Blows dust off blog page

*Walks onto pretend darkened stage. Taps mike*

Hello,

I know that it's been quite some time since I've last updated this lovely little page. Here's hoping that this fall and end of 2016 will be a little bit more productive. Not making any promises...

The new fall seasons of TV shows have just started to air and so far they haven't disappointed. Waiting to see how some of the newer shows fair in their second episodes that I have enjoyed the pilot episodes of.

That's it for the update for now.

Fairy Tale Retellings My Recommendations

I know it's been awhile since I've posted and I've had this draft sitting around for awhile. Blows off the cobwebs and I've made a slight change.

If you're a fan of Once Upon A Time and are looking for something to read to help fill in the time until the winder break ends. I have some Fairy Tale stories that are in a somewhat similar vein in retelling the Fairy Tales that we grew up with. These are in no particular order.

The Grimm Diaries by Cameron Jace:  Snow White is not what we actually think she is in this series. Every 1000 years the relatives of the Grimms have to make sure that the Fairy Tales stay the way they were written and that the the lost 7 stay lost.  There are a series of 18 prequels which introduce us to the main characters that will make appearances in the main novels of the series. The prequels are only in e-book format and can be purchased in bundles.

The Prequels are:
1 Snow White Blood Red narrated by The Snow White Queen
2 Ashes to Ashes and Cinder to Cindernarrated by Alice Grimm
3 Beauty Never Dies narrated by Peter Pan
4 Ladle Rotten Rat Hut narrated by Little Red Riding Hood
5 Mary Mary Quite Contrary narrated by the Devil
6 Blood Apples narrated by Prince Charming
7 Once Beauty Twice Beast narrated by Beauty
8 Moon & Madlynarrated by Moongirl
9 Rumpelstein narrated by Rumpelstiltskin
10 Jawigi narrated by Sandman Grimm
10.5 Happy Valentine’s Slay by Wee Willy Winkie

11 Children of Hamlin by the Devil

12 Tooth & Nail & Fairy Tale by Jack Madly

13 Ember in the Wind by the Little Match Girl

14 Jar of Hearts by the Queen of Sorrow

15 Snow White Black Swan narrated by the Queen of Sorrow
16 The Pumpkin Piper narrated by Jack Madly
17 Prince of Puppets narrated by Pinocchio
18 The Sleeping Swan narrated by Angel Von Sorrow

The Main Novels are

 1. Snow White Sorrow

2. Cinderella Dressed in Ashes

3. Blood, Milk and Chocolate (December 2014)

These are available in either e-book or print format.

If you love the character Rumpelstiltskin there are a few books for you to sit down and enjoy

A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde (many different takes on Rumplestiltskin)

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff

My friend and fellow podcaster, Chrissy (aka wildcatmedia) has also made a list of her favorite fairy tale re-tellings and she has graciously said I could add the links for them here in my post. Enjoy!
Recommendations part 1
Recommendations part 2

Books that I've read in the past few months

With me being on summer vacation, I've been able to slowly start to chip away at my to be read pile of books,(I was able to read some during the school year, but not as much as I would have liked.) but that list still continues to grow I think this picture sums it up nicely:

I'm just going to give a brief run-down of the books that I have crossed off of my to Read List and hopefully in the near future I'll sit down and write up some spoiler free reviews of said books.

I have read (In no particular order, and going according to my fuzzy memory I think I may have forgotten one or two. This list is from the beginning of May up until now):

The Divergent Series- By Veronica Roth
Dog Boy: Den of Thieves- by Bill Meeks
Dog Boy: Danger on Liberty Pier-by Bill Meeks

Fangirl- by Rainbow Rowell

 Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Careless in Red (Inspector Lynley Mystery series)- By Elizabeth George
Death of a Gossip (Hamish MacBeth Series) By M.C. Beaton
Death of a Cad (Hamish MacBeth Series) M.C. Beaton
Death of an Outsider (Hamish MacBeth Series) M.C.Beaton
Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish MacBeth Series) M.C. Beaton
Death of a Hussy (Hamish MacBeth Series) M.C. Beaton
Something Borrowed ( 6th Doctor 50th Anniversary e-book) by Richelle Mead
The Ripple Effect (7th Doctor 50th Anniversary e-book) by  Malorie Blackman
*unamed book (why I'm doing this is that I got an advanced copy of an e-book to read and I will be posting my review of the e-book on Amazon and on here when the e-book goes live on the 24th of July.

*WHEW*I think that's all of them.

 Now the books that I'm currently reading.(This list may get added to)
The Queen of the Tearling by Ericka Johansen
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (I have a bundle copy of most of the outlander series on my e-reader) 

How's that old saying go? So many books so little time. But I'm enjoying every minute of it. Also if you have any book recommendations of books that you think I may enjoy, please leave them in the comments. I'm always on the look out for something new to read!

*taps mic* Is this thing on?

Blows off the virtual dust that is my blog page. Man, forgot that I signed up for a blog here. Now's a good a time as any to start it. What will this blog feature? Possibly reviews of my fannish favorites. Book reviews and possibly movie reviews. So this is just a short post with more to come hopefully in the future.