As 2017 approaches I have been thinking about my fifth (!!!) year of documenting with Project Life. I begin every new year of PL with one simple desire: to complete it. Well, that and to please help me figure out how to keep my pages consistent throughout the year! Going into 2017, I'm not doing anything remarkably different from last year. I'm sticking with...
I spend a lot of time alone in my head, which I'm starting to think might not be all that good of an idea for someone like me. But, my god! this time of the year! I always feel as though I just lose the tiniest bit of footing on life, my thinking, my future. ++ This will be my sixth Christmas in...
Here's what I read in December: AFTER I DO BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID "Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love. What a beautiful thing to have been. What a sad thing to be." Let me gush about the perfection of AFTER I DO for a moment. This book. This. Book. I felt as though I crawled into Ryan...
You say you love me with your shot of whiskey you say I'm the one with your glass of champagne but then you don't say a word with your cup of coffee - Rania Naim ++ i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so...
I feel so fully that I am in the middle of something I can't control.And I wake up every morning hoping that changes.But it never does.So maybe this is just how it's going to be,for a little while longer anyway. ...
One of the songs on repeat as I write. ...
"I'm really nervous about meeting new people." She said it first, before I had the chance. I had definitely been thinking it. On the drive over, I went from turning the heat on to warm my cold hands, to cracking the windows to cool myself off. I was cold, but on the verge of sweating through my clothes. This is typical Rachel behavior...
Two thousand and sixteen. Phew! You have been a doozy of a year. I know it's all so terribly obvious of me to be talking about 2016 just as we've tiptoed into the final days, but this is who I am. I play and replay everything over in my head, trying to make sense of it all, trying to figure out where I...
Listen, I don't do a lot of these cover reveals, but when it comes to books and authors that I love, I'm all about supporting them in any way I can. E.J. Mellow happens to be an author I absolutely adore, which means I'm more than willing to help spread the news about her new book, The Animal Under The fur. On the...
SYNOPSIS When her mother’s incessant matchmaking hits an all-time high, Georgie Archibald does what any sensible woman would do: she flees the country. Seeking refuge in the picturesque seaside village of Vernazza, Italy, Georgie’s only plan is to lie low, gorge herself on gelato, and let the wine and waves wash her troubles away...that is until she wakes up in a bed that...
SYNOPSIS It’s crazy how fast the buzz comes back after you’ve been sober for so long. Whiskey stood there, on my doorstep, just like he had one year before. Except this time, there was no rain, no anger, no wedding invitation — it was just us. It was just him — the old friend, the easy smile, the twisted solace wrapped in a...
SYNOPSIS Joel Anderson doesn't take anything seriously. Not his relationships, which have been few and far between since his brutal divorce. Not the drama of working in a tattoo parlor, which seems to be around every corner. When things get him down, he smiles and cracks a joke. But he's not the kind of man you cross, or you'll find yourself at the...
In the grand scheme of things, I'm a new R.S. Grey fan, but that's okay. It doesn't make me less excited for her releases. This one ... well, I will be buying it in paperback FOR SURE. Title: A Place In The Sun Author: R.S. Grey Release Date: Oct 24, 2016 Add on Goodreads – http://bit.ly/2dICdRG SYNOPSIS When her mother’s incessant matchmaking hits...
My love for Staci Hart seriously knows no bounds. It's kind of like how I feel about this cover too. ABSOLUTE. SWOON. Title: Tonic Author: Staci Hart Genre: Romantic Comedy Cover Design: Staci Hart Photographer: Perrywinkle Photography Release Date: October 13, 2016 SYNOPSIS Joel Anderson doesn't take anything seriously. Not his relationships, which have been few and far between since his brutal divorce....
Here's the truth: I 100,000% judge a book by its cover. I'm not really ashamed of that ... you should have a cover that stands out! So... the reason I discovered Kandi Steiner in the first place was because I kept seeing Weightless. And ... hello! Amazing cover. Then, I saw this one ... and all I can do is bow down to...
It begins with coffee, always. Well, I suppose before there can be coffee, there has to be the act of waking, of climbing out of bed and trudging down the stairs. In a perfect world, this would be done before my toddler is awake, so that I can enjoy the quiet darkness before the day truly begins.I would make a coffee, sit on...
Here's what I read in July: WASTED WORDS BY STACI HART This was my first Staci Hart read and it certainly won't be the last. This kind of genre fiction is my favorite: something I can get lost in. Something that makes me smile. Makes me feel. I really liked this book and can't wait to read more of her work. BECOMING BY...
I'm a little late to the game, though maybe not, seeing as this book isn't yet available in the US. I waited something like four weeks from the release before I simply couldn't take it anymore. So I ordered it from Amazon.uk, and when I saw the total (with the exchange rate and shipping), I sucked it up and hit order. I sure...
I'll tell you what: I'm pretty damn excited for this book. And after buying and reading The Summer Games: Settling the Score on Kindle and wishing I'd bought the paperback, I won't be making the same mistake this time around. I can't wait to have this baby in my hands! Title: THE SUMMER GAMES: Out of Bounds Author: R.S. Grey Release Date: Aug...
I haven't blogged in a long time, but I'm sitting here in this surprisingly empty coffee shop with a steaming cup of earl grey tea and earphones in to block out the bad choice of music, and it seems like the perfect time to catch you up on what's going on. I spent a lot of time home alone with my troublesome three-year-old...
It's that time of the year when I start daydreaming about all the vacations I'm not going to get to take this summer, LOL. Well, that's not entirely fair seeing as I spent three glorious child-free days in La Jolla, CA with my hubby at the end of April, and just came back from four days in my Canadian hometown. Let's just say...
Instead of telling you what I read in April, in, well... words, this time I'm literally telling you. ...
If you're interested in watching me awkwardly read a scene from my newest novel, How To Be Someone Else, you can catch me do so over on my author blog, now. ...
Writing a book is hard work. Writing a book while working and parenting full-time is even harder.Here's a little glimpse at how most of my (work) days go.5AM -- Open my eyes (usually on my own... no alarm necessary) and try to wake up. Get out of bed, pour myself some warm water with lemon, and settle down in the dark family room...
I'm kind of a sucker for these kinds of posts; where you get a little glimpse into other readers and/or writers. I'm actually surprised that it took me this many years of blogging to finally write one of my own. But, better late than never, right? Here are a few bookish things about me: I read more physical books than ebooks, simply because...
I've gone through periods before where I'm stuck and can't seem to get anything written down. But this... this feels awfully different. Too different. Fresh off the heels of writing and publishing Losing Lily, I dove right into writing BEING LEAH, and to say that it has been an epic struggle would be an understatement. Obviously, I know how this book is going...
Here's what I read in March: THE LOVE THAT SPLIT THE WORLD by Emily Henry I really did enjoy this book, and that's saying a lot, because usually I avoid the YA genre, finding it -- more often than not -- too juvenile for me (and I don't mean that it's juvenile as in bad. I just mean... not age appropriate for me)....
