Nitchslap'd

I remembered  this poem from my childhood days

A poem about responsibility

There was a most important job that needed to be done, 
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who'll carry out the task?

Anybody could have told you that everybody knew
That this was something somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; anybody had the ability.
But nobody believed that it was their responsibility. 

It seemed to be a job that anybody could have done,
If anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since everybody recognised that anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that somebody would.

But nobody told anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what everybody thought that somebody would do.

When what everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And everybody looked around for somebody to blame.

Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.

(popularly attributed to Charles Osgood)

for someone who has never read a book in that genre. Where should they start? Think Kiddie Pool not Olympic Diving well. 

"[insert name] is the definition of the girl-next-door. She’s kindhearted, beautiful, and talented."

I'm probably not going to read your book. I'm just letting you know ahead of time. 

after all the garbage I've read on the Internets today. 

Oh my feeble attempts.....Where's dear Amanda?

I'm going to try and see if this style works for me. 

It was just ok. I didn't love this book. I also didn't hate it. The story idea and the characters were interesting. Except for Death. I think I would have like this book more if the "Death" character was portrayed differently. Also all his "Interesting facts" were "Annoying" and disrupted the flow of the story. Death's flowery Crayola talk made my eyes fill with Führer (yeah I said it) after awhile.

If I had to describe the author's writing style two words come to mind: pretentious and contrived. I'm hoping that the movie doesn't leave me with the same feelings.

Yeah this pirate story features Captain Rapey Raperton. Read at own risk. Just because they get married at the end, does not make the near year-long rapefest ok, Ms. Lindsey. You should be ashamed to have put this on paper. What you have given us is rape, oppression, and a good case of Stockholm Syndrome. And wtf is this with her mother and her maid telling her that she should just stop fighting and accept it?!

Jack Sparrow does not approve

I saw a name and it struck me as familiar, however, I cannot recall having read any of her books. Can someone tell me why my spidey sense is going off for Amanda Hocking? It has been driving me cray-cray for about 45 minutes.

Overall I give 3.5 stars. The story blended historical fact very well with the fictional story of the main character. It gave enough detail but not so much that it was like reading non-fiction. The writer did an excellent job of inserting the MC and her family into the events of the time period that at times I was convinced she was a real person and tried to Google her. One word to describe how I felt reading this: driven. I had to know the end of the mystery and if I had to read the whole book to do it, then so be it. This was not a mystery/thriller novel but rather there were questions that needed answers and not the whodunit kind either.

A couple of things I didn't care for:
-use of some modern profanities. A cursory search on the etymology found that the words were not used in that time period in the context that the author uses them. Because it seems out of place, it pulls the reader out of the story.
-the random murders that occur just seemed unnecessary and didn't really move the plot forward, IMHO of course. I think the same end result could be achieved without them.  
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I think I enjoyed it enough that I would like to read other books by this author.

Was on my facebook feed. Oh Captain Tightpants how I miss you.

This book was short and sweetly uneventful. I love me a little yo ho ho and a bottle of rum but this wasn't it. It was all fluff and no substance: Marshmallows. It wasn't bad just wasn't interesting. Certainly not one of the better pirate stories out there.  I think my biggest issue with this story is the female MC, Phoebe. She acts like she has a spine but gives in way too quickly.

You know, cause...Pirates.

that says when writing a New Adult novel all characters must be broken people? When reading the synopses of books in the genre, I find that many, if not most, of the MCs are depressing, broken people who get involved with people who are even more depressing and broken than they are. Are New Adults broken and depressing people? And furthermore what is the age range of New Adults?

I have not yet tackled this genre, but have enjoyed the reviews of others who have traveled this brave new world. So I ask you brave few....

We celebrated our 8th year of marriage this past Tuesday. He got me a super soft throw and some silky pillow cases. On the pillow cases, he had them embroider this:

God I love that man.

Initial thoughts: No. I just can't see how it can be seen as a good thing. When I see it, I just get sad.

I went into this book with absolutely no knowledge of story. I was prepared to hate it but I was halfway through the book before I knew it. Dannika Dark led me through her world like E.T. with Reese's Pieces.

I don't even know where to begin. I'm still immersed in this world, AWWW

When I find a B&N gift card while cleaning and it has money on it...