Massage I think we could all deal with one every now and then don’t you? Well if you don’t have the funds to spend on doing it or maybe you just want to learn anyways, you can check here for massage classes and learn how or send someone to do it. I think given the stress most people are under these days it doesnt hurt to look at your choices. Am I right?
Author: Ambrosia
Sunday Salon 5/4/14
I do not usually toot my own horn..but this sunday a little toot toot.
Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now..
You can see there is just 1 gem rating, just one. Yes sadly this one I wish I would have DNF’d it, but I am trying not to do that this year. So heres the graphic this one gets and it doesn’t even deserve the Doctor. Sad but true. I have nothing nice to say about this one, so I will not say anything at all.
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Cover reveal: Empower: Fight Like A Girl
Praise for Empower: Fight Like A Girl
“Even non-girls will feel empowered by these stories about ordinary, flawed characters finding their own strengths. Highly entertaining and original.”
– Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase and King City, whose mother lost her hearing to lupus.
Women of TV have united against lupus! Presenting Empower: Fight Like A Girl, a special collection of short stories by top women writers from some of your favorite shows, including: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Family Guy, Person of Interest, Grimm, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order: SVU, Star Trek: Voyager, Eureka, Twisted, The 100, Malcolm in the Middle, Millennium, Being Human, The Shield, Castle, Chuck, Gilmore Girls, and Game of Thrones. In this anthology, you’ll discover supernatural thrillers, crime mysteries, horror, comedies, and more.
Authors contributing stories to this volume include:
- Amy Berg
- Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
- Akela Cooper
- Liz Edwards
- Jane Espenson
- Shalisha Francis & Nadine Knight
- Lisa Klink
- Pang-Ni Landrum
- Lauren LeFranc
- Kam Miller
- Jess Pineda
- Jennifer Quintenz
- Lisa Randolph
- Kay Reindl
- Kira Snyder
- Jeane Wong
All proceeds will be donated to the non-profit Lupus Foundation of America to help solve the cruel mystery of lupus.
WWW Wednesday 4/30/14
This is another one hosted over at Should be Reading
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What are you reading next?
Currently Reading:
I am almost done with this one though really almost.
Recently Finished:
Up next:
Oh this could be a toss up it might be a reread or a new one…I am on a Dresden kick so most likely Dresden.
Teaser Tuesday 4/29/14
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Still reading this one but so worth the second teaser!
“Some things just aren’t meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Musing Monday 4/28/14
Musing Monday is hosted over at Should Be Reading.
Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
Today my muse is home librarys. What do you make of them? Is yours just a bunch of books on your night stand? Or do you have a proper home library. I myself have a full on room dedicated that was not always the case though I have had various kinds of bookshelves.
Sunday Salon 4/27/14
Another Sunday and another Sunday Salon, I am catching up on reviews slowly but surely and for the first time in a while I am on track with my reading goal *makes yay hands*. This last week was a stressful one so overall I did not get much reading done but since I am feeling on track it’s okay overall.
This week we will be going into May and we will be hitting Beltane! Who is with me on hoping things go well for Beltane! We will also be gearing up to show some love and support for Lupus awarness and hope that a cure is found. I will be posting a cover reveal on May 1st that I hope everyone will take a look at and do what you can to help!
Other then that, this weeks Sunday Salon is going to be short. I hope everyone has a fantastic Sunday and keep reading!
Book Review: Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago’s only professional wizard.
But in all Harry’s years of supernatural sleuthing, he’s never faced anything like this: the spirit world’s gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble-and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.
Someone-or something-is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn’t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself
Another fantastic installment of the Dresden series. I have to say Harry you get yourself in more trouble than Anita Blake and considering how much trouble Anita gets into that is really saying something.
Harry is again stuck in the middle of the fae and the worst thing is that the courts of Winter and Summer are going to war because something of Summer’s has been stolen. The power that belongs to the Summer Knight. Harry has to handle things, stop the war and in doing so prove himself a wizard as well. Because guess what? The white council is being a pain in the rear end.
Terrible of them. Seriously. I am sick of them and I don’t have to deal with them like Harry does. I love this book, I love the series and can I just say that Toot toot is FUNNY. Can I keep him? I mean really.
All hail the Pizza Lord!
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Book Review: Pan’s Conquest by Aubrie Dionne
Syrinx pulled a fast one on Pan to escape his raging lust. The God of Chastity wasn’t about to break her vows and succumb to his temptations. Transported to the twenty-first century, she runs a florist shop—fulfilling her fake, mortal life. Until the breathtaking Parker Thomas hires her to decorate his grand estate for a gala. Five hundred roses? Easy enough. Except Parker makes her feel things she can’t ignore…
As the God of Fertility, Pan is used to maidens flocking in droves to his pastures. So when Syrinx denies him, he’s determined to win the one that got away. He poses as a mortal to get close to her, but he doesn’t count on falling hard for his conquest—hard enough to make a life and stay.
But Syrinx is falling in love with a man that doesn’t exist. Can Pan hide his identity forever, or will the truth tear them apart
I love the myth and legend behind this book and for me you don’t get to read about Pan nearly enough so a Book with him as the love interest yes please! He has met his match in the Goddess of Chasity and is truly shocked when she flees from him. Made me smile a bit at that, cause I am sure he had that feeling of “shes saying no to me?!” that some men get. To me he took the high road though when opting for seduction even if it is under his fake mortal persona.
This book is well written and has a fantastic steady pacing that makes it enjoyable to read. There were no points that I felt were too slow or so fast that they were convoluted. It was just the right touch of everything. This was the first time for me to read Aubrie Dionne but I can say with this style of writing and enjoyable characters it won’t be the last.
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