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Teaser Tuesdays 04

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!(make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

My teaser: After two thousand years of this, most people had grown a little jaded regarding the prospect of an imminent Armageddon. Predictions of The End became so common by the dawn of the third millennium that homeowners no longer thought twice about installing new flooring weeks or even days before a scheduled Apocalypse.
~ebook 2% of Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese

6 Sentence Sunday 19

This is a weekly meme hosted and originated by 6 Sentence Sunday. Eternal Curse: Giovanni’s Angel -6 sentences from chapter 18.
She removed his shoes and socks, his belt and pants, and his t-shirt. She helped him lay down on his bed wearing his underwear and undershirt, trying not to stare at him or blush. She was, after all, a doctor, but even in his extremely exhausted and weakened state, Giovanni still appeared powerfully striking and masculine. Mira tenderly pulled one single bed sheet up to Giovanni’s chest and then began to walk away. Giovanni quickly reached out his hand, almost instinctively like a reflex, and grabbed her wrist.
“Please don’t leave me alone with my dreams…
To participate, pick six (6) sentences from anything you like (it can be from a Work in Progress (WiP), something you recently sold, something you hope to sell or even something already under contract and available for purchase – and don’t worry, Six Sentence Sunday is for published AND unpublished writers ). Then post them on your blog on Sunday. That’s all there is to it!
Posts are for bloggers only, but comments are open to all. Please post a link back to Six Sunday, the “anchor” site, to let people know where you heard about the idea. You are not required to list the week’s posters on your post…And don’t be afraid to share the love by adding the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets about Six Sentence Sunday. You can follow the official Six Sentence Sunday twitter at: https://twitter.com/6_Sunday.
*The informative content listed above was taken directly from the 6 Sentence Sunday website with a few paraphrases for ease of viewing and reading. Please review their FAQs for more details.

Interview 12: D. M. Pirrone

Greetings humans, half-breeds, and everything in between. A while back, I had the pleasure to interview my new friend, D. M. Pirrone. She is visiting the ECS as a guest and sharing loads of interesting insights into her work. Be sure to look around and see what she has to offer. Here are the results of our interview. A good time was truly had by all, and here’s how it went down.


Hi there Diane! It’s so awesome to have you here at the ECS Universe. Don’t worry about the darkness, your eyes will adjust.
So tell me, who is D. M. Pirrone?
I’m a writer, editor and actor. Right now I’m writing mysteries, but I’m also a history buff and a huge SF fan. I have ideas for novels in every genre I read; sooner or later, I’ll get to them all.
I’m also a big Shakespeare nerd. The last role I played was Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Quince is a frustrated playwright, with a leading actor who keeps demanding rewrites and a cast that can barely memorize the simplest lines. Yet Quince keeps going. He doesn’t let anything get him down. I can relate to that.
What a Renaissance  Woman you are,  with a great sense of humor too. This should be a fun interview.
So whacha got for me today?
My debut mystery is NO LESS IN BLOOD, about an adoptee who goes looking for her family and ends up a target for murder by one of them because of a century-old legacy she never knew existed. The story unfolds in the present and in 1893 (when a wealthy young heiress vanishes, hence the creation of the legacy). Readers get to see both story lines play out at the same time.
I love the premise of this story. It sounds like a truly gripping mystery. I like that it’s a modern story, but takes you back to another time as well. My story Eternal Curse: Giovanni’s Angel is like that, but I think it’s pretty cool that you have two stories from different times happening at once.
 So who’s starring is this 2 dimensional script read of No Less In Blood?
I have two main characters: Rachel Connolly in the present, Mary Anne Schlegel (the vanishing heiress) in the past. Rachel is smart, funny, and a lot braver than she gives herself credit for. At the start of the book, she’s feeling especially vulnerable because her Very Serious Boyfriend has just dumped her, and not too many months ago she lost her adoptive mother to a hit-and-run drunk driver. Her sense of security, of family, even of identity is knocked sideways, and so she decides to look for her birth mother in hopes of reclaiming some of that. She’s completely not expecting how this all plays out.
Mary Anne is seventeen, bright and headstrong and completely unwilling to live the conventional life of a small-town rich girl in 1893. She wants to go to college, become a writer, earn a living by her pen. And she ends up having to run away from home to do it. She heads off to Chicago and disappears there; her family has no idea what happened to her, or if she’s alive or dead. (The reader finds out, though.)
Again, I love this. I won’t keep rambling on about the similarities in our two stories, but I feelconnected to yours already. This is a read I definitely don’t want to put off. The struggles of identity and family are big issues for me and in my writing, and who can get enough of a strong female character going above and beyond expectations. No matter the genre, this is what I write and what I like. Thank you for sharing.
 Past, present, future, is there a rhyme or reason to your writing?
I have a favorite theme: Events from the past that blow up in the present, forcing my characters to deal with the fallout. This happens in NO LESS IN BLOOD, it’s in both of the historical mysteries I’ve written (still looking for a publisher on those), and it’s central to the contemporary novel I’m working on now.  I’m 80 pages or so into it, tentatively titled THIS DARK AND TROUBLED TIME. It’s the first manuscript I’ve written that isn’t a crime novel, though a crime does lie at the heart of it. A newborn baby girl is stolen, and the book is about the effects of that act on the mother who loses her child, the woman who steals and raises the child, and the child herself as a young adult when she finds out she’s not who she thought she was. Tough to write, but rewarding so far. And frustrating, because I don’t have the automatic plot structure of a police investigation to lean on.
I can’t listen to background music or anything when I write. I need quiet so I can hear the words in my head. Other people have a mind’s eye; I have a mind’s ear. Sometimes it honestly feels like I have a small elf perched in my auditory canal, reading out loud to me. I just write the stuff down. Then I read it out loud, playing all the parts and getting as deep into it emotionally as I can. That lets me hear mistakes in the flow and figure out which beats are missing in a scene or a character’s thought process.

 I write on my laptop, at my dining-room table, with plenty of light from the east-facing bay window and a cup of strong coffee at my elbow. Gotta have the coffee, with milk and sugar. It’s brain fuel.
You are just too much ;) I love that you can classify your writing into one central theme; I wish I could say the same. In all, I’d say I write about characters; I tell their stories. I too write at a table. I write in my kitchen where there is plenty of overhead and natural light.
What author(s) has most influenced your writing? Why or how?
Google SearchRuth Rendell is a favorite; she writes some of the darkest suspense novels I’ve ever read, and has a knack for making us connect with some really scary people. I love the way she handles villains; they’re not just bad or crazy and we don’t care why. They’re three-dimensional, and we understand them even though we can’t condone what they do. Right now I’m reading a lot of Jodi Picoult, whose work is definitely inspiring THIS DARK AND TROUBLED TIME. She gets at the same events through multiple points of view, which gives her stories a lot of depth. Elizabeth George pays incredible attention to detail and makes her characters’ emotional lives so clear and compelling that you get carried along by that just as much as by the unfolding of the police investigation. I try to do all those things, as much as I can.
I say it every time, it so good to read what you write. Reading from those you admire in your preferred genre is the best way to master the ability to write it well. These ladies are all great authors and I can see why you like them.
 Whose brain are you just itching to scratch?
tudorhistory.orgElizabeth Tudor (Queen Elizabeth I). She managed to reign as an absolute monarch despite being a woman, in a time when people assumed only men could rule. She survived a stunning amount of palace intrigue and then spent almost the next 50 years putting her people and her country first. She was so smart, she could think rings around her advisors. I would love to talk to her about how she grew up in a time period like that, with all the abuses of power that were rampant in the ruling class, yet she managed to grasp that her job was to care about—and take care of—the people who depended on her to be a wise and thoughtful ruler. That’s one hell of a responsibility.
I must admit that everything I know of Queen Elizabeth I comes from movies, television biographies, and the BBC. My generation of U.S. youth only learns a little about Queen Elizabeth II, but since I enjoy history I try to learn what I can. It’s hard for any woman to rule in anytime, but each story of such a woman deserves to be told.
Who is so you and why?
IMDBBack in the early 1990s, I got addicted to the SF series BABYLON 5. All the characters are terrific, but my runaway favorite is Delenn. She’s non-human, an ambassador from Minbar; a diplomat and a peacemaker, and that rare thing—a politician with integrity. She has courage and compassion, and a playful, curious streak that’s somewhat at odds with the way her people generally are: reserved, sober, spiritual, in love with rituals and symbols. I wish I was half that brave and funny, and I can totally relate to her boundless curiosity about cultures that are different from her own.  Also relate to her knack for seeing the similarities beneath the differences. So often in the real world, what we see as divisions that can’t be surmounted, where one side has to be “right” and the other “wrong,” are actually just different road maps to the same destination.
That’s cool. I wasn’t into that show much, but I enjoyed it whenever I happened upon it. It had and still has a huge following. It’s nice that you relate to such a wonderful and powerful female character on that show. Again, I love your thinking. I do my best to embrace diversity. Differences don’t always have to be bad.
What’s your ideal reading spot for your next highly anticipated read?
AmazonMy agent suggested some titles that are similar to the kind of fiction I’m writing right now—there’s a crime at the heart of it, but the real story is the effect of the crime on the lives of the people involved. I just picked up STILL MISSING, by Chevy Stevens (in hardback, from my library, but if I like it I’ll probably buy it in paperback to re-read). The cover copy sounds great, and I think I’ll learn a lot about how to structure this kind of story. So when I take a “writing break” in the late afternoon, after I’ve gotten my son a snack and set him up with homework, I’ll brew a cup of Irish Breakfast tea (milk, a hint of sugar) and curl up with it and my book in the corner of my very fat and comfy sofa. A sip of tea, an afghan pulled over my lap for extra coziness, and I’m good to go.

Reading for fun and education is a win win and the way you do it sounds so lovely. Irish Breakfast tea (with milk and sugar) sounds delicious…I do like my teas.
What was your favorite book or story, pre-teen years?
WikipediaI loved A LITTLE PRINCESS, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I’ve been an Anglophile since reading BLACK BEAUTY when I was about 9, and Burnett was especially good at romantic stories about Victorian-era English children who experience an abrupt reversal of circumstances and then have to reinvent their sense of who they are. In A LITTLE PRINCESS, rich Sara Crewe suddenly becomes a pauper when her father loses his fortune, and she’s badly treated from the moment the money is gone. But she’s clever and kind-hearted and has a wonderful imagination, plus some friends who stick with her through thick and thin, and all these things help her eventually triumph over her hardships.
A Little Princess has always been one of my favorites. The story of Sara Crewe just always seemed more real and appealing than that of Cinderella or any other princess…Now this is where the questions get a little kooky; are you ready?
Yes I am.
Alright then, here we go.
If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, what would it be?
IMDBCasablanca. I could watch the “dueling anthems” scene in Rick’s Café—the one where the Nazi officers get drowned out by all the impassioned locals singing La Marseillaise—over and over again. So much is expressed through music in that scene; it’s brilliant.  And then there’s the whole love story, and the morphing of amiable hypocrite Louis Reynaud into a hero at the end (“Major Strasser has been shot! Round up the usual suspects!”)… what’s not to enjoy?
I get so excited when I ask this question and I’m always so pleased when the answer turns out to be a classic. I love classic movies and this is one of the best. I bothers me a little that there are people “out there” calling themselves movie buffs, yet they’ve never seen this film :\
What makes you geek out?
I’m a foodie. I admit it. Next to fiction and history, my favorite thing to read is a cookbook. I love how different flavors work together to make something scrumptious. I made gingerbread cookies for Christmas that had fat bittersweet chocolate chips in them, 70 percent cacao. The dark chocolate balanced perfectly with the tangy-sweet molasses in the gingerbread dough—unexpected and delightful. I throw chocolate chips into pumpkin muffins, too. Both my sons adore those.
This is just too much. You’re a foodie too!...I can still remember the first time, at the age of 25, making a traditional English bread pudding from a recipe book my husband found at a thrift store. It’s the best breading pudding ever. Now I have to try gingerbread cookies with dark chocolate chips.
 So what’s testing your patience right now?
I’m building an audiobook recording studio in my house, a second line of work for my at-home editing business, Word Nerd, Inc. With 20-plus years of acting experience and a huge number of accents, it seemed like a logical step. My friend and colleague, Libby Fischer Hellman, started me thinking I could do this professionally when she hired me for the audiobook version of SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, her excellent thriller partly set in the late 1960s. I also did her latest book, A BITTER VEIL, which takes place in Iran at the time of the 1979 revolution. I’ve just about worked the bugs out of my at-home setup and am learning my way around the recording software; I’ll be ready to launch before long, and I can’t wait.
This has to be the coolest answer I’ve had for this question by far. You just keep on keeping on Renaissance Woman!
When the soundtrack of your life is playing in your head, what songs express your glee and what songs bring out your rage?
chicagotheband.comFor glee, I have to go with the classic Chicagoanthem, “Lake Shore Drive” <=listen. I can’t hear that one without singing along. I also love jazz songs and show tunes and Celtic folk music.  The songs that enrage me, I turn off before they become ear worms and dig their way into my head. Bad 70s stuff I remember from my childhood: “Seasons in the Sun”, “Having My Baby”, etc. The kind of thing they play and laugh at on the Annoying Music Show.
You’re wonderful. I think it’s so great that cheesy songs make you mad. They make me mad too and that’s saying a lot because I’m a music lover. I find something to like and appreciate in just about any genre.
What’s the most fun experience you’ve ever had, to date?
mustardmuseum.comSeveral years ago, my husband and I and some friends of ours went to Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and visited the National Mustard Museum on National Mustard Day. We went in costume—my friend Laura Fogelson and I have alter egos, the Blatz Sisters, that we use in our comedy tarot card-reading act. The Blatz Sisters love festive colors and tacky clothing (think leopard print and fuschia), and talk in outrageously overdone accents, and in general the more oddball something is, the more “Blatz” it is. So we dressed up as our alter egos, and spent National Mustard Day “in character,” because a mustard museum is just the kind of place the Sisters like best. It was very silly, we got to be goofy with each other all day, we sampled mustard custard (awful!) and drew pictures in mustard (using squeeze bottles of classic French’s Yellow). We also bought some of the best-tasting, most unusual mustards I’d ever heard of. Maui Onion Mustard with Ale and Cranberry Orange mustard, just to name a couple.
You are a nut and I think you are wonderful. That’s sounds like it was a blast.
 Remind me again how I was lucky enough to meet you?
We haven’t met in person, but I found your blog after you put out the word through a LinkedIn group—Book Marketing Group, I think it was—that you were looking for authors to profile. So I checked it out, and liked what I read. This is a great blog.
Thanks for the compliment on my blog. I’ve met so many great authors. Posting that message has helped me in so many ways and I’m glad to do my small part to spread the word about the great talent and people supplying content to the literary world.
Not that you can see into the future, but in your opinion, what does the future hold?
In five years my historical mystery series—two books so far, set in Chicago just after the Great Fire of 1871—will be published, hopefully by a house that can afford a larger advance. (I love my current publisher, but they’re a small press, and I have two kids to get through college, so…) THIS DARK AND TROUBLED TIME, ditto—and I hope my hard-working agent makes a packet as well. Word Nerd Audio will be a thriving business, starting with the audio version of NO LESS IN BLOOD. My high-school freshman son will be in college (urk!), and my little guy will be in his last year of middle school, both with solid grades and good prospects. My husband will still be getting up early to make me coffee, and my friends who’ve been struggling during these tough past few years will have decent jobs again. Oh, and Hillary Clinton will be President, with Elizabeth Warren as VP.
Ok humans, half-breeds, and everything in between, that’s all for today. Be sure to follow this blog to see who will be visiting next time. For more from D. M. Pirrone check out these great links:
http://www.dmpirrone.net/works.htmhttps://www.amazon.com/author/dmpirrone
http://www.facebook.com/pages/D-M-Pirrone/188103237887566

ToiBox Update 03

In case you’re interested, here are some highlights from my other blog, the ToiBox. This is where I talk more in depth about my whole writing experience.
Last post ended 1/18/13
1/22/13 WIP Update 03 http://etoithomas.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/wip-update-03/
1/23/13 Author Insights 03 http://etoithomas.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/author-insights-03/
1/24/13 Character Files from the ToiBox 3: Giovanni- Stats  http://etoithomas.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/character-files-from-the-toibox-3-giovanni-stats/

Review 13: The Conduit

The Conduit (The Gryphon Series) by Stacey Rourke [image error]
I give this book a 5.
As dysfunctional families go, the Garrets are actually doing pretty well considering the Garret kids, now teenagers and young adults, have been displaced from their home and are now living with their retro grandmother, as their mothers stays behind to pick up the pieces after the death of her husband and their father. Even with that consideration, Celeste is a pretty good big sister, Kendal is almost the perfects little sister who just happens to be beautiful, and Gabe could be a lot worse, seeing as he’s the middle child and the only boy. But then one day the evil Barnabus decides to exact a century’s old revenge and the Garret kids receive an inheritance they’d rather leave to the dogs. With superpowers, shape shifting, and young adult hormonal disillusionment, The Conduit is a fascinating, thrilling, and at times, hilarious read.
I really didn’t know what to expect when I started this book, but I’d heard good things about it. I knew it was a YA fantasy series, but that was about it. I also knew I loved the artwork of the Gryphon on the cover of the book, but sadly, that cover has been discontinued…at least I like the new cover and the series’ covers match now.
From beginning to end, The Conduit was an exciting read. Even when the author had to slow down to explain something, the characters are so neurotic that the explanations come off as action packed.  The only time the action slowed down was when the sarcastic humor of the author spilled out through her characters offering abundant laughter.  There were a few touching moments in the story, but they were so perfectly paced that the flow of the story was a constant wave moving forward towards the end. Not that this book was terribly long, but it also wasn’t that short. I enjoyed reading this book so much, I fished it much quicker that I had expected.
When I purchased the Conduit, I thought I was just testing out this new author and had no intention of reading further, but halfway through this one, I bought the sequel and can’t wait the get the next one after that. I’m not an avid reader of YA fantasy and tend to toe the line when it comes to liking it, but this book is great.
Younger children may not get some of the references, but if this were a movie I’d give it a PG-13 rating; it’s good for the whole family, dad may not be interested…at first.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/423325980

Guest Post 08: D. M. Pirrone

Looking for a mystery with a twist? Check out NO LESS IN BLOOD , a suspense novel of past and present from D. M. Pirrone.

In 1893, seventeen-year-old Mary Anne Schlegel left her uncle’s Chicago home and vanished. The revelation of her fate more than a century later upends the life of Rachel Connolly, an adoptee desperately seeking her roots.

Rachel’s search for her birth mother leads her deep into a shrouded family past, on a journey that takes her from Chicago to Birch Falls in northern Minnesota. There she befriends Linnet Chapman, a lonely girl on the run from her brutal father, Luke. Rachel’s quest for identity threatens to uncover a family secret kept for three generations, and to derail others’ plans for inheriting a hundred-year old legacy. Before long, Rachel and Linnet discover that Mary Anne had a son—Rachel’s grandfather, which makes Rachel the legitimate heir to the long-held Schlegel fortune. If she can stay alive long enough to prove it…

The author says: “I think of this book as my Gothic novel with teeth. Meaning, instead of the heroine being vulnerable and helpless, she’s vulnerable but more than capable of rescuing herself from the hazards that befall her, even if she doesn’t know it. The story has all the other Gothic novel elements I love: the brooding manor house in the isolated landscape, a long-vanished heiress, the darkly handsome stranger who may be a villain, the secret from the past that brings danger in the present when the heroine gets too close to it for somebody’s comfort. I hope readers will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.”

Character Profile: Rachel Connolly
Smart, funny, stubborn, and a lot braver than she gives herself credit for. Rachel is a careful person, the kind who usually thinks about things long and hard before she jumps. On a good day she’s okay with this; on a bad one, she sees herself as a total shrinking coward. Absolutely the last person to get caught up in the unexpected, even dangerous situation that develops around her.  What sends her off on this roller-coaster journey from Chicago to the Iron Range of northern Minnesota is the abrupt loss of two people she cares deeply about. Her whole sense of who she is and what matters in her life is knocked off-kilter, so she goes looking for her birth mother in hopes of getting at least some of that back. What she finds is something far different, though in the end every bit as valuable.

Praise for NO LESS IN BLOOD
This may be a debut mystery, but Pirrone writes like a veteran. Her ability to create characters, whether present-day adoptee seeking her roots, or the author of a beautifully written 1893 diary who just might be her ancestor, and then place them both in jeopardy, is the mark of a talented, accomplished, nuanced author. Don't miss NO LESS IN BLOOD.”
—Libby Fischer Hellmann, Author of SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE and A BITTER VEIL
“…The novel is one of searching. Police are searching for a killer. The killer is searching for his daughter. And a lonely adopted woman, with little to go on, searches first for her birth mother, and then for family, possibly lost forever, in the unconcerned mists of a previous century. The solution to the several mysteries will determine who lives and who dies… In the end, the novel is about relationships, good and bad, and it speaks in universal terms to anyone open to others.”—Carl Brookins, author of Case of the Greedy Lawyers, Devil’s Island and Bloody Halls~ If you like what you see here, please come back on Friday for the interview with D. M. Pirrone. Trust me, it’s totally worth it.

WWW WEDNESDAYS 15

WWW WEDNESDAYS… is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading, where you share (1)What you’re currently reading, (2)What you recently finished reading, and (3)What you think you’ll read next.
Comments and shares are welcomed here, but please try to share with Should be Reading as this is their meme.
1. What are you currently reading? I actually really started to get back into Childhood’s End  by Author C. Clark. I should finish it this week. I am halfway through Year Zero by Rob Reid and I just started Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese.
2. What did you recently finish reading? City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3. What do you think you’ll read next? Since I just started a new ebook, Seraphina will be my next hardcover read. Hopefully I’ll start it next week if I finish Year Zero.
What is your WWW Wednesday?
Check out what others are reading. Ticket to Anywhere. More to come.

Teaser Tuesdays 03

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!(make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

My teaser: Of course, it would probably take decades of global martial law with me as Maximum Leader to get all of the sign-offs and approvals necessary to fully reverse the debt. But I was just playing for time.

~p.329 of Year Zero, by Rob Reid

6 Sentence Sunday 18

This is a weekly meme hosted and originated by 6 Sentence Sunday. Eternal Curse: Giovanni’s Angel -6 sentences from chapter 17.
With one deep breath, Giovanni split the kitchen table in two as he pounded it down with his fists. “Well then, let’s bring the unknown out into the open so there’s nothing left to fear!” he roared with terror. Giovanni’s prolonged insomnia and vigorous obsession to perfect the gardens for Mira’s liking had finally driven him to the point of madness. He was out of his mind with paranoia and self-hatred. He’d lost control of all that he was holding in and was now revealing his true nature to Mira for the first time. Striking fear into all their hearts, even into Abraham who’d seen him this way many times before, Giovanni’s body began to change.
To participate, pick six (6) sentences from anything you like (it can be from a Work in Progress (WiP), something you recently sold, something you hope to sell or even something already under contract and available for purchase – and don’t worry, Six Sentence Sunday is for published AND unpublished writers ). Then post them on your blog on Sunday. That’s all there is to it!
Posts are for bloggers only, but comments are open to all. Please post a link back to Six Sunday, the “anchor” site, to let people know where you heard about the idea. You are not required to list the week’s posters on your post…And don’t be afraid to share the love by adding the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets about Six Sentence Sunday. You can follow the official Six Sentence Sunday twitter at: https://twitter.com/6_Sunday.
*The informative content listed above was taken directly from the 6 Sentence Sunday website with a few paraphrases for ease of viewing and reading. Please review their FAQs for more details.

Stacking The Shelves 13

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, and of course ebooks!
Here’s what I got. The Fortune Quilt by Lani Diane Rich- ebook Ashlyn's Radio by Heather Dohertyand Norah Wilson- ebook No Less in Blood by D. M. Pirrone- hardcover Telegraph Avenue : A Novel by Michael Chabon- audiobook  
*Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use Tynga’s official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun! *You can set your post any way you want, simple book lists, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit! *Tynga’s posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you. * Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday to add your link so others can visit you. *Visit other participant’s links to find out what they added to their shelves. The information list above was taken directly from Tynga’s Reviews blog. 
Just for fun!I will be sharing the comics, movies, live shows, and vinyl records I’ve added and or will be seeing at venues or theatres.  Please feel free to share and comment.
* My husband and I found a cool vinyl set of soul performers visiting the U.K. including appearances by B.B. King.* We added a cool Storm action figure to our growing collection.* I had a wonderful time at a local car show and spending time with family. Can’t wait to see what I have next time.