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#musicmonday: Greater | MercyMe

Because some days you need this so much.

#bookreview: The Princelings trilogy by Jemima Pett

I "met" Jemima Pett over the A to Z blogging challenge in 2013, when we were Damyanti's minions. I picked up her books then - and sat on them, as usual - until I was looking through the books in my kindle and decided that I should make a serious attempt at reducing the backlog. So here they are - all three - which makes for a very long post! =)


The Princelings of the East by Jemima Pett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Castle Marsh, an extremely isolated guinea pig castle, is experiencing a strange energ...

#musicmonday: O Come Emmanuel

I'm currently jumping between prepping for Christmas and brainstorming for Easter. My head is about to break.

This is one of the songs that which is usually used for Christmas, but I also use for Easter. Which is why it's in my current compilation of muse songs for Easter 2016.

I'm releasing a short story today!

So if you're on my mailing list or following my facebook page, you'd likely already know this and have (hopefully) gotten a copy of the book, but... here's the news for the rest of the world!

Go north, little human.
Go north until the winds blow cold and you walk on water.
Go north, and there you will find her.

With the Dragon's prophecy ringing in his ears, Danis travels from town to town, seeking a wife. But at every stop, he is turned away, until he enters the City of Winter itself...

When W...

#bookreview: In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett by Laura May
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett contains 17 very diverse stories with one central theme: Memory, or the loss of it. If you were expecting that all of them would sound like Terry Pratchett, you'd be sorely disappointed - after all, these are very diverse authors from 9 countries and 4 continents. However, there are echoes of Terry in every single story that you read.
I started reading this book with the...

#musicmonday: Divine Romance | Phil Wickham

I bought a Phil Wickham album from Logos Hope because I remembered liking his songs. Unfortunately, I don't like this album as much as I thought I would.

This is the song I loved, from a previous album.

#fridayflash: On the ledge

There was something about ledges that attracted Janice. The rush of looking down, the giddiness of being up above. But mostly, wondering how it would feel like to fly.
She sat now, hugging her legs, on the top of a twenty-story building, watching the tiny toy cars move far below.

"Hey."

Janice turned.

"Come back in. It's not safe out there." The bespectacled girl beckoned her.

"But I like it here."

"Aren't you - aren't you afraid of falling?"

Janice shrugged. "Maybe I want to." She frowned. "Now you...

#bookreview: Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge

Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mosca Mye, a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued orphan born under inauspicious stars, is trying her best to survive. Saracen, her pet goose, doesn't really help because he spends most of the time destroying things and therefore incurring more debt. Their companion, the con man Eponymous Clent, does his best to help, but isn't in a good position himself.

In the odd town of Toll, Mosca and Eponymous somehow find themselves embroiled in a plot to kidnap...

#musicmonday: Come as you are | David Crowder

Come out of sadness
From wherever you've been
Come broken hearted
Let rescue begin
Come find your mercy
Oh sinner come kneel
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can't heal
Earth has no sorrow
That heaven can't heal

So lay down your burdens
Lay down your shame
All who are broken
Lift up your face
Oh wanderer come home
You're not too far
So lay down your hurt
Lay down your heart
Come as you are

There's hope for the hopeless
And all those who've strayed
Come sit at the table
Come taste the grace
There's rest for the weary...

#Fridayflash: Wishes and fishes

Fishies courtesy of Marni Zainodin. Check out her exhibition below!
If wishes were fishes, Tom would be a fat cat by now. But the world didn't work that way, so Tom was still a tiny little fish. 
As a little fish, Tom had to watch out for everyone and everything. Slightly bigger fish would attack him so that they could grow bigger by eliminating the competition. Hungry big fish could swallow him whole, whilst not-so-hungry big fish might toy with him and let him go just because they c...