Inspiration

My daughter is helping me with some inspiration for a piece of writing. She did this in like 5 minutes. She amazes me.

Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors

Hosted by Broke and Bookish

As I was explaining in an earlier post, I want to keep blogging but in order to do that I really need to simplify what I do.  

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome weekly meme, but I just can't do 10! I don't have the time.  

So I'm going to keep it simple and to the point and only share 1-2 picks for the week's current topic.

Today the topic is:

New to Me Authors in 2014

I have two:

Mary Amato author of Guitar Notes

and

Stephanie Kuhn author of Charm & Strange.  

I really really loved the books I read by these two authors.  Well done, and I can't wait to read more!

Several Months of Book Hauls!

Stacking the Shelves was started by Tynga over at Tynga's Reviews.

This is a fun meme were people share the books they got this week. I won't participate too often mainly because without teaching I don't buy many books on a weekly basis anymore! So once in awhile I'll share some of the books I've gotten.

So I haven't done a book haul in a looooooooooong time, so I thought I'd share some of the new books I've gotten.  

And I'm really feeling like the first 6 months of 2015 I need to not buy any more books! Who is with me??!!?? 

Wanna make a pinky swear together? :) 

Birthday Purchases

Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang (heard awesome things about it)

Winterkill by Kate A Boorman (bought on a whim because it reminded me of the movie The Village!)

Thank you Penguin! Got these in the mail.

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Atlantia by Ally Condie

I'll Give You the Sun by Jenny Nelson

Won

I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios 

Some Thing Real by Heather Demetrios

Bought

The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski (finally!!!!)

Endgame by James Frey (again a whim purchase!)

Bought and Won

Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare (sounded good)

Can't Look Away by Donna Cooner (won!)

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith (because I loved another book by her)

School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins (because I LOVE Rachel Hawkins)

Won

 Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (I love his work!)

Won

Two Audio Books I Won:

The Young World by Chris Weitz (my daughter bought the book because she thought it sounded good when she saw my audio book)

Homeroom Diaries by James Patterson

New Look - Temporary

So I'm trying out this new look and new title just temporarily.  I like this look, but I do think it's a bit dark.  I had bought it for another blog I was going to do at one point, so I just thought I'd mess with it.  

I'm looking for someone to make me a new template using some really softer colored skulls. (see below), but I don't want to spend a lot of money!

The skulls from an Etsy seller I'm interested in.

You can find them HERE.