Life and Things It’s been a quiet week, for the most part. Sunday (April 1st) is my birthday, and I’ve been rather broody through the week. I’m reaching the midpoint of my life, theoretically, and fast approaching the tipping point where I will have been one-eyed longer than full-sighted. Silly things often affect me deeply… […]
Owl Eyes: A Fairy Tale Molly Lazer Publication date: March 20th 2018 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Young Adult Nora knows three things: she is a servant, her parents are dead, and she lives in the kitchen house with her adoptive family. But her world is torn apart when she discovers that her […]
The Emperor’s Seal Touching Time Book 1 by Amanda Roberts Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Mystery Peking, 1902 The Emperor’s Seal – the divine symbol of the Emperor on earth – is missing. The Empress will do whatever it takes to get it back. Jiayi has a gift – she can travel through time just by touching […]
Jiayi is a servant to the Empress. She possesses the clairvoyant gift of retrocognition. By touching an object, she can see its past- who owned it, who handled it, etc. She never knows when along the timeline of the object she will end up though. The Empress has her using her gift to attempt to […]
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words. To play, answer the three ‘W’ questions listed below. Be sure to link back to her or to put the link to your post in the comment section of her blog so that others take a gander at your answers and […]
My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books that started on Wednesday January 4th 2017. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s to share something positive. Each week is a new My Favorite.. topic. […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. Every week has a different topic. Check it out! This week’s theme is: Books that take place in a different country. Lost City of Z by David Grann (Amazon) ‘In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon […]
SCRIBES The Scribe Cycle #1 by James Wolanyk Genre: Dark Fantasy Pawns in an endless war, scribes are feared and worshipped, valued and exploited, prized and hunted. But there is only one whose powers can determine the fate of the world . . . Born into the ruins of Rzolka’s brutal civil unrest, Anna has […]
Beau Taplin’s Bloom is a beautiful collection of poems focused on deep love, self introspection, and the value of being true to oneself. Most of the poems in this collection are fairly short, and all are thought provoking. Several of these poems spoke to me on a very deep level. Many actually made me uncomfortable […]
Life and Things It’s been a slow, lazy week. I’m adjusting to the new liver medication. As always, simply trying to convince myself I’m not weak because of the chronic illness. Our property is supposed to close mid-April. I’ll believe it when I see it. I really hope it does because I need new glasses […]
