At the close of every year I check out my Goodreads stats to see how I've done for the year and decide where I want to go next year. I feel like this yearly review not only motivates me, but also puts into focus how my behaviours regarding books has changed. I may change my method of rating books, start reading longer books or maybe I've started reading monthly instead of at random. Blogging: Where I've Been Anyway, I thought it would be neat to end my 2015 year with a look at my statics on my blog since this is the first year I've blogged. I started ... Continue Reading...
Archives for December 2015
Tour/Review: The Aftermath
Excerpt: Review: Cormac "the Hurricane" O'Connell made plenty of mistakes with his life until he met Em who inspires him to be a better man. Fiercely protective, only three things in life matter to O'Connell: his wife, his family and his boxing career. The Aftermath follows O'Connell as he trains for a career defining fight while supporting his wife during her abusive step father's trial. With their future on the line in more ways than one, O'Connell struggles with anger management issues and 'faces the temptation of crossing a line he can never uncross. Life ... Continue Reading...
Review: Wishes for Christmas
Wishes for Christmas is a set of three Christmas cheer tales written by the prolific author Fern Michaels. In each tale we meet the cast of Fern's various groups: The Godmothers, The Sisterhood and The Vigilantes. In the first story, And The Angels Sing, Maggie reveals that she once knew a school teacher who was assaulted before disappearing. Since the day she found her teacher bruised and battered, Maggie has blamed herself for the woman's disappearance. The Vigilantes decide that they will track down this lost teacher and bring her Christmas cheer, but the task is ... Continue Reading...
Review: MemoRandom
MemoRandom is a novel about David Sarac, an informant handler at the Intelligence Unit of the Stockholm Police. His main priorities are to identify, recruit and manage people who can provide information and tips about organized crime in the city. David is one of the best and he's been able to recruit one of the nation's most top-secret and most successful informant, Janus. When David suffers a stroke and wakes up in the hospital he realizes he doesn't remember anything about his life from before. He can't remember who he is, why he is in the hospital or what secrets ... Continue Reading...
Small Blogs and Plagiarism
We all have to deal with plagiarism as bloggers. Some of us have had someone rip off our ideas while others have had people claim that a perfectly good idea has been copied to someone else's blog. Let's face it, most ideas in the blogging community are not unique! However, when someone is obviously copying your posts, creating the same weekly features and obviously clipping sentences from your work it can be a horrific experience. I feel awful for those who are victims of plagiarism especially having personally experienced this frustrating situation. The thing is ... Continue Reading...