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Welcome To Fall ;)
23 Monday Sep 2019
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Reading Can Lead To Writing A Best Seller
07 Wednesday Aug 2019
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In today’s world of YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and so many easily accessible distractions, it’s difficult to set aside time to read, but if you want to improve your writing skills, reading is where it’s at.
Make the time to read a romance, a thriller, a short mystery. Reread your favourite book over and over because each time you do you will pick up something you may have missed the first time around. You may see a subtle difference in meaning, a new expression. The possibilities are endless.
I try to read as much as possible. As a backup, for those super busy days, I have an audiobook on standby.
Reading is not only a great form of entertainment, but it’s conducive to writing. Reading or listening to an audiobook helps vocabulary growth and creativity. It triggers ideas and thoughts. At times, the passages you read become the inspiration for your next novel idea and lead to that best seller you’ve dreamed of writing.
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04 Thursday Jul 2019
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Year One by Nora Roberts is far from the typical romances I’ve come to expect of the author I turn to de-stress after a long, trying day. Year One is a dark, post-apocalyptic world where more than half of the world’s population is decimated by a pandemic, governments are a thing of the past and dark and evil magick, which surfaces in much of the population is used to maintain law and order.
Year One may have been Robert’s attempt to capitalize on Netflix’s Bird Box popularity for which this story bears many similarities, but I don’t think it’s what her romance fans expect of her. I turn to Roberts’s novels for romance and love, not for a post-apocalyptic, supernatural, intense story. Because of this, I couldn’t connect with the story and its many, many, many characters, and found reading it a chore. In fact, I didn’t finish it.
I’m not a quitter, and I do love and envy Robert’s pictorial and expressive writing. I will give it another read when I’m more into an apocalyptic read type of mood.
FUN FACT: Nora Roberts began writing on a whim and it now takes her around 45 days to write a novel.
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27 Thursday Jun 2019
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Finished reading Come Sundown by Nora Roberts, and absolutely loved it. It’s a great read with a touch of thriller, mystery, love, great characters, a wonderful setting, and an ending that surprises.
The book drones on a bit too much about its rural, ranch setting for my liking still, Roberts’ talent for producing a novel that is full of everything you want in a great book shines through. Highly recommend it for fans of romantic suspense.
FUN FACT: Nora Roberts began to write on a whim while housebound with her two small boys during a blizzard.
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Welcome To Summer ;)
21 Friday Jun 2019
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I try to read as much as possible. As a back-up, for those super busy days, I always have an audiobook on standby to listen to in my car or on my walks.
Reading is not only a form of entertainment for me, but it’s conducive to my writing. Reading—or listening to an audiobook—contributes to minor things such as catching spelling mistakes to the more consequential vocabulary growth. This comes handy since English is my second language. At times, the passages I read are the inspiration for my next novel idea.
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20 Thursday Jun 2019
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F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton is the sixth book of her Alphabet Series centered on Kinsey Millhone a tenacious detective based in California during the 1980s.
In this installment of the series, Kinsey travels from her home of Santa Teresa to Floral Beach so anticipate a change of scenery and a collection of new characters, which is a welcomed change.
As the story goes, the murder of seventeen-year-old Jean Timberlake shocks the small community of Floral Beach, a tiny beachside town. Bailey Fowler who confessed to the crime escapes shortly after being imprisoned, and over a decade later is recaptured and sent to prison again. This time Fowler’s father hires Kinsey to prove his son’s innocence. In her search for the truth, Kinsey finds that everyone in town is hiding a secret and all seem to have a motive for killing young Jean.
Grafton takes us on a wild ride by skillfully outlining the motives of the various residents of Floral Beach for killing Timberlake and keeps us guessing who the actual murderer is until the end.
A solid read and entertaining to the very end.
FUN FACT: In an episode of The Sopranos, Edie Falco’s character, Carmela Soprano, is seen reading Grafton’s G is for Gumshoe.
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