Victoria Zigler's Blog: Zigler News, page 30
October 8, 2020
#AmReading + #AmWatching + #AmListening - Media Shares And #Reviews 08-10-20
A reader should notice the words no more than someone looking through glass notices the glass.
~Joe Moran
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Welcome to this week's weekly media shares and reviews post!
*Disclaimer: no matter what's being reviewed, all opinions in this post are entirely my own, and I reserve the right to have them, regardless of who may or may not share them. Feel free to express your own in the comments, but please respect my right - and the rights of other commenters - to have opinions that might differ from yours, and to express those opinions too.
Also, please remember that I read/watch/listen to things in a variety of genres, and for all ages, so you should make sure you check that the book/movie/show/song is suitable for the intended audience before reading/watching/listening to it, especially if children are involved. I take no responsibility for anything which may happen as a result of failing to do so.
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OK. Let's see what I've been reading, watching, and listening to, and which song I'm going to share this week, shall we? After all, that's the point of this post, and why you're here today, right?
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This week I read three books, one of which I was given in exchange for a review, and the other two I was gifted, though reviewing those books was optional. I've only mentioned in the review for the one I was spacifically given in exchange for a review that I was given a copy of the book. Anyway, here's what I read this week, along with my book reviews.
Not So Sweet Maria (Sisters By Marriage #1)
by Jessica Spencer
My rating: four out of five stars
This is a sweet little romance, which makes for a lovely light-hearted read. There were a couple of minor issues, some of which were editing related, and some of which were character related, but none of which were enough to stop me from considering this an enjoyable read. I'm glad I read this book, and look forward to curling up with the other books in the series.
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The Resurrection of Us (Albany Nightingale Duet #2)
by Rachel M. Raithby
My rating: five out of five stars
I love that this book continues the story right where the previous one left off. This was an excellent sequel, and the character development was fantastic... I liked the main characters a lot more in this book, since you get to see just how much more there actually is to them than was revealed in the first book. Also, the plot was great, and the ending was really satisfying.
*Note: I was given a free copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review. This fact has in no way influenced either my opinion of the book or the contents of this review.
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Not Just Lovely Laura (Sisters by Marriage #2)
by Jessica Spencer
My rating: four out of five stars
This was another sweet romance by this author, and made for a lovely read. My only complaints are that the story took a while to get going because of all the backstory from the previous book which could have been shortened, and the book could do with another round of edits. Other than that though it's an enjoyable read with some fantastic characters - those we met in the previous book, as well as some we didn't - so is well worth reading if you're a fan of this type of romance.
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This week I watched a lot.
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For a start, I watched more "Friends" episodes. I've just started season 5 of that now.
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I also had a DVD weekend and finished "A Game Of Thrones" - finally. I spent Saturday finishing season 7, and Sunday watching season 8. So, what did I think of the ending? Well, I don't get why people are making such a fuss. I mean, sure, it would have been nice if certain other things had happened instead, I suppose. But the ending worked; the ending made sense, and I didn't think it was the terrible ending people kept telling me it was. A lot of people insist season 8 was rubbish, but I really don't see it. Personally I think it's more that they were disappointed the person who was victor in the end was the person it was, and are just hoping whenever the books finally come out that's not who it turns out it was meant to be. For my part though, I actually hope that is the person who was meant to be the victor all along. Sorry if this sounds cryptic. If you've watched the show you'll understand - I hope. If you haven't though, I don't want to give spoilers, in case you intend to watch it at a later date. Either way, I actually quite liked how the show ended, and hope it won't be too many more years before I can find out if that was also the direction the books were heading.
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This week I've still been listening to a combination of country music and 80s music - depending which I felt like at any given time. However, I'm going to continue my Halloween music theme this week with the "I put a spell on you" song from the "Hocus Pocus" movie - one of my favourite Halloween themed movies. So, here it is... Enjoy!
October 7, 2020
#WriterWednesday 07-10-20; #Book #Accessability + #BadMoonRising + Writerly #Quotes And Links
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
~Joan Didion
I recently learned there was some confusion over text to speach on Kindle titles, and the part where it tells you in the descriptions of books whether or not text to speach is enabled on the title in question is actually not accurate. I'm bringing that to your attention in a writing related post so as to inform you that it should be available on all my titles, regardless of what the item descriptions may or may not say. So, if you happen to be someone who needs that feature, and you want to buy any of my books, you should be fine to go ahead and do so regardless of what it says about the availability of text to speach when you check out any of my titles. If, however, you buy one of my books and the text to speach doesn't work, eMail me with proof of purchase, and I'll send you a guaranteed screen reader accessible PDF copy.
"Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers."
~Edward Abbey
Speaking of my books: I was a guest on Teri Polen's blog this past Monday (October 5th) as part of her "Bad Moon Rising" event, where I was interviewed, and my book "Vinnie The vegetarian Zombie" was featured. You can check out my post here. Also, make sure to check out the other posts, because Bad Moon Rising is happening all month long, and Teri has some awesome authors lined up for it.
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
~CS Lewis
OK... There's nothing more to say regarding my own writing. So, let's take a look at what posts and articles - and quotes too, of course - I've gathered for you during the past couple of weeks, shall we?
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”
~M. Kirin
NaNoWriMo:
Why writers should consider NaNoWriMo in 2020
It's time to start planning#NaNoWriMo
Prepping for NaNoWriMo during the pandemic
“When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.”
~Aberjhani
The writing process, and writing life in general:
Things you should do with new story ideas
“Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect.”
~Iris Murdoch
Poetry writing:
Poetry: making music with words
“It's a delicious thing to write...to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.”
~Gustave Flauvert
Characters:
Unpacking characters that aren't like you
Character building: writing subtly negative emotions
6 things writers need to consider when writing character emotions
“The thing to remember when writing is whether it wakes a truth in your reader.”
~Charles de Lint
Random writing tips:
7 tips to using addiction in fiction
Special items: science fiction
7 ways to counter a psyonic enemy
“A day will come when the story inside you will want to breathe on its own. That's when you'll start writing.”
~Sarah Noffk
Editing:
Novel editing: how to fix a boring chapter
When do I put full stops inside parentheses?
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
~William Wordsworth
Publishing:
How to publish with KDP: Part 15, how to format your book descriptions for eBook and paperback
How to publish with KDP: Part 16, How to get your categories and keywords right.
“There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.”
~Raymond Carver
Marketing:
How to use simple psychology and basic common sense to sell more books
October 6, 2020
21 #Mindfulness And #SelfCare #Quotes
We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care.
~Dr. Sara Gottfried
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
~Anne Lamott
Self-care is how you take your power back.
~Lalah Delia
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
~Sharon Salzberg
Learn strategies to manage stress, and find ways to choose happiness on a daily basis.
~Unknown
Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.
~Allan Lokos
Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.
~Buddha
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.
~Amit Ray
How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru
The stiller you are the calmer life is.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
~Marcus Aurelius
You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
~Jack Kornfield
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
~Allan Lokos
It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.
~Mandy Hale
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
~Kim McMilllen
The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
~Bryant McGillns
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
~Robert M. Pirsig
Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first; it means me too.
~L.R. Knost
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
~Nathaniel Branden
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love
~Brene Brown
October 5, 2020
#MondayMotivation - #Quotes + Words Of #Wisdom 05-10-20
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~Marcus Aurelius
A 4-year old kid asks about 100 to 300 questions a day. That’s how kids learn everything. When we grow up, we stop asking “why” because we are afraid of appearing stupid. Never stop learning. Great success requires great curiosity.
~Unknown
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.
~Naeem Callaway
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~Frank A. Clark
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~Mary Tyler Moore
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
~Thomas Sowell
Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
~Michael Burke
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to CHANGE.
~Stephen Hawking
The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is that you have to believe it.
~Will smith
If my mind can conceive it, & my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
~Jesse Jackson
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
~John Green
October 3, 2020
#GuineaPig Themed #NewRelease - "Princelings Revolution" by Jemima Pett
Princelings Revolution is out now!
The day has finally come for the last in Jemima Pett's Princelings of the East series. She started writing it in the dim dark days of 2008, thanks to inspiration from some guinea pig friends. Today's post has an extract and a Giveaway, so there's a lot of reading! In 2008 it was just a trilogy. But the characters wouldn't accept their fate and demanded more. And so the saga of the Realms wound its way from south to north, and even into Germany before returning to the east.
The Princelings of the East The Princelings and the Pirates The Princelings and the Lost City The Traveler in Black and White The Talent Seekers Bravo Victor Willoughby the Narrator The Princelings of the North Chronicles of Marsh .......Princelings RevolutionJasmine's birthday party ends in disaster. George seems to have lost a phial of highly dangerous liquid. And King Fred is battling politics, relatives and self-serving dignitaries in his aim to give the people a better way of living. But can Fred keep the promise he made to an engaging chap from another time when he was just a princeling? Or will all their hopes fail?
Jemima's favourite quotes from the book "Hector, in charge? Couldn't lead a file of caterpillars, that one!" The way Jasmine said it made Fred raise an eyebrow. It was exactly how Kira said it when she wanted to say something privately. "The usual suspects are people we know. I reckon these are people we don’t know. And who don’t know us." “Oh.” George considered all the other uses he had found for it. This was not a good one. “It’s called duct tape,” he said.About the seriesTen books take us from 2009 through to 2021, with a prequel at Book 4, explained from Lord Mariusz's point of view. The feudal structure of the Realms, the changes wrought by new technology, largely promoted by Princeling George, Fred's brother. The demise of paranormal creatures, thanks to George's use of garlic in the fuel cells; the rise of an anti-monarchist group called the Causists, and the resilience of characters great and small, trying to keep their pleasant and friendly society together in the face of so-called freedom fighters. One simple book at a time creates a world of change that will be somewhat familiar to every reader on today's uncertain planet. Suitable for good readers 8 years and up, although some parental guidance may occasionally be needed. Generally listed as age 10 and up. The first three books in the series are also available as AudiobooksAbout the author[caption id="attachment_12698" align="alignleft" width="215"]
Jemima at Bloggers Bash 2018[/caption] Jemima Pett started writing stories when she was eight. By ten she was designing fantasy islands, complete with maps and railways timetables. There was no call for fantasy island designers then, so she took the science route through university and went into a business career, then retrained for environmental technology. Once in a policy research organisation she started writing again, reports, papers and briefings. She didn't believe she could write fiction until her guinea pigs came along, and inspired her to write The Princelings of the East. Now she enjoys writing short stories and science fiction novels, and has been published by Third Flatiron Press, among others. She lives in Hampshire with Roscoe, Neville and Biggles, who all appear in Princelings Revolution. Jemima is on Twitter.... Amazon.... Goodreads.... Facebook.... WebsiteBuy The Book~~Amazon~~ ~~Apple iTunes~~ ~~B&N~~ ~~Kobo~~ ~~Smashwords~~
Enter the Giveaway!Entries close at 11.59 23rd October, New York time. Open for entries in all countries and states where this type of raffle is legal. Some additional entry options may be added: please check back if this is important to you. a Rafflecopter giveawayExtractThe beginningKing Fred of Castle Marsh surveyed the pile of messages from other kings and lords. They were all urgent, self-important, and harassed. Everyone had trouble with newcomers spreading malicious gossip, stirring the local people into argument and fractiousness. And worse. Then the last one he’d picked up, from Alexandre Kurtz in the Rhineland. She apologised but said there was no chance of sending the replacement metal flying machine to them this side of Solstice. Fred’s stomach did a loop, distressed that this meant there was almost no chance of keeping their promise to a guy called Mariusz the following summer. Fred sank onto his elbows, head bowed, then rubbed his hands over his face, and pushed his chair back. What he needed was a break. He came out onto the terrace at the end of the corridor from his office, and looked over the balcony. It was a fine day for December. The reeds were crackling in the marshes and a few people were out gathering them for firestuff and to patch roofs that had been damaged in the past week’s gales. A small party had gone out on a second wagon to the forest to gather what wood had fallen down. The first wagon had come back fully laden, with two stranded travellers as well as a stack of gleanings from the forest floor. The murmuring in the room behind him comforted him. His team of cartopetrarchs, as they styled themselves, were working together well, putting together their latest observations and measurements. One of the ideas brought back from last year’s summer school was to record the differences in soils and rocks around the land, as well as the relationship of the places to each other. And they were still charting the positions of forests and mountains and rivers... Yes, I really do want to map the world, Fred thought, with a smile—then a sigh. If only he could spend all his time on it instead of having to run things as well. BANG! The whole castle shook. Birds flew up, cawing raucously. People rushed out of arched doors, pursued by a blast of thick black smoke and dust. A few screams came from elsewhere in the castle, but they sounded more of fear than of pain, and a general hubbub of running feet on stone stairs and corridors started to echo through the building. Residents appeared at windows, leaning out and craning their necks to see what was going on. Fred watched anxiously from the terrace balcony to see his brother George emerging, not from his usual laboratory door, but further along from the main blast area. He was dusting his head and coat down. It seemed to have turned him a fetching lilac colour instead of his customary ginger. He looked up at Fred and waved sheepishly, then signed ‘one of those things,’ as if no harm had been done. Princelings Revolution © J M Pett 2020
October 2, 2020
Lilie The #Westie & Logan The #Cavapoo's Views On Workmen In Our Hallway And New Upstairs Neighbours + #Dogs At Play
Hi everyone. This is Lilie the Westie.
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Daddy's been doing our walkies by himself for a couple of weeks, because some humans are making noise and mess in the hallway, so Mummy can't go outside. I don't know why them making a mess is allowed when we aren't even allowed to play in the hallway, or why Mummy can't come out with us if they're doing it, but that's what's happening.
I do wish Mummy was coming with us, but it bothers me more that they're making all that noise and mess out there, and won't even let me join in. They won't even come be friends and play with me, no matter how often I bark at them to open the door so I can go out there and be friends. I love friends. Why are they playing in my hallway if they don't want to be my friends and play with me?
Logan doesn't like it one bit. He doesn't like them being out there (it scares him) and he hates going walkies without Mummy. It's only that I'm going too that Daddy can get him to agree, and even then he keeps sitting down and looking back to see if Mummy's coming after all. I keep telling him it's her loss if she doesn't want to come walkies too, but he doesn't like to be far from Mummy, so he wants her to always come walkies too. Plus, like I said, all the noise and strange people out there scares him.
He even got scared when the people who moved in to our upstairs home came to say, "Hi," to us the other day. I didn't. I thought it was great, and had an awesome time playing with the smaller humans (the ones who would play with me anyway). But Logan was real scared, and either cuddled up to Mummy or hid the whole time, even though they were telling him he was handsome and trying to be his friend. The grown humans were already my friends from before, but I hadn't been allowed to play with the little humans before... I was glad to make them my friends too though. Like I said, I love friends. You can never have too many friends. I think so anyhow, even if Logan doesn't. Daft dog missed out on some fantastic playtime. Well, more ball time with them for me!
I wish they'd come down and play more. I hear them up there and ask them to come down, but they mostly don't. Logan gets scared when he hears them lots, and is glad they don't come visit more though. He's scared of most things.
Anyway, today Mummy is making the humans in the hallway clear her a path, because Logan has to go to the vet for his neuter today, and Mummy insists she's the one going to take him. I'll keep watch with Daddy, and if they give her any trouble about it, I'll bark at them for her. That should sort them out.
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For now though, here are a couple of videos Mummy did yesterday when me and Logan were playing with the new balls Nana sent us. They're not great videos, because Mummy didn't do a good job with figuring out where to point the flashy thing. But we decided to share them anyhow. So, here you go... Enjoy!
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Lots of licks,
Lilie
October 1, 2020
#AmReading + #AmWatching + #AmListening - Media Shares And #Reviews 01-10-20
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
~Stephen King
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Welcome to this week's weekly media shares and reviews post!
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*Disclaimer: no matter what's being reviewed, all opinions in this post are entirely my own, and I reserve the right to have them, regardless of who may or may not share them. Feel free to express your own in the comments, but please respect my right - and the rights of other commenters - to have opinions that might differ from yours, and to express those opinions too.
Also, please remember that I read/watch/listen to things in a variety of genres, and for all ages, so you should make sure you check that the book/movie/show/song is suitable for the intended audience before reading/watching/listening to it, especially if children are involved. I take no responsibility for anything which may happen as a result of failing to do so.
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OK. Let's see what I've been reading, watching, and listening to, and which song I'm going to share this week, shall we? After all, that's the point of this post, and why you're here today, right?
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This week I finished reading the book I'd been reading last week, read an entire other book (which I was given in exchange for a review) and started another. So, here are my book reviews for both titles I finished.
Ravenous (War of Nytefall, #5)
by Charles E. Yallowitz
My rating: five out of five stars
This is another excellent addition to this series, which shows some fantastic character development, and has an exciting and action-packed plot. Some delicate topics - including both grief and addiction - are touched upon in this story, which were handled very well in my opinion. Had life not gotten in the way, I could have easily devoured this book in one sitting.
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The Destruction of Rose (Albany Nightingale Duet, #1)
by Rachel M. Raithby
My rating: five out of five stars
This book was so much more than the highschool romance I went in to it expecting. It's a fantastic read about all the stuff teenagers have to deal with, including bullying, peer pressure, etc. The characters are believable, even if they're the kind of people I would want as neither friend nor enemy, and the plot is gripping and full of emotion and drama. I can't wait to read the sequel!
*NOTE: I was given a free copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review. This fact has in no way influenced either my opinion of the book or the contents of this review.
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This week I watched more "Friends" episodes. Yes, I'm still doing that.
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I had planned to finish watching "Game Of Thrones" (since I still need to finish season 7, as well as watch season 8) but didn't get to it. I will soon though, since I need to watch the DVDs piled up on my coffee table so they can get packed for when we move. We were able to just carry them downstairs when we moved last time, making keeping them seporated from the ones I already watched easy during the move, but I'll need to actually pack them this time, so it would be useful if it didn't matter if they got mixed up with the DVDs I have already watched, which means I need to start making watching my DVDs more of a priority than watching things on Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime. So I need to watch the rest of "Game Of Thrones" and then start working my way through the other DVDs in that pile that's sitting on my coffee table waiting to be watched.
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This week I've been listening to a combination of country music and 80s music. But I can't decide which genre to pick a song from. So, since it's now October, which means Halloween is right around the corner, let's have afun vaguely Halloween themed song to start getting us in the mood for some spooky Halloween fun. In fact, this one might even give you a reason to smile - maybe even chuckle - today. So, though it's not actually related to anything I've been listening to during this past week (unless you count the fact there was apparently a movie featuring it brought out in the 1980s) here's the Purple People Eater song for your listening pleasure... Enjoy!
September 30, 2020
#Quotes About How #Books And #Reading Will Take You Places
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
~Jorge Luis Borges
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“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
~Sharon Creech
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“You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.”
~Sherry K. Plummer
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“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
~Hazel Rochman
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“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
~Mary Schmich
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“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
~Charlaine Harris
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“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
~William Godwin
September 29, 2020
The Life's A #Beach #Book Tag - #AmReading
I actually had a different tag scheduled for today. But Cat over at The Strawberry Post did this one at the start of last week (you can see her post here, if you want to check it out - which you totally should) and I wanted to post it before it got too late in the year to be mentioning the beach. After all, even though there are some people - like me - who will gladly, perhaps even more so than in the Summer, go to the beach in the off-season (when it's not so hot, and far less crowded) most people consider beach trips to be Summer activities, and we're already in Autumn as it is.
Anyway, as I'm sure you guessed from the title and above paragraph, this is a beach themed book tag. As usual, if you want to play along, feel free to do so either in the comments section of this post, or on your own blog. If you do the latter, please let me know so I can check out your post. After all, as I always point out, I'd love to read your answers too. Either way, here are the questions, along with my answers to them.
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1. THE SAND: A book that stuck with you long after you finished reading
"Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver. Yes, I've mentioned this one about a million times, but it really scared me, and stuck with me enough to have me scared for days afterwards. I know it's likely weird to be glad a book scared me enough that I was scared for days, but it is what it is. Took me ages to get it out of my head afterwards, and it has the same effect on me whenever I re-read it.
2. THE SUN: A book that burned you
"The Hate You Give" by Angie Thomas. I'm not saying it was a bad book - it wasn't; it was a great book in many ways. But racism isn't OK, regardless of who's being racist, and I really felt like this book was making it sound like it's fine for white people to be the victims of racism, because coloured people have it worse. Yes, non-whites are more likely to be the victims of racism. But that doesn't make it OK when they return the favour. I'm sure that wasn't the message the author was trying to get across, but that's how it felt to me, and I had - and still have - an issue with that.
3. THE WAVES: A book that calms you down after a long day
Reading in general usually calms me down. Doesn't matter the genre, age range, or whatever. I find reading relaxing. It's taking a bit more work for it to start helping with all that's been going on this year, but still.
4. THE BATHING SUIT: A book with a pretty, summery cover
I have no idea. My default with questions like this one is to look it up, but I'm just getting results about book blurbs when I do that, so... Yeah... Guess I'm skipping this one
5. THE BIRDS: A book that is everywhere
J K Rowling's "Harry Potter" books. Now, come on, you knew they had to get a mention somewhere. Besides, you have to admit you can't go far without seeing some kind of mention of them.
6. THE COMPANY: A book with wonderful characters
I could pick several, but I'm going with "Artemis Fowl" - and the rest of the series by the same name - by Eoin Colfer. Artemis is an evil genius, but a great character, and the fairy folk are fantastic - and often amusing - characters. Butler is a wonderful character in that series too, though both he and Artemis are characters you don't want to be on the wrong side of, if for totally different reasons.
7. THE ICE-COLD DRINKS: A book you absolutely gulped down
Considering how fast I usually get through books, most of the books I read could probably count for this. However, The "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon springs to mind... Even with the length of those books, I still managed to average around one a week of those, because I listened to them every chance I got, and couldn't get enough of them.
8 . THE FUN MEMORIES: A book you can’t wait to return to
"The Tale Of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter. In fact, any of her books. I have fond memories of those books. Memories I've especially been thinking of lately with losing my Nan, because it was her who introduced me to those books. She used to read them to me and my brothers when we went to her house for tea (as in afternoon tea - sandwiches, cakes, etc - not just a cup of tea) some Sundays. I've read them myself in multiple formats since, but always think of Nan when I do, and likely will do so even more now she's gone.
September 28, 2020
#MondayMotivation - #Positivity #Quotes + Words Of #Wisdom 28-09-20
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~Wayne Dyer
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
~Les Brown
Once we choose hope, everything is possible.
~Christopher Reeve
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
~Keanu Reeves
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
~Johnny Depp
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
~Natalie Goldberg
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
~Maya Angelou
A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talked to each other instead of talking about each other.
~Unknown
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
~Plato
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~Ray Bradbury
Science and technology has brought much development, and yet we still face many man-made problems. We are social animals. We depend on the community in which we live. Therefore, we need a sense of global responsibility, because the well-being of humanity is our own well-being.
~Dalai Lama
Always tell the truth, do no harm to others, & don't think you are the most important being on earth
~Harper Lee
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