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 […]
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 […]