I write because I read. I read because I write.
I am good in planning, except when I’m reading, sometimes I follow where my mood is swinging, and here are the books I’m glad I picked on a whim. --- Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson About: Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity,… Continue reading Ten Books I’m Glad I Picked on a Whim
Titles in Love: A Book Spine Poetry* All the Bright Places All the Light We Cannot See Shatter Me Unravel Me Ignite Me Everything, Everything Every You, Every Me — ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Josh Felise In response to Napowrimo Day 10. Today’s prompt comes to us from Lillian Hallberg.… Continue reading Titles in Love: A Book Spine Poetry*
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”― Jorge Luis Borges What's a paradise without five-star reads? I have my own five-star paradise, and my recent residents are... --- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym), J.K. Rowling Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav… Continue reading Recent Five Star Reads
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost I am admittedly a dark-writer. Scribbler of tragic incidents, composer of painful heartaches, killer of several lives. It is then I realized, that the books I loved, are those which make me… Continue reading Fave Tearjerker Reads
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon They either left my heart broken or their stories let my soul be taken or they're just handsome to be forgotten! - THE HANDSOME 1. Gale of The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins The Who: Katniss Everdeen's… Continue reading Ten Characters I Won’t Forget
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love..." ― Christopher Morley Today is The Broke and the Bookish' Valentine's-inspired Top Ten Tuesday! Funnily, though, I published my own Top 10 Novels to Read on Valentine's last year (plus Top 10 movies!). So... for a change... I will be… Continue reading Ten Valentine Reads (with *kilig* excerpts)
Out of 48 books read last year, only eleven (11) were given five stars. And they are... Mystery/Thrillers The Pelican Brief by John Grisham With twists and turns I have never predicted, this book made me an automatic fan of John Grisham. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold A book I have written a full-length review is surely a… Continue reading Best Read Books of 2015
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones The Broke and the Bookish's Top Ten Tuesday is Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't. But I am tweaking it! 😀 Here's the ten books I would… Continue reading Top Ten Books I Missed Reading last 2015
