Page Turners: Dearly Departed

I am currently reading:

Dearly Departed by Lia Habel

I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't like the cover. I think it's clever but it still wouldn't make me pick it up off the shelf, but then I don't tend to like covers with people on, especially people staring at me. I also still find it kind of confusing to have a steampunk theme set in the future with digital technology, but I am coming to terms with that and I think the history is very interesting. So, we'll see how it goes!

From Goodreads:

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love

Listen To This: Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

Sunday Catch Up

Well, my last update was on Tuesday and not a lot has happened since then. Since our friends returned to Bath I have mostly been getting on with work and reading through the next three chapters of my novel so I can start editing them.

Therefore, because I have so little to share with you today, enjoy watching this:

WTF? Mouth Stretchers!

Eat Your Kimchi is a website run by Simon and Martina, a Canadian couple who live in Korea, they upload videos talking about what it's like to live in Korea, videos of their adventures and also silly things like this. I think they're hilarious so I thought I would share!

Something For The Weekend

Something to do

If like me you're not a fan of crown braids then this reverse crown braid might be just what you want. It's so cute and simple. I just hope my hair is long enough to pull it off well.

If you are constantly trying to get decent photos of your pets but always end up with furry blurs, like I do, then check out these tips on photographing your pets!

Something to eat

I am dying to try this strawberries and maple cream recipe, it sounds so summery!

Something to read

I am neither married or have kids, yet, but quite a few of my friends are living in marital bliss and/or popping out babies. So, if you are worried that your friends are all going off and getting married and/or having kids, leaving you with no one to hang out with on a Friday night. here are some reassuring words.

Something to watch

If you don't already watch Game of Thrones then where have you been? Under a rock? Go and catch up with it right now and join me in my fangirly-ness! Also, read the books.

Review: The Demon's Watch

Read my review of The Demon's Watch at Mostly Reading YA

 My rating: 5/5

The Demon’s Watch is fantasy at its best. Sure, we’ve heard the concept a hundred times before. There’s a mysterious magical object that everyone wants and an anti-hero who’s going to save the day, but there is so much more to The Demon’s Watch than just that, and that is what makes it so great. Joseph Grubb is your unsuspecting hero. Usually goblins are ugly, horrid little beasts but Grubb is actually quite an endearing half-goblin who has been stuck with the short end of the stick for most of his life. That is, until he accidentally comes across a mysterious object on the floor of the tavern where he lives, runs away and is thrown into the adventure of his life!

Friday Feature: My Favourite Female Characters

I thought that I would feature just a few of my favourite female characters from books, both novels and manga. These are in no particular order

Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings)

Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire series)

Brienne of Tarth (A Song of Ice and Fire series)

Hermione Granger (Harry Potter series)

Sakaki (Azumanga Daioh)

Meiko (Solanin)

As you can probably tell, I like my female characters to be independent, intelligent, willing to take risks for what they believe in but also kind, sensitive and loyal.

Thursday Thought

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'Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.' - Ben Franklin 

'Fuck this, I've had enough of writing.  I don't like the book world.  I don't like most books, even.  I don't like sitting on my own in a room for hours on end.' - Alex Garland

'Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.' - Virginia Woolf

'And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.' - Sylvia Plath