Life and Things
I haven’t really been much on the blog the past few weeks. My energy levels have been quite low and what little I have has gone to work and household chores. :/ Things seem like they are finally turning around. This past week I got to see Miss Saigon. This production used a real helicopter!!! No rotors. Those were stage magic, but still- a freaking helicopter!! This was my first time seeing Miss Saigon, and while it was a great production, the story is so damn sad. Sunday, my family and I are going to the local Pumpkin Festival. I’m hoping to get some good pictures! Speaking of pictures, I have a photo to be appearing in an exhibition in Barcelona come January. Sooo excited!! Here it is:
Enjoyable posts of the past week from others
Are You an Easy Reader or of the Grouchy Variant? Top 5 Hated Tropes/ Beware of the Reader
FILIPINO CREATURES I’M TERRIFIED TO MEET BUT LOVE WRITING ABOUT!/ Camilla Reads
Why The Death of the Book Can Mean Opportunities for Writers/ Tara Sparling Writes
How to get out of a Reading Rut – Guest Post by India McLeod Kay/ Hasanthi’s Book Blog
Posts of the past week ICYMT
Quickshots #24 https://wp.me/p6C2DX-1L9
Review: Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough
Music Monday: 10/08: Wild Child
WWW Wednesday: October 10, 2018
I Love Characters: Teeth Ground Sharp and Eyes Glowing Red
Books read, reviewed, and posted/scheduled the past week
Atlas of the Unexpected by Travis Elborough, 4*
Into Nature by Autumn Totton and Alexandra Frey, 4*
Current Read
Next Up (maybe)
Building a Trade Empire by Paul E Horsman
High Merchant by Paul E Horsman
Fascinating New Yorkers by Clifford Browder
Hiding by Jenny Morton Potts
Everything Under the Sun by Jessica Redmerski
Reckoning of Fallen Gods by RA Salvatore
Timeless by RA Salvatore
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
The Prophetic Mayan Queen: K’inuuw Mat of Palenque by Leonide Martin, Oct 16, Seattle Book Review
Renegade by Mallory McCartney, Oct 22, Chapter by Chapter
West by Edith Pattou, Oct 22, Fantastic Flying Book Club
War of Storms by Erica Cameron
Nemesis by Kat Moss
Book Haul
‘The first book in a brand-new series set in ancient Japan from New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa.
Enter a beautiful and perilous land of shapeshifters and samurai, kami and legends, humans and demons…a world in which Japanese mythology and imagination blend together
When destiny calls, legends rise.
Every millennium the missing pieces of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers are hunted, for they hold the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish.
As a temple burns to the ground Yumeko escapes with its greatest treasure – the first piece of the scroll. And when fate thrusts her into the path of a mysterious samurai she knows he seeks what she has. Kage is under order to kill those who stand in his way but will he be able to complete his mission? Will this be the dawn that sees the dragon wake?’
‘Have you daydreamed of being approached to be a secret agent? Imagined yourself being propelled into the dangerous and elegant world of spies?
Blending extraordinary and illuminating historical tales of the British Secret Intelligence Service from over the years with a wide range of mind-twisting puzzles, Secret Agent Brainteasers will test your mental agility to discover: Do YOU have what it takes to be a spy?
Long gone are the days when the tap on the shoulder was largely a result of social connections. Now the secret intelligence services have cast their nets wider, and it’s your chance to join the ranks. Whether you have a linguistic flair, an instinct for technology, or good old common sense, pit your wits against some of the greatest minds of our time with ingenious brainteasers including secret languages, sabotage-themed brain bogglers, and hidden codes.’
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For fans of Jessie Burton and Tracy Chevalier, a rich historical debut set among the Huguenot silk weavers of Spitalfields in the late 18th century.
WHEN Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’ is too good to refuse.
Inside the Thorels’ tall house in Spitalfields, where the strange cadence of the looms fills the attic, the two women forge an uneasy relationship. The physical intimacies of washing and dressing belie the reality: Sara despises her mistress’s blindness to the hypocrisy of her household, while Esther is too wrapped up in her own secrets to see Sara as anything more than another charitable cause.
It is silk that has Esther so distracted. For years she has painted her own designs, dreaming that one day her husband will weave them into reality. When he laughs at her ambition, she strikes up a relationship with one of the journeyman weavers in her attic who teaches her to weave and unwittingly sets in motion events that will change the fate of the whole Thorel household.’
Thank you for sharing my post! Black Berry and Wild Rose sound very interesting. I’ll have to check it out!
Quite welcome