Stories come in all shapes and sizes, and each form offers a unique experience to both the writer and the reader. At the shortest end of the spectrum, flash fiction delivers powerful impact with incredible brevity… It’s often under 1,000 words. These stories rely on precision and suggestion to evoke emotion or spark the imagination,…
Tag: books
Misunderstood.
Sometimes the people you want to be part of your story are only meant to be a chapter. I love when book characters are human. As a lover of fantasy novels and series, I don’t particularly mean human, human. Though, I love regular human books too. I mean when the characters are real. When they’re…
Reading Challenge Update:
I challenged myself to read 50 books this year.
Last year I challenged myself to read 25 and ended up with 40, so this year I shot high to hope for the best.
I use Goodreads to help be track my progress.
I don’t really consider myself a fast reader, especially if I get really into a series, I try to stretch it out as much as possible with those. But I do tend to read more than one book at a time depending on what I am doing and what mood I am in. Sometimes I struggle with reading really emotional books, and I lean more toward gentler, easy reads. Other times I want horror and tragedy and thriller. It truly just depends.
Books of 2022
One of my “year of 2022” goals is to read two books a month which is essentially 24 books in the year. I have recently hit 39 books which I’m really proud about! I technically read one book twice so does that count as 40?
Happenstance | Chapter One
What if all the love stories were real? What if soul mates really existed but yours was on the other side of the world? Would you cross the oceans to get to them? Would you stay with them despite your relationship being built on lies and misinformation? Aelia St. Clair is found in just that…
Societal Expectations + Life Update
I apologize for being MIA the past couple of weeks. I had started this blog post and hoped to get in out a couple of weeks ago but it got a little hectic in the process. Life Update! I’m going to start this post with my life update! Something cheery before we get to the…
Reading Challenge: A Summary of The Books I’ve Read This Year
I have met my reading challenge for this year! My goal was to read twice as much as I did last year, which honestly wasn’t much. I only read five books last year and this year I have read ten! I’m pretty proud! Do any of these book seem to peak your interest? Have you read any of them before? Let me know in the comments!
How to Get in the Christmas Spirit
Christmas is coming at pace. It hit you last week when you heard an ancient Christmas carol crawl through the tiny speakers at the mall or maybe you saw your friend decorating their house for Christmas BEFORE Thanksgiving. Cynicism aside, it really can be a fun time of year – as long as you put…
Little Girls and Education
I’m not usually one to review books especially children’s books for that matter but I was so touched at my daughter’s responses to these two books and how these stories create the opportunity of discussion that I just had to share. Reading with my daughter was and is a huge deal in our house. Together…
Busy Bee | How to Stop the Brain Buzz
I have had a problem resting. This isn’t something that is entirely new. I have such a hustler’s mindset that it’s really hard to slow it down at times. I have been putting more effort into my business than ever and I have also been trying to do a lot more blogging as well as…
with love, c.p 