This must be a rather odd topic, but nonetheless I feel its worth discussing. If youve ever entered a giveaway with a gazillion entries you probably didnt really expect to win (yet, entering doesnt h...
Its time to announce a winner! But before I do, a quick look back onto the question I asked in the giveaway form. Reading books at the beach - yay or nay?There were a total of 498 entries in the...
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Today marks the end of this months trip through websites for writers!If you love reading and writing youve got something in common with Ron Tanner (and myself, for that matter). Ron is an award-winni...
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things Im afraid of.It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I me...
Everybody lies. Not just since Gregory House started making these two words his catchphrase, the whole lying thing is a phenomenon certainly not uncommon in human history. Personally, Im fairly posit...
Welcome everyone to the fourth edition of Old Books in need of a New Home where Ill be giving away a nice sized box filled with books to one lucky person. Ive been rummaging around in the basement re...
After only receiving one book last week (and consequently being too lazy to make a post about it) me (and my camera) got really lucky this week! Books rolling in. Life is good. Yay!WonCrave (Melissa ...
Actually I planned on starting another chunkster to have something to brag about in my next Tea & Books Reading Challenge update, but then I realized that 1) Ive got quite a few books for review ...
Some have humongous TBR piles. Others have wishlists a mile long. And then there are those who indulge in both. The good news, if you can call it that way, is that I fall into the realms of mountain ...
Books may not always have a prologue or epilogue, but it seemed a good fit to name this last post of the Book 101 feature the latter. Of course I wouldnt want to leave without at least one more piece...
Welcome to theSplash into Summer Giveaway Hop (May 25th - May 31st)hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Page Turners BlogWhat is a giveaway hop? Thats simple. Each participating blog host...
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Welcome to week four of presenting websites for writers!Mantex aims to provide everyone from students to teachers with a service to improve their writing and study skills. Already in the late 19...
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of ...
Copyright by freshomeWhere do you write? Or blog, for that matter? Probably not in the setting shown above (in case Im wrong and it should, in fact, be you sitting in that pool, feel free to send me ...
Alright, ok, this week has been awfully slow for me. Two books read. Small volumes at that. Im hanging my head in shame.Desert Angel (Charlie Price)paperbackSource: wonGenre: YA / ThrillerFourteen-ye...
Welcome to the future, where youll be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space, the internet will be in your contact lens, nanobots will scan your DNA for signs of disease and youll be a...
Jasmin Darznik came to America from Iran when she was only three years old, and she grew up knowing very little about her familys history. When she was in her early twenties, on a day shortly followi...
Like "The Omnivores Dilemma" did for food, Overdressed shows us the way back to feeling good about what we wear.Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. We buy ten-doll...
With a focus on non fiction reviews on my blog its nothing short of a miracle that I have never asked my dear readers about their take on non fiction. Granted, my blog is not all about non fiction, s...
How often have you read about how bloggers arrange their books on their shelves? A lot. I know this, because Im reading about at least one such endeavor each week on other blogs. Now, why w...
The good old POV. The kind of narrator an author chooses for telling the story can make or break the fun and thrill of reading a book. Sometimes the plot works best in first person view then theres a...
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And yet another one for those writers out there!The Write Thing is a website, started by Pip Hunn in late 2009, as a writing project after noticing how a lot of the writing advice on the internet was...
Anybody curious about the results of the 77.777 Page Views Giveaway? I thought so.Before I let you in on whos the lucky winner, I have a confession to make - I had a hard time deciding on how to...
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up agai...
I just checked my blog stats and what do you know? Ive just hit 77.777 page views!!Well well well ... any reason is a good reason for a wee giveaway, right? And to make things even more exc...
Much has been said (or written, for that matter) about writers block. some argue that there is no such thing as writers block and that you just need to get your behind in gear (also known as placing ...
Once again I found a book in my mailbox (or should I call it postbox ... postman, and all that) completely unexpectedly. Those are the moments I love! The funny thing is that I managed to win the sec...
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