel Adventure/Romance Age-Range: 14+ (young adult/adult) Era: contemporary and 1959 Setting: California Publisher: John A. Heldt Source: from author (in exchange for honest review) Rating: 4/5 stars (.5 removed for content) Content: 3/5. A few cuss […]
Photography, Poetry, and Life
Another of my three-in-one posts. 🙂 First, the new YWP NaNoWriMo site is out! You can find it here: ywp.nanowrimo.org. I’m now know as RubyBell, though people can call me Kell still, of course. I’m pretty happy with the new site (especially since it’s just a beta site which doesn’t have all the stuff it will have over […]
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Title: Mansfield Park Author: Jane Austen Genre: Classic Romance Age-Range: 14+ (young adult/adult) Era: early 1800s (Regency) Setting: various places in England Source: own a copy Rating: 5/5 stars Content: 3/5. No language (at least none that isn’t crossed out like this: by G-d), no violence. Romance, a person commits adultery (everyone is shocked, so I […]
