Truth or Dare is a fun new meme hosted by Jenna over at Jenna Does Books that is a bookish challenge based on the game of the same name. Chose truth for a discussion type question or prompt, or if you are feeling a bit more adventurous, chose dare! You can even choose both tasks if you like. So…Truth or Dare?
For this week’s ToD I picked:
The Dare for the week was a Vlog, and since I have never done one before and don’t like how I look/sound on camera anyway, I chose to play it safe for my first week! I do have other hobbies (several actually), but I’ll tell about my most serious ones.
Writing is of course my biggest one. I love to write as much and as often as I can, though working full time and home time makes it difficult to write as much as I would like to. I am very excited about my NaNoWriMo project this year and am itching to start, but I still have to wait 20 more days before I can begin, otherwise it’s cheating! I have 80 pages of another manuscript written that I have been working on as well, though it will be on hold while I work on my new one. I really want to get a fantabulous story written that will attract an agent since one of my dreams is to have published books 🙂
I also love to penpal. And I mean TRADITIONAL penpal, with pen and paper and stickers and stamps! I have several and they are from Japan, France, England and a few other places. I always love getting to know people through real letters since they are more personal than plain emails – I mean, you can’t even see what their handwriting looks like over email! Plus, isn’t it so much better to get a letter in the mail than the same old bills and junk?
Another biggy – genealogy! I love working on my family tree and have found out all kinds of stuff while doing it, including the fact that Geoffrey Chaucer is in my tree!! I can’t begin to tell you how stoked I was about that one. I have also began to do my pedigree charts digitally in excel along with my handwritten ones. I found out how to link the page numbers between excel workbooks, so all I have to do is click the page number and it will take me to the one I need without having to find them individually, which is incredibly helpful. It’s also really fun collecting names and finding as much new stuff as you can, especially when you find people that are well known and have books written about them and such!
And finally, my last biggest hobby is photography. I love photography so much. I can’t draw or paint, but I can use a camera. I have even won a couple local contests. Too bad it’s so expensive >.< I really want to get a macro lens so bad so I can do some super close up photos. I also sometimes still use my film camera, the only bad thing is having to be patient and wait for the film to develop.
I have several other smaller hobbies, but these are the ones I do most often and have the biggest projects for. I wish I had more time to spend doing them though! How about your hobbies?
Each time I walk by the YA section at Barnes and Noble, this one is on the bestselling shelf just staring at me, asking me why haven’t I read it yet. I actually recently bought the whole trilogy, but since the movie is right around the corner, I am going to wait until I see the movie before I start reading it. It is hard, though, having to put off reading it for another two months. But I am definitely not one of those people who likes to read a book right before they see the movie. Did it once, haven’t done it since. I can’t wait to finally start it, though.
This was the first contemporary book I ever read. It is also the book that made me fall in love with contemporaries in the first place. As much as I liked the first cover, I love these new covers even more! They are just so beautiful. I love the Eiffel Tower in the background for this one and the colors make it look like a gorgeous French sunset. When I went to YALLFest this past November, I was waiting in line to have my Lola book (old cover) signed and the person in front of me was the one who designed the new covers! She was really cool and a bit bashful about it when I complimented the awesomeness of the new covers. If I had the new cover, I would have gotten her to sign it, too.
This is the book I read and didn’t like. The cover is nice and eye-catching because there is just something about the way the girl on the cover stares out at you, like she is fully aware of your presence. I even like the title, but I didn’t like the story. It had potential to be a great story, but I think the characters is what really made it unenjoyable for me. I don’t like snotty, stuck up, I’m-better-than-you high school mean girl type characters, and this story was full of them. It didn’t really get to be okay until about the last 1/3 or the book. It just wasn’t for me.
On The Shelf 