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NaNoWriMo 2013 Participation

Okay so...I am in the middle of my last year of my masters and I decide to do this....NaNoWriMo aka National Novel Writing Month. I have decided to give it a shot and write 50K words in one month. This will be my first shot at a book. It is pure ambition and a love for words and a need to write whats in my heart and to want to share it with the world. I will be tracking my progress at www.nanowrimo.org. I will also try to participate in some of the local write ins. Here is a brief overlook of what I am writing....

Synopsis:
Song for Marie is a story about three generations of women. The story opens with a young woman at odds with her emotions towards her mother, who left her at the five months and never explained her absence. The story also has several over strong female voices. A grandmother seeking absolution for not raising her own children. A young mother trying to come to terms with her mothers secrets and a sibling at odds with them all because she feels unloved and unwelcomed among a family that she thinks are strangers. She seeks comfort in religion and her own family. The common tie between these women...a name...Marie. To each the name defines them differently. One is strong, One bitter, One lost, and another abandoned.

This will most likely always be my problem I do not really care for shoes lol

Clockwork Angel: The Infernal Devices Book One by Cassandra Clare

Here is the first book of the Prequel series to Mortal Instruments. I honestly will say that I was expected something very different. A lot more background about how the Angel appears etc. But that was not the case with this book. Instead we meet Tessa Gray on her way to London to live with her brother Nate after the unexpected death of their Aunt in New York. Tessa is greeted by the Dark Sisters; who are members of the Pandemonium Club. This club is not an innocent social club but instead a group of downworlders and mundanes that cast spells and gamble and party. The club is dangerous and Nate has somehow gotten himself mixed up in it all. All hell breaks lose once the Shadowhunters get involved. The book is not without its mix of action. There of course is a love triangle blossoming. And it will perhaps end a friendship and one of my beloved characters will be left feeling very discarded. I can only hope that this will not be the case. I did really enjoy the book - however I wanted a lot more history. Perhaps that is something that the other books will previde.

Books I absolutely Despised....some may surprise people...

I have been thinking of this list for a while....things that I have read and that made my head hurt....lol

Breaking Dawn....Oh this book pissed me off...all of Jacob's whining....ugh..That whole middle section could have been cut out completely. And the weird baby thing and then introducing new characters at the end of the series...really...and the writing was just horrid.

As much as I love Harry I really struggled with this book...it was entirely to long and was BORING! In this case the movie was a lot better.

I think this might be sacrilegious...but I really could not stand these as a kid. 

I couldn't get past the fact that her name was Sookie...I couldn't take her seriously with that name. 

I can not express how much I hated this book....lets not even get into it...ugh!

One of the driest damn books that I have ever ever read. I wanted to pluck my eyes out.

I am sure there are many many many many more lol.....but theses are some of the ones that really really stand out.

Paperback release: Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

For those of us that did not want to pay 35.99$ for the hardcover. We now have the chance to purchase the paperback for 9.99$ on amazon. The book is now available for pre-order and will be available on July 23rd, 2013. 

Personal note: I am really excited about getting my hands on this book. I did not buy it as a hardcover for several reasons...1) Cosmetic: the hardcover's cover was ugly lol....2) I carry by books in my purse along with a ton of other things. Honestly I can not deal with a hard back book adding to much weight to my already heavy bag lol :) 3) and also the price...i love JK Rowling but I could not see spending that much on a book. I will never pay over 18$ for a book, not even from one of my favorite authors.

Book Happenings....JK Rowling

Can you smell the excitement? The Queen is coming to the small screen...Casual Vacancy will air as a mini series some time in 2014.

Here is the article from: http://www.hypable.com

J.K. Rowling and the BBC surprised the world earlier this month when the pair announced that The Casual Vacancy would be adapted for television.

Via Rowling’s agent, we’re learning today that casting will begin in the spring.

When news of the television show was announced, Rowling seemed thrilled. “I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television,” Rowling said. “I think the BBC is the perfect home.”

She had said while promoting the book earlier in the year that the book was not very “filmable.” “That is one of the things I like about it. I think it’s a very novelly novel in that a lot of what goes on happens internally. You need to understand what’s going on inside people’s heads. So even though a lot happens in the novel, part of the appeal of it for me is that so much of it happens in people’s interior life, and film isn’t necessarily the best medium to portray that.”

We’ll continue to keep an eye on the Casual Vacancy television show developments as they arrive. It will air as a miniseries in 2014.