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Title: The 5th Wave Author: Rick Yancey Genre: Sci-fi, apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, dystopian, paranormal, YA I came upon this book because I saw the preview to the movie when I went to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens (great movie, btw, and watched it twice!) and did a search for the book to see if there was... Continue Reading →
This is the reworked version. I made it lighter and brought out more colors in the girl (my daughter). The original:
This was beautiful to see. I think I'm going to celebrate and rest this brain for a couple of days. I'm kidding myself about that. There's no rest. I've got 8 books waiting to be read yet. I am glad to be done with this challenge though. Now I can continue to read for pure... Continue Reading →
I've always wanted to draw and paint on the pages of an old or unused book so I went to the thrift store yesterday and found one. I also found a few books that I don't plan to draw or paint in. Stories For The Heart will be the unfortunate...or fortunate book, depending on how... Continue Reading →
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon was a book I read based on good reviews on Goodreads.com. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into because it was my first sci-fi dystopian fantasy with paranormal, but I ended up loving it. There's something about Samantha's writing that draws me to the characters... Continue Reading →
All for daughter because she is obsessed. Even though she's read the books on my Kindle, and has downloaded the first book on her tablet and has been rereading it, I figured she might want the actual books. A Divergent makeup palette. She nearly screamed my ears off when she learned that Sephora was selling... Continue Reading →
Daughter got a Divergent t-shirt for her birthday a couple of weeks ago and was OMG about it. She plans to wear it to the opening day of the Divergent movie this week. I have to admit, I'm pretty thrilled myself about seeing the movie. Daughter and I both read the trilogy by Veronica Roth... Continue Reading →
Sunday evening, Kylie learned that her favorite fish, a beta named Bubbles, had died. He was found floating at the top of the fish tank. Kylie cried and cried. I've never seen anyone cry as much and as hard as she has over a little fish. She thought it was the water frog, whom also... Continue Reading →
Last evening, I took Kida with me to Costco to pick up some photos I had printed and we ended up leaving with the Hunger Games Trilogy and a set of books for Kylie. When we located the trilogy set (it took us a good 10 minutes), Kida screamed so loud, you could almost hear... Continue Reading →
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