What reading position are you?
I read in the #2, #4, #12, with some modifications.
Though, 80% of my reading I get accomplished in bed at night.
*41% of people read in bed
Give me some feedback on how you prefer to read!
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Friday, September 4, 2015
INSIDE the O'BRIENS
Review
I had heard of Huntington’s disease before I read this book, but I did not really know much about it, I know now what a destructive disease it is. The book revolves around two main characters in the book Joe O’Brien who is a police officer, father to four children and husband to Rosie. The second character the book focuses on is the youngest child Katie O’Brien. The read first tells about Joe and how his life starts to unravel due to the disease. The author does a stupendous job describing what Huntington's is through this character by how it affects him physically and mentally. Therefore, destroying each fragment of him a piece at a time. You grow to care about the characters making it emotional, but, the O’Briens have a special strength to their family that helps them get through each day. Strength plays a large part in this story. The mental strength needed must be hard to have with such an immensely tragic disease.
The other main character is Katie O’Brien. She has a fifty percent chance of inheriting Huntington’s disease from her father Joe and is indecisive if she wants to know if she is positive or negative for the disease. Through Katie, the author shows how traumatic it is for the family members. Katie’s character was unsure of her life before the option of having a deadly disease. Therefore, now how she should proceed with her future puts her in tremendous turmoil. I think that Katie was the perfect child of Joe's to be the other major part of the book. Due to the fact that she is an intelligent person, very insightful, and feels like the underdog in the family a lot.
The only thing that I did not like about this book is that it has an unfinished ending. I am the reader I want to know how it finished not guess. That is the point of a story a beginning, a middle, and an end. That was the only thing I did not like about this book. Who would I recommend this to? Anyone.
“To date, 90% of people at risk for HD choose not to know.”
Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O’Briens.
Speaking about the neurological diseases and disorders she writes about, Lisa has appeared on the Today Show, Dr. Oz, the Diane Rehm Show, CNN, Chronicle, Fox News, and Canada AM and was featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary film, TO NOT FADE AWAY.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
COVER REVEAL - Lucid Dreaming by Cassandra Page
Lucid Dreaming by Cassandra Page
Publication Date: November 2015
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy
Publication Date: November 2015
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy
Cover Designed: KILA
Who would have thought your dreams could kill you?
Melaina makes the best of her peculiar heritage: half human and half Oneiroi, or dream spirit, she can manipulate others’ dreams. At least working out the back of a new age store as a ‘dream therapist’ pays the bills. Barely.
But when Melaina treats a client for possession by a nightmare creature, she unleashes the murderous wrath of the creature’s master. He could be anywhere, inside anyone: a complete stranger or her dearest friend. Melaina must figure out who this hidden adversary is and what he’s planning – before the nightmares come for her.
Cassandra Page is a mother, author, editor and geek. She lives in Canberra, Australia's bush capital, with her son and two Cairn Terriers. She has a serious coffee addiction and a tattoo of a cat -- despite being allergic to cats. She has loved to read since primary school when the library was her refuge and loves many genres -- although urban fantasy is her favourite. When she's not reading or writing, she engages in geekery, from Doctor Who to AD&D. Because who said you need to grow up?
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
THE MOST FAMOUS BOOK SET IN EVERY STATE
In My State It Is The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published: April 1993 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374284385
Pages: 249
Setting: Michigan 1970
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
What Is The Most Famous Book Set In Your State?
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
More Glimpses of Heaven
SYNOPSIS:
Following her "New York Times "bestselling "Glimpses of Heaven," Trudy Harris has collected even more true stories of the tender beauty and pain of life's end. Through her own stories and those of medical professionals and hospice workers, Harris brings readers with her on the search for God, forgiveness, faith, repentance, and ultimate acceptance and peace. The perfect gift for someone who has experienced the death of a loved one, "More Glimpses of Heaven" will bring peace and comfort to all who read it.
REVIEW:
Trudy Harris has written another outstanding read to the follow-up of her first book Glimpses of Heaven. If you cherish the first book as much as I do, you will not feel any different about the second. This book has an interesting new twist, she reached out to other medical professionals voicing their stories along with her own. The prose is exemplary without a single flaw. Trudy writes about death in such a special way that it pulls at your emotions yet not negatively. Yes, it is sad that people are dying but, she portrays death in such a beautiful manner it is enlightening to the reader.
Whereas, this is a faith-based book it does not focus on any one religion, it instead tells of all the different ways that God brings an individual into his kingdom and the fact that it is different for every soul. Therefore, as each person is different so is their relationship with the Lord and as they are getting ready to pass on to the next phase of our souls journey a lot of individuals have something that is holding them back from passing and this is when Trudy comes into play by figuring out what will help this dying person let go. Children are so special since they are not afraid of dying, they sometimes are more worried about how their parents will handle their death. There are people who have something that is not quite right in the life they are to leave behind or with their relationship with God and with the help of a hospice professional or Trudy herself they help the sick individual get to the place where they can let go of this world. I must mention that the dying tells us such amazing things about heaven such as what they see or who they see. After you read this book you will no longer be afraid of death plus remember heaven is all around us.
“I will never forsake you or abandon you” (Heb. 13:5)
This is a video from her first book but, I think it applies here also
COVER REVEAL - Here They Lie by D'Ann Burrow
Here They Lie by D’Ann Burrow
(The Bloodstone Legacy #1)
Publication date: October 5th, 2015
Genres: New Adult, Southern Gothic
Reese Everett’s aunt picked a bad time to die. Just weeks after a car accident left Reese’s mother unable to travel, her aunt’s house needs to be emptied and sold, leaving Reese as the only member of the family who can do the job. She typically wouldn’t balk at the opportunity to sift through her aunt’s collection of antiques, but when she arrives in Devil’s Vale, Georgia, she discovers the family house in a state of disrepair she won’t be able to handle alone.
Colton Waters is back in Devil’s Vale – whether he likes it or not. After he loses his acceptance to medical school with no explanation, he’s left with a single job offer…one that will return him to the hometown he’d hoped to escape.
When an errand to help his sister ends in a meeting with Reese neither will easily forget, Colton takes a job as her temporary handyman.
The longer Reese stays in town, the more she realizes the condition of her aunt’s house isn’t the only thing she hadn’t expected when she made the trip to Devil’s Vale. Reese isn’t the only gifted member of the family – her aunt Kate has been practicing the family business…the business Reese has been sworn never to discuss.
After a ghostly visitor arrives one night, Reese and Colton learn Kate wasn’t the only one practicing the darker arts. They begin to uncover secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Here They Lie won the Young Adult Romance Writer’s
2014 award for New Adult fiction.
D’Ann Burrow once told her preschool teacher she wanted to be a witch when she grew up. That simple comment signaled the start of a life-long fondness of things that go bump in the night. As she grew older, she could most often be found with her nose buried in a book, and she was especially fond of the Nancy Drew series as well as anything by Christopher Pike or Stephen King. Occasionally she’d take a trip to the world of the classics where The Scarlet Pimpernel and A Little Princess reigned among her favorites. She’s lost count of the times she’s read Little Women.
Today, D’Ann enjoys the world of Supernatural, stories about guys with fangs, and she’s seldom met a disaster film she hasn’t liked. When she grows up, she’d like to work at the Haunted Mansion. Until then, watching Ghost Hunters will have to count as research.
D’Ann writes about secrets people keep. Even the bravest heroine or a guy with a heart of gold has a few skeletons in the closet they’d rather not share with the world. When those secrets get out, things get interesting.
A Texas native, she knows making great guacamole is an art form. As a theater mom, she’ll happily chat about Broadway musicals by the hour. Molly and Lizzie, the family furry ones, are frequent stars of her Instagram account.
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Saturday, August 22, 2015
Calling Dr. Laura
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SYNOPSIS:
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice.
Packed cover-to-cover with heartfelt and disarming black-and-white illustrations, Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source. Part coming-of-age and part coming-out story, Calling Dr. Laura marks the arrival of an exciting and winning new voice in graphic literature.
REVIEW:
This being a non-fiction graphic novel about the author's life I found a lot in this read that I could relate to and I bet you can too. I think a large group of readers can identify with the dysfunctional family dynamics that Nicole has endured throughout her life. This is a remarkably written no-holds-barred look at the effects physically and mentally a self-centered parent can have directly to a person's childhood and also the long-term effects on their later life. Also therefore how it influences each individual in the family differently. The book is ideally put together going back and forth between Nicole's childhood to her as an adult showing how childhood experiences have tremendous consequences on her adult life and decisions. For example, seeing a loved one in a controlling relationship you then follow in the person's footsteps.
Now there are the graphics to discuss which are not the greatest that I have seen. Unless the person in the drawing had on glasses or blond hair, they all looked alike to me. Nonetheless, the drawings portrayed the story exceptionally along with the book's dialogue. Therefore, complimenting each other well. The author has a great sense of humor. So by telling her memoir in the manner of a graphic novel I think it made the story twice as funny due to the fact that you get not only a laugh out loud blurb but also a hilarious picture that goes along with it. Finally, I would like to mention that though this is technically in the LGBT genre since she is a lesbian this actually is a book for everyone. It is just a part of her coming of age story. There are no sexually suggestive pictures except for a kiss. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys graphic novels or who likes a good book.
About this author:
Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning writer, and illustrator from Portland, Oregon. Nicole has been publishing the autobiographical comic Invincible Summer since 2000, and has toured the country extensively, including two month-long appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit: Next Generation. Her work has been featured in many publications, including Tin House, Vanity Fair, and Slate.com.Her graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, was called “engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant” by Rachel Maddow, and “disarming and haunting, hip and sweet, all at once” by Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with senior citizens in North Portland, chronicling their experiences through comics and writing in a zine called Tell It Like It Tiz’.
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