18 November 2016 Life Update

Hello Everyone!

I hope you have all had a great week!

I have been super productive in everything but what I really want to be, to be honest. I have gotten a lot of my classwork done, but I haven't started typing up my edits. Oh yeah!! I finished the written edits for my book! Woo! Super exciting, right?!

I also finished Cress by Marissa Meyer, so the review for that will be coming up soon-ish! Ugh, it was so good! I highly recommend her Lunar Chronicles Series!

The biggest thing that happened this week was about a sale. So on Target.com, there was a sale for the exact KitchenAid mixer that I wanted: a great 5 Quart, Professional 5 Mixer, which is normally $449.99. Now, I know what you're thinking. That's so expensive Dana! But hold on, here comes the sale part! I got it, with tax and shipping, for about half the price! I know right? Super great deal! So it came in the mail on Wednesday, but I can't actually open it until after Cyber Monday just in case that slim shot of there being a better sale happens. I am so impatient, though, so I just want to tear open the package and stare at it for hours. But I have to restrain myself.

Okay, onto other things! I finished my first draft of one of my final papers, so just do at least one more draft and it will be golden. I still have to do two more, and I want those drafts done in the next week and a half or so.

So yeah, super productive week!

That's all for me this time, see you next week!

XO

Dana

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Modern Fairy Tale: Adaptations and Retellings

Image
Hey everyone! Welcome to the new year! This year I am going to try to incorporate themes into my weekly posts for every month. So let's see how well that goes, shall we? To get us started, let's get in the mindset of fairy tales.   If you are like me, you love fairy tales. They were told to you when you were growing up, turned into awesome animated films, and probably taught you lessons about right and wrong, right? Well, same with me. Most people grow up on the Disney versions of these stories. They are often filled with happily ever afters, the villains getting their just desserts (killed-they get killed), and some variant of the animal side kick being embarrassed at the new couple kissing at the end of the film. But the original tales were a lot darker. Most of them had very heavy themes throughout and very graphic violence for being something to share with children. And that was the point, back when these were first circulated. They were to scare children into...
Read more

Reign of Shadows Review

Image
Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan (297 pages) My Rating: 3 Stars Date Read: 23 December 2016 Synopsis: Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized. With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet. My Review: Okay, so in this review, there will be some pretty general spoilers in the charact...
Read more

Close Range Review

Image
Close Range by Annie Proulx (285 pages) Date Finished: 14 October 2015 My Rating: 3.5 Stars Synopsis: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft. My Review: I enjoyed reading this, mainly from a craft perspective. I am not the biggest of fans of the Western stories, but the characters and their actions really came alive from her descriptions and I felt like I learned a lot. While I didn't enjoy reading all of the stories, there w...
Read more