Books
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“There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t.”–Gail Carson Levine. It’s hard not to fall in love with a little gem of a quote like…
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I knew this was going to happen. It was looming there like a dark cloud on the horizon, and now that I’ve reached it, it’s releasing its gloomy rain all up on my biznas. I’m talking about the murky, muddled middle of Soulless. I knew it was there, I knew that it sucked, and now…
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“…it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.” “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson When it comes time to return to working on Rosewood Manor, I know exactly what book will be coming off the shelves to reread to help inspire that great, brooding, heavy feeling…
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Yesterday, I officially finished the rough draft of Soulless (unless you count a potential epilogue that I’m still on the fence about). It’s been several years since I completely finished a rough draft of something, and the feeling is incredibly accomplished. The timing couldn’t be better, either, since Monday I was really feeling like I…
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Today’s an exciting day for me, because not only does this post mark my very first participation in a Blog Tour, it’s also a blog tour for one of my friends and for a book that I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time. The book is Jewel of the Thames (A Portia Adams…
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I’ve managed to collect a few interesting things from about the Intrawebz to share with you again. Here’s what I found particularly good these last few weeks: From Thought Catalog: Reading about these Untranslatable Words that Have to do with Love really inspired me to want to make a short story based on each word.…
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So, tonight, I wasted too much time on a reddit thread about books you hate with a passion, having come across a few classics that I absolutely adore but I could understand why people weren’t fans. This mostly hit me when I came across Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, two classic staples that…
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“‘…The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed…’” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling As we move along in the iconic Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, we reach the third book, which, for me, starts to really…
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