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Cross(stitch) Your Heart
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I write about crafts, specifically needle art and do book reviews every Friday.
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Willing Captive
Stolen by Lucy Christopher Gemma is getting ready to go to Bangkok with her family and, as can only be expected from a sixteen year old, is in the middle of a... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Release Tuesday : Mother, Motherby Koren Zailckas
Mother, Mother: a novel Koren Zailckas Anticipated Publication:9/17/13“It’s better to be hated than it is to be ignored.” It seems ever character in Zailckas’s... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
What to Read This Week: Most Anticipated Books of Fall (according to Amazon)...
Here are the books I’m adding to my to-read list this week and think you should too! And no, I did not add Dr. Sleep for the 4th time this week…but I was... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY -
13 Reasons for the End
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Clay Jensen is in love with Hannah, has been since they worked together one summer at the town’s movie theater. Read more
Posted on 13 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Middle of the Week Update
We’ve made it to the middle of the week! And it is actually the middle of the week for me because I have standard weekends again… I can’t remember the last... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Release Tuesday: Solving a Murder from Beyond the Grave, “Delia’s Shadow”...
Delia’s Shadow by Jaimee Lee MoyerPublished by Tor-ForgeExpected Publication: September 17th, 2013 “Ever since I was a small child I’d caught glimpses of peopl... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Borrowed Inspiration for Your Week
Good Morning Bloggers! As you’re reading this post I’m at my first day of the new job, filled with that paralyzing fear that only comes with starting a new... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
What to Read This Week: Noir Covers and Murderous Mistresses
Here are the books I’m adding to my to read list this week and think you should too! (I apologize about the shortness of this post, it almost didn’t get writte... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Release Saturday: The Hive by Gill Hornby
Review of “The Hive” by Gill Hornby Expected Publication: September 10, 2013 by Little, Brown and CoOn the surface this novel looks like another portrait of... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Dark Days
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Libby Day’s family is dead. Massacred. And her brother Ben did it. Or at least, her brother Ben was convicted of it on Libby’s... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Middle of the Week Update
Wednesday posts are going to stick to being short and sweet because, well a variety of reasons. 1. Grad school is hard and I don’t have a lot of free time. 2. Read more
Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
New Release Tuesday: Life, Loss, and Coming to Terms with Survival
Enon by Paul HardingExpected Publication: September 10th, 2013 Random HouseDealing with grief is a difficult task, near impossible for some. For parents who... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Borrowed Inspiration for Your Week: and News About What Could Possibly Have...
Good morning fellow bloggers! For those of you in the U.S. today is a day filled with BBQ and family for a holiday that, well, I’ve never really understood the... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
What to Read This Week: Group Reads (or Books I’d Like to Discuss)
Today’s list of books to add to my to-read list are all books I’d like to read as a group…like, book club books, and I think you should read them too! Read more
Posted on 01 September 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Physics Love for Your Friday
How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel by Brian Cleggauthor brian cleggBefore beginning my review of this book I want to make it... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Great Submission Challenge 3/100 Revisited
Well, bloggers, it’s true. When it comes to life things happen all at once. First grad school started, then the job interviews, and now the literary agent. Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Middle of the Week Update
I’m going to keep the post short this week because I’m almost out of blogging time and into “I need to be working on homework time” so, here we go. Read more
Posted on 28 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Media for the Middle of Your Week: Flashback Edition
When this show first started I was in middle school, so not exactly a show I grew up with (or one that would have been remotely appropriate at the time). Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
Borrowed Inspiraion for Your Week: Cool Down for the End of Summer
Fellow bloggers these last few weeks have been crazy. I’ve finally started grad school and even though I just know I’ll be buried under a pile of work every... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION -
What to Read This Week: I Couldn’t Narrow It Down to Just 3 This Week…because...
Here are the books I can’t help but add to my to-read list this week and think you should too.The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black: I’m sick of YA... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION