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The United Kingdom is fortunate to sit in the Gulf Stream Drift and so long as that keeps drifting from warmer waters to our cooler clime, we’re kept warmer than most other places on our latitude. We talk about our weather a lot because it’s always changing. It’s been snowing lately and, as I write, there’s warm sunshine. This can cause a few problems and one is shown in this drabble.
For Readers:
This won’t take up much time because it is a drabble – a one-hundred word (exactly) story.
"Come for lunch," I'd said. They braved the snow and brought a gift: an Easter egg.
"Not to be eaten before Easter Sunday."
A whole week away. How cruel. The top of the wardrobe? No, I'd see it every day. I know, behind the curtains in the spare room.
Good Friday came and the snow went. So late this year. Oh how I longed for some sunshine, everyone did, after all, we were true Brits. Summoned, it came. Daffodils. Glorious warmth. Liberate the deckchairs.
By Sunday I was wearing sunglasses. Easter Sunday! My egg! My lovely, chocolate, misshapen, melted egg.
Question for Readers: What is your favourite genre and why? Please tell us in the comments section. I'd love to know.
For Authors
Question for Authors: Which genre(s) do you write in and why? Do tell us in the comments section please. More people read comments if they’re less than 200 words, or so I’ve been told.
Random Acts of Kindness:
Leave a few coins near a church entrance, if you leave them low down, children pick them up and glow!
Look in the mirror and give yourself a compliment
Donate food to your local foodbank
Leave water out for birds
Two of my books will be reduced to 0.99:
Mistake in Time 0.99 from 27th March to 2nd April
Readers' Favorite 5* review: "The author’s prose does a marvelous job of bringing to life the feel and spirit of the 1960s, with descriptive writing that made me feel like I was walking down the streets of London. This gifted prose extends to the protagonist herself with quirks and mannerisms that made her feel fully realized and grounded in reality."
Hide in Time 0.99 from 31st March to 6th April
Readers' Favorite 5* review: "Looking for the classic dashing gentlemen, roguish highwaymen, damsels, and heroines? Look no further than Hide in Time by Anna Faversham."
Both are free on Kindle Unlimited
For Readers:
This won’t take up much time because it is a drabble – a one-hundred word (exactly) story.
"Come for lunch," I'd said. They braved the snow and brought a gift: an Easter egg.
"Not to be eaten before Easter Sunday."
A whole week away. How cruel. The top of the wardrobe? No, I'd see it every day. I know, behind the curtains in the spare room.
Good Friday came and the snow went. So late this year. Oh how I longed for some sunshine, everyone did, after all, we were true Brits. Summoned, it came. Daffodils. Glorious warmth. Liberate the deckchairs.
By Sunday I was wearing sunglasses. Easter Sunday! My egg! My lovely, chocolate, misshapen, melted egg.
Question for Readers: What is your favourite genre and why? Please tell us in the comments section. I'd love to know.
For Authors
Question for Authors: Which genre(s) do you write in and why? Do tell us in the comments section please. More people read comments if they’re less than 200 words, or so I’ve been told.
Random Acts of Kindness:
Leave a few coins near a church entrance, if you leave them low down, children pick them up and glow!
Look in the mirror and give yourself a compliment
Donate food to your local foodbank
Leave water out for birds
Two of my books will be reduced to 0.99:
Mistake in Time 0.99 from 27th March to 2nd April
Readers' Favorite 5* review: "The author’s prose does a marvelous job of bringing to life the feel and spirit of the 1960s, with descriptive writing that made me feel like I was walking down the streets of London. This gifted prose extends to the protagonist herself with quirks and mannerisms that made her feel fully realized and grounded in reality."
Hide in Time 0.99 from 31st March to 6th April
Readers' Favorite 5* review: "Looking for the classic dashing gentlemen, roguish highwaymen, damsels, and heroines? Look no further than Hide in Time by Anna Faversham."
Both are free on Kindle Unlimited
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I think we could miss out if we have too narrow a choice, so being a genre junkie is probably a good thing to be!
Favorite genre designation is such a difficult "pop quiz" to which one might respond. It is similar in nature to that question, "If you were stranded on a desert island, what is the one book you would like to have?" Of course, you know what one book I would take.Like Rosemary, I read many genres. If I had to pick one, it would be non-fiction. I enjoy reading and learning about history, nature, science, and politics, though politics can be both frustrating and exasperating. George Santyana is generally credited with the quote, "Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." I tend to be selective when choosing non-fiction, though. I would put non-fiction as my first genre choice.
I also enjoy "the classics" of various genres; drama, tragedies, mysteries, historical fiction, and, of course, the horrors of Edgar Allen Poe.
I enjoy good, historical fiction. Well researched historical novels can certainly captivate and entrance me.
A few years someone loaned me a science fiction novel that was really my first of that genre. I enjoyed that and got into more of those.
I have to agree that I couldn't stick to one or two genres. It's good to read of your wide variety and I hope you'll get enough time to appreciate many books. I'm looking forward to having time to catch up on my reading. I have so much I want to read. At the moment, I start a book but then my busy life gets in the way and when I get back to it, I almost have to start again. Annoying. So I often won't start until I know I'm going to have sufficient time to read it within a week.
So, favourite genre. It wasn't until I began trying to market my own book that I discovered many readers only read their one or two preferred genres and little else. I'm the complete opposite, a genre junkie 🤣