BookTubeAThon July, 2018: Day 2 Update

Pages Read: 472 + 295 = 767 Books Completed: 2/7 Challenges Completed: Let a coin toss decide your first book. Complete! Read a book while wearing a hat the entire time. Complete! Read a book with green on the cover. Complete! Read a book about something you want to do. Read a book with a beautiful …

BookTubeAThon July, 2018: Day 1 Update

Pages Read: 472 Books Completed: 1/7 Challenges Completed:  Let a coin toss decide your first book. Complete! Read a book while wearing a hat the entire time. Read a book with green on the cover. Read a book about something you want to do. Read a book with a beautiful spine. Complete! Read and watch a …

Reading Wrap-up July, 2018

This month was a dismal reading month. I only read 5 books. Saying that, I know many people who don't even read any books in a month, so everything is relative. It's simply that I was so busy with Camp NaNoWriMo this month as well as getting ready to sell my house that I was …

Book Review: Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King

I know I just did a book review on Wednesday, but due to BookTubeAThon, expect a whole lot more book reviews in the next couple weeks (apologies, regular posts will continue soon). Anyway, this is the 15th book in the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes suspense series. I have been following this series since I …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018: Day 27 (I Completed the Challenge!)

I'm done! I've completed my word count. At the end, I really started struggling with my book. I'll probably go back and do some rewrites. But I'm done! I can breath a sigh of relief finally! Daily Summary Words written today: 1,646 Total words written: 51,292/50,000 (I did it!) Goal words needed: 43,551/50,000 Difference: 7,741 …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018: Day 26

I may or may not have gone to Barnes & Nobles today and bought way too many books...I will not confirm or deny. Basically, I was busy this morning and didn't get writing done until the afternoon. Again, I feel very irresponsible. I barely managed to get the minimum wordcount done, though I'm still writing …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018: Day 25

Today was crazy. I took a trip with my family to the Mall of America in Minnesota, which took up all the morning and part of the afternoon. So I didn't even have a chance to start writing until just a few hours before this post has to go up. My point is that I …

Book Review: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas

When I was about twelve, a movie by the title of Amazing Grace was released in 2006, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Romola Garai. It tells the real story of William Wilberforce, who was the main instigator of abolishing the slave trade in Great Britain. I loved the movie. I had never heard of …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018: Day 24

I'm so close to being done, I can almost feel it! Since I'm going to have two days at the end of the month where I'll be doing BookTubeAThon, I'm hoping to finish my writing by the 30th so the two challenges do not overlap. It'll make doing two challenges not as crazy. And, if …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018: Day 23

Happy Monday! I hope all my lovely readers had a great Monday. Most people hate Mondays, but I was always the weirdo who looked forward to it, whether I had school or work or nothing at all. In a sense, for me it was always the start of something new. Anyway, writing. I started out …