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Happy New Year writers, aspiring writers, and everyone who has even thought about becoming a writer. Today, I posted on how to Make Writing Your Spiritual Adventure in 2014.
Hey there is a giveaway on my blog if you want to enter. :) http://ya411.blogspot.com/p/giveaways...
New review: Ephemeral (Ani'mari Saga, #1). I'm glad to say I really enjoyed the book!
http://skizzles22hu.blogspot.com/2014...
Cover Characteristic - this week's theme is Horsehttp://letsgetlostinagoodbook.blogspot.com/2014/01/cover-characteristic-1-this-weeks-theme.html
I have just started my first blog and am pretty excited about it! Take the journey with me as I reach all my goals on the list!www.bucketlist2014.wordpress.com
My 5th Fiction Short in the past 10 days. I'm working to do 750 words every day throughout the entire year. I usually blog elsewhere but not pure writing. I'm working on honing my writing craft and I'm a bit rusty. The ideas have been flowing freely but I'll admit that my grammar and structure needs work. Follow along if you're interested in helping me out or just reading some new original work.This piece is entitled Feeling The Squeeze:
http://learnedwriter.com/2014/01/feel...
Thanks for reading!
Today I have a cover reveal for Shannon's Law
+ a giveaway- a chance to win an Amazon gift card and a book release blitz for The Dragon's Heart
+ giveaway-a chance to win a pair of dragon shaped earrings and one of three copies of A Dragon's Heart. http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
Review: A Study in Ashes (The Baskerville Affair #3) by Emma Jane Holloway. http://zemfirkablogs.blogspot.com/201...
Book Blogger New Year's Challenge Day 7: Top Ten Book Blogger Pet Peeveshttp://offbeat-ya.blogspot.it/2014/01...
Hosted by Parajunkee. (I'm actually early in posting this, because of the time zone...she hasn't even posted her prompt and linky yet!).
Check out my interview and spotlight of Kelsey Browning
and my review of her newly released Running the Red Light
and enter for a chance to win a copy of Personal Assets the first book in the Texas Nights Series at http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?
I would recommend this book to: Anyone interested in reading about the downside of American suburban life in the 50s.
The Beginning: The final dying sounds of their dress rehearsal left the Laurel Players with nothing to do but stand there, silent and helpless, blinking out over the footlights of an empty auditorium.
Revolutionary Road tells the story of April and Frank Wheeler, a couple bored by playing house. They want more out of life – especially April, since she’s the one staying at home taking care of the kids and the house every day. So they make a deal and start planning: they don’t want this life anymore, they want something extraordinary. April is determined, but Frank gets second thoughts.
I think it’s unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working like a dog year after year at a job he can’t stand, coming home to a house he can’t stand in a place he can’t stand either, to a wife who’s equally unable to stand the same things.
The theme of this story is very dear to me. I did my master thesis on marriage from the wife’s perspective in literature back in 2007, and still find the subject very interesting. Revolutionary Road was an interesting read. But it ends about there. Here’s my problem: a huge part of the book was crammed with descriptions of how tedious the Wheeler’s lives are. And guess what? That’s tedious to read about! It just went on and on with descriptions of Frank’s boring job – which he makes even more boring by not giving a shit about anything.
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don’t like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out.
This book is 338 pages, and it took me about three weeks to finish it. Every time I opened the book, I was so bored I could scream with desperation. So why did I keep reading? I found the theme interesting and I must admit that I enjoyed the conversations between Frank and April. Still, I can’t give this book more than two stars. I think it should have been a novella or a short story instead of a novel. There were so many things that could easily have been left out.
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Time travel and romance, a perfect match. THE HANDS OF TIME by Irina Shapiro Blog tour: author guest post & #GIVEAWAY open to allhttp://minadecaro.blogspot.com/2014/0...
I have an author spotlight, review and interview with Rebecca Thomas
the author of The Earl's Christmas Colt
plus a giveaway!at http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
Book Blitz, Excerpt & INT Giveaway (Kindle HD 7): Where Life Takes You by Claudia Y. Burgoa
http://sofialovesreading.blogspot.gr/...
Today on the blog I'm gushing about this amazing cover reveal from Deborah Harkness!!!Cover Reveal & Excerpt: The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy #3)
And yesterday, I reviewed Songs of Submission by C.D. Reiss.
Book Review: Songs of Submission (Sequence One #1-3)
Greetings authors! Learn how to Use These 3 Types of Focus to Sharpen, Energize, and Deepen Your Writing in my latest post.
My review of "Kill Devil", a 2004 Japanese movie heavily influenced by "Battle Royale".http://www.skjam.com/2014/01/10/movie...
Check out my review of The Illusions of Eventide
and my interview withSarah M. Cradit
today at http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com
Hey everyone! Here's a list of my 5 top favorite books of 2013!
http://ps-withlove.blogspot.com/2014/...
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Review of The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Read my review here: http://annoushkareads.blogspot.co.uk/...
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Leopold Blue by Rosie Rowell : http://adventuresofateenagebookworm.b...
A good debut with strong setting and powerful message
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