Winter Reading (Again)

I'm hoping, or at least trying, to read a bit more over my winter break. I guess I'm averaging a chapter a day, but with the amount of different books I want to read... And since I clearly don't talk about reading enough on this blog, I'm gonna look at that. So, what am I …

A Winter Reading List

If you know me, you’ll know that I don’t stick to ‘trends’ of book reading, and I hardly ever read books when they first come out, and sometimes I just read whatever I stumble upon, regardless if I've heard of it before or if it's something I pick up without warning. Of course, mood and …

7 Quick Takes about New Ideas, New Earrings, and New Vloggings

I may have been a little busy the last couple of weeks, but I’m back for this week’s 7 Quick Takes with other Catholic bloggers and hosted by the lovely Kelly of This Ain’t the Lyceum. ~1~ With my first philosophy essay in this morning, things seem to be settling back to normal a bit— …

TCWT: By the Examples of Books

It’s time for December’s Teens Can Write, Too! blog chain post (and I almost forgot!). This month’s prompt was: “What works of fiction have taught you by example, and what did they teach you?” In a way, this is a very difficult and very simple question to answer, and I don’t know how much I’m …

“It’s hardly a perfect 20s recreation if Queen is playing!” (Mummy on the Orient Express Review #1)

My Private Notebook Fair warning, this is long - but you are treated to gifs along the way. If you don't like gifs... *shrugs* - though I have now taken from it most of the remarks and paragraphs made in the shared review. Too, it’s rough, but that the entire idea: my random spontaneous bizarre thoughts …

The Bookcase Tag

Time for one of these bookish posts, considering that I’ve done a creative and a thoughtful, and I’m going to do a reblog tomorrow and a link-up on Friday. Apart from this picture, which is of my makeshift bookshelf under my bed (my ‘portable’ one, too), be prepared for lousy-webcam pics. I’m working on improving …

Ready. Set. Write! Update 11/8

Ready. Set. WRITE! is a summer writing intensive that encourages goal-setting and accountability, and provides an opportunity for us to cheer each other on wherever we’re at in our writing—planning, drafting, revising, or polishing. This year, RSW hosts are Alison Miller, Jaime Morrow, Erin Funk, and Katy Upperman. I'm back on track after my holiday, and have lots to …

Five Years of Jackets and Phones (and murder and explosions and poisonings and Agnetha…)

It’s almost Easter 2014, and, aside from the obvious to celebrate, I realised that I technically have a writing milestone to celebrate: five years since I decided to write a novel and succeeded. Well, pretty much. So, how did I really become a writer? What was my story beyond being an only child who sat …

My Thoughts on ITV’s ‘Endless Night’

Here I discuss the recent for-TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s crime novel of the same name. It is worth pointing out that I’ve not read the book yet. Also SPOILERS. That’s the point. Endless Night has certainly been portrayed as one of Christie’s darker pieces – more thriller than cosy. The story follows, and is …

Talkin’ ‘Bout Perry (and an Inventive Kids’ Cartoon)

Perry the platypus, that is. If you don’t know who that is, you evidently don’t watch enough of the children’s cartoon show, Phineas and Ferb. I’m kind of addicted to it. I mean, it has the absurdity of Adventure Time (two children are able to create anything mechanical they want, including rocketships and rollercoasters and …