Drops of Inspira

Where the Woods Grow Wild by Nate Philbrick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Available on Amazon.com CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN:  1540522857  (ISBN13:  9781540522856 ) Copyright: December 10th, 2016 A cast of colorful characters? Check. A well-crafted plot? Check? A forest that is wilder than it seems? Triple check. Written by one of my favorite authors, Nate Philbrick? Sign me up! This book has sat on my TBR shelf for a couple of months and my little brother has been urging me to read it so that he can read it next. This year, I placed this book at the top of my TBR list and dove in. Nate is a master writer, balancing beautiful description that serves the plot without making it difficult to wade through, and humorous, but thoughtful dialogue. Themes of friendship, love, unity and looking deeper than just basing your judgement on the outside were peppered throughout. My emotions ran rampant as the woods which Nate writes about as I read this won...

Severed Veil: Tales of Death and Dreams by Bethany A. Jennings My rating: 5 of 5 stars Available on Amazon.com Independently Published ISBN: 1723793027  (ISBN13:  9781723793028 ) Copyright: October 26th, 2018 A sort of anthology of short stories and poems, "Severed Veil: Tales of Death and Dreams" is so much more than a tiny book sitting on a bookcase. The collection has stories that deal with loss, the importance of hope, creativeness and so much more. A section that really stuck out to me was the poem, "Living in the Light". This poem was about someone who is trying to help someone struggling with depression or another difficulty. As someone that struggles on and off with depression and has tried to help her sister with it only to see her sister sink deeper and deeper with seemingly no help, this hit home on a number of levels. It touched me to the core and I'm not afraid to say that I cried. Bethany A. Jennings has a gift with words, a talent to...

Goodness! It's been practically forever since I've posted anything, and I really didn't intend for it to be this long.   Last month was...crazy? Insane? Nearly impossible? Hmm...possibly all those things.  Last month, one of my sisters was married and I was in her wedding. It was beautiful. The weather was great which was a relief. The day before it was cold and windy. Since it was outside, I was picturing my sister, her wedding dress covered in dirt and dust, so I was relieved when the next day it warmed up considerably and there was just a light breeze.  The second thing of note was that I participated in NaNoWriMo.  I know...crazy. Wedding and NaNoWriMo? *deep breath* That was fun. I started eight days late and in order to make it work, got up every morning at 6:30 to edit, because of course I couldn't be normal and just write a fresh book. Nope. I had to be a rebel and edit.   I've never had the chance to edit anything properly. I've ...

                                                                                           Crooked House  by  Agatha Christie                                                       My rating:  5 of 5 stars                                                Available on Amazon.com                                           Crooked House by Agatha Christie ...

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly My rating: 5 of 5 stars (available at amazon.com) Publisher:   Disney Press; Dlx Org edition (January 31, 2017)  ISBN 1484780981 Death and Love have a bet. Love bets that Belle will win the Beast's heart and that she will fall in love with him in return. Death bets that the Beast will fail. To ensure her victory, Death inserts a magical book into the Beast's Library, a place Belle has fallen in love with, a book called "Nevermore". "Nevermore" isn't an ordinary book. It is alive in every sense of the word, writing the story that its reader has always wanted, a perfect fairy-tale ending. When Belle discovers the book and enters its pages she'll have to chose between living for herself in the perfect world of "Nevermore" or living for others in the reality of the Beast's Enchanted Castle, a place where she has little control over her own life...

                                                                           (available on amazon.com)                                                                   ISBN:  198109265X  (ISBN13:  9781981092659 )                                                                             Independently published (May 27, 2018)                              ...

ISBN 9780062074324 Author: Agatha Christie © 1941 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. "N or M?" by Agatha Christie (available on Amazon.com) It's World War 2 and while Britain fights the physical, visible forces of Germany, the British face an even deadlier threat, that of "The Fifth Column". "The Fifth Column" is the name given to a group of unknown spies working for Germany. An attack by Germany is imminent and the British Intelligence Service is at a loss. Their best agent has just been murdered by Germany's spies named "N and M". Enter Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Tommy and Tuppence have been rejected from serving their country. They are "too old". Both are middle-aged; the army only wants the young people. Husband and wife bemoan the fact that they must sit around while others are fighting for their country. They feel useless. One night they are approached by an old friend....