Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Top Ten - Bookish Bucket List & EYM - Characters

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March 25: Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List (could be blogging related, book related etc. -- meeting authors, reading x many books per year, finishing a daunting book, etc.)

1. Complete A to Z Challenge
2. Try to remember to record all the books I read this year on Goodreads.
3. Catch up on my TBR list.
4. Be more consistent with blogging.
5. TRY to read more contemp. books.
6. Finish theSoul Seekers series – it’s been 4 or 5 years since I read any of them.
7. Make sure I hit my Goodreads goal this year (50 books).
8. Finally get around to reading Nora Roberts,Sign of Seven series.
9. Listen to the audio books I have on my computer. I have so many.
10. Get my hands on Kristin Bailey’s,The Secret Order series.
 
 
Express Yourself Meme is a way for our community to learn a little more about each other.

Jackie and myself wanted to know...
Name one favorite character who you have written or read about.
 
Cicada - He is a character for my Norse Mythology novel. Cicada is true to his name; he lives in the trees and is one with nature. He has a unique sound he makes to summon more of his kind and the magestic animals around him. He's of Asian decent, dark, fauxhawk hair and mild natured but fierce with his katana and fighting techique.
 
My favorite character I've read about is Sophronia from the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger.
 
What do you have on your Top Ten Bookish Bucket List?
How is a favorite character of yours?
 
 

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday - 2014 TBR Spring List

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March 18: Top Ten Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List (to be read list)
 
 
1. Uninvited  by Sophie Jordan
2. Enders  by Lissa Price
3. Vitro  by Jessica Khoury
  
 
4. Phoenix Island  by John Dixon
5. The Unwelcomed Child  by V.C. Andrews
6. In the After  by Demitria Lunetta
 
 
7. Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStafano
8. Living Dead Girl  by Elizabeth Scott
 
 
9. Dark Inside& Rage Within  by Jeyn Roberts
 
 
10. Beautiful Disaster& Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire
 

Monday, March 17, 2014

Express Yourself - Advice to Share

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Jackie and myself wanted to know...

~ You don't have to follow the rule of "Write What You Know"... that's the whole point of fiction... it doesn't have to be real, thus not being something you know.

~ "Write drunk, edit sober" - Ernest Hemingway


Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday - Dystopian & Express Yourself - Autographs & Catchphrases

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March 11: Top Ten All Time Favorite Books in X Genre (you pick the genre!)
 
Dystopian
 
1. Lord of the Flies  by William Golding
2. Monument 14  by Emmy Laybourne
3. Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins
4. Divergent  by Veronica Roth
5. The Road  by Cormac McCarthy
6. The Host  by Stephenie Meyers
7. Uglies  by Scott Westerfeld
8. The Way We Fall  by Megan Crewe
9. The Forest of Hands and Teeth  by Carrie Ryan
10. This is Not a Test  by Courtney Summers
 
 
March 3-7: Do you have any autographs? If not, whose would you love to have?
 
I have the autographs of...
 
A.G. Howard, author of Splintered series
Christine Rain, author of The 13th Floor series
Push Down and Turn’s lead singer, Jason Brown
 
I’m not a big autograph person though, there isn’t anyone I’d love to have a signature from except for authors in the books I own.
 
Mar 10-14: What saying or catchphrase do you say ALL the time?
 
“Nice!”
“Shut it!”
“Nobody asked you.”
“WTF!” à in many forms
“Are you kidding me!”
“OMG!” à also said in many forms
 
… Can you tell I have kids? lol

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday - Authors & Express Yourself February catch-ups

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March 4: Top Ten Popular Authors I've Never Read
 
 
Marissa Meyer
Veronica Rossi
Kiera Cass
Brodi Ashton
Jodi Meadows
Lauren Oliver
Erin Bowman
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Cynthia Hand
Julie Kagawa
 
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Express Yourself Meme is a way for our community to learn a little more about each other. The past couple of weeks I have been so busy which made my blogging a little tougher to do. But FINALLY have time to catch up on our EYM.

For Feb 17-21 , Jackie and myself wanted to know...

List 5 books you would NOT want to live in. Then list 5 you WOULD. (Be sure they are books you have read - not ones you have heard about.)

Five Book Worlds I would choose to live in if I had to...


Splintered Series by A.G. Howard
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
The Circle Trilogy by Nora Roberts
Anna Series by Kendare Blake
House of Night Series by P.C. & Kristin Cast


Five Book Worlds I would prefer not to have to live in...



This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
The Chemical Garden series by Lauren DeStefano
The Program by Suzanne Young
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Ashfall series by Mike Mullin

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For Feb 24-28 , Jackie and myself wanted to know...

If you could be in any movie or TV show, as yourself, what would you choose, and what could you bring to the table?
 
Movie – I would love to be in tons of movies. I love movies so much! But I guess I’d like to be in Red Dawn, either the original or the remake. It doesn’t matter. I think my main objective would be a strategic one. I’m quick on my feet and fast at doing what needs to be done. I always have a plan.
 
 
TV show – I would probably pick something Reality TV wise. Like maybe Amazing Race or Big Brother or even Survivor. Again, its all strategic. I thrive one situations that make me think outside the box and being tactical.