C.V. Nór's Blog, page 5
January 31, 2017
JUST SAYING
This is from an old blog a while back. How things have changed. Best Buy is still pissing me off, but it ain’t too bad anymore. Excuse the incense, I was six years younger, and six years unwiser.
(Edited from the old one).
MY BEST BUY
What is a “restocking fee”? Is it necessary? Ok, let me rephrase that: Is it honest? Now, the mustard-colored store, Best Buy, and the red one, Staples—and I’m sure some others—have this ridiculous fee. Yes, I said it. It’s ridiculous! But let us not kid ourselv...
Some ol’ gems!
This is from an old blog a while back. How things have changed. Best Buy is still pissing me off, but it ain’t too bad anymore. Excuse the incense, I was six years younger, and six years unwiser.
JUST SAYING
MY BEST BUY
What is a “restocking fee”? Is it necessary? Ok,let me rephrase that: Is it honest? Now, the mustard-colored store, Best Buy, and the red-colored store, Staples–and I’m sure some other stores–have this ridiculous fee. Yes, I said it. It’s ridiculous. Now, despite my adding mor...
June 8, 2016
By C.V. Nór
Understanding the Reader
New authors have it hard. They have it really hard. Check out this writer—I have it really hard! Before you consign a double entendre to this verdict, be wary of the categorization that there is moaning involved. Far be it from it. But it is troubling to a writer’s soul. The world of readers, made up of a tiny percentage of the earth’s population, is bound, from time to time, to be a fickle group. This is not a denunciation against those honest...
June 6, 2016
For the Empire’s Throne
At times tender and at times violent, this is not a story for the weak of heart. If you wish to review this book, send us amessage through “Contact.” You can have PDF if you’d like, which you canopen with ebook, or you may convert it to kindle format.
Comment on editorial content: there are a couple of editorial errors that do not take away from the larger theme of the novel.
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June 5, 2016
Review: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Great review by Clockwork Bibliophile on A Darker Shade of Magic. Spoiler: contains spoiler.
Title: A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1)
Author: V.E. Schwab
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Published: February 24th 2015
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 398
My Rating:4.5/5 Stars
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Kell is one of the last Travelers—rare magicians who choose a parallel universe to visit.
Grey London is dirty, boring, lacks magic, ruled by mad King George. Red London is where li...
June 4, 2016
The Coral Heart
I must play nice for now
Conceal hearts desires
Keep them close
In the camouflage of my smile
I love,
I love,
I love.
I breathe.
It is a halting, hitched thing,
This breath.
It is a lilting, sighing thing,
This breath.
It is a false and deceiving thing,
This breath.
For you take it wrongly
Assuming it is for you
Or perhaps you don’t
Because, I feel you clutching at me
I am sand
Not to be grasped,
By you.
I have seen this tide
Too many times
I know how it goes
In,
It lingers
Hope in...
The Hours
Small beauty.
With you
I wonder where they go
the hours
Without you
I realize they wait for me to wait for you
Strange Flesh
Beautiful poem by Shanna Nór
Bones that are not mine.
Nor are they his.
Hearts that may beat,
though not for each other,
but for a moment in the heat.
He said you have to be able to imagine
a love that could exist
or it might as well be wood.
I’m not sure I buy it.
But I do.
And that’s why I would cage him.
And why he opens the door.
The cage is a thing of my mind.
Made of my fears and my selfishness.
I am unrepentant.
He and I both know he closes the door.
June 3, 2016
A Tour de Force Blogger
This new blog, streetaffair.net, is proud to have joined an amazing group of bloggers of all dimensions. I never before knew the joys that come with blogging till I began to make connections. While they are still relatively few who have crossedstreetaffair’s threshold– and I have yet to discover more homes to enter into–it is the sense I have joined a great family. While wemay all havefacebook pages and goodreads accounts etc., nothing comes close to the connection of people who love the same...
June 2, 2016
‘Night Mother
‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sometimes, you don’t know who to feel sorry for. Powerfully written, excellent dialogue, ‘Night Mother is a magnificent play of redemption, with one of the most iconic and powerful endings in the history of drama, redolent of a House of Dolls. The first time I read this play, I was in High School, and I never forgot it, except for conversation details. It starts with Jessie, a woman who peacefully decides she wants to die, and who in her...
