With that title, you were worried I was going to go into a spiel about how books are my best friends. Admit it! You did! If not bravo. I am in no way knocking the idea of having a book as a best friend. Books have saved my life (getting me through my depression and … Continue reading Literary Friends
Dear Readers, I have always been a Paranoid Polly (my own personal reference) when it comes to, in all honesty, the majority of my life. So when I was awoken in the middle of the night mid-June by a nightmare which made me force myself to wake up and walk around my room before I … Continue reading When writing goes really really well…
Hello again literary lovelies, I find myself being haunted by past reads. Storylines which are creeping into my dreams long after I've read the last page. Has this ever happened to you? Has there been a book which just wouldn't let you go? I have had books whisper for a reread but it has been … Continue reading They Still Haunt Me – Part Two
... if you could jump into the pages of one of your favourite books? Would you be flying high with dragons? Casting spells with ease? Drinking tea and dancing in Regency England? Scurrying down blacked out streets during The Blitz of WWII? Questing with confidants to save the world? Or peering through a magnifying glass … Continue reading Where would you go…
... about moving from two posts a week to one during the summer months literary lovelies. I know I finally have been posted more frequently this month but with July comes a four-hour trek to cottage country and August brings me travelling back to Saskatchewan to visit my family for a few weeks. I feel … Continue reading I am thinking…
Dear Readers, A topic has come to my attention which I would like to discuss with you: What does and doesn't belong on a book cover in your opinion? Are you okay with quotes from reviews? If so does it matter if they are from other popular authors or newspapers or other publications forms? Are … Continue reading Discussion: What should or shouldn’t be on a book cover?
Dear Readers, It is becoming a pattern I am afraid, where I find the strength or some creative energy finds me and I write a lovely post only to disappear again. Where do I go? Mostly to become a vegetable in my room binge watching some tv series (currently Midsomer Murders - let's not get … Continue reading A Few of my Favourites – Authors Edition
Dear Readers, we meet again! How long has it been since we last communicated? TOO LONG! That's how long. I am coming to you this Sunday with a once-a-month Sunday plan to share a little self-love with ourselves. Not the usual conceptual self-love pampering but one with an Honestly Austen twist, let's write something about … Continue reading Self-Love Sundays
Dearest Readers, For the vast majority of my life, I have been teased for my tendency to provide human characteristics to inanimate objects as well as animals, otherwise known as personification. I am sure I have even dipped my toe into the depths of anthropomorphism, which according to dictionary.com is the: The attribution of human … Continue reading From the perspective of the page
Hello, literary lovelies! We find ourselves mid-week and ready for a Writing Prompt Wednesday! I hope you have all been well and enjoy the short story I have for you today! I closed my eyes and held onto the sound, as I tried to grasp the translucent memories of a life I could not remember. … Continue reading I held onto the sound…
Goodreads Synopsis: A house built high on the moor, A golden age, ended by war, A house left empty, falling to ruin. During the Edwardian period, the wealthy Kearleys entertained important guests at their summer home on the moors; enjoying lavish parties showcasing the house and its views of the mountains. By the 1950s the … Continue reading For the Love of Prose
You may not know literary lovelies that I not only write this lovely blog for you all, but I have within the last year finished a novel. I have titled it: Whose Story. I would like to put the first chapter on here (a much longer post than my usual) for you all to read … Continue reading Whose Story? – Chapter 1
Welcome back to another Wednesday of Who Wore it Best where our book covers walk the literary red carpet to be enjoyed (hopefully) by everyone. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path has been one book I have been wanting to read for quite some time. I had hoped to have it finished by the last … Continue reading The Bell Jar – Who Wore it Best
Consciousness flooded in as those words repeated themselves in my head, "Everybody has an addiction mine just happens to be you." A moment later it dawned on me as my blurry eyes tried to clear the room. The words weren't a broken record in my head but continually came from the mouth of the last … Continue reading Everybody has an addiction – Writing Prompt Wednesday
I find myself this summer for almost the entire month of July visiting the cottage which was recently purchased by my sister and her family. There will be lots of sand, sun and reading I hope! Since it is over a four-hour trek from where I currently live to the cottage I have been planning … Continue reading Cottage Bound!
"Did you just say what I thought you said?" Her words broke through the fog which had permeated where we stood. "I don't know what you're talking about." I let my lack of answer hang between us. "If you're planning on following through with what you said..." She hesitated. But in reality, it was a … Continue reading Dreams do come true I guess – Writing Prompt Wednesday
Goodreads Synopsis: Monkey Temple is a coming-of-old-age adventure about two longtime best friends and rivals who, determined to “not go gentle into that good night,” set off on a final road trip. Their efforts to face past failures and give meaning to their dwindling futures change their lives forever but not at all as they … Continue reading Monkey Temple – Review
