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review; bon bons to yoga pants
Bon Bons To Yoga Pants by Katie Cross Lexie Greene has always had such a pretty face. Unfortunately, that’s where it seemed to stop. She’s grown up hearing her Mother constantly remind her that she needs to lose weight. And twenty-three-year-old Lexie knows she’s overweight. With her younger sister’s wedding on the horizon and a crush to stalk on Facebook, Lexie’s had enough. She gives up her constant daydreams about food and joins a dieting group. As the pounds melt away at the gym, she finds that life on the other side of junk food isn’t what she thought. Bon Bons to Yoga Pants is an inspirational hit about a…
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;ten things I want more of in books
I actually had no idea what I was going to write for this blog post, but Book Twitter is going through another round of Drama (TM) and I want to stay far away from that, so let’s do a list of things I would love to see more of in books*. All books. Any books.** *I was going to do a YA specific list, but I’m an adult and should not be speaking for the actual target audience. I forget sometimes I’m not still a teenager. Whoops. **This list is in no way exhaustive and only represents my thoughts and feelings on the matter. ON WE GO! Dragons. Are you…
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TWISTED TALES; three golden flowers
This is a Chinese fairytale that I think would make an interesting movie. An all Chinese cast would be great too, but this is a more general one, just as an ‘inspired by’ type of story. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Shailene Garnett as the Princess Chai Hansen as the Farmer’s Son Rick Worthy as the Chief Jackei Chan as the Fisherman “Find three golden orchids,” the wise man said upon examining the princess. “Their scent will cure her.” “Where are these golden flowers?” asked the chief. “They grow only where the sun shines through the…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS; about time
I loved this movie so much, and Domnhall Gleeson was a delight, but if they ever remade it, let’s remember to change things up, yeah? Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Samuel Anderson as Tim Lake and Katie Leung as Mary. There’s a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.
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handle with care; the paranormal edition
I’m still not sure whether I’ve gotten the right definition of the paranormal, but I’m going to take another shot at it. We’ve got a mix of science-fiction and fantasy in here, and those are my favourite genres. But even I have to admit that sometimes there are aspects I do not mesh well with. People consider aliens to be part of the paranormal, thanks I think, to The X-Files. I have not read a lot of books with alien beings, and the ones that I have, well. Most of the time, alien beings are meant to parallel real world situations and people. Most of the time, it is either…
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review; skylark
Skylark by Meagan Spooner Sixteen-year-old Lark Ainsley has never seen the sky. Her world ends at the edge of the vast domed barrier of energy enclosing all that’s left of humanity. For two hundred years the city has sustained this barrier by harvesting its children’s innate magical energy when they reach adolescence. When it’s Lark’s turn to be harvested, she finds herself trapped in a nightmarish web of experiments and learns she is something out of legend itself: a Renewable, able to regenerate her own power after it’s been stripped. Forced to flee the only home she knows to avoid life as a human battery, Lark must fight her way…
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the versatile blogger award;
Another thing that I was tagged in AGES ago (June 2018, to be exact) that I am only now getting to. Andreea @ Cheeky Lines was wonderful enough to tag me, and I feel so bad that it’s taken me almost a year to finally sit down and get to the post! The Rules: Thank the person who nominated you. Share 7 things about you – one of the purposes of this award is to get to know one another better. Nominate 7 bloggers who you’ve recently discovered who you believe deserve some recognition. Another purpose of this award is to promote networking among bloggers. Seven Things You May Not…
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recipe; eggless bread pudding
It has been some time since I made this, but growing up, I used to love bread pudding. We would go to weddings, and I would go straight to the desserts to check if there was bread pudding, and then I would plan my meals accordingly. I loved bread pudding. So when I became vegetarian and realised bread pudding contained eggs, I was quite crushed. And then! My husband asked me to make bread pudding, and Google delivered, and the only thing about the recipe I found that I wasn’t 100% happy with was the texture of the custard, so I went about substituting how I usually make custard instead.…
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TWISTED TALES; goose girl
I can’t say I know too much about this fairytale, but what I have read about it makes me think it might be fun to see it adapted for the screen. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Sarena Parmar as the Goose Girl Emeraude Toubia as the False Princess Harry Shum Jr as the King David Castro as Conrad Then with many harsh words the chambermaid ordered the princess to take off her own royal clothing and put on the chambermaid’s shabby clothes. And in the end the princess had to swear under the open heaven that…
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the book aesthetics tag;
This has been in my drafts since Lia @ Lost In A Story tagged me way back when in August 2018? I think? I have tried, many times, to make aesthetics for books. Sometimes I like to think I even succeed at making them pretty! Still, it’s intimidating to actually post them here for everyone to see. But this has been in my drafts for long enough. Rules Thank whoever nominated you. (Maybe you’re bitter that you have ANOTHER tag to do on top of the billions you already need to do (#relatable), still though. Someone thought of you. Be thankful. At least pretend to be.) Credit the creator of…