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NaNo Season - News

11/2/2015

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It's November alright; Starbucks has released the red cups, the leaves have colored and are falling, and NaNoWriMo 2015 has begun! Before you get back to writing those sprints or snuggling up with a good book by a warm fire, let's catch up on the news.
​​As the title of this month's new suggests, it is a NaNo event month. I will continue to blog this month, the the posts may be on the shorter side. Except... for Fiction Friday, those you will want to come visit for. 

Also, Beverage Therapy is now available on Channillo! Yup, you can head over there anytime and subscribe to read my very first published work. I'll also have it available on this site in the coming weeks for a donation to charity. Stay tuned!

the book report

Let's hear it for teens! No, really. A new study says that American teens lead the pack on reading. Though it sounds surprising, so the article says, Young People Read More than other age demographics is America.

In the spirit of Halloween and Samhain, have you ever wondered what it's Really Like to be a Witch? America has an interesting history with witches and this article gives a deeper background on the modern witch.

Lastly, and most importantly, please take a moment to head over to my fundraising page and help support NaNoWriMo. As a non-profit organization NaNo thrives on help from readers and writers like us. Whatever you can donate monetarily makes a difference and if you'd rather donate encouragement, go for it! Leave a message here, on twitter, Facebook, or the fundraising page of an author and help motivate them to meet their 50k word goal.

new releases

book > film

IABClub BOTM

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​Wool - Review

10/14/2015

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​It's time for the first Imaginary Adventures Book Club Book of the Month book review! With the IA book club founded in the middle of a month, September was a short story. The poll was set, the nominations received, and Wool by Hugh Howey emerged victorious! [goodreads review]
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​Twisted and haunting.
#postapocalyptic #alternateEarth #shortstory

3 stars
Series: Story 1 - Wool
Characters: Holston
Setting: post apocalyptic Earth

Recommendation: Readers who enjoyed other stories such as Harrison Bergeron and Fahrenheit 451 will enjoy Wool. The mix of foreshadowing and creepy plot points makes for an engaging read that will have you wanting to read it again.
When the world is nothing but barren and brown, humans turn to living underground. As Sheriff of their compound, Holston, has seen his fair share of persecutions including his wife three years prior to the story's start. After all this time Holston is thinking it may be time for him to join her.

While the story is enjoyable it left me scratching my head. Some passages felt overly drawn out and most of the story is told in flashback expositions. The story is well written and delicately balances a complicated plot with a low page count. As the type of story with multiple meanings and layers to each sentence, Wool is a puzzle book waiting to be solved by a willing reader.

At fifty pages, there were very few characters with really only the main couple fully described, any more than that would have felt rushed or needed an increase of pages.
The outstanding strength of the story was easily the scene descriptions. From the first line to the final one, as a reader I am right there in the bunker. From the grimy camera to the cell bars it was clear and easy to understand and picture with my imagination.
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June #bookaday Challenge

6/19/2014

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What a wonderful idea!  I saw this on twitter this morning and even though I am 4 days behind I will be tweeting and updating this post as the month goes on.  Check out my #bookaday picks below and make sure to leave yours in the comments as well!
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Do you have any #bookaday reads?  Post your favorite 1, 10 or all 30.  Let's see if we pick any of the same ones!  Leave your picks in the comments below.  


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April Book Club Progress

3/27/2014

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It's that time again...Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy April book club has been posted!  Last month was full of personal trials and issues and I struggled to read my original ten book goal.  This months is finals, so we shall see how I do.

This month's challenge is all based on color!  
I am looking forward to reading a few books I have reviews planned for and a few random pick ups as well.

Happy Reading!

April is the birth month of the most famous of the early horror writers, in honour of Bram Stoker—you MUST read a book that either has a vampire or an Irish character in it.

Everyone knows that April showers bring May flowers—so, to celebrate all the colours we are looking forward to—Colour Challenge. One book per colour. [Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Black, White, Orange, Grey/Silver, Pink]

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Orange:
Love Beyond Time
by: Bethany Claire
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Red:
Fade into You
by: Kate Dawes
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Purple:
Collide
by: Forever
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Black:
Moth and Spark
by: Anne Leonard
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Blue:
To Cast a Stone
by: Kelli Lockheart
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Vampire:
The King
by: JR Ward
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White:
Managing Projects
by: Harvard Business Review
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February Book Club Progress

2/1/2014

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It's time for the Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy February book club post!  Last month went amazing and after finishing my original ten books I read half a dozen more.  Lets see if I can keep it up!

Here I will post my monthly planned books to read and I will update them as I finish them off, I won't post a new post, but rather refresh the date on this one and edit the list to show completed.  This month I am going to focus on finishing the last of the Kenyon Series and reading a few books that I promised to review.

Happy Reading!

CLICK "READ MORE" TO SEE THE FULL LIST.

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Book Club Recommendations 

1/12/2014

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Yesterday was my birthday and I bought myself a few gifts... more books of course! Check out the links below and make sure to pick up a copy of them via the goodreads links.

Happy reading!
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The first one is from Sherrilyn Kenyon and you've seen her on my blog before, her Dark Hunter series is fantastic and though this book is not out for a few more days I grabbed a pre-order for it through Amazon.  Dark Bites is a collection of all of the short stories she's written in this world over the last few years compiled into one master book.

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Semblance is from a fellow who I found via Twitter and began to follow his blog.  I signed up for status updates and was sent the first 3 chapters which I read in the dark in bed one night via cell phone, hooked I ordered it via Amazon eBook the following morning.  

Follow Logan via Twitter 

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The next one is Love Beyond Time by Bethany Claire and this I grabbed on sale today (sorry Bethany, I'm a starving college student) from Amazon in eBook format.  Stay tuned for it to be added to my currently reading shelf and a post-read review.

Follow Bethany via Twitter 


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Moth and Spark is a bit of a different situation.  I have not read anything form this author before and to be honest, know nothing about them or the series.  This is a book I actually won via goodreads giveaway program (which I highly recommend).  One this is shipped to me I will read/review and we shall see how it goes.

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COMPLETED - January Book Club Progress

1/1/2014

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UPDATE:  January has come and gone and below are the books I read for my book club as promised.  Some did not quite fit the club rules (but hey who's counting).  Over all I read over 16 books this month and I can't wait to being February's challenge, stay tuned for a new post outlining which I have chosen.

I am part of a book club, Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy, on GoodReads that every month has new challenges and book lists for people to follow. Sadly, I have not been able to participate in a few months, but I am determined to change that!

Here I will post my monthly planned books to read and I will update them as I finish them off, I won't post a new post, but rather refresh the date on this one and edit the list to show completed.  This month I am going to focus on re-reading the Kenyon Series.

CLICK "READ MORE" TO SEE THE FULL LIST.

Enjoy and happy reading!

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