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June 30, 2022
31 Motivating Quotes for this July
31 Motivating Quotes for this July
Hello all,
Everyone needs motivation to keep going in their lives. I need it like I need my morning caffeine. Here I bring you 31 quotes to motivate your days this month.
1. You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found. - Kid Cudi
2. I grew to understand that people don't always build walls to keep others out. There are times it is done out of a necessity to protect whatever is left within. - Unknown
3. Words are like keys. If you choose them right, they can open any heart. - Unknown
4. The razor blade is sharp but can't cut a tree; the axe is strong but can't cut hair. Everyone is important according to his/her own unique purpose. Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes. - Unknown
5. 10 Things money can't buy:
Manners Morals Respect Character Common sense Trust Patience Class Integrity Love
6. Expecting things to change without putting in any effort is like waiting for a ship at the airport. - Unknown
7. Don't be a parrot in life, be an Eagle. A parrot talks way too much and can't fly high but an eagle is silent and has the will power to touch the sky. - Unknown
8. Classy is when you have a lot to say but you choose to remain silent in front of fools. - Unknown
9. Thinking is difficult that's why most people judge. - Carl Jung
10. The caterpillar grows wings during a season of isolation. Remember that next time you're alone. - Mandy Hale
11. You are the artist of your life. Don't give the paintbrush to anyone else. - Unknown
12. You've got a new story to write. And it looks nothing like your past. - Unknown
13. A hungry stomach, an empty pocket and a broken heart can teach the best lessons of life. - Unknown
14. Someone once asked me: "Why do you always insist on taking the hard road?"I replied: "Why do you assume I see two roads?" - Unknown
15. Your mistakes don't define your character. It's what you choose to do after you have made the mistake that makes all the difference. - Dave Willis
16. Don't be afraid to start over. It's a chance to build something better this time. - Unknown
17. 3 Things to keep private:
Your love life Your income Your next move
18. You survived what you thought would kill you. Now straighten your crown and move forward like the queen you are. - Unknown
19. Watch out for people who are always bragging about who they are. A lion will never have to tell me it's a lion. - Unknown
20. If anyone doesn’t treat you with dignity and self-respect, walk away from the situation. No person and no relationship is worth compromising your dignity and self-respect. - Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
21. 2 things you don't fight for:
True loveTrue friends
They should come naturally...
22. I can't control your behavior; nor do i want that burden...but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out. - Unknown
23. I'm at a place in my life where my peace is my priority. - Unknown
24. Without respect, relationships are lost. We're all different and if someone can't value your differences and respect your values and beliefs, then they don't deserve a front row seat in your life. - Unknown
25. Sometimes, a path calls for you to walk alone. And, still, it is beautiful. - Angie Weiland-Crosby
26. Still the same woman, with the same name. Just a different mindset and a new growth game. - Unknown
27. I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me. - Brigitte Nicole
28. Your life isn't yours if you always care what others think. - Unknown
29. Don't stop shining just because someone is intimidated by your light. - Unknown
30. Damaged people are strong because they know how to survive. - Unknown
31. Love all. Trust few. Everything is real but not everyone is true. - Unknown
Release Blitz - Stress-Free by Manoj Krishna
Stress-Free by Manoj Krishna
30th June - Release Day Blitz
Genre: Self-help
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Blurb
If you feel stressed, you are not alone. 70-80% of people report being moderately or severely stressed. Long-term stress can impact our physical and mental health and stops us from being happy and at peace with ourselves. We assume that all our stress is caused by external events, and nothing can be done.
This book challenges that assumption and explores many ways we can avoid stress in the first place, and overcome it more easily when it does occur.
Stress is just a reaction from our thinking, and the difference between how things are and how we want them to be. To get over stress we can either change the event, or our reaction to it. To do that we need to explore where our reactions come from, and for that we need to journey inwards, to understand ourselves and how our minds work. This deeper understanding of ourselves helps us access our own wisdom, which enables us to meet life’s challenges with calm. Our time on earth is limited. Living with this wisdom allows us to make the most of it, and live with much less stress, so we can lead happier and healthier lives.
Buy Links
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Author Bio
Manoj Krishna worked as an orthopedic and spine surgeon for 30 years. He left his medical career to launch the Human Wisdom Project to make the world a better place, by helping everyone access their own innate wisdom, which can be life-changing and comes from a deeper understanding of ourselves and how our minds work. His first book Understanding Me Understanding You was translated into 4 languages. His second book Stress Free launches on 30th June 2022.
The Human Wisdom App accompanies the Human Wisdom Project.
He thinks living with this wisdom enables us to be happy, have fulfilling relationships, meet challenges with calm, and live with compassion, for ourselves, each other, and the earth. It can help us avoid and overcome stress, avoid addiction, and contribute to our success in the world.
June 1, 2022
30 Quotes related to reading this June
Reading is the real escape from our daily stress. Every time I read, I forget my surroundings and get transported into a fictional world, getting lost in it. It offers me so much comfort, which is why I think if you don't have the habit of reading, you should start today. It's a free therapy. Here are 30 quotes to motivate your reading habits.
1. Books are the escape you never knew you needed until you start reading. — Unknown
2. Turning the pages of a good book can influence you more than you might think. — Unknown
3. The cheapest form of adventure is a book. — Unknown
4. Has a person who hardly ever reads truly ever lived? — Unknown
5. Every book is a new adventure. — Unknown
6. Not reading should be a sin. — Unknown
7. Stories have endless possibilities and can take you any place your heart dreams of going. — Unknown
8. Everyone should make reading one of their hobbies. — Unknown
9. Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. —Kofi Annan
10. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou
11. There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. —Frank Serafini
12. One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. —Carl Sagan
13. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. —Vera Nazarian
14. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. —May Ellen Chase
15. It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations—something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. —Katherine Patterson
16. When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again. —Rumer Godden
17. So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. —William James
18. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick
19. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. —Marcel Proust
20. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. —L.R. Knost
21. Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. —Karen Witemeyer
22. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. —E.P. Whipple
23. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” —Stephen Wright
24. There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. —Jim Fiebig
25. A house without books is like a room without windows. —Horace Mann
26. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan
27. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. —Louis L’Amour
28. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola
29. It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. —Jane Hamilton
30. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen
May 31, 2022
30 Motivating Quotes for this June
30 Motivating Quotes for this June
Hello all,
Wow. June is here already. Time is literally flying these days. But let's not let the daily life stress drag us down. Here are 30 quotes to motivate your days this month.
1. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
2. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
3. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos
4. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J. K. Rowling
5. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash
6. “We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.” —Hillary Clinton
7. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
8. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
9. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” —Morris West
10. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” —Malcolm Forbes
11. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
12. “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” —Jay-Z
13. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” —Tina Fey
14. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” —Warren Buffett
15. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Audrey Hepburn
16. “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” —Ellen DeGeneres
17. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” —Mahatma Gandhi
18. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
20. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
21. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”– Buddha
22. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
23. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
24. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
25. “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” — Anonymous
26. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
27. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
28. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”— Seneca
29. “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau
30. “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
April 30, 2022
31 Motivating Quotes for this May
31 Motivating Quotes for this May
Hello all,
It's only fifth month of the year and I already feel drained. I really need these motivational quotes to get me going. Hope you'll need them too. So, here I bring you 31 quotes to motivate your days this month.
1. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
2. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
3. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
4. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
5. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy
6. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
7. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
8. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
9. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
10. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
11. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
12. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
13. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
14. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
15. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
16. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
17. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
19. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
20. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
21. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
22. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
23. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
24. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
25. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
26. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
27. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” —Neil Armstrong
28. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
29. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” —Bill Clinton
30. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet
31. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
31 Quotes related to reading this May
31 Quotes related to reading this May
Reading improves your mental health. Here are 31 quotes to encourage your reading habits this May.
1. Poetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer, just a sense of one, that the story itself is unable to provide. – Emily Ruskovich
2. A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil Gaiman
3. Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley
4. No two persons ever read the same book. – Edmund Wilson
5. The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. – Albert Einstein
6. Be awesome! Be a book nut! – Dr. Seuss
7. You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. – Dr. Seuss
8. You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book. – Dr. Seuss
9. Reading can take you places you have never been before. – Dr. Seuss
10. I like nonsense, it wakes up brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. – Dr. Seuss
11. Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. – Dr. Seuss
12. My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around. – Dr. Seuss
13. Virtually every page is a cliffhanger – you’ve got to force them to turn it. – Dr. Seuss
14. You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so much to read. – Dr. Seuss
15. I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too. – Dr. Seuss
16. This book is to be read in bed. – Dr. Seuss
17. Fiction is my addiction. – Dr. Seuss
18. Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read. – Dr. Seuss
19. A book is just like life and anything can change. – Dr. Seuss
20. The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read. – Mary McCleod Bethune
21. Books train your mind to imagination to think big. – Taylor Swift
22. We live for books.
23. A well-read woman is a dangerous creature. — Lisa Kleypas
24. A book is a way for your imagination to be wild and free. — Unknown
25. Once upon a time’ is one of the most magical phrases you’ll ever read. — Unknown
26. Don’t get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t own any books. — Unknown
27. The end’ is one of the saddest sentences you’ll ever come across. — Unknown
28. Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do. — Unknown
29. Books are things of fiction that seem like reality. — Unknown
30. Books are the movies of our minds. — Unknown
31. It’s hard to believe that reading words on pages can truly change your life for the better. — Unknown
April 21, 2022
Review: It Takes a Woman by Piper Sheldon
It Takes a Woman, an all new modern marriage of convenience romance from Piper Sheldon, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited! 
Just because she’s getting married doesn’t mean she’ll fall in love.
Unapologetic bombshell Gretchen LaRoe is happy to play matchmaker to everyone else content in knowing she once had true love. When the best friends of the Scorned Women’s Society take it upon themselves to interfere in Gretchen’s love life, they shouldn't be shocked to learn Gretchen already has a plan of her own. A jaw-dropping plan.
Part-time Green Valley resident and work-a-holic Vincent Debono has been living in a fog since the loss of his wife. With the birth of his great-niece he can’t shake the feeling that he’s ready for change. After a secret kiss with the unforgettable redhead who already plagued his thoughts, Vincent decides to leap into a new adventure.
These two have made a commitment to each other but won’t let their hearts get involved. How hard can it be?
‘It Takes a Woman’ is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #4 in the Scorned Women’s Society series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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Review:This is my first read by Piper Sheldon, and I enjoyed reading it. I didn't read the earlier books in the series but added them to my TBR list.It takes a woman was a very fun, emotional, and passionate roller coaster ride. Piper Sheldon drew Gretchen and Vincent's characters beautifully. Where one was confident and daring, the other was serious and broody. The tale wonderfully unfolds, and you get attached to Gretchen and Vincent.
This book can be read standalone but I will suggest to read the whole series to understand all SWS women more.
About Piper Sheldon
Piper Sheldon writes Contemporary Romance and Paranormal Romance. Her books are a little funny, a lotta romantic, and with just a little twist of something more. She lives with her husband, toddler, and two needy dogs at home in the desert Southwest. She finds writing bios in the third person an extreme sport of awkwardness.
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April 18, 2022
Author Interview: T.L. Bradford, author of StrangeLove
Congratulations to author T. L. Bradford on her recent release, Strange Love.
About the author:
T.L. always hated math, so it was a good thing she had a way with words. Since she was a shy and quirky kid; words were her best friends. She would imagine entire worlds in her head and talk to herself endlessly. Her mother wondered if she was speaking with ghosts for a while.
Her older sister was a voracious reader of trashy romance novels and would pass them down to her after she had finished them. T.L. was the only 10-year-old kid sitting in class reading “The Stud” by Jackie Collins during reading time. Oddly enough, she never got called out on it.
As she grew older, her tastes evolved, but one thing held fast; her undying attachment to love stories. One day out of the blue, she decided to write the love stories she always wanted to read instead of searching for her story. Since then, writing has been a dream fulfilled for her and she could not be happier.
She enjoys writing about love, regardless of gender and is a proud supporter of the LGBTQ community.
T.L. calls the Pacific Northwest her home and enjoys the quiet rural life of her little oceanside home with her playful/crazy husband and their giant dog Noah.
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1. What inspires you to write?
For me, writing is the best way to achieve personal expression. I feel most at ease in my own skin when writing because I’m speaking from my heart. It is also the most accurate depiction of who I am and my personality.
2. When did you first consider yourself a writer?
It was when I received the initial feedback on my first book. Up until that point, I had been writing in a void, not sure if anyone else would ever read my book, much less be drawn to the characters I had created. To hear another person voice the names of my characters and emotionally connect with them, meant that the characters come to life. At least in my head, they were now real. That was when I felt I had become a writer.
3. Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre?
I write in the m/m romance genre. It is a small, but growing sub genre of romance. I grew up reading heterosexual romance novels. As I aged, I realized I started to have a broader perspective of what constituted love. It was no longer relevant the love be solely between a man and a woman. Love comes in all shapes, sizes and forms. It was this open concept that drew me to the m/m genre.
I find the m/m genre intriguing as often times their stories are overlooked, or moved to the sidelines of an overall story. I wanted to dive into the complexities of same sex relationships and make the characters human and not the stereotypes typically seen in movies or TV shows.
4. How do you feel about indie/alternative vs. traditional publishing?
I am a great fan of indie/alternative publishing. It gives a voice and a platform to those who want to make a statement. Indie publishing levels the playing field giving writers like me, a chance to have their stories be told on their own terms.
To be honest, the reason I write indie is because I’m stubborn want to tell my stories the way I originally intended. I’m not sure I’d be interested in or have the same drive to write if I was always being told how to structure my stories and characters.
I’m aware I reach a smaller audience, but those readers I do have found me because they like my style and that’s enough for me.
5. Where did you grow up and how did that influence your writing & did any travels away from
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in the United States. My father was a navy man, so we traveled around a bit while I was in school. When I was thirteen years old, we moved to Hawaii, which was where I feel I was most shaped as an individual.
Hawaii is very much an integrated community. I met people from all over the world and was exposed to all types of cultures, languages and customs I never would have experienced had I stayed living in one place. It rounded and grounded me as a person. I’ve returned many times since and hope to retire there when the time comes.
6. What do you consider your most meaningful work you’ve done creatively so far to you?
I would say my most meaningful work is a toss up between True Faith and StrangeLove. My stories come from existing people and situations around and within me. True Faith dealt with the main characters working to find middle ground in their relationship. They struggled to find compromise where both parties could be satisfied in the relationship. StrangeLove goes one step further by introducing the element of interracial love. Both are situations my husband and I have dealt with, loving each other through all the slings and arrows, ups and downs, and bizarre situations. The point is, we worked as a team to overcome those hardships and have come out stronger on the other side.
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Review: StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford
StrangeLove
T.L. Bradford
Publication date: April 18th 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance
Archer
The year began great for me.
Became the starting quarterback for an NFL team – check.
Secured a multi-million-dollar contract – check.
Moved to LA and lived the glamorous life – check.
What could possibly cause me any issues?
Oh yeah, one more thing. I’m gay.
I was outed a couple of years ago to my former team and my family, but it hasn’t been made public knowledge yet. Well, that is, until now. I’ll be known as the first LGBTQ+ active player in the league’s history. And if I stick to the conditions of my contract, it won’t be a problem. The thing is, I’m not really a guy known for playing by the rules.
Most people think of my personality as the three B’s: bold, brash, and blunt. My mouth has gotten me into more predicaments than I can count. Even my best friends have told me I’m stubborn as a mule and have the delicacy of a bull in a china shop. This presents a big problem for me because I have my eyes set on winning over the guy who stole my heart years ago, only he doesn’t know it yet.
Getting his attention is going to be challenging. It’s a good thing I’m tenacious.
Unfortunately, it’s not great timing and could get me into a whole mess of trouble.
Why does falling for a guy need to be anyone’s business but mine?
Kai
The past couple of years were a whirlwind of activity. My career took off after my guest shot appearance in Americana. I appeared in a few indie features and finally got a shot at my first major motion picture release. The work came as a great distraction from my personal life, which took a further nosedive after I found out the guy I was falling for had already fallen for someone else.
Why should I be surprised? He was another in a string of failed relationship attempts. I swore I wouldn’t get involved with anyone else, choosing to stay focused on my career instead. That is, until the force of nature known as Archer McMillan came storming into my life.
To be the pursued instead of the pursuer was not in the cards. To top it off, he’s everything I’m not. Yet, there’s something to be said for a guy who can make you laugh when it’s the last thing you want to be doing. I’ll admit he’s got a playful and determined spirit. Archer also has one of the biggest hearts of anyone I’ve ever known. Not the mention the cute way he… Hold on. What am I doing? We cannot be a thing. Nope. Not gonna happen. Ever. Right?
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Follow Kai and Archer as they cross the lines as friends, partners-in-crime, and confidants, to discover a love beyond boundaries that needs no definition.
(StrangeLove is a funny, heartwarming, slow-burn love story. It contains a cast of fully developed characters that encounter romance, laughter, and life lessons. It contains adult language, mature themes, and is best enjoyed by those over the age of 18. It can be read as a standalone; however, if you would like to know the backstories of some characters, check out the prior books in the series.)
Review: (5 stars)
StrangeLove is a story of Archer and Kai, two people from two different world. Archer is outed a few years ago and is debuting as an openly gay player for an NFL team, who is now living with his friends. The story hooked me from the first chapter where Archer tries his best to hide the little mishap with his friend's expensive rug. *Gus is cute and unbothered. Lol.*
I loved the writing style which is sarcastic and right up my alley. However, this story also deals with a lot of other serious topics. I loved Kai. The interactions between Archer and Kai is just so good. Another character I loved is Xander. I gotta stop here before I spoil something.
I appreciate how the author handled different characters. Despite reading this book without reading the other books in the series, I was able to follow through after stumbling a bit in the beginning. Now that I've read this, I'm definitely going to read the other books in this series. Recommended.
I received an advanced readers copy and am giving my honest review.
Author Bio:
T.L. always hated math, so it was a good thing she had a way with words. Since she was a shy and quirky kid; words were her best friends. She would imagine entire worlds in her head and talk to herself endlessly. Her mother wondered if she was speaking with ghosts for a while.
Her older sister was a voracious reader of trashy romance novels and would pass them down to her after she had finished them. T.L. was the only 10-year-old kid sitting in class reading “The Stud” by Jackie Collins during reading time. Oddly enough, she never got called out on it.
As she grew older, her tastes evolved, but one thing held fast; her undying attachment to love stories. One day out of the blue, she decided to write the love stories she always wanted to read instead of searching for her story. Since then, writing has been a dream fulfilled for her and she could not be happier.
She enjoys writing about love, regardless of gender and is a proud supporter of the LGBTQ community.
T.L. calls the Pacific Northwest her home and enjoys the quiet rural life of her little oceanside home with her playful/crazy husband and their giant dog Noah.
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30 Quotes related to reading this April
30 Quotes related to reading this April
Reading inspires you and strengthens your brain. It can also reduce stress levels and that's why you need to start reading today. Here are 30 quotes to encourage your reading habits this April.
1. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates
2. For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. - Audrey Hepburn
3. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. - Gary Paulsen
4. From the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. - Gordon B. Hinckley
5. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. - Voltaire
6. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau
7. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler
8. A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. - C.S. Lewis
9. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
11. What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright. - Gustave Flaubert
12. I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. - Wisława Szymborska
13. Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. - Holbrook Jackson
14. You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child. - Anita Merina
15. Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. - David Quammen
16. Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift. - Kate DiCamillo
17. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
18. A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. – Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
19. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. – C.S. Lewis
20. Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? Mo had said…As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar. – Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
21. When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own. – John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous
22. We live for books. – Umberto Eco
23. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. – Franz Kafka
24. An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. – Thomas Wharton
25. Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai
26. Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. – Mark Haddon
27. If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it. – Beverly Cleary
28. The story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters. – Celeste Ng
29. What isn't said is as important as what is said. – Colson Whitehead
30. Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. – Donna Tartt
