Life and Things Got the first of two prostheses this month. I will hopefully be getting the second one July 5th. Plans were finalised for a trip to Alaska come July end. I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be about a week long, going through glaciers. Most of all, I’m looking forward to the COLD! […]
Life and Things Pretty quiet week overall. I did get to see JW: Fallen Kingdom. I want to go see it again!! I think I enjoyed it more than the first Jurassic World movie. There were deep currents beneath the action, just as with the first Jurassic Park. Questions of eugenics, genetic manipulation, and our […]
Music Monday was created by The Tattooed Book Geek as a way to showcase our favourite music. Each Monday share a song that inspires or uplifts you. I just love anything by Lindsey Stirling!
Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies by Ben Raskin Raskin’s Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies is a lovely non-fiction children’s book that looks at gardens, and how they function as an ecosystem. A big focus is on pollination and why it’s so necessary. Kids will learn all about the various critters that help gardens function and flourish. There […]
What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean is a lovely continuation of the classic Austen novel Pride & Prejudice. Now that three of her sisters are married, there is just Kitty and Mary left. Despite the desire to see her last two daughters wed, Mrs Bennet is reluctant to let them travel further from home […]
What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean Based on Jane Austen’s much-loved characters England, 1813 – Nineteen-year-old Catherine Bennet lives in the shadow of her two eldest sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, who have both made excellent marriages. No one expects Kitty to amount to anything. Left at home in rural Hertfordshire with her neurotic and […]
Go Home, Afton Author: Brent Jones Length: Novella Genre: Thriller Series: Afton Morrison, Book 1 Release Date: June 25, 2018 We all wear masks, and Afton Morrison is no exception. A small-town librarian with a dark side, Afton, twenty-six, has suppressed violent impulses her entire adult life. Impulses that demand she commit murder. Blending her […]
***Trigger Warning: sexual assault, moments of physical violence graphicness (few and far, but there) Go Home, Afton by Brent Jones is a tense suspense novel told from the point of view of Afton, an introverted young woman working as a children’s librarian at the local Wakefield library. But Afton harbours a dark secret. Deep down, […]
It’s been two years since the night that changed Ashley’s life and two years of hell for Derek. When it all comes to a head at Thanksgiving, will these siblings be able to salvage their relationship? From the award-winning author of Some Boys comes an unflinching examination of rape culture that delves into a […]
This is a weekly meme created by Dani @ Perspective of a Writer, to show off favourite characters. Be sure to check out their blog! This week’s topic is the second in command. Leaders are charismatic but their right hands do all the grunt work… so they should get some of the glory! Being the huge […]
