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Tag: Scary stories to tell in the dark

Mother Ghost's Grimm
January 25, 2020 Helen

I will now be terrifying the next generation…

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Book review: "The Unhoneymooners" by Christina Lauren. This is the best rom com I've read in a long time! I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a hilarious and romantic beach read this summer. . ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ . Read the full review (link in bio): https://powerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/the-unhoneymooners/ . Synopsis Olive has always been the unlucky twin, but her luck changes when her sister and brother-in-law get food poisoning at their wedding and are unable to go on their honeymoon. Olive decides to go for on their free vacation with her brother-in-law’s brother, Ethan, who she’s hated at first sight. She expects to spend the entire beach holiday avoiding him, but things get a little confusing when her new boss shows up. So she doesn’t get caught taking someone else’s free honeymoon, she tells her boss that she’s married to Ethan. But now she has to keep up the charade and pretend to be madly in love with this man she hates, all the while trying to remember why she hates him so much in the first place… My Thoughts This book takes one of my favourite tropes (enemies turned to lovers) and brings a fresh new air to it. This book is laugh out loud funny, and there were a few parts that had me in hysterics. The plot is fast paced, and the characters are absolutely lovable. It was wonderful reading a romantic comedy where the protagonist is a woman working in the science field. Olive is a scientist, and while it’s not a critical part of the plot, it is a part of who she is, and it’s brought up more than a few times. I loved this! I am actually counting this book as my book featuring a woman in STEM for the PopSugar Reading Challenge. . I enjoyed the romance between Olive and Ethan quite a bit. While some of the plot “twists” are predictable (as is the nature of the romantic comedy, obviously they’re going to end up together. *Gasp* Did I just spoil the ending?). . #amreading #bookreview #unhoneymooners #beachread #whattoread #goodreads #comedy #romance #bookstagram #canadianbookstagram #bookishcanadians #booksbooksbooks #bibliophile #coverlove #booknerdigans #bookdragon #read #readersofinstagram #booksofig #instabooks #read
Was gonna post my book review, but I took a working from home selfie. Today I'm working on dealing with all my emails and little things before the long weekend (I love logging out at the end of the day with a clean inbox!). I'm also doing a bit of collections analysis, and later I have to write up more of my annual review report. We’ll see with that last one, though. Probably will push it to next week 😂. . I love my home library! I'm really really grateful that COVID-19 isn't happening when I was living in my little hole, I mean, apartment in Windsor. . QOTD: What's something random that you're grateful for? . . . . . . #workfromhome #remotework #librariansofinstagram #writersofinstagram #nanowrimo #campnanowrimo #writer #authorsofinstagram #author #amreading #booklover #shelfie #selfie #quarantine #ilovemyjob #librarian #homeoffice #library #booklover #bookish #bibliophile
Today's #TravelTuesday is from when I visited the Library Bar while in Toronto a couple of months ago! They had the cutest menus... . . . . . . #canadianbookstagram #bookish #library #librarynerd #booknerd #toronto #travel #wanderlust #coffeeaddict #bookaholic #bibliophile #librariesofinstagram #librarylove #booklove #bookish #booknerdigans #bookdragon #writersofinstagram
All right! Enough dilly dallying! The first weekend day of Camp NaNoWriMo is here, and I will not squander it! My goal for today is 4 hours. I need to reread what I've written, make notes about the plot, and I plan to find a few character sheets online so I can flesh out my protagonist more. I also realized that I have no idea what the soundtrack for this novel is (I wrote it during nanowrimo 2017). I know the music that I listened to during every other project I've worked on, but I guess I didn't have a playlist for this one? How am I going to get back into the atmosphere of 'Phantom' without a playlist?! . QOTD: What type of music do you listen to when brainstorming/writing/editing? . Side question: Anyone doing any Camp NaNoWriMo instagram challenges? I haven't seen any #wip ones in my feed lately! I need some inspiration! . . . . . . #amwriting #campnanowrimo #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writer #writing #author #bookstagram #planning #motivation #goals #weekend #saturday #amediting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #write #nanowrimo #notebook
Book Review! "Beauty" by Robin McKinley. A reimagining of Beauty and the Beast... . ~My Thoughts~ I wanted to love this book, but it lacked for me in plot. The book concentrates on Beauty’s family life prior to moving into the castle to live with the Beast. This is the focus of the book, which I had not been expecting at all. I wanted to read about the castle and whatever mysterious magic goes on there, but this only took up the last little bit of the book. While the events that unfolded in her home life with her father and her sisters were interesting, I couldn’t quite enjoy it because I was waiting for the real story. It almost felt like two books ideas were slapped together, when they would have served better as two separate stories. . Unfortunately, her family was far more developed than any of the characters in the castle. We don’t get to truly meet any of the servants, since they’re invisible, yet it’s understood that they’re there. The Beast is somewhat of a caricature, and, to be honest, I’m not entirely sure why Beauty fell in love with him. However, if Beauty's time in the castle had made up as much of the book as the events leading up to it, I do feel that I would have had enough time to grow to appreciate the Beast and his idiosyncracies. . Read the full review at (link in bio) https://powerlibrarian.wordpress.com/ . . . . #amreading #booklover #Beautyandthebeast #whattoread #fairytale #disney #bookstagram #booknerd #bookphotography #coverlove #goodreads #amreadingfantasy #fantasy #bookreview #bookblog #booksbooksbooks #readersofinstagram #read #reader #bibliophile #canadianbookstagram #booksbooksbooks #beauty #robinmckinley
It's April, which means it's time for Camp NaNoWriMo! Who's participating this time? Camp NaNoWriMo takes place in April and July, and it's much more flexible than the November one (where the goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days). You can write as much (or as little!) as you want, and you can write short stories, nonfiction, or even edit a project. This month, I've decided to revisit a first draft of a psychological thriller that I wrote during National Novel Writing Month in 2017. I completed the first draft, and I have a lot of ideas for making it better! (Including, but not limited to: Not killing off every single character. Seriously. Some people should live). My goal is to edit for 50 hours this month, which includes time for worldbuilding, character development, storyboarding, and drinking coffee while gazing listlessly out the window... If you're participating and looking for a buddy on the website, please add me! My username is Powerlibrarian. Also: If you have a tip on how to change my goal to be in hours, not words, please let me know! I'll be forever in your debt. . . . . . #amwriting #campnanowrimo #nanowrimo #campnanowrimo2020 #wip #writersofinstagram #amwritingthriller #thriller #scifi #authorsofinstagram #writer #author #writenow #goals #motivation #april #bookstagram #bookish #booknerd #bookworm
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