Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Book 6 of 2015: Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall
The fourth book I tackled for the 2015 Reading Challenge was a book that had
been published this year. A little bit tricky coming, as it did, four weeks into
the month. I got around this by signing up for Amazon's Early Release for Kindle
and so received it before it had technically been published.
Miramont's Ghost is the story of Miramont Castle which
was abandoned, for some mysterious reason, shortly after it was built. Adrienne
knows the reason, and through the story we learn about the events that led to
her living there. Amongst the reasons for Adrienne's banishment to the Castle
are her strange visions of things that have yet to happen or that she shouldn't
yet know. But that is just one of the mysteries of Miramont Castle.
This was a really depressing story. There never seemed to be
anything good happening to Adrienne or anyone in her family. I kept on reading
expecting some twist where something good could happen, but it never did. On the
one hand, it did keep me reading, because I'm stubborn and refuse to leave a
book unfinished, but on the other hand, I was begrudging it. I ended up just
reading to finish it, so I could read something else.
That's not to say it was all entirely bad. There were some nice
descriptions which sounded a little poetic. Other bits were really heavy-handed.
I seem to have an aversion to eyes being described as 'orbs' or 'globes', I
think it's down to spending my teenage years reading (and writing) a lot of bad
fanfiction. There was also constant referral to Genevieve touching her 'mound of
baby' whenever her pregnancy was mentioned. That's honestly the least romantic
way of describing a baby bump that I've ever heard!
There seemed to be long stretches of this book where nothing
really happened. There were plenty of characters who I would've liked to see
more of, particularly Lucie and Genevieve. We only ever got little glimpses and
aside from that they felt pretty flat. I got the sense there could be so much
more to Genevieve but we never saw any more of her. If we'd gotten a little more
detail, and maybe seen some of the good things going on in their lives, perhaps
it would've been less depressing over all.
I am interested in reading more about the real life Miramont
Castle. The little bit at the end of the book did pique my interest and I think
I'll be googling to find out more at some point. The book did also do a good job
of creeping me out a little, thanks to living in an old house myself, so I had
to read Quidditch Through the Ages to uncreep myself afterwards.
Monday, 5 October 2015
Reading Challenge: What's Still To Come?
Last week I shared my progress on the Reading Challenge issued by Popsugar
which I jumped into at the beginning of the year. There's only another thirteen
weeks still to go (fourteen if you include the book that I read last week but
didn't include the list last Monday, because I read it after I wrote that).
I thought I'd share what I'm planning to read in the next three months, perhaps you'd like to make some suggestions for books I could include for each option.
A banned book: Something from a banned book list, preferably one available through Project Gutenberg
I thought I'd share what I'm planning to read in the next three months, perhaps you'd like to make some suggestions for books I could include for each option.
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| From Popsugar. |
A book with a colour in the title: The
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1st time read) (read
this one last week)
A book that made you cry: The Time
Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
(Reread)
A book with magic: Not sure
yet
A graphic novel: Not sure yet
A book by an author you've never read before:
Something off my bookshelf
A book you own but have never read:
Something off my bookshelf (somewhere near the
bottom)
A book that takes place in your hometown:
Going to have to ask at the local bookshop, otherwise I'll find
something set on the West Coast of Scotland
A book that was originally written in a different
language: I'm sure I've got something on my bookcase or Kindle
that'll do
A book set during Christmas: Letters to
Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien (Reread), or A Christmas
Carol by Charles Dickens (Reread), or one of the numerous free
Kindle Christmas books I've got (1st time read)
A book written by an author with your same initials:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Reread)
A play: Probably something by Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night is my favourite, but I'd rather read something
new
A banned book: Something from a banned book list, preferably one available through Project Gutenberg
A book based on or turned into a TV Show: Since
we've been watching M*A*S*H I'm leaning towards MASH by Robert Hooker
(1st time read)
A book you started but never finished: The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Reread/1st time read)
As you can see, I'm about halfway there. I've got ideas for some
and some I'll just comb my bookcase for closer to the time. But if you've got
suggestions for any of the weeks I'm swithering about, feel free to leave
suggestions in the comments.
Sunday, 4 October 2015
Weekly Rundown: Without Water!
It's been an interesting week here at Chez Click, starting at 5am on Monday
when I went to the bathroom, flushed the toilet, turned on the tap and nothing
came out. Being a member of Generation Y, where all life's little problems can
be solved by turning something off and back on again, I turned off the tap. I
turned it back on again. Still nothing.
That's right.
The water was off. And I'd wasted our one flush of the toilet. Oops.
After wiping the liquid soap off my hand onto a flannel and washing my hands with a wet wipe, I went downstairs to inform the Mr of this news. Luckily he sets up the breakfast stuff the night before, including filling the kettle, so we weren't without our morning cuppa. Even more luckily, his parents are on a totally different water supply to us so we were able to fling on clothes and make a quick dash to use their running water.
It being 5am, we couldn't check with our neighbours if their water was off, but thanks to Facebook we were soon able to confirm that, yes, not only was our little rank of houses off, the big house was too!
Mount Stuart gets its water from a little loch about two or three miles from our house. It's totally different to the water in town. I mean, water's water, but then it's not. The water that comes out of our tap is softer somehow; it tastes soft and a little bit sweet, not chemically at all. Of course, when you run a bath after heavy rain it has a slight greenish tinge, but the smell of it is lovely; sometimes I don't even bother with bubble bath.
And aside from being nice to drink, and sniff, it's handy for other day to day things. Like washing up, doing laundry, and showering, all of which pretty much ground to a halt without our usual supply of the wet stuff.
Mount Stuart were very helpful, of course. We came home on Monday to a big pack of bottled water with a letter telling us what was going on (namely that the water supply should be back that evening), which was followed up with another letter a few hours later which basically said 'um, actually, looks like it's going to be tomorrow'.
Tuesday brought more bottled water and an arrangement that we could go take showers at a local hotel, should we feel that way inclined. I'm not sure how many residents took them up on that offer. I'd made a point of stopping in at my in-laws' for a shower on the way home on Monday (I'm possibly the world record holder for quick showers, Mr Click once timed me and I did it in ninety seconds – this is a skill I learned back before Sky+ was a thing, so I could nip in for a shower in the advert breaks of TV programmes).
When we got in on Tuesday evening the first thing I did was headed for the kitchen and turned on the tap, this had become a habit whenever we got in or moved, just in case it had come back on since we last checked. Imagine my delight when, after coughing and sputtering for a moment, actual water came out the tap. Sure, it was murky coloured and obviously undrinkable, but it was water. I actually took a glass of it out to the car to show Mr Click!
As of yesterday the water has pretty much returned to normal, after a couple
of days of being first murky and then cloudy. It's like our epic five-day
power cut that I blogged about three and a half years ago when this blog was just
a baby. It's not something I'd like to do again any time soon, but we survived.
And I'm pretty grateful for our running water.
Now if I could just get caught up on this backlog of laundry!
That's right.
The water was off. And I'd wasted our one flush of the toilet. Oops.
After wiping the liquid soap off my hand onto a flannel and washing my hands with a wet wipe, I went downstairs to inform the Mr of this news. Luckily he sets up the breakfast stuff the night before, including filling the kettle, so we weren't without our morning cuppa. Even more luckily, his parents are on a totally different water supply to us so we were able to fling on clothes and make a quick dash to use their running water.
It being 5am, we couldn't check with our neighbours if their water was off, but thanks to Facebook we were soon able to confirm that, yes, not only was our little rank of houses off, the big house was too!
Mount Stuart gets its water from a little loch about two or three miles from our house. It's totally different to the water in town. I mean, water's water, but then it's not. The water that comes out of our tap is softer somehow; it tastes soft and a little bit sweet, not chemically at all. Of course, when you run a bath after heavy rain it has a slight greenish tinge, but the smell of it is lovely; sometimes I don't even bother with bubble bath.
And aside from being nice to drink, and sniff, it's handy for other day to day things. Like washing up, doing laundry, and showering, all of which pretty much ground to a halt without our usual supply of the wet stuff.
Mount Stuart were very helpful, of course. We came home on Monday to a big pack of bottled water with a letter telling us what was going on (namely that the water supply should be back that evening), which was followed up with another letter a few hours later which basically said 'um, actually, looks like it's going to be tomorrow'.
Tuesday brought more bottled water and an arrangement that we could go take showers at a local hotel, should we feel that way inclined. I'm not sure how many residents took them up on that offer. I'd made a point of stopping in at my in-laws' for a shower on the way home on Monday (I'm possibly the world record holder for quick showers, Mr Click once timed me and I did it in ninety seconds – this is a skill I learned back before Sky+ was a thing, so I could nip in for a shower in the advert breaks of TV programmes).
When we got in on Tuesday evening the first thing I did was headed for the kitchen and turned on the tap, this had become a habit whenever we got in or moved, just in case it had come back on since we last checked. Imagine my delight when, after coughing and sputtering for a moment, actual water came out the tap. Sure, it was murky coloured and obviously undrinkable, but it was water. I actually took a glass of it out to the car to show Mr Click!
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| Never have I been so glad to see a glass of murky water. |
Now if I could just get caught up on this backlog of laundry!
Saturday, 3 October 2015
Film Review: The Return of the King, Part 3
Last Saturday I finally finished watching The Return of the King, so I now
know that this review is going to run to six (possibly seven) parts. It's such a
long film that after an hour I checked to see how much more there was still to
go and it was still another hour and fifteen minutes (though twenty minutes of
that is just end credits).
94. The Witch-King of Angmar is getting dressed. Those gloves do not look comfortable.
95. By now it's been two years since the first film came out (if you were watching it in the cinema) so we need a little flashback to remind us of Frodo getting stabbed in the first film.
96. Frodo, Sam and Gollum are on the doorstep of the host of Mordor. This is one bit I struggled to picture as I read the book for the first time. Now I don't picture it quite like this, but it helped straighten things out in my head.
97. Frodo's kind of possessed and has decided to just go straight in the front door, rather than climb up the stairs as suggested by Gollum. Neither options are particularly enticing but considering the way there's a sort of explosion of light, a Nazgul appears and all these Orcs start pouring out the tower, I'd guess the staircase is the lesser of two evils.
98. We get the reactions of people in Gondor to this and Gandalf gives Pippin a little hug. Aww, he's not such a bad old guy really.
99. I love that all these bad guys are just marching past the Ring, they could save themselves a bit of a march if they knew it was there!
100. Gandalf's making chess allusions. Does Middle-earth have chess?
101. Gandalf's decided that rather than waiting for Denethor to make a decision, he's just going to go ahead and get Pippin to light the beacon.
102. The guys in Osgiliath are about to get a nasty surprise. They're kind of tempting fate by discussing how quiet it is on the other side of the river. They don't have films in Middle-earth otherwise they'd know that saying things like that is exactly how you go about provoking an attack!
103. Sure enough, they Orcs are crossing the river in boats and launching a stealth attack on Faramir and his guys.
104. And so we have a bit of fighting. Well, rather more than a bit. There are a lot of people being bashed about with even more Orcs coming across over a bridge. Doesn't look good for the good guys.
105. Hobbits are apparently part gecko because Pippin's managed to climb right up onto the massive pile of wood where he spills some oil and sets it all alight before realising that maybe this isn't the safest place to stand.
106. And look, one of the Gondorian guards up there not paying attention is one of the behind the scenes guys. I don't remember what he does but he looks much older in the behind the scenes features on the Hobbit films.
107. So there's a chain reaction of beacons being lit. I wonder how some of those guys survive living up on those snow covered mountain tops. I want to read a fanfiction about what they get up to. On some of them they don't even seem to have accommodation or shelter. Are they like lighthouse keepers or do they just hang out somewhere else and then climb up to set fire to stuff?
108. Aragorn is thrilled to see the beacons are alight and rushes to tell Théoden who replies with an awesome 'Rohan will answer'. So it's off to war again.
109. Théoden's even got his armour on again. He sounds really up for it this time.
110. Aragorn seems kind of impressed to hear that Éowyn is riding along to the encampment to see them off. He also spots that she's got her sword with her. Looks like she plans to do more than just wave goodbye to them all.
111. Merry's not wanting to be left out, so he does a Pippin and pledges his sword to Théoden. Unfortunately he's not too good at driving a horse.
112. Éomer gives his men a stirring speech and then they all ride off. They fit an awful lot of people and horses into Rohan.
113. Back to Osgiliath where they've been fighting all night. The Orcs are getting uglier and more Gondorians seem to be falling over. This obviously means that the battle is not going well.
114. Faramir concurs and so the decision is made to retreat, just as the Nazgul join the fray.
115. As they ride across the field the wraiths are just picking men off their horses. Luckily Gandalf is coming out to met them. For some reason he's decided to take Pippin with him on this little excursion. I'm not sure why.
116. He turns on the torch at the top of his staff to drive away the Nazgul and together with some of the army they make it back to Minas Tirith in safety.
117. Faramir's updating Gandalf on what's going on with the enemy but then he spots Pippin and talk turns to Frodo and Sam instead. Gandalf doesn't seem impressed with the route they were heading on. But he never gave them any actual route to aim for so I'm not sure what he was expecting. If Gollum hadn't been with them, they would've just strolled in at the front gate!
118. Denethor's not pleased with Faramir's news though. He wanted the Ring for himself, of course. At least now we can see where Boromir got it from.
119. Faramir's still being all noble about not using the Ring. This does nothing to endear him to his father.
120. Denethor gets a bit het up at this, yelling at his younger son and falling over. Then he has a vision of Boromir being back. Clearly getting a bit cuckoo. And he's in charge of the whole country! Aragorn cannot get here soon enough!
121. Meanwhile, on the staircase into Mordor; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are still climbing. It's not so much of a staircase as a ladder. It's virtually horizontal.
122. Gollum spots the Ring as Frodo struggles to get over the edge of a ledge and reaches out for it. If Sam hadn't of drawn his sword then, Gollum would've grabbed for it. Of course, Frodo doesn't see this, he just sees Sam drawing his sword on Gollum. Again.
123. Gollum's also auditioning for his role as devil on Frodo's shoulder, whispering lies into his ears about how Sam will want to take the Ring.
124. Back in Gondor, war is ramping up and Pippin is talking to himself. Faramir overhears him and compliments him on his soldier's outfit; it was made for him as a young boy.
125. Faramir and Pippin seem to understand each other well. It's a sweet moment.
126. And now Pippin is swearing himself into the service of the Steward of Gondor. Then Denethor sits down to eat. He's a messy eater and he's perfectly happy to send his son back out into battle to take back Osgiliath, even if it means certain death for Faramir and his men.
127. It's ironic that Faramir volunteered to go to Rivendell and Denethor insisted Boromir should go, which led to his death. Of course, if Faramir had gone, he probably wouldn't have been as tempted by the Ring and chances are things would've gone differently for both brothers.
128. Up on a ledge, the trio and the Ring are taking a nap. Well, Gollum's pretending to. He's got a plan which'll get rid of Sam once and for all. It involves a bunch of lembas crummies which he sprinkles on Sam's shoulder before disposing of the rest of the food over the edge.
129. Sam would be as messy an eater as Denethor if when he eats he gets crumbs on his shoulder!
130. Would things have been different if Sam had been nicer to Gollum? Probably not.
131. And now all the lembas is gone. Gollum points out that he couldn't eat the stuff and then 'discovers' the crumbs on Sam. Frodo might have felt differently about this accusation if Sam hadn't started beating the crap out of Gollum.
132. Just as Gollum predicted, Sam offers to carry the Ring. And now all of a sudden it's Frodo and Gollum against Sam. Poor Sam. I feel so sorry for him and the fact his face is so dirty so the tear tracks really stand out against it just makes it all the sadder.
133. Frodo's all 'just go home'. The Ring's turning him into a real jerk.
Next week we'll get to hearBilly Boyd Pippin singing a sad
song, see Elrond bringing Aragorn a gift, and prepare to tread the Paths of the
Dead.
Last week Pippin got itchy fingers and alerted Sauron to where at
least one Hobbit could be found, so he was carted off on a road trip with
Gandalf. It was a time of education for Arwen as well as she learned that her
father had actually seen a child in her future, a future that wouldn't come to
pass if she headed off to the Undying Lands like he wanted. And Sam worried that
there wouldn't be enough food to see them through on the return journey; that'll
be the least of his worries this week!
94. The Witch-King of Angmar is getting dressed. Those gloves do not look comfortable.
95. By now it's been two years since the first film came out (if you were watching it in the cinema) so we need a little flashback to remind us of Frodo getting stabbed in the first film.
96. Frodo, Sam and Gollum are on the doorstep of the host of Mordor. This is one bit I struggled to picture as I read the book for the first time. Now I don't picture it quite like this, but it helped straighten things out in my head.
97. Frodo's kind of possessed and has decided to just go straight in the front door, rather than climb up the stairs as suggested by Gollum. Neither options are particularly enticing but considering the way there's a sort of explosion of light, a Nazgul appears and all these Orcs start pouring out the tower, I'd guess the staircase is the lesser of two evils.
98. We get the reactions of people in Gondor to this and Gandalf gives Pippin a little hug. Aww, he's not such a bad old guy really.
99. I love that all these bad guys are just marching past the Ring, they could save themselves a bit of a march if they knew it was there!
100. Gandalf's making chess allusions. Does Middle-earth have chess?
101. Gandalf's decided that rather than waiting for Denethor to make a decision, he's just going to go ahead and get Pippin to light the beacon.
102. The guys in Osgiliath are about to get a nasty surprise. They're kind of tempting fate by discussing how quiet it is on the other side of the river. They don't have films in Middle-earth otherwise they'd know that saying things like that is exactly how you go about provoking an attack!
103. Sure enough, they Orcs are crossing the river in boats and launching a stealth attack on Faramir and his guys.
104. And so we have a bit of fighting. Well, rather more than a bit. There are a lot of people being bashed about with even more Orcs coming across over a bridge. Doesn't look good for the good guys.
105. Hobbits are apparently part gecko because Pippin's managed to climb right up onto the massive pile of wood where he spills some oil and sets it all alight before realising that maybe this isn't the safest place to stand.
106. And look, one of the Gondorian guards up there not paying attention is one of the behind the scenes guys. I don't remember what he does but he looks much older in the behind the scenes features on the Hobbit films.
107. So there's a chain reaction of beacons being lit. I wonder how some of those guys survive living up on those snow covered mountain tops. I want to read a fanfiction about what they get up to. On some of them they don't even seem to have accommodation or shelter. Are they like lighthouse keepers or do they just hang out somewhere else and then climb up to set fire to stuff?
108. Aragorn is thrilled to see the beacons are alight and rushes to tell Théoden who replies with an awesome 'Rohan will answer'. So it's off to war again.
109. Théoden's even got his armour on again. He sounds really up for it this time.
110. Aragorn seems kind of impressed to hear that Éowyn is riding along to the encampment to see them off. He also spots that she's got her sword with her. Looks like she plans to do more than just wave goodbye to them all.
111. Merry's not wanting to be left out, so he does a Pippin and pledges his sword to Théoden. Unfortunately he's not too good at driving a horse.
112. Éomer gives his men a stirring speech and then they all ride off. They fit an awful lot of people and horses into Rohan.
113. Back to Osgiliath where they've been fighting all night. The Orcs are getting uglier and more Gondorians seem to be falling over. This obviously means that the battle is not going well.
114. Faramir concurs and so the decision is made to retreat, just as the Nazgul join the fray.
115. As they ride across the field the wraiths are just picking men off their horses. Luckily Gandalf is coming out to met them. For some reason he's decided to take Pippin with him on this little excursion. I'm not sure why.
116. He turns on the torch at the top of his staff to drive away the Nazgul and together with some of the army they make it back to Minas Tirith in safety.
117. Faramir's updating Gandalf on what's going on with the enemy but then he spots Pippin and talk turns to Frodo and Sam instead. Gandalf doesn't seem impressed with the route they were heading on. But he never gave them any actual route to aim for so I'm not sure what he was expecting. If Gollum hadn't been with them, they would've just strolled in at the front gate!
118. Denethor's not pleased with Faramir's news though. He wanted the Ring for himself, of course. At least now we can see where Boromir got it from.
119. Faramir's still being all noble about not using the Ring. This does nothing to endear him to his father.
120. Denethor gets a bit het up at this, yelling at his younger son and falling over. Then he has a vision of Boromir being back. Clearly getting a bit cuckoo. And he's in charge of the whole country! Aragorn cannot get here soon enough!
121. Meanwhile, on the staircase into Mordor; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are still climbing. It's not so much of a staircase as a ladder. It's virtually horizontal.
122. Gollum spots the Ring as Frodo struggles to get over the edge of a ledge and reaches out for it. If Sam hadn't of drawn his sword then, Gollum would've grabbed for it. Of course, Frodo doesn't see this, he just sees Sam drawing his sword on Gollum. Again.
123. Gollum's also auditioning for his role as devil on Frodo's shoulder, whispering lies into his ears about how Sam will want to take the Ring.
124. Back in Gondor, war is ramping up and Pippin is talking to himself. Faramir overhears him and compliments him on his soldier's outfit; it was made for him as a young boy.
125. Faramir and Pippin seem to understand each other well. It's a sweet moment.
126. And now Pippin is swearing himself into the service of the Steward of Gondor. Then Denethor sits down to eat. He's a messy eater and he's perfectly happy to send his son back out into battle to take back Osgiliath, even if it means certain death for Faramir and his men.
127. It's ironic that Faramir volunteered to go to Rivendell and Denethor insisted Boromir should go, which led to his death. Of course, if Faramir had gone, he probably wouldn't have been as tempted by the Ring and chances are things would've gone differently for both brothers.
128. Up on a ledge, the trio and the Ring are taking a nap. Well, Gollum's pretending to. He's got a plan which'll get rid of Sam once and for all. It involves a bunch of lembas crummies which he sprinkles on Sam's shoulder before disposing of the rest of the food over the edge.
129. Sam would be as messy an eater as Denethor if when he eats he gets crumbs on his shoulder!
130. Would things have been different if Sam had been nicer to Gollum? Probably not.
131. And now all the lembas is gone. Gollum points out that he couldn't eat the stuff and then 'discovers' the crumbs on Sam. Frodo might have felt differently about this accusation if Sam hadn't started beating the crap out of Gollum.
132. Just as Gollum predicted, Sam offers to carry the Ring. And now all of a sudden it's Frodo and Gollum against Sam. Poor Sam. I feel so sorry for him and the fact his face is so dirty so the tear tracks really stand out against it just makes it all the sadder.
133. Frodo's all 'just go home'. The Ring's turning him into a real jerk.
Next week we'll get to hear
Friday, 2 October 2015
Chapter-by-Chapter: New Moon Introduction
It took us a long time to reach the end, but I'm ready to move on to the next chapter in the Twilight Saga. That being New Moon. I can kind of see what she did with the title there.
But before we can get started properly, first of all I want to take a look at this book and see if I can figure anything out about the story before I begin. We used to have to do this with books in primary school and it's kind of fun to see how right you are (or as is probably going to be the case, how terribly, terribly wrong you get it).
First of all, let's look at the cover:
Uh, yeah. That's what my copy looks like. Except it's second hand so it's a bit yellow and grey as well. I picked up all of my books in the series from assorted charity shops in Oban, so they don't all match and two of them are from this set:
I've got both New Moon and Eclipse in this format. They've got the same pictures as the regular covers, but the title is only on the spine, not the front. And the edges of the books are red. This makes them look snazzy in the above pictures but the red seems to have bled onto some of the pages inside. Then again, maybe that was intentional to make it feel more real.
The back cover of the book is red and the blurb says:
But before we can get started properly, first of all I want to take a look at this book and see if I can figure anything out about the story before I begin. We used to have to do this with books in primary school and it's kind of fun to see how right you are (or as is probably going to be the case, how terribly, terribly wrong you get it).
First of all, let's look at the cover:
I've got both New Moon and Eclipse in this format. They've got the same pictures as the regular covers, but the title is only on the spine, not the front. And the edges of the books are red. This makes them look snazzy in the above pictures but the red seems to have bled onto some of the pages inside. Then again, maybe that was intentional to make it feel more real.
The back cover of the book is red and the blurb says:
New MoonI knew we were both in mortal danger.
Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole.
I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.
It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.
Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole.
I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.
It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.
I've heard that in this book Edward leaves for a while, widely regarded by some as the best moment in the whole series. I'm guessing that's where the whole Team Edward/Team Jacob thing comes from. Is he going to go away and Jacob's going to spend more time with Bella?
The flower tells me absolutely nothing. Is someone going to give Bella a flower? That's probably about as deep as it gets. The flower does look as though it's been dipped in blood, perhaps there are some flowers involved in some sort of bloodbath. Then again, there was an apple on the cover of the last book and I don't recall anyone actually eating an apple.
The back of the book makes me wonder if perhaps Bella's actually going to get turned into a vampire in this one. We never actually saw the tracker die, perhaps he's going to come back and get her, so Edward has to turn Bella to save her.
There's only one way to find out.
I'll share my thoughts on the first chapter this time next week.
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Wreck This Journal: White Things
Here's a quick update on my Wreck This Journal as it's been two months since I shared it, funnily
enough, this is the same page that I shared last time.
When I last shared the White Things page, my Mum suggested that I might like to stick a doily to the page. I agreed that sounded like a good idea, so while I was in Wales, she let me have one which I've added to the page.
When I last shared the White Things page, my Mum suggested that I might like to stick a doily to the page. I agreed that sounded like a good idea, so while I was in Wales, she let me have one which I've added to the page.
Before:
Now:
Okay, so it's not a huge difference, but it's a step in the right
direction.
I'm going to knit or crochet a little bit of white wool as well to
stick in at some point. Plus with winter fast approaching, I'm sure I'll be able
to get some snowflakes or white paper chains to add too.
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