Saturday, May 13, 2017

Guest post: Making the most of opportunities when life comes calling by Lauren Hawkeye | New Release: Kiss of the Irish (Foreign Fling #1)

Have you ever wanted to travel the world and didn't get the opportunity? Well, how about traveling to all the exotic locations you've only dreamed of through the wonderful books that explore those locations, laden with steamy sexiness and exotic hunky guys? If you're up for that, then Kiss of the Irish is one such book for you.

Please give Lauren a very warm welcome.

Making the most of opportunities when life comes calling

I sure try not to make a habit of this, but I do have a regret from my later teen years—I wish I’d taken a year after high school to go see some of the world. Visiting the Vatican, exploring the Amazon, stuffing my face with pasta in Italy, visiting a sheep farm in New Zealand are all things I wish I’d done when I was still relatively unencumbered.

Friday, May 12, 2017

What Helen Read #13: April 2017

I think I finally caught a break. Helen went away on vacation for 2 weeks and didn't get to read much. As a result, I think I have more books read than her. :-p I know, it's a bit like cheating, but I'll take it.

Friday, May 5, 2017

What Deanna Read #15: April 2017

I think I said it for March, but April ZOOMED past, y'all!! ZOOMED! I blinked and I think I missed it.

Anyhoo, I did have a good reading month. I got stalled a little towards the end of the month and one book I wanted to fit into April didn't make it, but still ... a good month.

Here's what I read for the month.

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

So you think you want to write reviews

Writing reviews is hard y'all! I can't even tell you the number of times my bud Bambi writes and tells me she needs to write a review and has nothing to say or that she simply just doesn't want to Write. Another. Review. When you read a lot of books and you write reviews, there's a lot of reviews to write.

When I first decided the start the blog, the idea of writing reviews was what scared me the most. Second was making sure I had enough content to keep the blog going but that's another post for another day.

Prior to the bloggity, I never wrote reviews. I might have written the odd short one on Amazon if the mood took me or if the book moved me in a significant way, but I never thought about the book from a review perspective when I wrote. I only gave a star rating for the books I'd read. It felt like too much of a commitment to actually write down what I felt or perhaps it was sheer laziness on my part.

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