Welcome back!
Day 3 – Your favorite movie beverage?
What about you? What’s your favorite movie beverage?
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Welcome back!
Day 2 – Your favorite movie snack?
What about you? What’s your favorite movie snack?
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
I’m so excited to be doing this Summer Blockbuster challenge with Kristian of Life Lessons Around The Dinner Table!
As Kristian said – There are no rules. Everyone is invited to participate. We will be posting the questions and answering one each day!
If you do choose to participate, please let Kristian and I know so that we can read your answers & follow along!
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Here’s the link to Kristian’s post:
Day 1 – Your favorite summer blockbuster?
Like Kristian, I couldn’t pick just one!
What about you? What’s your favorite summer blockbuster?
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Here’s the link to Tiana’s post:
Memorable books that start with “E”:
Books I’d love to read that start with the letter “E”:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
What books have you read, or want to read, that start with the letter E? Let me know!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Here’s the link to Tiana’s post:
Memorable Books that Start with “D”:
Books I Wish to Read Starting with the Letter “D”:
What books have you read, or want to read, that start with the letter D? Let me know!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Here’s the link to Tiana’s post:
Memorable Books that Start with “C”:
Chances and Changes: My Journey with Molly
Books I wish to read starting with “C”:
What books have you read, or want to read, that start with the letter C? Let me know!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Image Credit: Otsego District Public Library
I was tagged for this fun challenge by Rory, the author of A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip!
Here’s the link to the post where I was tagged:
The Rules …
…because there are always rules, are simple!
1] Thank the nominator
2] Answer Q1 – Q19
3] Nominate three bloggers of your choice and notify them.
4] Each selected blogger MUST answer 16 of the asked 19 questions, but also insert 3 new questions to make up the 19 compliment. Every time a new blogger is selected they MUST only answer 16 of the asked 19 questions as well as answer their own 3, and choose 3 new bloggers. Each time a new blogger sees the questionnaire it will be completely different to the next blogger along.
[Hint: delete three of the questions you don’t like or have no answer for and insert your own in its place]
5] Q20 & Q14 Must always remain intact.
Questions from Rory
1] Are you currently reading a book, if so what is it?
2] Toast or cereal?
3] Choice weapon for survival during the zombie invasion?
4] Horror or comedy films?
5] Skinny dipping or mud wrestling?
6] What was your favourite sweet/candy as a kid?
7] Going to the party or the library what’s your preference?
8] What is your favourite tipple [drink]?
9] If you were coming back as an animal which is the least you would like to return as, BUT knowing your luck you just might? [Provide image]
10] What are five of your unique selling points for your writing?
11] What were you like as a child?
12] How important is personal achievement to you?
13] How do ‘you’ define hard work?
14] Which 3 questions will you be deleting to add your own in?
15] If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
16] Ok, you are going to be shipwrecked on an island that has food and water, what three items would you need to have with you?
17] What was the most stressful situation you ever encountered and how did you handle it?
18] If we didn’t know what the colour ‘mauve’ actually looked like, how would you describe it?
19] What music is currently your favourite? [Provide link]
20] The three bloggers you are nominating are?
Laura Beth’s Answers
1] Are you currently reading a book, if so what is it?
2] Toast or cereal?
3] Choice weapon for survival during the zombie invasion?
4] Horror or comedy films?
5] Skinny dipping or mud wrestling?
6] What was your favourite sweet/candy as a kid?
7] Going to the party or the library what’s your preference?
8] What is your favourite tipple [drink]?
9] What is your least favorite movie?
10] What are five of your unique selling points for your writing?
11] What were you like as a child?
12] How important is personal achievement to you?
13] How do ‘you’ define hard work?
14] Which 3 questions will you be deleting to add your own in?
15] If someone wanted to make a movie about your family, who would you want to portray yourself, your parent(s)/caregiver(s), and your sibling(s)?
16] Ok, you are going to be shipwrecked on an island that has food and water, what three items would you need to have with you?
17] Where you do feel the most at peace?
18] If we didn’t know what the colour ‘mauve’ actually looked like, how would you describe it?
19] What music is currently your favourite? [Provide link]
20] The three bloggers you are nominating are?
Tag – You’re It!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Here’s the link to Tiana’s post:
Memorable titles that start with the letter “B”:
Baby-Sitters Club series
Because of Winn-Dixie
Beezus and Ramona
The BFG
Bleachers
Briana’s Gift
Bridge to Terabithia
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
Books starting with “B” that I wish to read:
Between Shades of Gray
Blood Drive
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Bridges of Madison County
What books have you read, or want to read, that start with the letter B? Let me know!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Image Credit: The Book Raven
I found this awesome book challenge through Tiana, who writes for The Book Raven! Tiana writes some of the most in-depth, intriguing book reviews. Check her out!
My goal is to post about one letter every week!
Here’s the link to her original post:
Memorable titles that start with the letter “A”:
A Girl Named Rosa: The True Story of Rosa Parks
A Girl Named Hillary: The True Story of Hillary Clinton
A Stand for Independence: A Felicity Classic 2
A Winning Spirit: A Molly Classic 1
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Books starting with “A” that I wish to read:
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
I love this challenge so far!
What books have you read, or want to read, that start with the letter A? Let me know!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
Image Credit: Amazon
A couple of weeks ago, I found this book while I visited 2nd and Charles with a dear friend of mine. They opened a new location across the street from my office last year – They have every type of book, DVDs, Blu-ray, vinyl, CDs, toys, games, and more. Some things are brand-new, still in the packaging! It was only $5.00, so I figured I’d give it a shot.
I immediately recognized that Abbott is the author of other books such as You Will Know Me (currently on my TBR). I was intrigued by a combination of the cover and the synopsis on the inside. And, I can’t really turn down a hardcover book for $5.00!
I found myself reading multiple chapters per night, and I ended up finishing the book after less than a week.
In the 1980s, Lizzie and Evie are finishing up eighth grade, best friends since childhood. They’re attached to each other’s hips, but they appear to be going through their own paths and struggles. What 13-year-olds don’t?
Lizzie’s dad left years ago, but her mom looks like she’s been having a man over to the house recently. Evie appears to be living in her older sister, Dusty’s, shadow, but also excelling at soccer while trying to figure out what happens next.
Then, mere weeks before eighth-grade graduation, Evie Verver suddenly vanishes. As her family and the police investigate, Lizzie proves to be invaluable, finding multiple clues and helping assemble the complex puzzle. Everyone is desperate to get Evie back, although different characters are going through different emotions and handling the situation in different ways. One suspect, from their own neighborhood, looks promising, and the intensity continues to increase.
The book weaves together the complex topics/subjects of a child abduction, painful childhood memories, blossoming sexuality, and the relationships of parents with their children. The setting was the 1980s, and Abbott stays faithful to it the entire time. She also does a good job with balancing tragedy with triumph in her writing.
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The only major complaint I had was that Abbott focuses so much on the relationship between Lizzie and Mr. Verver, and then tries to also explain/develop the relationship between Dusty and her father. The lines started to blur, and it was hard to tell sometimes who Abbott was referring to, and to figure out what exactly was going on.
It was challenging to differentiate between the two, and I felt a little creeped out by the end of the book. Mr. Verver appeared to be the sweetest, least-pervy of the fathers in the book, but some of the allusions that Abbott was making, absolutely made my skin crawl. Part of me didn’t want Lizzie, Evie, or Dusty to be taken advantage of, but part of me knew that the setting was also a different era (in a way), and parent-child relationships can still be taken too far, if you catch my drift. It makes me shudder just writing it.
Abbott is a great writer overall, and I look forward to reading more of her books! I just hope this one is just a fluke.
3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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