Month: April 2019
Pic-and-Word-Challenge_Wk185-Heavens
During our brief visit…
…to Vienna, we spent each night admiring this…
…heavenly view on the ceiling above us
before lights out.
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WeeklyPrompts-Photo-Challenge-Sphere
Some concrete spheres in London…
Geelong foreshore glass spheres
by day…
…and by night.
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Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge: Sphere
Book Review-No-Middle-Name
No Middle Name
(Jack Reacher #21.5)
by
Lee Child
No Middle Name is another book which has been sitting on my iPod for some time. So long in fact that if I knew it was a series of short stories I had forgotten.
I am not a fan of short stories and this was not an exception. The only good thing about it was the first few stories focussed on the Reacher boys and provided me with, again perhaps forgotten background information, regarding their army careers.
In my biased opinion, No Middle Name commences well with one or two good stories. However, from there on each story seemed to become shorter and less interesting until a twenty-minute track contained a beginning, middle and ending…of sorts. In fact the second last story lasted a whisker over six minutes and thirty seconds.
Three stars is my best rating for short stories.
I rated
No Middle Name
as a
read.
Goodreads readers have rated
No Middle Name
an average of 3.94 stars
from 11,069 ratings
and 1,074 reviews
No Middle Name
can be purchased on-line at
Fishpond, Booktopia and Amazon
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FOWChallenge-Respite
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As both our new pups have now….
…passed their third birthday,
we are seeing less of this,
and…
…more of this.
For three years we would just get Taji
out of a bad habit/behaviour.
As Candi is about three months younger,
the respite was brief lived,
before she would be doing exactly
the same thing that Taji had been.
Honestly, it was like tag team wrestling.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Respite
WitsEnd-Weekly-PC-People
People…
…who need people…
If only the iPad operators, in our group
stood this far back from the crowd,
instead of in front.
Will always remember these
two young ladies from Amsterdam.
After asking would they mind posing,
the girl on the left hit me for 5 Euro,
and kept straight face long enough
for mine to express the shock I felt,
before she burst out laughing.
The villains 🙂
Mostly we have met…
or seen people helping others…
…in various ways.
Is the photographer helping
her model or vice versa?
The ‘shoot’ was for a tertiary
photography course.
Maybe they were studying
the same course.
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Book-Review-Kiss-Me-Kill-Me
Kiss Me, Kill Me
by
J. S. Carol
Kiss Me, Kill Me by J. S. Carol, had me hooked from the first few sentences and my wife ready to inflict serious damage on the male mentioned in those same few sentences. Those infuriating sentences told of a husband telling his wife what to wear and eat among other things.
At this stage Kiss Me, Kill Me, had potential. However, as the story progressed we soon were asking where is this story going? On and on readers heard of Zoe’s life with Daniel and how she escaped. But had she? Escaped, that is?
Bodies mounted up left, right and centre and finally Zoe escaped. But did she live happily ever after? That’s for you to find out.
If we had split this story into first half, second half and to use the term loosely, epilogue, then cut the second half and tossed it away, it may have made a good short story. As it was the ‘second half’ was a repeat of the first half in a different setting. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, if you will.
I listened to Kiss Me, Kill Me and enjoyed Laurence Bouvard’s narration, but the storyline fell off a cliff.
I think
Kiss Me, Kill Me
is barely a
read.
At the time of writing my review
Goodreads readers have rated
Kiss Me, Kill Me
an average of 3.68 stars,
from 364 ratings and 97 reviews.
Kiss Me, Kill Me
can be purchased online at
Booktopia, Fishpond and Amazon
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Cee-BW-Challenge-Side-View
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Piebald or Roan?
Sailing on Corio Bay.
A long distance
Smudge Cat.
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Side-View
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