tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63124423989300780262024-03-14T06:04:39.441+01:00My Reading LoungeA writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.comBlogger713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-14575133740732274072018-02-04T15:27:00.003+01:002018-02-04T15:27:19.728+01:00Places to see<img src='https://78.media.tumblr.com/4962615816a9b3414b16bb3961fbf601/tumblr_mixmkmZn8j1s4958xo1_500.jpg' style='max-width:586px;' /><br />
<div>deepitforest: Alexandre Dumas’ hideaway on the grounds of Monte Cristo Castle in Marly le Roi, France Beautiful Pics de Halina Lis</div>
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<div>lesbianstudyblr: Trinity College Dublin moodboard Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.~ Samuel Beckett (April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989)</div>
Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-8699373380228824972017-05-16T22:39:00.001+02:002017-05-16T22:39:19.108+02:00Places to see, New York<img src='https://68.media.tumblr.com/df291974ce1a5b852ecd261fcacf1c8c/tumblr_opn0cfrmO51r4lihzo1_1280.png' style='max-width:586px;' /><br />
<div>voices: New York Places to see - New York</div>
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<div>‘London’ by Kaitaro Kobayashi</div>
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<div>Perfect Pink by `James Wheeler ~ Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada</div>
Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-34789590102692857572017-04-04T21:38:00.001+02:002017-04-04T21:38:11.865+02:00Places to see France<img src='https://68.media.tumblr.com/fada8c391c0059f596558a3c532fcfff/tumblr_onum3cgS1M1qb0bzxo1_1280.jpg' style='max-width:586px;' /><br />
<div>#Places to see Sainte-Enimie, France (by Liliane Paingaud)</div>
Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-76625703269038776612017-01-17T18:00:00.000+01:002017-01-17T18:00:18.970+01:00Talisman Chronicles, by @tm_franklin<div style="text-align: center;">
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For the next 5 weeks, <strong>#TalismanTuesday</strong> - <i>The Talisman Chronicles</i> by T.M. Franklin are released - one episode per week!</div>
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Today, we get a double-dose of Talisman excitement. <i>Window </i>- The Talisman Chronicles, Episode 1 is <b>FREE </b>all week!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chloe Blake has a unique gift, an odd connection to her house that results in glimpses of the past, present, and future via the picture window in her living room. Unfortunately, it’s a gift that sometimes proves to be more of a curse. Especially when she tries to help out Ethan Reynolds, the gorgeous boy who lives across the street – an endeavor that, for some reason, always seems to backfire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the house is convinced Ethan’s life is in danger and Chloe’s the only one who can save him. The problem is, he thinks she’s more than a little crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wren Galloway’s not happy that her mother’s vagabond lifestyle lands her in yet another new school, this time in gray and rainy Lamsden, Washington. She’s even less happy when she’s plagued by strange nightmares, sleepwalking, and a feeling that something really weird is going on in the small town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When she wakes up outside Chloe Blake’s house—a house that’s been front-and-center in her dreams—she starts on a journey that takes her up the stairs to Chloe’s attic, and to a mysterious chest that grants her an unbelievable power. </span></div>
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Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-58628037845475924262017-01-13T22:23:00.004+01:002017-01-13T22:23:37.773+01:00I know, I know, it's late, but still...<b>... Happy 2017!</b><br />
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It's been quite a cold winter so far in Italy. Here's a picture of the snow that currently covers many Italian region. Snow and sea...isn't it amazing? </div>
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This is roughly the same area in summertime!<br />
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T.M. Franklin, author of the best-selling <i>MORE Trilogy</i> and <i>How to Get Ainsley Bishop to Fall in Love with You</i>,<i> </i>has an exciting new release coming on January 17th - and it doesn't have only ONE cover - it has SIX!</h3>
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<i>The Talisman Chronicles</i> is a six-part serial, which will be released every Tuesday from January 17th-February 14th. It builds off the Amazon best-selling short story WINDOW and tells the story of a group of teenagers who find some unusual items in an old chest . . . items that give them incredible powers.
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T.M. Franklin writes stories of adventure, romance, & a little magic. A former TV news producer, she decided making stuff up was more fun than reporting the facts. Her first published novel, MORE, was born during National Novel Writing month, a challenge to write a novel in thirty days. MORE was well-received, being selected as a finalist in the 2013 Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book Awards, as well as winning the Suspense/Thriller division of the Blogger Book Fair Reader's Choice Awards. She's since written three additional novels and several best-selling short stories...and there's always more on the way.
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<span style="color: #444444;">Obviously, throughout your research for </span><i style="color: #444444;">Dominion</i><span style="color: #444444;"> and </span><i style="color: #444444;">The End of All Things</i><span style="color: #444444;"> Series, you have explored different </span><b style="color: #444444;">survival techniques</b><span style="color: #444444;"> and </span><b style="color: #444444;">food sources</b><span style="color: #444444;">. Have you ever tried any of these techniques or foods and if so what were the results or consequences? If not, why not, AND which ones would you like to try / experiment with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">I have to admit, I probably wouldn’t be all that great with the whole “survival” thing myself. I had to confront this when I was at my grandmothers and discovered that the fire in her stove had gone completely out. I thought certainly I wouldn’t have trouble starting a fire, especially with all the kindling and tinder on hand. Well, as it turns out, it’s not as easy as it looks. After it went out the third time, I surrendered and used the firestarter blocks! <b>“Knowing how” to do something and actually being able to do it are two entirely different things</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Last summer, I tried a water evaporation technique I was going to use in the book. You dig a hole in the earth and sit a bowl in the center of it. Then you lay a sheet of clear plastic over the hole and weight it down in the center with a rock, so it makes a point over the bowl. The concept is that the heat of the sunlight causes water to evaporate from the earth, collect on the plastic, and drip into the bowl. The results were somewhat disappointing. I collected maybe half a cup. It would probably work better over a larger area, or if you have multiple evaporators working, but it’s a very slow method. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">As for the foods, I’ve eaten quite a few of them. I live on the edge of the Appalachians, and so many of the plants Taylor encounters in the book are native to my area. My grandmother used to serve some of them. Dandelion greens can be quite tasty, but you have to harvest them in the early spring before they get bitter. I’ve also eaten squirrel and rabbit, and my grandfather insisted I learn how to clean them. He told me at the time that <b>I never knew when I’d need to know this kind of thing. I doubt he ever imagined I’d use it in a book!</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>SUMMARY: </b>A generation has passed since the pandemic known only as the Infection ended the world as we know it. In a little town in the Appalachian Mountains, Taylor has known only a harsh and brutal struggle for survival in a land littered with the rusted-out remnants of a lost world. By day, she labors in a coal mine. In the evenings, she tends a secret collection of beehives, and uses the honey to pay for lessons in survival skills, such as hunting, fishing and collecting herbs. Her home is a single room in a crumbling old motel, and her only companion is a pet box tortoise named Go she’s had since she was a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They certainly didn’t plan on falling in love. Taylor fights it every step of the way, because in her world, any emotional attachment is dangerous. She’s been taught since childhood that love slows you down, makes you weak. But the feelings growing between them cannot be denied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taylor finds herself slowly breaking every one of her hard-learned rules of survival. She discovers that perhaps some of those things she’s always fought to avoid are the very things that make life worth living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Lissa Bryan</span></b> is an astronaut, renowned Kabuki actress, Olympic pole vault gold medalist, Iron Chef champion, and scientist who recently discovered the cure for athlete's foot . . . though only in her head. Real life isn't so interesting, which is why she spends most of her time writing.</span></div>
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Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-52658491745445599572016-11-30T18:30:00.000+01:002016-11-30T18:30:14.846+01:00Let's talk about "The Roman" by @SylvainReynard<div style="text-align: justify;">
From the New York Times bestselling author of the <i>Gabriel trilogy</i> comes the highly anticipated conclusion to <i>The Florentine Series</i>.</div>
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Though she’s unsure William survived the coup that toppled his principality, Raven is determined to protect her sister at all costs, even if it means challenging Borek, the commander of the detachment.
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Alliances and enmities will shift and merge as William struggles to save the woman he loves and his principality, without plunging the vampyre population into a world war.
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For those who have been following the adventures of Raven and William York through <i>The Prince</i>, <i>The Raven</i> and <i>The Shadow</i>, <i><b>The Roman</b></i> represents the last step of a tour that took thousands of readers from all over the world to discover Florence, its history and its stunning art.</div>
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<i>The Florentine Series</i> is coming to an end and, sadly, it’s time to say goodbye to those characters. </div>
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<i>The Roman</i> will give you the opportunity to discover Rome, the eternal city. There couldn’t have been a better setting for the last act of the story of supernatural creatures gifted (or doomed) with immortality. </div>
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Brave, faithful readers, get ready for adventures, scheming, fights and daring escapes!</div>
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Raumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-20448310757423785592016-11-19T18:00:00.000+01:002016-11-19T18:00:31.180+01:00Let's talk about "Dominion" by @lissabryan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taylor sat up, looking around her darkened room, holding her breath as she listened. For a moment, all she heard was the pounding of her own heart, and then there was another shriek, this one not far away. Taylor rolled out of her bed and crouched low, heading for the window. She used the side of her fist to rub away some of the grime that coated the glass on the inside, though the outside was still clouded so all she could see was an ominous orange glow and wavering shadows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Feet pounded down the sidewalk in front of her room, and the shadowy outline of human forms darted past her windows. Someone was crying, horrible sharp sobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taylor crept to the other side of the window where a hole had been broken out of one of the panes. She slowly pulled out the rag stuffed in the gap and peered through. A body lay in the parking lot outside her window, and she smothered a gasp by pressing a hand to her mouth. The bloodied head was turned away from her, but she recognized the tangle of blond curls and the green sweatpants the body wore. It was Grace, and she was dead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tears burned in Taylor’s eyes, but she forced them down, swallowing hard. A loud bang drew her gaze, and she saw a man with a rifle kick in the door of a room on the opposite side of the parking lot. He charged in and emerged seconds later, dragging a kicking and screaming woman by her hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Time to go.</i> Taylor didn’t know what was going on, but she could figure that out later.
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">A generation has passed since the pandemic known only as the Infection ended the world as we know it. In a little town in the Appalachian Mountains, Taylor has known only a harsh and brutal struggle for survival in a land littered with the rusted-out remnants of a lost world. By day, she labors in a coal mine. In the evenings, she tends a secret collection of beehives, and uses the honey to pay for lessons in survival skills, such as hunting, fishing and collecting herbs. Her home is a single room in a crumbling old motel, and her only companion is a pet box tortoise named Go she’s had since she was a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When her town is destroyed by a vicious gang of raiders known as the Nine, Taylor escapes with Dylan, the son of the mayor. Their only plan is to head south and escape the Nine’s vast territory, avoiding areas contaminated by meltdowns and industrial pollution where mysterious illnesses plague the residents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dylan has never known hunger or hardship and struggles to learn survival skills. He’s never known a woman like Taylor either. He tries to pay her back by teaching her to read and telling her the stories passed down from the world of Before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They certainly didn’t plan on falling in love. Taylor fights it every step of the way, because in her world, any emotional attachment is dangerous. She’s been taught since childhood that love slows you down, makes you weak. But the feelings growing between them cannot be denied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taylor finds herself slowly breaking every one of her hard-learned rules of survival. She discovers that perhaps some of those things she’s always fought to avoid are the very things that make life worth living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Lissa Bryan</b> is an astronaut, renowned Kabuki actress, Olympic pole vault gold medalist, Iron Chef champion, and scientist who recently discovered the cure for athlete's foot . . . though only in her head. Real life isn't so interesting, which is why she spends most of her time writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She is the author of five other novels, Ghostwriter, The End of All Things, its sequels, The Land of the Shadows and Shadows Have Gone, and Under These Restless Skies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Hope, love, and the strength of the human spirit are the backbone of this surprisingly uplifting offering from Lissa Bryan.</i> ~ CBL Book Reviews</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The End of All Things is more about hope and second chances, and I very much enjoyed the tale .... highly recommended for all fans of apocalyptic fiction. It's a well-written book with excellent pace, plot, and best, it has real soul.</i> ~ Jade Kerrion, Goodreads</span></div>
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