Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016
Author: Marissa Meyer
About the Author
Marissa Meyer was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, home of Almond Roca and Stadium High School, which was made famous when Heath Ledger danced down the stadium steps in 10 Things I Hate About You. Marissa didn't actually go to Stadium High School, but she did attend Pacific Lutheran University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Creative Writing. She still lives in Tacoma, now with her husband. Cinder is her YA debut.
Rebecca Soler is a film and voiceover actress who won a 2009 AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of After by Amy Efaw. Her audiobook credits include work by authors such as Judy Blume, James Patterson and Sarah Dessen. Soler has also narrated the popular young adult series The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Her voice over credits include various video games, like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Red Dead Redemption and television shows such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She lives in New York City.
Marissa Meyer on Cinder, writing, and leading men
Which of your characters is most like you?
WORDS: Crass
I started the Word section of this blog to keep track of my favorite phrases, words, and way to use them for writing. This has a side benefit, dear reader, to inspire you to expand your vocabulary.
Today's word is Crass.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
NAMES: Names I Like (Inspired by Gail Carriger's Books)
Where Did the Idea Come From?
Gail Carriger is full of fun and interesting names for her characters. Her latest series has inspired me to incorporate a new section into my blog about my favorite names. I'm not sure if I will ever use any of these, but perhaps if I ever get another dog, have a child, or need to name a video game character I will have a ready-made list of ideas. To find additional names outside of this post or similar topics to other posts there are tags at the bottom that link to related categories.
WORDS: New Words (Inspired by Gail Carriger's Books)
While reading/listening to a new series I discovered a few new words that I really like and would like to take note of. I will be trying to replace other words in my vocabulary with these, because they sound elegant.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
BOOK REVIEW: Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Audible version Chapter sixteen where they are in the hive had me laughing out loud. My stomach hurts from the 'kerfuffle'. While hearing this nutty predicament I just had to start my review. The verbiage used in Gails books may only be described as smart. In an old school manner of intelligence, every book stands out with an amusing vocabulary and even more amusing antidotes.
AUTHOR: Gail Carriger
I made this drawing as a nod to the Finishing School series. I loved the books and made a quick doodle of some of the characters.
BOOK REVIEW: Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
Etiquette and Espionage is a spin off of Gail Carriger's steam-punk world that started with, "The Parasol Protectorate." I loved the Parasol Protectorate and many of Gail's other books. The Parasol Protectorate includes: Prudence, Soulless, Heartless, Blameless, and Changeless. More on that series in another review.
BOOK REVIEW: Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger
Waistcoats and Weaponry is a book in a series about daring adventure through Scottland, Britain, and the ether. This book in the series focuses more on werewolves and the reader finally gets to know more about Lady Kingair (Sidheag Maccon).
BOOK REVIEW: Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles - Levana's Story UNABRIDGED by Marissa Meyer (Book Series)
Now begins the waiting game
This book includes a preview of the final book, winter. So, I'll spend the next 6-8 months patiently waiting for it to come out and then probably forget half the plot.
The book just before this one left so, so many unanswered questions on the table so I'm glad from the preview that it sounds like we will be skipping back forward to the present.
This book in the series is all set in the past to give us a character background on the queen, her husband, and the two princesses.
Some is expected but most is not. I want to day more but would hate to spoil the book. I enjoyed the mini story but wish this was book .5 and not placed where it is but then again it's good to have a little mystery and this would ruin too much of that for book 1-3.
Disappointed that I still don't know what happened next other than the winter teaser. Now begins the waiting game.
SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY: Losing Helium
It's too bad dirigibles never really became in-style, but this article does make me wonder what other uses we might have for helium. With space travel and the eventuality of potentially colonizing another planet like Mars on the horizon, is it an issue?
BOOK REVIEW: Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger
Waistcoats and Weaponry is a book in a series about daring adventure through Scottland, Britain, and the ether. This book in the series focuses more on werewolves and the reader finally gets to know more about Lady Kingair (Sidheag Maccon).
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
SITE UPDATE: Moving All Book Reviews
My main blog, DesaraeVeit.com, is getting a little cluttered with various genres and hobbies so I will be moving all my book reviews to https://sharebookreviews.blogspot.com/ as of today (May receive another url soon like books.desaraev.com etc. still open to ideas). Other genres may also move to genre specific sites at a later date.
All old posts will remain on this blog and some new book reviews make appear here as well, but if you ONLY want to read book reviews... head on over to the new site.
Monday, May 16, 2016
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