Feature and Follow 3.28.14

Feature and Follow Friday

This week's topic:  

Snap it Time! A picture is worth a thousand words. Anything and anything. Just give us a pic.

Well who can pick just one? However, I did limit my photos to my most recent trip to France and to my most favorite district: Montmartre and the resting place of my kindred spirit: Père Lachaise Cemetery, but then I couldn't resist to throw in a few of the catacombs as well. Enjoy!

Père Lachaise Cemetery

My Oscar...

                                        (image from tripadvisor.com)                        

                                                                                 

For reasons that are completely unknown to me visitors cover the monument in kisses.  The first time I visited it must have just been cleaned as none were visible.  It was much more peaceful that way.  I love Oscar Wilde I don't understand the kisses, but now the monument is encased in glass (pic on left).  So true fans cannot put their hand near their Oscar anymore.

The inscription from Oscar's Tomb from Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol: ”And alien tears will fill for him/Pity’s long-broken urn,/For his mourners will be outcast men,/And outcasts always mourn.”  When I visited the first time I immediately sobbed as I was and had always been an outcast and somehow Oscar had known all along.  It was so incredibly moving and something I will never forget.

Jim Morrison is the one of the other famous residents whose graves must be protected from the vandalizing homage of "fans".

The Catacombs

Montmarte

Feature and Follow 2014.2

Feature and Follow #2014.2

Question of the Week: How have your reading habits changed in the past few years? Did you get interested in a new genre? Do you read more? Less? Why do you think your habits changed, if they did.

I have always been a reader, but I noticed that during the final five years of my marriage I hadn't finished a book.  Immediately, after my separation I began reading all I could get my hands on in my favorite genre, historical fiction (an outcropping of my MA in history and love of anything Tudor (that is why Henry and Anne join us below).  However, I have discovered new takes on the genre: such as detective themes (CJ Sansom) and the radical history (more pure fiction, that looks at what might have happened); Truly I love it all. 

Reading has been my escape but also the return to myself!

Feature and Follow #2014.1

Feature and Follow Friday (#2014.1)

Resolutions: Put together your blogger resolution list for all of us to see!

1.  Read 100 books this year.  Perhaps push for 150.

2.  Blog regularly - goal:  DAILY

3.  Add more than reviews to my blog… it needs some history, some facts, something.

4.  Complete my challenges; every single one!  And for reasons unknown I signed up for many!

5.  Not finish a book.  Develop the strength to put a book down and walk away.  If it is so painful to read that it makes me wish I couldn't I must just draw a line and walk away.

6.  Read this TBR Pile before it takes over my house.  Let's just say my 5 year old can count to 100 easily.

7.  Post reviews to Goodreads, Netgalley, etc… I'm bad about that!

8.  Keep better records - especially of my library.

9.  Be more organized and efficient with my blog in general.  I always feel I'm running catch up.

10.  Read my love and passion… historical fiction without a doubt!   

11.  Comment, Comment, Comment!

It's a blog hop...

Feature and Follow #5

Feature and Follow #5

Gain new followers and make new friends with Feature & Follow!

The point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.  The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read.

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post.You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Just remember it is required, if you participate, that you follow the featured blog(s) and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read).

This week's Question:

Tell us at least one new or unusual thing you've done in 2013?

I represented myself in my own divorce trial.  I never hope to have to do so again, but it was a moment of triumph.

Join the blog hop:

Feature and Follow #5

Feature and Follow #5

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post.

This weeks Question:

What book (or TV show or movie) have you not read that seemingly everyone else has?

Twilight, not the book and not the movies.  Also, Harry Potter, books and movie too.  

TV Show:  Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Dexter

Feature and Follow #4

Feature and Follow #4

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post.

This weeks Question:

Q: What were some of your favorite picture books as a kid? If you have kids, what are your favorites to read to them?

My childhood favorites:

 

My boys favorites:

 
 

Feature and Follow #3

Feature and Follow #3

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is our Feature. Each week we will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Who is our Feature today? Find out below. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow our Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post.

Q: It is up to you to do a Kickstarter campaign for your favorite book!!! Who are you casting for the main characters?

At the King's Pleasure, by Kate Emerson

Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham  

                                      

                               

                              Alan Rickman

                       Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

                              

     

Helena Bonham-Carter

William Compton 

      

                                                          Kris Holden-Reid 


Elizabeth, Lady Fitzwalter (sister to Lady Anne)

Marion Cotillard









Werbuga Brereton (wife of William Stafford)

Dawn French