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Title: TracesAuthor: Franklin J. KnightGenre: Fantasy; SpiritualBook Length: 327 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: December 16, 2024 Date Started: January 10, 2025Date finished: January 19, 2025 There are three main stories in this book, and all three stories intertwine. We follow an archangel named Damiel, whose job is to guide an apprentice named Adlai toward becoming... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptWhat are three objects you couldn't live without?View all responses Notebooks. I've got tons of notebooks (including traveler's notebooks, junk journals, art journals, and planners) and I keep buying more. It's like I'm trying to find the perfect notebook even though I probably have the perfect notebook in my stash. The photo only... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptIf you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?View all responses I did some thinking and found a few words that I don't often use but this doesn't mean I'd permanently ban them. I mean, all the books that I enjoyed would have words removed and... Continue Reading →
This is my A6 Hobonichi Techo 2024 (ends April 2025). I use this planner to journal every day life stuff. It started out as a genre-writing note-taking tracker, but I wasn't taking notes for my stories everyday so decided to turn it into an everyday journal. I also wanted to start using my fountain pens... Continue Reading →
Title: Ghosts and Gods (A Light in the House Book 3)Author: Liam JamesGenre: Fiction, Coming-of-Age, FantasyBook Length: 63 PagesFormat Read: eBookYear Published: October 26, 2024 Date Started: January 3, 2025Date finished: January 7, 2025 The third book in the A Light in the House trilogy, Ghosts and Gods takes us deeper into Joe’s life. He... Continue Reading →
Title: Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII: Tomb of the Black PharaohAuthor: Christopher MichaelGenre: Horror; Thriller; Alternate Historical FictionBook Length: 414 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: September 22, 2024 Date Started: December 16, 2024Date finished: December 31, 2024 This story is about locating a dangerous and powerful stone in Egypt before the Nazis get their hands on... Continue Reading →
My reading goal for 2024 was 50 books and I competed it by reading 51 books. I was able to review all except 6, and hope to get them reviewed the earlier part of next year. Aside from tracking my reading progress in a notebook, I also track it on a spreadsheet. Here's part of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Half Light (The Chronicles of Capherayna Book 3)Author: Karen MenezesGenre: Literary; Women's FictionBook Length: 254 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: July 2, 2024 Date Started: December 9, 2024Date finished: December 14, 2024 In this story, we follow the Lightbender as he spends time in a ghetto district in Dorsfield known as Crikwood. There, he... Continue Reading →
Title: Summer FrostAuthor: Blake CrouchGenre: Sci-fi; LGBTQBook Length: 85 Pages (Short Story)Format Read: eBookYear Published: September 17, 2019 Date Started: October 29, 2024Date finished: October 29, 2024 This story felt like it was a glimpse into a longer story. It’s about a game developer named Riley who created a character named Max and fell in... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptWhat skills or lessons have you learned recently?View all responses I've been obsessed with painting in gouache, and lately, it's been of birds on a wire/on telephone poles (and also cute robots!). For me, gouache is one of those paints where it looks messy at first and makes me want to quit, but... Continue Reading →
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