My final reflection after completing the A to Z April 2015 Challenge has two parts: 1) My theme was Author Spotlight, so the first part is a review of the 26 wonderful authors I have featured in my A-Z Challenge. 2) The second is an overview of all the blogs I visited during the challenge and why I enjoyed myContinue reading “#AtoZChallenge 2015 Final Reflection”
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#AtoZChallenge Round Up Featured Authors
I’ve finished my A-Z Challenge and I’d like to thank all the wonderful authors I featured. Firstly, I’d like to thank them for writing wonderful thought-provoking books. You made me think about love, good and evil, forgiveness and vengeance, relationships, our history, our future. You also made me laugh and cry, feel angry and happy, you frightenedContinue reading “#AtoZChallenge Round Up Featured Authors”
#AtoZChallenge Roundup
So, the A-z Challenge is over! I made it with hundreds of other blogs. I’ve popped into lots of blogs which I’ve enjoyed. Some I knew before and some I’ve met on the way, which was wonderful. The following are those I’ve visited more often, sometimes daily. Here they all are, in no particular order.Continue reading “#AtoZChallenge Roundup”
Letter Z The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘Z’ is for Ava Zavora author of Dear Adam. Why do I recommend Dear Adam? The closest I ever came to a computer or mobile phone before the age of 30 was while watching Star Trek! But like most of my versatile generation, I caught on quickly, so now I’m aContinue reading “Letter Z The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter Y The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘Y’ is for Laura Taylor author of Desert Rose Why do I recommend Desert Rose? Sometimes reading makes me feel guilty of pure escapism based on totally imaginary scenarios, like being on a holiday on a desert island, without a care in the world, with a sexy hero by my side. IContinue reading “Letter Y The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter X The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘X’ is for Faith Mortimer author of On Christmas Hill Why do I recommend On Christmas Hill? I love Christmas, and I love the way seasonal literature and films enhance our experience of this ancestral need to believe that good can and will conquer evil. I like to believe good peopleContinue reading “Letter X The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter W The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘W’ is for Alison Williams author of The Black Hours. Why do I recommend The Black Hours? The Black Hours is not an easy novel to read because it’s based on the true story of a cruel witch-finder during the English Civil War, in the 17th century. Alison Williams thrustContinue reading “Letter W The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter V The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘V’ is for ‘Vampire Novels’ and Erica Stevens, author of The Captive Series. Why do I recommend The Captive Series? I remember being terrified yet addicted to the tandem Christopher Lee, ‘The Vampire’, and his frequent pursuer, Peter Cushing, in the notorious ‘Hammer’ Dracula films I watched avidly in the 1970s,Continue reading “Letter V The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter U The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘U’ is for Mark Rubinstein, author of Mad Dog House and Mad Dog Justice. Why do I recommend Mad Dog House and Mad Dog Justice? Mad Dog House is a compelling read. It’s a disturbing urban thriller which I read in one sitting. I loved the way the authorContinue reading “Letter U The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Letter T The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge
April Author Spotlight 2015 Letter ‘T’ is for Terry Tyler, author of Kings and Queens Why do I recommend Kings and Queens? I loved the unique premise of Kings and Queens. It is an original take on the Tudors by transferring them to contemporary England. It was fun working out who the contemporary characters might have been inContinue reading “Letter T The April A to Z Blogging Challenge #AtoZChallenge”
Rereading Jane Eyre 