tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41469090841319220172024-03-14T14:32:08.122-04:00Debbies DigestA blog about the things that are important in my life: God, Family, Books, Homeschooling, Crafts, and more.Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-45627821710240080132021-07-17T19:21:00.000-04:002021-07-17T19:21:25.127-04:00My review of Prime Directive, a great book by author Davis Bunn<p> </p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Prime Directive by Davis Bunn" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1620711206l/56377628.jpg" title="Prime Directive by Davis Bunn" width="140" /><br /><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">I
liked this book a lot. I instantly got into the book and finished it in
just over a week. I was engaged, interested, drawn in by the characters
and the plot. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">I
was given a copy of this book on my Kindle for free in order to review
it for Davis Bunn. It has been a while since I was on Davis’s review
team. I sent messages and emails. He got a new person on his team and
she contacted me and asked if I still wanted to get back on his review
team. I did and within a week she sent me this book. Within another week
I started it. I am so happy to be reviewing books for Davis Bunn again.
I like his writing so much. He writes such different books, in completely polar opposite genre's... from Spiritual Historical Fiction to out
there Fantasy. I like the whole gambit. In spite of that, this is my
honest opinion about the book. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">Amanda
Bostick is a low level system coordinator in the Galactic Space Arm and
has concerns about some murders on a distant planet that is a
scientific outpost. The scientists get transmuted into ferns. Ferns!
Changed into a plant and hung in a “special” grove of trees. They were
reported the deaths only because they needed replacement scientists.
Why? Why was no one more upset? Why didn’t they report the deaths right
away? Amanda is assigned to go and investigate and the Commander assigns
two men to accompany her, Hamoud and Nasim, that she knows will aide
her in her assignment. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">One
of the first things Amanda finds out is that the planet is pink... the
oceans are pink, the land is pink, the sky and the clouds. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"> “They reached parking orbit above a coral globe.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">
The viewport was filled with a rainbow of pinkish shades, everything
from a dark ochre to the lightest pastel.” (location 444) </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">I
love the way Davis writes and describes the worlds and the stories he
creates. I don’t know how he thinks them up, but I like reading them. He
is one of my favorite authors. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">I
liked the world he created and the characters were stupendous,
realistic... even though the story and planet and the creatures the
scientists are studying are fantasy. There were people to love and
people to despise. There were a few flashbacks that tell some of the
details of the character’s past that brought us to the place where they
came together as a team for this story. It only made me more invested in
the characters lives and the outcome of their mission. Conflict. A
mystery to solve. Someone to cheer for. The unexpected. There was plenty
of unexpected. There was what felt like real danger. I was afraid for
the characters. That makes for a good story. I like the fantasy world. I
have grown to love fantasy books. I am reading a lot of fantasy books
this year. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"> “'It all comes down to success.'</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"> Hamoud hit the auto-pilot switch and turned so as to face Amanda. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"> She said, 'To be successful, we have to define our mission.'" (location 434)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2"> "'What would you say was the major difference between the failures and the successes?'</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">
'Rickets would approve of that question. And the answer for me has been
the same in all three cases'” Hamoud turned in his seat. 'The crisis
for which we were sent was not the real problem.” </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">
'There was another hidden disaster,' Amanda said. For some reason the
direction of their conversation sent her heart into overdrive. As though
she had just been whispered a foretelling of her own future. 'A bigger
problem below the surface. And if you don’t identify the hidden, or you
can’t, or you identify the wrong one...'" (location 554) </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">The
hidden crisis continues throughout the story. Will they find the hidden
problem? Will they have ultimate success? How will things end... read
and find out. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">The title... Prime Directives... very fitting. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">
“'We are bound by their Prime Directives. These go much deeper than
mere laws. They’ve defined our existence from the very first day.'”
(location 1300) </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">A very fitting title. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW171559315 BCX2" style="direction: ltr;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW171559315 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW171559315 BCX2">I
have to admit, I was a little confused by the ending. I had to go back
and read the next to the last chapter and the last one. Then I got it. I
won’t tell you what I thought about the ending. I won't tell you if
they succeeded or not. I don’t want to spoil things. But, I really liked
this book and if you are a fan of Davis Bunn or of fantasy books or of
mysteries then I hope you will give this book a chance. I don’t know if
he is going to do a sequel, but if he does I will read it!! Even if it
is not offered to me as a review item.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW171559315 BCX2" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman_EmbeddedFont, Times New Roman_MSFontService, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 23.7417px;"> <br /></span></p></div><p>Debbie Phillips
all content on my blog is ©</p>Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-33769982007824600632018-04-10T11:43:00.000-04:002018-04-10T11:43:04.587-04:00The Golden Vial - a book review<br />
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Book 3 in the Legends of the Realm series. I read book 1 in early 2015 and book 2 in early 2016.<br />
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I highly recommend you read Thomas Locke's answer to this question. Open this link in a new tab so you don't loose the rest of my review... come back and finish reading here when you are done... <b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/questions/179187-where-did-you-get-the-idea-for-your-most">Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?</a></b> His most recent book happens to be "The Golden Vial". His answer is the reason why he has had so much success as a writer and especially with his fantasy/Christian fiction under his pseudonym. Oh, My! I love his writing.<br />
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Well thought out, well planned. Extremely well written. Creative. Like nothing else I have ever read. Drawing you in. Making the book impossible to put down. <br />
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This book continues the series, but starts with an unknown main character, someone knew on the scene. Dally works for the mayor and his wife in the village of Honor. She lost her family in a fire and came to live with the mayor. His wife Krim, however, is impossible to work for. Dally has no choice, she has no family, no money and no where else to go, so she endures the job the best she can and spends a lot of time with the wolfhounds the mayor raises.<br />
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I know this series well enough to expect some interesting abilities from the characters in the book. Dally has a secret gift, she can reach out to the wolfhounds and smell what they smell and sense what they sense. She can reach out from her spot in the holding pen with the dogs and tell what is going on in the village. She has also been having dreams, no not really dreams, visitations. She knew Shona was real and that she was coming to Honor. The town had been cut off from the world for almost 2 years. The arrival of an army is alarming and there is not much time, Shona and the army arrive at dawn.<br />
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Lady Edlyn, the new Mistress of the Long Hall of the Three Valleys tests Dally's abilities. First she test her with the dogs, she passes that quickly. Then they look for a sign. <br />
"Oh, you mean the candles." (skip down the page)<br />
"Dally went on, 'Then they speak to me.'<br />
Both mages froze. 'I'm sorry. They speak?' Edlyn asked.<br />
'They did. Before these dogs came. Not in words. But...' Dally looked fro one face to the other. 'Did I do something wrong?'<br />
'Lass, let me assure you of this one thing. Whatever events that have filled you with such fear are now behind you.'<br />
Something broke within Dally. She could no more hold back the tears than stop her own breath." (pg 30)<br />
"'Did I draw the beast that killed my family?'<br />
'If you will please straighten up and look at me, I will answer you. Thank you. Dally, I will never lie to you. Even when the truth is at its most painful, you can trust me to be both direct and honest. The answer is, your talents are so remarkable it is possible they were noticeable to our foes. But I very much doubt this. Latent powers are invisible to even our most sensitive adepts." (pg 31)<br />
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So, now we find the basic plot of this book. The beasts have been tormenting the surrounding countryside and towns. They are a fierce enemy. The new mistress has come with her army to protect the citizens. Dally and her gifts will have a part in the upcoming battles. But there is more. Hyam, our hero from books one and two, has been struck by a terrible illness and cannot be awakened. Who will help them save him? Does Dally with her untrained talents and powers have what it takes to help the army defeat these gigantic beasts? Will the mages find out what is wrong with Hyam? Can they save him before it is to late?<br />
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Battles, powers, gifts, mages, wolfhounds and terrible beasts. Could anything be worse? Yes, but I won't tell you what you will have to read the book to find out the details.<br />
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"Who was she really? What did she seek to do with her life? Her past had been stripped away, the prison of her former existence gone. She was free, and yet Dally did not know what the word even meant. What course did she wish to chart for herself? She found herself struggling not to weep, though many of those gathered here bore tear-streaked faces. She was wracked by a sorrow that made no sense. She had a purpose. She had gifts. Her life held meaning. Should she not be thrilled? Where was the joy?<br />
In the silent, sunlit warmth, Dally realized she had no idea what she wanted. The confusion was as powerful as guilt, though she had done nothing wrong. She felt herself being reshaped by the questions as though images that had not yet appeared required her to ask what she had spent years fleeing.<br />
Worst of all was the simple fact that she did not even know her own name." (pg 102-103<br />
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Purpose. We all seek a purpose for our lives. Why was I put here, in this time and space? What does God want of me? This we, like Dally, seek to find. Purpose for our lives.<br />
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"The longer she focused upon this heart's light, the clearer Dally saw beyond her trapped state. For the first time she glimpsed a realization all her own, a purpose large enough to justify the hard life she had known. Here was an objection so gigantic, it made her years of lonely toil not just bearable, but necessary.<br />
She had <i>never</i> given up. Wept, yes. Ached and sobbed and experienced hardship, most certainly.<br />
All for this moment." (pg 178)<br />
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What moment... I can't tell you that it would give away <br />
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Some day I hope to find the same thing Dally did. A purpose for all my suffering... all my families suffering. In the meantime I will continue on. I will not give up. I have wept, many times. I am sure I will weep again. I have ached and sobbed like Dally, but I have not given up, and I will not give up now. It may be I don't know why things happened until heaven. Until then I will keep on and try to serve my Lord, my family and my community.<br />
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Do you want to know what happens to Dally? Do they save Hyam? Read and find out.<br />
I highly recommend this book and if you haven't read the series start with book one. This series is great. I am pretty sure I heard that book four is on the way soon.<br />
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Note: I was sent this book for free for me to review. My thoughts and review are honest and not influenced by the fact that I received the book for free.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/152458-ultimate-popsugar-reading-challenge">Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge</a> prompt – A book that's published in 2018 <br />
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Earth Day is coming up on <span class="stripeTitle" style="color: #23282d;">April 22. The</span> theme for this year is<span class="stripeTitle" style="color: #23282d;"> End Plastic Pollution</span><span class="stripeTitle" style="color: #23282d;">. You can check out things going on for Earth day and get some resources at </span><a href="https://www.earthday.org/">https://www.earthday.org/</a><br />
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We are going to be doing a program at the library on Earth Day, April 22. I will be reading a story to the children, "The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle." I thought this would be appropriate for the theme this year. I can't wait to read it to the children.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/parents/play/view/water-bottle-wind-spirals" target="_blank">Water Bottle Wind Spirals</a></b><br />
This is a fun craft using reusing water bottles. I will cut off the bottoms of the bottles for the kids before the program and they will be used for the project below. The kids will color the water bottles with permanent markers and cut them with safety scissors. I already did a test one and the safety scissors will cut the bottles easily. I still have to buy the permanent markers because we only have black and red at work.<br />
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<b><a href="https://kidfriendlythingstodo.com/2016/04/water-bottle-flowers-craft-for-kids/" target="_blank">Water Bottle Flowers Craft for Kids</a></b><br />
I will have as many flowers available for the kids to make as I have spirals. How many flowers each child gets to make depends how many kids I get at my program. I cannot afford special paint, so I will be having the kids color the bottles with the permanent makers like in the project above. I also decided to use craft sticks that the kids can color with our washable markers instead of the straws, since we already have them. We will attach the sticks to the back of the flowers with low temp hot glue. The kids will have help with this part if they are young.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theresourcefulmama.com/earth-day-craft-kids/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="This Earth day craft is a very fun and simple way to teach kids about our planet using paper plates." class="aligncenter wp-image-9731" data-jpibfi-indexer="2" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt="" data-jpibfi-post-title="Earth Day Craft for Kids" data-jpibfi-post-url="https://www.theresourcefulmama.com/earth-day-craft-kids/" data-jpibfi-src="https://www.theresourcefulmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/earth-day-craft-for-kids-300x270.png" height="288" src="https://www.theresourcefulmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/earth-day-craft-for-kids-300x270.png" width="320" /></a><br />
I am also doing this <b><a href="https://www.theresourcefulmama.com/earth-day-craft-kids/" target="_blank">Paper Plate Earth Day Craft for Kids</a></b>, for those who don't want to get permanent marker on their hands and for younger patrons.<br />
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will be modifying this for our kids. I will use blue
construction paper glued to a paper plate. Glue sticks, not paint with
lots of kids expected at the library, will be much less messy. Then pieces of
green tissue paper for the land then face, arms and legs as seen here.<br />
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Or you can try this one... <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Craft-Earth-Man-667248">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Craft-Earth-Man-667248</a><br />
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I am not doing this one... <a href="https://craft.ideas2live4.com/2015/05/05/soda-bottle-zippered-pencil-case/?utm_content=buffer14854&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">Soda Bottle Zippered Pencil Case</a>...
but it does look fun and maybe some of my readers would like to try it.
The sample looks like it is a 2 liter bottle but you could do any
plastic bottle. Each would hold different kinds of "goodies." Maybe we
will try it another time. The staff uses a lot of water (and other
plastic) bottles and we can set up a box in the staff break room and
collect some in a short time.<br />
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This resource looks interesting. I may put it on a loop on a TV in the STEM room where I will be doing my program.<br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Bottled-Water-Use-PowerPoint-Activity-228101">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Earth-Day-Bottled-Water-Use-PowerPoint-Activity-228101</a><br />
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I may also put out one or more of these games...<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Recycle-Board-Game-1175835" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Recycle-Board-Game-1175835 </a> </li>
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I always have handouts, bookmarks, coloring pages for the children to take home as well.<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Earth-Day-Activities-Flip-Book-Free-1813396" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Earth-Day-Activities-Flip-Book-Free-1813396 </a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Free-1203703" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Free-1203703 </a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-1169347">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-1169347</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Earth-Day-1766408">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Earth-Day-1766408</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/index.php/earth-day-themed-bookmarks/" target="_blank">http://www.3dinosaurs.com/wordpress/index.php/earth-day-themed-bookmarks/ </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Compost-Sorting-Activity-science-Earth-Day-environment-1204453" target="_blank">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Compost-Sorting-Activity-science-Earth-Day-environment-1204453 </a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Bookmark-Freebie-616036">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Bookmark-Freebie-616036</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Free-2511895">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Free-2511895</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Bookmarks-Freebie-231068">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Bookmarks-Freebie-231068</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Reader-Freebie-for-Kindergarten-and-First-Grade-2499397">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Reader-Freebie-for-Kindergarten-and-First-Grade-2499397</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-TpT-FREEBIES-Ebook-1194162">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-TpT-FREEBIES-Ebook-1194162</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Recycling-Freebie-649402">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Recycling-Freebie-649402</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Coloring-Pages-FREE-1207848">https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Coloring-Pages-FREE-1207848</a></li>
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I have been using Teachers Pay Teachers a lot lately. You can search for a topic and you can limit the search to only Free items. They have a lot of good stuff. All of these resources are FREE.<br />
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I hope you enjoy my first post of my blog reboot.<br />
I will be updating links, and many things on my sidebar, as well as my header and link buttons.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am starting my blog back up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I decided it would be fun to share with you the programs I am doing at the library.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">These Posts will be good for Children's Librarians</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">AND</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">they will still be GREAT for Homeschooling Mom's. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I will also still be doing my book reviews, just more of them. I also will probably share my foray into Bullet Journaling. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I will be updating my blog and links in the coming days as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to my blog relaunch!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">New posts will be coming soon.</span><br />
<br />
<i>Debbie Phillips</i><br />
all content on my blog is ©Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-59083546469819331832017-11-13T13:33:00.000-05:002017-11-13T13:41:34.755-05:00Renegades - A Thomas Locke Book Review<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I feel privileged. Thomas Locke sent me an Advanced Reading
Copy of this, his newest book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to
do this book justice. It is so spectacular. I want to do such a good job
reviewing it that you can’t wait to get a copy and read it. I don’t know if I
am capable of that kind of review. I will do my best, though, because this book
deserves my best.</div>
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I loved this book. I loved it so much. I gave this book 5 stars on Goodreads I wished I could give it
6 stars, that is how good I think it is. I read it in less than 24 hours and I
had to sleep and work during that time. The rest of the time I was reading.
I read it from 11/1 – 11/2. This is the second book in the Recruits series. The first was great. This one
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Sean and Dillon are twins that helped save a planet from an
alien invasion in the first book. Now, Sean is bored in his Diplomatic
Institute classes. He was saddened by his break-up with Elenya. Dillon is
changing because of his military training at the Academy. Dillon has been
devastated by his break-up with Carey. Both boys can transit (move bodily from one place to another as long as it is a place they have been before) and they can travel in their ‘spirits’
without their bodies moving. They call it hunting. Neither boy had “hunted”
outside his body for months and the boys had lost their connection with each
other where they could read each others thoughts, though far away on other
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Carey’s cousin was kidnapped and Dillon comes to the school
and takes Sean away from his boring classes to help him get Landon.
Unfortunately, the boys’ plans are not sanctioned and they get into a lot of
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We are introduced to new characters as well. Professor Kaviti
whom we love to hate from the very first sentences we read about him and Logan
whom I admired from the start and love as much as I love the characters of
Dillon and Sean. There are serious troubles on Cygneus Prime, on the outer rim.
Warrior tribes and fiefs fighting against each other for control of mining.
Logan, having just become an officer on Cygneus Prime had a plan to solve the
warfare that was going on. Logan also has many men and women under him. We get
to know his two squad leaders as well. I liked them both, though they don’t get
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Basically the first chapters of the book shift from a chapter
for Dillon and Sean and their troubles to a chapter for Logan and his crew on
The Outer Rim. Sometimes on or the other group gets two chapters in a row, but
basically this is the way the book is set up. Can you guess what happens? Do
these two groups meet up? My guess was that they would, otherwise what would be
the purpose of the new characters. I wonder if you would have the same thoughts
if you read this book….which I recommend that you do with all speed. I liked this
shifting. It kept both parts of the story in my mind until the story came
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I love the writing in this book. I love this series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The characters are excellently written. Their
problems are believable even though these worlds and the transiting are
fictitious. Those characters you admire and like and those you hate, as well as
the plot, make the book gripping and impossible to put down. The worlds and
characters Locke creates are so descriptive and well written it is hard to
believe they don’t exist. The characters definitely drive this plot. The action
is fast moving and really keeps you hooked. You just have to know if, no not if
because being the main characters you know they will get out of the trouble
they are in with the law, how they get out of trouble. I also wanted to know
when, where and why Dillon and Sean meet up with and help Logan.</div>
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Logan is the son of a servant, but there is a secret there
that I will not reveal. Logan also has hidden talents that will come in useful
on The Outer Rim and are central to his plan. I won’t tell you that either. It
would ruin the story for you. Can Logan pull off the plan without Dillon and
Sean? I don’t think so. Dillon and Sean are integral to the story, they are the
main characters, but neither could Dillon and Sean fix the problems on The
Outer Rim without Logan and his crew.</div>
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The ending chapters were unexpected and wonderful, a real
twist to the plot. Just when you think things are over Sean sees new danger
ahead. Gripping and stupendous writing.</div>
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I won’t be sharing any quotes this time, though I want to. I
would have to clear them with the publisher first and I don’t want to wait to
post my review until I contact them and wait for a reply. I guess they want us
to contact them to be sure that the quote we use did not get changed before the
official printing of the book comes out. I can understand that. Maybe I will
contact them about the quotes I want to share and add them to the review later.</div>
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I highly recommend you buy and read this book. It was the
best book I have read so far this year. I would, however, start with the first
book of the series if you did not read that. Recruits, by Thomas Locke of
course, is a great book as well and you can read my review of that book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2021608026?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.</div>
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<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">L</span>oved this book. Loved it. Loved it.
</div>
<div class="Standard">
Wonderful. Ingenious. Creative. Original. Stupendous.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
Transiting; moving, bodily, from one realm to another. The
twins have seen their destination, dreamed of it, and drawn it, before they
knew it was a real place, before they had the privilege of feeling the power
within them, and traveling instantaneously to the train station in another
world.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
Is that all there is? Traveling back and forth to different
worlds? Of course not. There is romance and there is a BATTLE coming. Every
good book has a conflict that the main characters must solve. This conflict is
a dilly. Dillon and Sean had been attacked, way back in chapter 13. The enemy
knew that the twins were dangerous. The twins could foil their plans and they
wanted to take them out early.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Shield the
folks.”</div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I've been doing
that.”</div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You feel it too,
don't you?”</div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I feel something.
I have no idea what it is. He watched Dillon ease himself down to the floor,
“What just happened?”</div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I shut my eyes
and I rose up and I went out into the yard. And I hunted.” pg 117</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
Cool. Now they can not only Transit but they can leave their
bodies protected and go outside them and look around for trouble.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
The Assembly (those in control) do not believe that the twins
know anything about, or could hope to prevent, a coming battle. Dillon and Sean
and their family have been attacked. Twice now, actually. The Assembly have a
scapegoat and are blaming everything on him. Who really attacked them. The
scapegoat happened to be someone I did not like earlier in the book. I wanted
him to be punished. I wanted it to be him causing all this trouble.<br />
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
What will happen? Will the authorities believe them in time
to prevent a disaster?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will Dillon and
Sean come up with a plan? Will their plan be successful? Will others be hurt,
even killed? What about the Earth?</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
This world and it's characters were believable, which is
unbelievable. Locke's writing is so superb that you believe it could happen.
That in itself is a wonder. </div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
Descriptions are realistic... I accept that the
worlds Locke created exist, and wish I could travel to them. They are nothing
like Earth. </div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
The characters and the plot seem to propel each other forward. Not
one taking over and pushing the book forward unnaturally. </div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNc9z69mForedrWT0CDOJHTkbmR4q_e7C_ZP9ui0yQhVKiCNXCCpQm5N03Fzsu1BiMMjCKu0e29fovRi2HEcEhwJfT-2J9dtnz0Q3jm-QI78Wd69RCjrIjSY-sZZd5mojoapJDt_iEJY/s1600/Bunn-Locke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNc9z69mForedrWT0CDOJHTkbmR4q_e7C_ZP9ui0yQhVKiCNXCCpQm5N03Fzsu1BiMMjCKu0e29fovRi2HEcEhwJfT-2J9dtnz0Q3jm-QI78Wd69RCjrIjSY-sZZd5mojoapJDt_iEJY/s200/Bunn-Locke.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="Standard">
Locke uses his
pseudonym to write books that are outside the Christian fiction genre, which he writes
with his real name, and I think this is my favorite Locke book so far. It was
extraordinary.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
I highly recommend that you read this book, find out the
answers to my questions for yourself, and I hope that you find it as fascinating as I did.</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
You can find Thomas Locke and all his contact information at
<br />
<div class="dataItem greyText" itemprop="url">
http://tlocke.com</div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Debbie</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">***** (5 stars out of 5)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I was greatly blessed by God
and the author with a complimentary copy of this book. I wanted to buy a copy
of the book in hardback but I could not afford it right now. I sent a message
to the author on his Facebook page. I told him that if he could send me a copy
of his book I would share my review everywhere I could. I would have done the
same if I had bought the book, I like it so much. He graciously sent me a copy.
Not only a copy but a hardback copy. Not only a hardback copy but a signed
hardback copy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I love this series so much. I
share my love of this series with everyone I can. I had the manager of my
library order copies of all three of the books in this series for the library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">A wonderful book. Great.
Better than the first book in the series, and the prequel. Loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">One of my favorite quotes in
the book. Something we should all practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">“<b>Do the next right thing.</b>” (pg
22)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The plot of the book (and a
quote) - “A resistance to unite. An impossible foe to conquer. A kingdom to
win.” (pg 14)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">The characters – memorable,
well developed, superb. </span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">You love the “good guys” … battling,
doing their duty and more, fighting the bad guys, rescuing friends and relatives, healing the
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">...and despise the “bad guys.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“From behind the immovable guard, Kyle
appeared, Heather's inside churned. Here he was, this handsome, charming, disarming
scoundrel.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What's in the past, Kyle, and what we
can't forget, Princeling,” Heather said, “is our friendship destroyed, our
friends murdered, and our future king betrayed.” pg 111</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">I did not trust Kyle or his
father, but the author writes well and I was lured into a tentative hope... I won't
give you any details to ruin the story. Do they follow through and redeem themselves or return to their old scroundreling ways?? You will have to read for yourself and find out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Kyle says...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In Terralain, all rabbits are free, and
all are equal. All kings and queens–if only they will grab it.” (pg 115)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">That is nonsense. On earth
there are always rich and poor. Powerful and powerless. Oppressed and
Oppressor. And some take advantage of others and their belief that people can change. Even in heaven, where all humans will be equal, there will be God
and his Son to honor and glorify for all our days. They are liars, or socialists,
and socialism does not work... I think they are just liars and scoundrels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">Oh my, the other things that
happen in this book that I wish I could tell you. Things I was not expecting.
Many surprising turns of events. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">And... just so you know... this book does not end the story... and I am glad. There will be a
book 3 for the series, or more... we shall have to wait and see.</span></div>
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Thank you S.D. Smith. Thank you so much. For the gift of this signed hardback book and for the gift of your writing in all three of your books. I enjoy them so much I want to be one of the herd.<br />
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You can get the book (in popular paperback, haughty hard cover, or electric..uh, eBook) at Amazon, of course. <b><a href="http://amzn.to/2aFa25h" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/2aFa25h</a></b><br />
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Or, you can get book (in all those forms + audiobook) at S.D. Smith's
store...plus he has SWORDS and NECKLACES and SHIRTS for sale and some
rad combos. <b><a href="http://www.sdsmith.net/store" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sdsmith.net/store</a></b><br />
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I wish I had more money. I would love some Ember memorabilia. <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b> Description of Book from Publisher</b></span></h4>
<span id="freeText8763094911464742673">What If the Limits of Time and Space Were Breached? </span><br />
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Junior financial analyst Lena Fennan loves managing risk and making money. Yet when she gets a mysterious invitation to take a leap into the unknown, she does not hesitate. Soon a series of events takes her to the brink of destruction. But Lena refuses to give in, entranced by glimpses of a future that redefine everything. <br />
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<span id="freeText8763094911464742673">Reese Clawson emerges from prison gripped by the slow burn of revenge. She will track everyone who hand a hand in destroying her--and take them out. First on the list is Charlie Hazard. <br />
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<span id="freeText8763094911464742673">As time and space become jumbled, Lena and Reese are pulled into a collision course that could alter the parameters of human consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b> My Review:</b></span></h4>
I gave this book ***** 5 stars.<br />
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As I stated in my first review of the books from this series, Fault Lines, this book in not in my usual wheelhouse of books I would choose for reading. I don't usually like physiological thrillers, but I give these a chance because they are by a favorite author. I liked this one more than the first one, and got interested faster, because I already knew some of the characters from the last book. That made it a lot less confusing than the last one, also.<br />
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You definitely get into the book and root for the “good guys” to win the battle over evil and the ones on the side of evil. The characters make the science in the book manageable. The characters and their stories, even the minor characters are wonderful. The good guys that is. The bad guys you just love to hate. The characters are fully developed and they could be friends of mine. You really get to know and care about each of the guys on the good side, root for them, and are concerned when evil surrounds them and tries to hurt them. <br />
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The premise of making the last living days of someone with terminal illness painless and happy are interesting and hopeful. Helping them to ascend to see the afterlife helps them not fear death. I have that already, due to my personal relationship with my Lord and Savior. I don't need to see heaven to believe it is there waiting for me. Using the dying patients own brain to render them pain free, without drugs or side effects, would be wonderful; if it was truly scientifically possible.<br />
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Using the same ascending technology to spy on companies and undermine them and control the world is definitely something I could see happening. Technology created and meant for good is often twisted and used for evil by others. It is the heart of the person using the technology and their motives that matter. The technology is not at fault, it is just a thing.<br />
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The struggle of good vs. evil is something we all face every day. Not in so dramatic a way as the characters in this book, but we do. I battle my own sin and my desire for personal gain and recognition. I try to follow God, humble myself, be kind to others and let God lift me up when and if and in what ways he sees fit. But, my flesh battles against that and sometimes wants to be mean to someone and desires retribution (instead of letting God battle for me), and my pride wants recognition for jobs I feel are well done.<br />
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I finished the book with two questions. Will there be a third book in the series? Locke seems to have made it apparent that there will be, due to the way the book ended. AND... Who or what are the monsters from the “other world?” Are they supposed to represent anything we would know? Like demons? Or are they just fantasy? They are definitely evil, that is for sure. They were creepy and scary.<br />
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The book is definitely a page turner and the characters and plot drive you to keep reading. You must see how it ends and if the good guys win out.<br />
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<b>Thomas Locke</b> is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven million copies.<br />
His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall of Fame.<br />
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Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent’s Park College at The University of Oxford. Visit Thomas at <a href="http://tlocke.com/" target="_blank">http://tlocke.com</a>.<br />
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It is a wonderful book that I read for a book club/challenge my library is running. A community read event promoted by Longwood Gardens. I have 20 sticky flags in the book marking favorite spots.<br /><br />Grandma Gatewood has had a rough life and is now 67 and ready to set out to walk the whole Appalachian Trail... 2.050 miles. Months of walking. And, she took very little with her. And did it alone.<br /><br />It is inspiring me to get off my butt and get walking. If a 67-year-old great grandmother can walk the whole Appalachian Trail then I should be able to walk a couple mile walk with my husband at the park, walk to work (under 1 1/2 miles), or work out on the Wii Fit and Bowflex. I am lazy. I will start today. Here is a quote from the book that I liked.<br />
<br />"...unless we be strong as steel, our lazy and baser natures yield to the temptation of time-saving when a ride is offered us..." (pg 52-53) <br /><br />I need to walk more. Get out in nature more. I have become to sedentary, lazy and shut in, in the house or at work. I need the exercise... and the time to commune with God... and the vitamin D... and a bunch of other things walking outdoors would bring me.<br /><br />"Just walking the trail for pleasure<br />For the love of out of doors,<br />For the lovely works our Maker<br />Displays on forest floors."<br />(pg 208)<br /><br />"If you'll go with me to the mountains<br />And sleep on the leaf carpeted floors<br />And enjoy the bigness of nature<br />And the beauty of all out-of-doors,<br />You'll find your troubles all fading<br />And feel the Creator was not man<br />That made lovely mountains and forests<br />Which only a Supreme Power can.<br /><br />When we trust in the Power above<br />And with the realm of nature hold fast,<br />We will have a jewel of great price<br />To brighten our lives till the last.<br />For the love of nature is healing,<br />If we will only give it a try<br />And our reward will be forthcoming<br />If we go deeper than what meets the eye."<br />(pg 216-217)<br /><br />She was plucky and I want to be like her when I am 67 so I better get started now... I will be 55 this year and have a lot of exercising to do before I could be anywhere near where she was at 67. <br /><br />"They said I was too old when I tried to get a job," she told a local reporter. "Why, I've done more since I was 'too old' than most young women." ( pg 241)<br /><br />This woman, this book, was inspiring. I don't have any mountains near me...I live just feet from a 4 lane road....I don't know if I will ever walk any of the Appalachian Trail... but I am going to start where I am today and do better.<br /><br />Check out this book. It will inspire you too!!<br />
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It’s 1923, and a resilient Paris is starting to recover from the ravages of World War I and the Spanish Flu epidemic. </div>
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Enter Muriel Ross, an amateur photographer tasked with documenting
the antiques that her employer, U.S. Senator Tom Bryan, has traveled to
France to acquire.<br />
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Although she’s exhilarated to have escaped her parents and the
confines of their stifling Virginia home, Muriel has lingering questions
about why the senator has chosen her for this grand adventure.
Nevertheless, she blossoms in her new surroundings, soaking up Parisian
culture and capturing the sights and sounds of Paris on her camera.<br />
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But events take a dangerous turn when she discovers that the senator
is on a mission far more momentous—and potentially deadly—than a mere
shopping trip.<br />
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At the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Senator Bryan asks Muriel to
photograph an astonishing artifact: a piece of the True Cross,
discovered by Empress Helena—a historical figure familiar to readers of <a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-pilgrim-by-davis-bunn.htm" target="_blank"><i>The Pilgrim</i></a>.<br />
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When rumors surface that another fragment has been unearthed, Muriel
becomes enmeshed in a covert international alliance dedicated to
authenticating the fragment—and protecting it from those who will stop
at nothing to steal and discredit it.<br />
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<i>The Fragment</i> releases <b>February 19, 2016</b>, from Franciscan Media Books. <a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-fragment-davis-bunn.htm" target="_blank">http://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-fragment-davis-bunn.htm</a><br />
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<b>Hardcover, Paperback and eBook:</b> 176 pages<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Franciscan Media<br />
<b>Publication Date:</b> February 19, 2016<br />
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A Wondrous book...Deep...Mysterious...Intense...Fantastic.<br />
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I give this book 5 of 5 stars.</div>
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demanded that I keep reading... and so I did. Finishing in less than a week.</div>
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The characters are outstanding, as usual in a Davis Bunn
book. Endearing and talented Muriel. The powerful but kindhearted Senator
Bryant. Scarred (in more than one way) and mannerly Charles. A myriad of other
secondary characters: upstanding ones, sinister people, virtuous citizenry,
villainous enemies and everyday folk.</div>
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A quest. The search for a religious artifact. A fragment of
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Muriel has just the qualifications Senator Bryan needs. She
is a Christian. She is a gifted photographer. She has studied History and
antiquities. But she doubts her own talent and worries that others think more
highly of her than they ought. She feels out of place. Then she helps to create
an opportunity to photograph, up close, an authenticated fragment of the True
Cross in the Cathedral of Notre Dame. The fragment is kept in a reliquary in
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brownish red.... She knew it was most likely a patina of blood that concealed
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muriel felt the emotions
well up in her like great waves, crashing upon her heart, sending her to her
knees. Even then she could not take her eyes off the small sliver of wood. She
had lived with her faith her entire life. She was child of the church. And yet
it seemed to her as though she never experienced her Savior's gift I such a way
as now.” (pg 45)</div>
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The quest is just beginning. They must travel to
Constantinople. A place of unrest. They hope to find another reliquary. Muriel
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Growth. Challenges. Other people's lives on the line. A
choice only she can make. These are the things ahead of Muriel.<br />
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What about Senator Byran. What is his aspiration?<br />
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"That has been my lifelong dream, sir. To
bring a fragment and plant it in our land, where it may take root and grow a
family of God." (pg 148)<br />
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That is what the senator wants. Will he fulfill this desire? Will they
succeed?? Read the book and find out!<br />
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These are the things that kept me reading. They will keep you reading
also. I highly recommend this book.
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His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim
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<b>Publisher:</b> Revell<br />
<b>Publication Date:</b> January 5, 2016<br />
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Life for Hyam is bittersweet. Admired by the citizens of Falmouth for his heroic rescue mission, he cherishes these peaceful days with Joelle by his side. Yet grief over the loss of his magical skills during the great Battle of Emporis threatens to engulf him. Sometimes he even wishes he had never known magic at all.<br />
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Hyam and company... The characters are fully developed and I felt like I was one of the company, traveling around with them; on their quest; through good times and bad, times of strength and weakness... and the story is not over yet. There are still many things to conquer.<br />
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In some portions of the book a beautiful setting and a place you would love to live; terrible in other parts. So well described that you can taste the dryness and feel the uncomfortableness of the wearisome journey across the sand and actually see the strange boat as they travel across the water to see the dragon.</div>
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Yes. So true. So many times I ask the Lord what to do. What do I do now? What do I do next? What do I do in this situation that I find myself in?<br />
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When, in those rare times I know what I should do, what God wants me to do and I do it; it is with great gratitude and feelings of accomplishment.</div>
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I am caught now, if I wasn't before. I want to read the next book and find out what happens to Hyam and Joelle, Shona, Selim, Meda, Fareed, and Alembord. Will Hyam find Joelle's breath and bring her back to full life? Will the good guys win out over the evil in the land? I sure hope so.<br />
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About Thomas Locke</h3>
<a href="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Thomas-Locke-250b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Thomas Locke, author of Legends of the Realm fantasy series" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17583" src="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Thomas-Locke-250b.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>Thomas Locke is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven million copies.<br />
His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall of Fame.<br />
Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent’s Park College at The University of Oxford. Visit Thomas at <a href="http://tlocke.com/" target="_blank">http://tlocke.com</a>.<br />
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Q and A With Thomas Locke</h3>
<a href="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emissary-and-Merchant-Covers.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Emissary and Merchant Covers" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17523" src="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Emissary-and-Merchant-Covers-300x300.jpg" height="300" width="300" /></a><b>Q: Why did you write MERCHANT OF ALYSS?</b><br />
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<b>A: Thomas Locke:</b> I began work on MERCHANT OF ALYSS before EMISSARY (book 1 in the series) had been accepted for publication. I had no idea anyone would accept these stories, since they were so utterly different from what I had been writing up to that point. But I was so captivated by the concepts and the emotions that I <i>had </i>to write it.<br />
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<b>Q: What was your favorite scene to write?</b><br />
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</b> <b><b>A: </b>Thomas Locke:</b> My wife was speaking at a conference in San Francisco, and I had come along to play <i>spouse</i>. I rented a bike and was cycling around the city when I was struck by the image of a guard standing on the parapet in a fierce winter storm, watching a <i>new </i>crimson mage. Who then turns away from the city, walks down to the magic grove protecting Hyam’s home, and attacks.<br />
By the time we returned home, I had the first quarter of MERCHANT OF ALYSS mapped out.<br />
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<b>Q: There is the element of magic to the story. What do you hope readers take away from the “Magic” element in the story?</b><br />
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<b><b>A: </b>Thomas Locke:</b> The issue of using magic was something I grappled with for some time. I found immense guidance from the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.<br />
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Four thousand years ago, when the concept of “epic” fiction originated, there was a specific purpose behind stories where magic and mythical beasts played major roles. The Greeks sought to create worlds that were bigger than life, with challenges and obstacles that were completely and utterly beyond the reach of mortal man.<br />
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The authors sought to portray through story that a normal human being can grow <i>beyond </i>the impossible challenges of life. They wanted to show normal people, with flaws and weaknesses as great as those we all carry today, can in fact rise up. They can triumph<i>. </i><br />
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That is what I seek to do with the Legends of the Realm series. I want to return to the original aims of fantasy fiction. I want to re-insert the concept of heroic struggle, and challenges greater than life, and triumphs over evil and darkness.<br />
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<b>Q: For what audience did you write this novel?</b><br />
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<b><b>A: </b>Thomas Locke:</b> Increasingly, the younger generations within the faith community are moving away from the mind-set of their parents. I am not suggesting that they are abandoning their faith. What I mean is, they are abandoning their parents’ concept of <i>church</i>.<br />
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Many younger believers are trending towards a faith that dwells inside the larger mainstream world. Their lives no longer center upon a church so large it contains its own sense of community. They worship in home churches, or smaller centers focused on outreach. They accept a multi-cultural and multi-racial lifestyle, and seek a church that reflects this.<br />
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And their entertainment is being drawn from this wider arena.<br />
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At the same time, they are not comfortable with much of the darkness that dominates current television and movie trends. With this Thomas Locke brand, I seek to join a small but growing number of believers who are doing this with books and film.<br />
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The preliminary response, both from within the younger generations in our faith community, and from the mainstream, has been more than wonderful. It has been a gift.<br />
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<b>Q: What question about MERCHANT OF ALYSS do you wish someone would ask?</b><br />
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<b><b>A: </b>Thomas Locke:</b> For MERCHANT, I wish someone would ask, “How did you develop such a sense of natural flow out of a realm that doesn’t exist? How did you manage to structure a fantasy where the logic and surprise fit together powerfully?”<br />
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I feel this is a crucial element of both EMISSARY and MERCHANT. And with these two books, the answer is extremely different.<br />
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With EMISSARY, it came together as naturally as breathing. This happens sometimes. I wish it happened more often, but that is really in God’s hands.<br />
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With MERCHANT OF ALYSS, it was the exact opposite. I <i>burned </i>with this story. I <i>had </i>to write it. The passion and the joy were immense. But it was still such a struggle. And the first draft reflected this.<br />
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So I completed the work. Then I set it aside. Six weeks later I did a full-bore redraft. Then I set it aside again.<br />
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Six weeks later I did <i>another </i>total redraft. Then I sent it to the editors, who said, “Don’t change a thing.”<br />
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Then I did the entire process a third time. It went into line edits. And I did it a fourth and final time.<br />
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A lot, lot, lot of work to make it as smooth and simple as EMISSARY was at first draft.<br />
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<b>Q: Where can we learn more about you and your books? </b> <br />
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<b><b>A: </b>Thomas Locke: </b>You’ll find me at these online outlets:<br />
Website: <a href="http://tlocke.com/" target="_blank">http://tlocke.com/</a><br />
Subscribe to Thomas’s e-newsletter and blog: <a href="http://eepurl.com/5cnH5" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/5cnH5</a><br />
Receive Thomas’s latest blog posts via your feed reader: <a href="http://tlocke.com/blog/feed/" target="_blank">http://tlocke.com/blog/feed/</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tlockebooks" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/tlockebooks</a><br />
Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/thomas_locke" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/thomas_locke</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tlockebooks" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tlockebooks</a><br />
Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/tlockebooks/" target="_blank">http://www.pinterest.com/tlockebooks/</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://tlocke.com/legends-of-the-realm/" target="_blank">Legends of the Realm fantasy series</a></b></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><u><b><span style="color: #990000;">Emissary</span></b></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> (from the publisher)</b></span><u><b><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></b></u></span><br />
<span id="freeText7610118405103418637">"Hyam is a likeable lad
who will make a fine farmer someday. But he carries a burden few can
fathom. As his mother slips toward death, she implores him to return to
Long Hall, where he spent five years as an apprentice. It was there that
Hyam's extraordinary capacity for mastering languages came to
light--and soon cast him into the shadows of suspicion. How could any
human learn the forbidden tongues with such ease? When Hyam dares to
seek out the Mistress of the Sorceries, her revelation tears his world
asunder.<br /><br />He has no choice but to set out on the foreboding
path--which beckons him to either his destiny or his doom. An encounter
with an enchanting stranger reminds him that he is part hero and part
captive. As Hyam struggles to interpret the omens and symbols, he is
swept up by a great current of possibilities--and dangers."</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><u><b> </b></u></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><u><b>Merchant of Alyss</b></u></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> (from the publisher)</b></span></span><br />
"Life for Hyam is bittersweet. Admired by the citizens of Falmouth for
his heroic rescue mission, he cherishes these peaceful days with Joelle
by his side. Yet grief over the loss of his magical skills during the
great Battle of Emporis threatens to engulf him. Sometimes he even
wishes he had never known magic at all.<br />
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When Hyam comes into possession of an ancient Milantian scroll, he is
thrilled to feel the surge of power that courses through him whenever
he touches it. But what he discerns in the text could mean war. He
embarks upon another journey to determine its true meaning and forestall
any attack. But as Hyam is seeking answers, he is unaware that the
merchant of Alyss is seeking him…"<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><u><b>My Thoughts</b></u></span><br />
These are both GREAT books. I read all of Emissary and I am mostly done with Merchant of Alyss. Watch for the review of Merchant of Alyss coming in the next week or so. I love Thomas Locke's writing. It is imaginative and gripping. <br />
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I thought I had reviewed Emissary here on my blog but I see now that I never did post the review. Bad me. I was starting a new job and things seemed to have fell through the cracks. I did review it on <b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1167383400" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/R3SM8UEKSCT435/ref=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv" target="_blank">Amazon</a></b> though. Just click the link to read my review from either place, my reviews are the same at both sites.<br />
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In case you didn't notice Thomas Locke is Davis Bunn's pseudonym and
Davis Bunn is a wonderful author. He writes under the name Thomas Locke
for his more diverse fantasy books. These books are different from the
books I usually read, but I like them. I like all his writing. I truly
do. He is one of my favorite authors.<br />
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And... for all these reasons... I am so proud to be able to offer one winner one copy of each of the above books to have for their very own.<br />
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About Thomas Locke</h3>
<a href="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Thomas-Locke-250b.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Thomas Locke, author of Legends of the Realm fantasy series" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17583" src="http://bloggingbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Thomas-Locke-250b.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>Thomas Locke is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven million copies. His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall of Fame. Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent’s Park College at The University of Oxford. <b></b><br />
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Visit Thomas at <a href="http://tlocke.com/" target="_blank">http://tlocke.com</a>.<br />
Subscribe to Thomas’s e-newsletter and blog: <a href="http://eepurl.com/5cnH5" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/5cnH5</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">1 winner will receive print copies of both <span style="color: #ae40a5;">Emissary</span> and <span style="color: #ca0505;">Merchant Of Alyss</span></span></b></div>
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all content on my blog is ©Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-81989588779015158532015-08-26T19:47:00.004-04:002015-08-26T19:47:50.470-04:00Review of Trial Run, a Technothriller Mystery<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Where does perception end and reality begin?<br />
Can your mind actually cause something to happen in the “real” world?<br />
What happens when we throw out our conception of the limits of space and time?<br />
When science, government, and big business clash, who will ultimately
have control of our information, our privacy, and even our very
thoughts?<br />
<i>One thing remains clear:</i><br />
What you don’t know can kill you.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>My Review </b></span></h2>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;">I liked this book. I have to
admit though, it took me a long time to <b>really</b> get into the book, til
chapter 60 of 89. That's page 267 out of 374. This book is not the type of book
I typically read. I am not sure if I would have finished it if I did not agree
to do a review of it, I probably would have. I don't like to quit things that I
start. I can not be sure of course, since I felt I had to finish it for the
review, but I think I would have continued to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">They call this type of book
tapestry book. Many threads in the book come together. It was hard in the first
20 or so chapters to keep the characters straight. I had to keep checking back
to previous chapters to see who was in which group. There are two basic sides
in the novel, two groups, though at first there were 4 or 5 groups of
characters, maybe more. I did consider making a chart of the characters, that
may have helped, but I never did it. As the novel went on some of the groups
merged and that, with the familiarity of learning more about the characters,
and the plot of the story, made the reading easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also, there was a lot of
science involved in the novel, quantum physics, not exactly something I ever
studied. I struggled with this and I am not a dumb woman. I studied a lot of
science in high school and college, as well as while I homeschooled my children
for 24 years. But, not this deep. It was over my head. Until in chapter 60
Thomas Locke explained some of the science in terms that I began to understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Elene asked, “What is the
rate of infection?”</span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“One hundred percent.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“What is the cure rate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Zero. If a person ingests
the misfolded molecule, that person is gone. This transformation takes place at an alarming rate. To put it
bluntly, the beta-pleated sheets eat holes in the brain. This results in a
steady degeneration of physical and mental, and finally death. In cows, where
this phenomenon was first identified, it is known as bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or BSE, or mad cow disease. When it is transited to humans, it
became known as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, or nvCJD.” (pg. 272)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is just a little taste
of the science in this book. But, mad cow disease. That, at least, I have heard
of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This book, unlike most of the
other books that I have read by this author (not as his alias Thomas Locke but
as Davis Bunn) did not have much of a spiritual basis. Most of the other books
I read do have a spiritual understructure to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
transiting/ascents/out-of-body experiences were strange to me. I am not sure
what I feel about those kinds of things. I don't really believe those things
can happen. Fantasy, I don't mind reading fantasy. Out-of-body experiences, I
don't know what to think really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It may sound like I have more
reservations about the book than positive things. That is not really so. I
enjoyed the book. It was challenging to read, but maybe a challenging book once
in a while is good for us. It stretched my mind, and my comfort zone as well.
It is good to stretch the mind. It needs “exercise” as much as our body does.
Keeps it sharp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The character were well
developed and likable, especially the ones on the “right” side. I liked the
slight good vs. evil side of things as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is one of my favorite
quotes from the book. Gabriella is speaking to Shane...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Logically there is no
possible way the two could be connected. He dreams and receives experiences you
call images. He has no control. He cannot make them happen. He is a passive
observer. You, on the other hand, ascend by your own choice and actions.” She
smiled once more. “But I am Italian. Logic plays a much smaller role in my
society. So my professional mind says, we cannot verify any connection without
a great deal more study. But my heart says, we have all been drawn together for
purposes beyond our wildest dreams.” (pg 293)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">I think I like this
quote because it shows the human element in the story. The characters,
relationships, the connections are what made me keep reading.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">And, the rest of the
book bears out that quote. The book gets more and more exciting as it goes on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">from there. Chases, bombs, grenades, breaking people out, attacks,
sleeplessness, airplane trips,injuries, and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Now for general information, free previews, and a Q and A with the author...</b></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://tlocke.com/fault-lines/" target="_blank">Link to <i>Trial Run</i> page on Thomas Locke’s website</a><b> </b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Hardcover, Paperback and ebook: 384 pages</span><br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Revell<br />
<b>Publication Date:</b> August 4, 2015<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://tlocke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/TrialRun_Sampler.pdf" target="_blank" title="Free sample of Trial Run by Thomas Locke">Free pdf sample of <i>Trial Run</i> chapter 1 by Thomas Locke</a></b></span><br />
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Video Trailer for <i>Trial Run</i><br />
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/FS9Vr2Nfc4Q" target="_blank" title="Trial Run Video Book Trailer">https://youtu.be/FS9Vr2Nfc4Q</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Locke is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven million copies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim
includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014
induction into the Christy Hall of Fame.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves
as Writer In Residence at Regent’s Park College at The University of
Oxford. Visit Thomas at <b><a href="http://tlocke.com/" target="_blank" title="Thomas Locke's website: TLocke.com">http://tlocke.com</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<b>Q: What reader did you have in mind when you were writing <i>Trial Run</i>?</b><br />
<b>Thomas Locke:</b> I suspect there are a lot of readers
out there like me, who love mainstream fiction in principle, but are
dismayed by how dark it is becoming.<br />
I love to read. I am happiest with a good book in my hands. And most
of my purchases are mainstream fiction. Too often, however, I find
myself skipping over bits that are just plain not necessary for a good
story.<br />
<br />
I wrote <i>Trial Run</i> for readers like me. Passionate about
story, yearning for the thrill of a great tale, hoping for something
that uplifts as well as ignites.<br />
Here’s a video trailer for <i>Trial Run</i>, hot off the press:<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/FS9Vr2Nfc4Q" target="_blank" title="Trial Run Video Book Trailer">https://youtu.be/FS9Vr2Nfc4Q</a><br />
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<b>Q: In <i>Trial Run</i>, you introduce several seemingly
unrelated threads at the beginning of the story. By the end of the
story, those threads have become woven together in an intricate
tapestry. What’s your thought process behind this writing strategy?</b><br />
<br />
<b>Thomas Locke:</b> This concept can best be summed up by the phrase you often hear a Hollywood producer say: “Where is the cut?”<br />
<br />
By this, the producer means, <i>what can you leave out of the script so that the audience must figure things out for themselves</i>?<br />
<br />
Instead of spoon-feeding the audience every item required to move to the climax, things are left unsaid. This sense of <i>vacuum</i> draws the audience into the action, and hurries them forward to the story’s close.<br />
<br />
<b>Q: Several settings in <i>Trial Run</i> (Santa Barbara, CA,
the Italian/Swiss border site) depict real places. How do you select
these real-life settings for your stories, and do you alter details of
these places to suit your stories?</b><br />
<br />
<b>Thomas Locke:</b> The core element of my placing a story is <i>research</i>. And the core element in my research is <i>emotion</i>.
For many people, the ‘take’ that I finally use in the story does not
jibe with what they like to see as valid for a particular setting,
especially when that place is close to their heart and I have used a
more negative perspective. But the facts have been carefully studied.<br />
An example from <i>Trial Run</i> is Santa Barbara. For a lot of
people who know and love California, this is their absolute favorite
place in the SoCal region. And for good reason. It is a lovely town, one
my wife and I really enjoy visiting.<br />
<br />
For this story, I was granted an insider’s view into the University
of California at Santa Barbara, or UCSB. And from the perspective of
many students enrolled there, UCSB is filled with hyper-inflated SoCal
egos.<br />
<br />
The contrast I found between the students with money (and in SoCal, when I say they had money, I really mean <i>they had money</i>)
and those who don’t is as sharp as anywhere I have ever been. The
student who formed my core source and guide was on a scholarship. He was
there to study. He was, to say the least, in a minority.<br />
<br />
Everything I described about the school, the bicycle traffic and the
events on the beach and the housing, are based on observation. But the
perspective was based upon the humorous bafflement with which this
student viewed many of his fellow classmates.<br />
<br />
I personally love this aspect of building a story. The research at
this emotional level grants me the opportunity to see the world through
another person’s eyes and heart. Being trusted with this, time and
again, is part of the miracle process that happens every time I start a
new tale.<br />
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<b>Q: I’ve heard there’s a<span style="color: #990000;"> free ebook prequel </span>to <i>Trial Run</i>. How can I get a copy?</b><br />
<br />
Summary: Discover how it all began in this explosive prequel to <i>Trial Run</i>…<br />
<br />
There isn’t much that can throw Charlie Hazard off balance. But the
mystery woman with the striking eyes and the intense request to follow
her—now—just might accomplish it.<br />
<br />
Knowing little more than her beautiful name, Charlie leaves his post
as a guard at the Satellite Beach community center for what he thinks is
just another risk-containment job.<br />
<br />
But Gabriella, an experimental psychologist, has far more in store
for him than protection duty—if the two of them survive the test.<br />
<br />
Leave behind your perceptions of what is possible and race into the
unknown corridors of human consciousness in this breakneck prequel to
Thomas Locke’s <i>Trial Run</i>. <br />
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<b>Thomas Locke: </b>As I was writing the opening scenes of <i>Trial Run</i>,
I found myself continually asking questions about what happened before
that door opened and before the party started. I began sketching a sort
of parallel story, laying out ideas that formed the
story-before-the-story.<br />
<br />
“Double Edge” is the result.<br />
<br />
The publishers liked the short story prequel so much that they have
asked me to write a complete novel based upon these concepts. This novel
will form either book three or book four in the series.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #990000;">You’ll find links on my website</span> <b><a href="http://tlocke.com/fault-lines/" target="_blank" title="Free download of "Double Edge" by Thomas Locke">http://tlocke.com/fault-lines/</a></b> <span style="color: #990000;">for downloading your free copy of “Double Edge” from your favorite online bookseller.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Q:<i> Trial Run</i> is book 1 in the three-volume Fault Lines series. Please give us a preview of what to expect in book 2.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Thomas Locke:</b> This is a timely question, as I completed the first draft of book 2 on June 8. The working title is <i>Flash Point</i>.<br />
<br />
In many respects, <i>Flash Point</i> is a true hybrid. By this I mean that the core themes are the same as in <i>Trial Run</i>.
But everything is also very different. I had two key questions in mind
when I started book two: How far can I take this? How much can I risk?<br />
<br />
This whole concept of controlled out-of-body experiences opens up a
completely new vista. I had to develop a new story framework for <i>Trial Run</i>, and everywhere I looked I found myself asking the same questions:<br />
<ul>
<li>Where does this take mankind?</li>
<li>If this could actually happen, where do we go?</li>
<li>Who are we as people?</li>
<li>How would this remake us?</li>
</ul>
These questions are first asked in <i>Flash Point</i>. Where we go from here depends mostly upon you, the reader.<br />
<br />
So let’s dance!<br />
<br />
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Media in exchange for my honest review.</span></em><br />
<h5>
<span style="font-size: small;">Overview of <em>The Pilgrim from the publisher</em></span></h5>
Travel with Empress Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine the Great, on a
perilous journey through ancient Judea to Jerusalem.
<br />
Abandoned by her husband, in danger because of her faith, but with an
implacable will to do what God calls her to, Helena meets those who would help
and harm her along the way. Miracles seem to follow this humble but determined
woman as she wins many over to the faith, and changes lives forever—including
her own. This unforgettable story is a vivid portrait of one of Christian
history’s most important women.<br />
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<h3>
<em><strong>My Review:</strong></em></h3>
Wow, what a book. This is a GREAT historical fiction novel by a favorite
author, Davis Bunn. A wonderful, touching tale about Helena, the mother of
Constantine; her companions; and her pilgrimage to fulfill the call of God on
her life and to walk in the steps that Christ walked while on his way to
Calvary. Constantine, her son, has found the Lord and is beginning to change the
world. Helena has been given a noble quest, through a vision from the Lord.<br />
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Oh, what wonderful characters. Oh what glorious descriptions. A quest that
would lead the characters not just to Jerusalem, but to a deep spiritual place
that helps them to find a reason to live, a way to forgive themselves for their
failings and their past, and a way to join together to make the world a better
place, especially for the Christians under Roman persecution.
I gave this book 5 stars on Goodreads and will give it the same on Amazon as
soon as I am allowed to leave a review there. I love how Bunn weaves a tale and
brings me along and helps me to travel with each character on their journey. I
felt with each character. I empathized with them. I wished that I could join
them on the journey. I wish that I could go now and travel the <em>Via
Dolorosa</em>. <br />
This book helped me on my journey to forgive myself; and forgive others who
have wounded me in the past. This is a difficult thing for me to do. It is
something I have struggled with for the past 3 years. I have not finished my
quest. I have not fully forgiven, but I am making progress and this book was one
tool that Lord has used on my path to forgiveness.<span style="color: #bb0000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
I have for you two of my favorite quotes from the book…<br />
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“She had to forgive herself. </blockquote>
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On one level, it was ludicrous. What had she done to deserve her fate? She
had every right to be hurt, wounded, angry and even to seek vengeance. </blockquote>
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On the other, she knew the truth of this matter. She did not need anyone to
be hard on her. She was harder on herself than anyone else could possibly be.
Nothing she did was ever good enough. She had spent an entire lifetime striving
to do better, to rise further, to be more. Which, of course, was one reason why
she remained so upset with her husband. Because he had both failed to live up to
her expectations and dragged her down as well.” pg 63</blockquote>
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“Helena sat apart and argued with herself. Personal forgiveness meant
accepting that she was flawed. Imperfect. Destined to miss the mark, time and
again. She doubted whether she was able to actually, honestly, take that step.”
pg 64</blockquote>
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“I have a world of reasons to worry. I know I am frail. What I want is to
look beyond all that.”<br />
Slowly, Macarius turned back. His good eye gleamed as he observed her in
silence. </blockquote>
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“I want to be ready to serve at God’s command. And I can’t do this if I let
fear and regret and anger dominate my life. I want to turn from all that. I want
to focus on God. But I don’t know if I can." </blockquote>
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Macarius took her hand and he had the previous night. “Let us pray on this.
And keep praying. And trust God both to answer and to give you the strength to
hear.” pg 73</blockquote>
<span style="color: black;">I completed this book and find myself inspired, hope
filled,</span><span style="color: black;"> forgiven and more ready to forgive others, more aware of this time period, and
deeply grateful for the opportunity to read and review it.</span><br />
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Get your<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Pilgrim-Sampler-Chapters-1-3.pdf"><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Scrap Casual; font-size: medium;">Free sample, chapters 1-3, of <em>The
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Link to <em>The Pilgrim</em> page on Davis Bunn’s website - <a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-pilgrim-by-davis-bunn.htm">http</a><a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-pilgrim-by-davis-bunn.htm">://www.davisbunn.com/book/the-pilgrim-by-davis-bunn.htm</a><br />
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<strong>ISBN-10:</strong> 1632530341
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<strong>ISBN-13:</strong> 978-1632530349
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<strong>Hardcover and Paperback:</strong> 176 pages
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<strong>Publisher:</strong> Franciscan Media
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<strong>Publication Date:</strong> July 17, 2015
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<span style="font-size: large;">About Davis Bunn</span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_V_V1OEB7-Y5reqbrGmlVLV8OGb4xr0TBppXlwFCh5PWNFSd8_piiUNABSD1uaiS_PhdvjD9H9mIhx0NUkawHXVYzlkVTgNR02PtffAOrySDz_ftucMFcPJ16hIL8hdNZsw_uTQdHu-8/s1600/Davis-Bunn-2015.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_V_V1OEB7-Y5reqbrGmlVLV8OGb4xr0TBppXlwFCh5PWNFSd8_piiUNABSD1uaiS_PhdvjD9H9mIhx0NUkawHXVYzlkVTgNR02PtffAOrySDz_ftucMFcPJ16hIL8hdNZsw_uTQdHu-8/s200/Davis-Bunn-2015.jpg" width="200" /></a>Davis Bunn is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide sales of seven
million copies. His work has been published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim
includes four Christy Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction
into the Christy Hall of Fame. Davis divides his time between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer
In Residence at Regent’s Park College at The University of Oxford. Visit Davis
at <a href="http://www.davisbunn.com/">http://www.davisbunn.com</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHq0xuEfrqvawxMW_xJrpLQRH_e2tUyxxgyRJ4-bAzS0bpH9SExlWjALO7AujcFeA6BcXKs6dDEzNF1c3IQj6pOcQON7m2EzJy1dMIxp7is5Uosavbxi3TBqA1fv3HJYOFed89GMltKI/s1600/Q-and-A-with-Davis-Bunn-Author-of-The-Pilgrim.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHq0xuEfrqvawxMW_xJrpLQRH_e2tUyxxgyRJ4-bAzS0bpH9SExlWjALO7AujcFeA6BcXKs6dDEzNF1c3IQj6pOcQON7m2EzJy1dMIxp7is5Uosavbxi3TBqA1fv3HJYOFed89GMltKI/s200/Q-and-A-with-Davis-Bunn-Author-of-The-Pilgrim.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Q:</strong> <strong>There are many legends
about Constantine and his mother, Helena. How did you decide which legend to
incorporate into the story?</strong></span><br />
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<strong>Davis Bunn:</strong> The period when Constantine became the first
Christian emperor is one about which so much has been written, and yet so little
detail is known. No one knows for certain where his mother, Helena – the main
character in <em>The Pilgrim</em> – was born. There are three main legends, and
I used the one that has the greatest sense of historical resonance, that she was
British, and her father ruled one of the provinces taken over by the Romans. Her
husband was a general who met Helena in the local market and fell in love at
first sight.<br />
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<strong>Q: What is the appeal of writing about a historical figure? What was
one special challenge you faced in doing so? </strong>
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First and foremost, Helena is a saint in the eyes of the Catholic church. Her
son, Emperor Constantine, was the first Roman leader to convert to Christianity.
His death marked the moment when Christians were freed from persecution.
Constantine was led to faith by his mother. <em>The Pilgrim</em> is her story.
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While I am a fervent evangelical Protestant, my wife is Catholic. My mother
is a Catholic convert. As is my sister, who has raised her two daughters as
Catholic. So part of what I wanted to do here was to grow closer to the heritage
that these dear people treasure. Their faith has had such an impact on my own
life. It was important that I use this story and this opportunity to create
something that would honor their perspective on faith. I also wanted to share
with readers the enormous life lessons we can learn from the lives of the
saints.<br />
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So many, many different issues came up as a result of this quest. It proved
to be a beautiful and intense growing experience. Although this book is not
particularly long, the actual writing took as long as some of my much bigger
books. Part of this was honing the story so their faith, and their history, was
honored, but done from a foundation that reflected my own personal walk in
faith.<br />
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My hope, my fervent prayer, is that the story will resonate with readers from
both faith communities. <br />
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<strong>Q: The end of <em>The Pilgrim</em> leaves the reader wanting more.
Will you revisit this story down the road?</strong> <br />
I am working on a second book, <em>The Fragment</em>, which is scheduled for
publication in the spring of 2016. <em>The Fragment</em> carries some of the
concepts from <em>The Pilgrim</em> into the early twentieth century, when the
U.S. came to possess a reliquary with a supposed component of Jesus’s cross. It
ends in a vignette that happens today, when a couple travels to Rome.<br />
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<strong>Q: How can readers find you on the Internet? </strong>
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Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-83500649139674127322014-08-23T17:43:00.001-04:002014-08-23T17:43:32.511-04:00Picnic in the ParkI am a creative team member for<b> </b><a href="http://www.digicyberscraps.com/" target="_blank"><b>Digi Cyber Scraps</b></a><b>. </b>Note: I received this kit for free in order that I would share it with
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I have to admit that I did some scraplifting. <br />
One thing you must do when scraplifting is give credit where credit is due.<br />
I scraplifted this design of the page elements from Albums To Remember. It was a free template I got from Barb a while back called 'AK 1 template' from her theme Everyday. You can still buy it here... and go compare her page to mine...<br />
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She blogs, has her own store and has tutorials and more at <a href="http://www.albumstoremember.com/">http://www.albumstoremember.com/</a> as well. After I post this I plan to check out her tutorials for My Memories.. the scrapbooking program I use.<br />
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I used her template as a guide and made the page below. I think it came out wonderfully.... one of my best pages ever. I should have put the date on there... I know it was summer 1989.<br />
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I love the Popsicle alphabet, the variety of colors of backgrounds and elements and the FUN picnic items like the basket (above) and the ants (below).<br />
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here is a FUN page with my dad, mom and I at the same place... looks like it may be the same hill as it was a favorite spot for picnics. Oh how I have been missing my dad these days even though he has been in heaven for 38 years, since I was 14.<br />
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all content on my blog is ©Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-75035494457486186772014-06-24T16:10:00.000-04:002014-06-24T16:10:03.990-04:00Chemistry 101 and Biology 101<span style="color: #990000;"><b>note:</b></span> I was given these dvd sets for free. I agreed to write a review for my blog in return for these free items. The review is honest and not influenced by the receiving of free items.<br />
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I was pleased to have the opportunity to use the video sets of <a href="http://www.the101series.com/" target="_blank">Chemistry 101</a> and <a href="http://www.the101series.com/" target="_blank">Biology 101</a>. It is a great help to have such a wonderful addition to our homeschool curriculum. We were in need of high school level science resources and these are factual and biblical.<br />
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<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">The sets were created and hosted by homeschooling father and fifteen-year veteran filmmaker Wes Olson.</span> He did a splendid job. These sets are created for kids ages 15 and up but younger children will enjoy the videos and you could get more books and other resources on their level to round out a year long program for them.<br />
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The Chemistry set has 4 DVD's and contains 19 individual<span style="color: red;"> </span>video segments, <span id="product_description" itemprop="description">for a total running time of over 11 hours,</span> as well as a guidebook. The guidebook includes information to go with each lesson, and a quiz covering the material for each video segment. There is also a pdf with the information on how to make this set into a full one year high school chemistry course.<br />
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<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">Chemistry 101 is divided into four main sections: The Road to the Periodic Table, Chemistry Essentials, Meet the Elements, and The Future of Chemistry. This course will help your student(s), and maybe it will help you <a href="http://zaazu.com/"><img alt="http://zaazu.com" border="0" src="http://images.zaazu.com/img/Wink-male-smiley-smile-smiley-emoticon-000282-medium.gif" height="48" width="44" /></a> , understand what the Periodic Table means and how to balance chemical equations, and you will have an introductory knowledge of every element. You will also learn about the history of chemistry, including short biographies of many famous chemists. Here is the page with the list of contents of the program - <a href="http://www.the101series.com/chem/contents.html"><b>http://www.the101series.com/chem/contents.html</b></a></span><br />
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<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">Here is a sample of the guidebook containing chapter 2, the Birth of Modern Chemistry. It contains the information the student can read about the lesson, which has the same information as the dvd lesson and some added interesting tidbits, as well as part of the quiz for that lesson - <b><a href="http://www.the101series.com/chem/sampleguidebook.pdf">http://www.the101series.com/chem/sampleguidebook.pdf</a></b></span><br />
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<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">For the stretched out course (both Chemistry and Biology) Wes gives the kids assignments. Books to
look for and read from the library, essays to write, field trip
possibilities, lab work, and other things. He even includes some Bible studies on relevant topics. You can pick and choose what will best suit your student(s) or you could let you student choose.</span><br />
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<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">Here is a </span><span id="product_description" itemprop="description">sample of the chemistry pdf for making it a year long course <b><a href="http://www.the101series.com/chem/sampleguidebook.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.the101series.com/chem/sampleguidebook.pdf </a></b></span><br />
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The Biology set has 4 DVD's as well with 9 video segments, a guidebook, and a pdf including information to ‘stretch’ the course from 9 lessons to a full year of Biology, the same as the Chemistry set. The videos are presented in accordance with the days of Creation u<span id="product_description" itemprop="description">sing exceptional video footage supported by tons of interesting visuals and graphics. Children of all ages will enjoy the videos and the footage of the animals. Here is the page with the list of the contents of the biology set - <b><a href="http://www.the101series.com/bio/contents.html">http://www.the101series.com/bio/contents.html</a></b></span><br />
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We received these items the beginning of 2014. We had already done 3/4 of a year of chemistry. We did not have time to use the stretched out course. We watched the dvd’s. Then, Christopher read the lesson from the pdf that goes with the video then he took the quiz. He greatly enjoyed the videos, found them interestingly presented and containing good solid information. It was a good wrap-up for our year.<br />
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The <b>only</b> problem I have with these sets is that the video cases they come in seem cheap to me. My cases came broken with some of the dvd's in each set sliding around. I don't think this was the fault of the shipping as the outside of the cases was fine and the packaging was fine that they arrived in. It's just the buttons that you push to 'unlock' the dvd's from the case that were broken. Luckily they were not scratched in the process. I will be purchasing better cases for my dvd's to prevent them from getting scratched in the future.<br />
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I am looking forward to the release of Physics 101... set to come out in the spring of 2015. I have been promised a copy to review for my blog at that time so stay tuned for that.<br />
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<br />Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-54229567331762184332014-06-04T13:16:00.003-04:002014-06-04T13:16:50.787-04:00Spring Fling Digital Scrapbooking kit - my lovely pagesI am a creative team member for<b> </b><a href="http://www.digicyberscraps.com/" target="_blank"><b>Digi Cyber Scraps</b></a><b>. </b>Note: I received this kit for free in order that I would share it with
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<b> </b>To do these pages I used the Digi Cyber Scraps kit <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.mymemories.com/store/display_product_page?id=DCCR-CP-1201-10865" target="_blank">Spring Fling</a></b></span><br />
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With this kit I was able to make quite a variety of pages.<br />
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The first you will see below.<br />
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I have to admit that I did some scraplifting...<br />
that means that I used someone else's page as a 'guide'.<br />
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<span id="post_message_1283013073">This is how a </span><span id="post_message_1283013073">designer on My Memories describes scraplifting.</span><br />
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<span id="post_message_1283013073">"Often it's tricky to know where to
start on a layout, but then you see a lovely layout, and you say, "I
like that! I can make a layout like that!" Luckily in this field, it's
considered a compliment to the layout artist who made the layout, and
you're not copying it, you're scraplifting it!<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">What is ScrapLifting?</span>
You use the general placement of the papers and elements and photos and
text (or any of these), and with your own photo(s) and a kit of your
choice, you make a similar layout. You can use as much of the style and
placement as you need, you can flip it around or resize sections to fit
your needs, and you can make it your own. Generally, a scraplift will
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One thing you must do is give credit where credit is due.<br />
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I scraplifted this design from the ABDDesigns_GL-OdysseusPenelope_Apr23 quickpage by Anita Birrell.<br />
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The quickpage, I think, was a freebie I received through the newsletter I get from<b> <a href="http://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/">http://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com</a></b>. Anita sells her kits through this store.<br />
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I could not find the quickpage for sale anywhere. I wanted you to see the original.... this is a small jpg of the quickpage... I think this will be ok because I made it pretty small and changed it from a png which you could use and insert a photo into to a jpg; so you can't insert a photo and it should be useless to anyone unless it inspires them to do a similar page.<br />
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I hope you can see the similarities to Anita's page. <br />
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I used a photo of a single plant that I took at Longwood Gardens a few years ago. I kept my photo a square. I guess I could have done a circle since the flowers would have allowed for that, but I didn't.<br />
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I love the cluster of flowers on the left. Each of those items: flowers,
buttons, leaves, other do-dads, and lace; is a separate element from
the kit that I put together into this cluster... it took me quite a few
hours. I took liberties with her design and added the bush and little chick on the lower left. I also used 5 papers from the kit... one for the background, one
on a tilt for the layered look the original had, two behind the cluster on the far left, and the last as a background for the photo, since I didn't have a fancy photo frame in the kit that matched. I also love the
color combination I created and the buttons at the bottom left of the
page which were scraplifted from Anita's quickpage.<br />
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Using the same kit I created this fun page of my daughters visiting the Easter Bunny when they were younger. The bunny and eggs and more colorful papers make look so different. Hard to believe this came from the same kit.<br />
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This next page came out so lovely. I am very happy with it.<br />
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3 papers used for the background and for layers. A few flowers and plants in the corner with a pretty pink ribbon as contrast, and the lovely tag for posting what the picture depicts.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed my new pages.<br />
I am getting to enjoy digital scrapbooking more and more.<br />
Now to get a new kit from my creative team leader... and... <br />
I hope to participate in a few challenges on the My Memories forum this month.<br />
That will stretch my knowledge and give me some great pages for my blog as well.<br />
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all content on my blog is ©Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-23826234312587123242014-04-02T13:58:00.001-04:002014-04-02T14:15:08.219-04:00First Day of School 2004 part 2<div align="center">
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Kit one has green, orange and blue elements. Kit 2 has purple, red and yellow elements. There are a variety of paper colors: solids and patterns.<b> </b>Both kits together give you a lot of variety of items. Some items, like the rulers, come in each of the kits in all the variety of colors, some items are only found in one or two of the colors. I want to scrapbook some more school photos combining the two kits.</div>
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Jessica – this page shows her well, one moment seriously working on her schoolwork, or a project of her own, the next moment kidding around with her siblings. She is a joy to our family.</div>
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Rachel graduated in June of 2004… our first graduate. </div>
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Here you see her sorting recipes. Cooking is one of Rachel’s favorite things to do. She is a big helper to me, and has been since she was very young. She helped with the cooking and she helped me teach her siblings.</div>
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Yeah, that’s me. I dressed up for the first day of school.</div>
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I am happy, most days, to be the kids teacher as well as mom.</div>
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We have had many adventures over the years.</div>
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I hope you enjoyed both parts of this series. I did. I love looking back on our years of homeschooling. Back then it seemed like the days were eternally long... now the years have flown by.</div>
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Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-5900408713018631202014-02-12T14:25:00.001-05:002014-02-12T14:25:37.413-05:00Christmas 2000 Digital Scrapbook pages<div align="center">
I used the <b> </b><a href="http://www.digicyberscraps.com/" target="_blank"><b>Digi Cyber Scraps</b></a> kit Tis the Season.</div>
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I love Christmas and looking back at those happy days of the past is just as fun as celebrating the day.</div>
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My kids were so young and cute. My when you are going through the days when your kids are young you feel as if the days are long and the kids will never grow up. Now that they are it seems the days passed way to quickly. Ahhhh, sweet memories. </div>
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Rachel (age 14); Rachel, Jessica (age 11) and Christopher; Nathan (age 6)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sJhyyRlj5jo/UvvEpCEXe-I/AAAAAAAASUo/h7kg2DaCg9c/s1600-h/Christmas20000043.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-ioxLJZlKuOk/UvvEqyWjNZI/AAAAAAAASUw/s4Pi8W3doRk/Christmas2000004_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" /></a> </div>
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Jessica and my mother (Nan to my kids); Jessica; Rachel and Jessica (Nathan’s back); Jessica<br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fcLHvbpIUYc/UvvEsN-aevI/AAAAAAAASU4/J5hjap_gyqg/s1600-h/Christmas20000053.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.ggpht.com/-QfW80s7q25E/UvvEtiUhspI/AAAAAAAASVA/k0LpaJE8aQA/Christmas2000005_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" /></a> </div>
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Jessica; Rachel; Christopher<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5zQ3k81x-7g/UvvEvAYoT-I/AAAAAAAASVI/jUWxjzH8BMo/s1600-h/Christmas20000063.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.ggpht.com/-LUk8rVWFKkI/UvvEwjLfRDI/AAAAAAAASVQ/66xOE5YytX4/Christmas2000006_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" /></a> </div>
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Hubby (Court) and I<br /><br /> <br /><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-DBAgNaEG5hA/UvvExTrmmMI/AAAAAAAASVY/6RvcLO01IU8/s1600-h/Christmas20000073.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.ggpht.com/-6z1hQx6G8JA/UvvEywsQaqI/AAAAAAAASVc/L5dXDqwk8Js/Christmas2000007_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" /></a> </div>
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<b>Plot Synopsis</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(from the back of the book)</span><br />
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“An under-the-radar phone call from the U.S. State Department puts Marc Royce once again on assignment—ferreting out rumors of a clandestine operation stretching from Asia to the Mideast. At stake is Iran’s threat to blockade the narrow Strait of Hormuz, cutting off vital shipping routes and escalating global tensions beyond the breaking point.<br />
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Under the guise of investigating money laundering via high-end art purchases in Europe, Royce finds himself in Switzerland with only sketchy information, no backup, and without a single weapon other than his wits.<br />
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His appointment with a gallery owner in Geneva is a dead end--the man is on the floor with a bullet through his chest. But it turns out Royce does have backup. The Mossad has sent someone to keep an eye on this undercover op, which is of more than casual interest to the Israelis. And it's someone Royce knows...” <br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><i><b><br /> My Thoughts About The Book</b></i></span><br />
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Davis Bunn is my favorite author these days. I have been enjoying his new books, as well as some older ones I have gotten out of the library. [To read the reviews of the books I have read of his, click the label ‘reviews’ on my sidebar or go to my Goodreads account by clicking the Goodreads widget on my sidebar.] He is a spectacular writer. His stories have it all. This one has: Romance (but not gross icky romance, just enough to make me go awwwww and not enough so my sons don’t want to read the books. Intrigue. Spiritual battles. Guns. Love. Prayer. Explosions. Friends. Enemies. New friends found in unexpected places. Life. God. Uncertainty. People trying to find God’s will. People with problems figuring out what to do next…. just like me. Well, not really JUST like me as I don’t usually have people shooting at me or trying to kill me in my everyday life. <a href="http://zaazu.com/"><img border="0" src="http://images.zaazu.com/img/Wink-male-smiley-smile-smiley-emoticon-000282-medium.gif" /></a> I did love this book though. I LOVED the whole series. I still think book two is my favorite though, but I couldn’t exactly tell you why, with books one and three tied for a close second.<br />
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A couple favorite quotes, and some thoughts about those quotes, from the book.<br />
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“‘I think we should pray. Together.’ </blockquote>
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It took her a long moment. But he waited it out with her. until she could look over and really see him.<br />
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‘Morning and night,’ he went on. ‘We come together and we ask for clarity. Vision. Purpose. Wisdom. Healing. Peace. For each other and for the two of us.’” (pg 166)</blockquote>
I needed this. I wish my husband would commit to something like this and make it a continuing habit. I think it would really benefit us as a married couple. We are struggling to know God’s will. My hubby has been through all kinds of physical problems and he has been unemployed for 3 1/2 years. We could use some wisdom, vision, clarity, peace and a purpose for our lives. Until the Lord speaks to my husband about doing something like this I will do it on my own. I know God will hear my prayers.<br />
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Selected quotes from page 173-175 <br />
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“‘It goes back to the passage from Proverbs. We don’t know what to do, where to go, or how. So I thought we’d try and take this time to find out what we want, and what God wants and pray for each other’<br />
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‘The issue we’re talking about here is, what do I want most from life. I feel like we need to look at this honestly before we can work out what God wants.’<br />
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‘I want a new reason to hope. A new reason to be fulfilled.’<br />
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‘I want to be happy with my world and my purpose.’<br />
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‘Heavenly Father, I have never been good at asking you what I should do. Most of my time in prayer has been spent telling you what I want. Even speaking these words is an effort. It makes me scared. What if you want me to do something…?’ She took a long, hard breath. ‘I am asking, God, what do you want?”<br />
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She heard Marc say, ‘Lord, I join my prayers with Kitra’s. I ask for us both the answer to the impossible question. This is the hardest thing a strong person can ever do, to be weak in the face of uncertainty. She has led me to the point I could not come to on my own. I ask for Kitra and for myself. In our weakness, we join in this prayer. Show us your will.’”</blockquote>
Show us your will. That is what I want from God as well. A new reason to hope. A new reason to be fulfilled. Happy with my purpose in life. That is what I want. That is what my husband wants. That is what we want for our children. Answer MY prayers Lord. And thank you for Davis Bunn who writes fiction so well that it speaks to my heart, speaks truth into my life, ministers to me in my situation. Thank you Lord.<br />
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One more quote.<br />
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“‘You must ask the one question I have spent my entire life running from.’ Rhana’s gaze was a burning flame. ‘You must ask which direction will lead you closer to God. Because if you take the other direction, even if you win, even if you gain everything that you use to define success, you lose. And your days will become nothing but ashes. And your memories will be-“<br />
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‘Stop,’ Kitra whispered. ‘Please. Stop.’<br />
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‘Ask for God to make a clear path forward.’ Rhana laid a hand on Kitra’s forearm resting on the balcony railing. ‘Then you must wait. And he will answer you. How do I know this? Because once more my father’s memory is alive in my heart. What I thought was lost forever is with me again. Yet I know it has been there all along. Waiting for me to stop giving in to the wrong voices, taking the wrong paths. And instead heed the one voice that will give me the two things I forgot I even needed. And in the future, when your days are coming to a close, be that tomorrow or fifty years form now, you will know peace.’” (pg. 245)</blockquote>
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I want an answer for my life, Lord. I want a to know, clearly, the path forward that you want me/my husband and I/our family to take. I will wait. And while I wait, I will pray, and serve you and my family with the knowledge I have of what you want me to do today.<br />
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I was VERY sorry to hear this was the last of the books in the Marc Royce series. Everyone go awwwww again, this time in a sad way. I did not know this was the last in this series when I was reading it. I got to the end and my first thought was I can’t wait to read the next book in the series, even though this one did come out until last week, and I expected it would be a while (a year or more) before the next book in the series came out. I thought he set it up so he could write some more for the series. But I guess he has his reasons for not doing that. Since I can’t read any more about Marc Royce I will find some more of Bunn’s older books that I haven’t read yet. I sorta started one a while back. I don’t really know if I even read any but I know I put it on my Goodreads list. So… I need to order it from the library again and get reading. I also can’t wait to see what new books he has that he is working on for next year!!!<br />
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So yeah! I highly recommend this book. I gave it 5 stars because it has it all and it spoke to my heart, and the situation in my own life. It uplifted me spiritually. It is wonderful that a fiction writer can do that. It kept me reading. I finished it in only a couple days. I loved the action and the little bit of romance. I love the way Bunn writes.<br />
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<b>Davis Bunn </b>is a four-time Christy Award-winning, best-selling author now serving as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Defined by readers and reviewers as a "wise teacher," "gentleman adventurer," "consummate writer," and "Renaissance man," his work in business took him to over 40 countries around the world, and his books have sold more than seven million copies in sixteen languages.<br />
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<i>Strait</i><i> </i><i>of</i><i> </i><i>Hormuz</i> is the series finale of the popular Marc Royce Adventures. Library Journal named <i>Lion</i><i> </i><i>of</i><i> </i><i>Babylon</i><i> </i>(Book 1) a “Best Book of 2011.” <i>Rare</i><i> </i><i>Earth</i> (Book 2) won the 2013 Christy Award for best suspense novel and was a CBA top 20 best-seller. <br />
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<b>Pictured:</b> Davis Bunn and his wife, Isabella Bunn.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e69138;"><b>Q and A with Davis Bunn</b></span> </div>
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>The</b><b> </b><b>first</b><b> </b><b>two</b><b> </b><b>books</b><b> </b><b>in</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>Marc</b><b> </b><b>Royce</b><b> </b><b>series</b><b> </b><b>have</b><b> </b><b>been</b><b> </b><b>bestsellers</b><b> </b><b>and</b><b> </b><b>also</b><b> </b><b>won</b><b> </b><b>praise</b><b> </b><b>from</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>critics.</b><b> </b><i><b>Lion</b></i><i><b> </b></i><i><b>of</b></i><i><b> </b></i><i><b>Babylon</b></i><b> </b><b>won</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>Library</b><b> </b><b>Journal</b><b>’</b><b>s</b><b> </b><b>Best</b><b> </b><b>Book</b><b> </b><b>of</b><b> </b><b>2011</b><b> </b><b>award,</b><b> </b><b>and</b><b> </b><i><b>Rare</b></i><i><b> </b></i><i><b>Earth</b></i><b> </b><b>won</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>2013</b><b> </b><b>Christy</b><b> </b><b>Award</b><b> </b><b>for</b><b> </b><b>Suspense</b><b> </b><b>Fiction.</b><b> </b><b>What</b><b> </b><b>do</b><b> </b><b>you</b><b> </b><b>see</b><b> </b><b>is</b><b> </b><b>behind</b><b> </b><b>this</b><b> </b><b>success?</b> <br />
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<b>Davis</b><b> </b><b>Bunn:</b> The stories have certainly resonated with readers. I have tried to develop a strong sense of unfolding drama, combined with a unique spiritual theme. This moral structure plays out both in the story and the characters. My aim is to create an inspirational challenge that remains with the reader long after the book has been set down. <br />
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>This</b><b> </b><b>story</b><b> </b><b>includes</b><b> </b><b>two</b><b> </b><b>special</b><b> </b><b>components</b><b> </b><b>from</b><b> </b><b>your</b><b> </b><b>early</b><b> </b><b>life.</b><b> </b><b>Tell</b><b> </b><b>us</b><b> </b><b>about</b><b> </b><b>them.</b> <br />
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<b>DB:</b> My mother worked as an antiques dealer. In truth, ‘work’ was not really the correct term, because this was a passion she inherited from her mother. They bonded while my mom was still a child, going to small eastern Carolina towns and hunting around junk stores for the sort of bargains that don’t exist anymore. <br />
Their first love was early Americana, a type of colonial furniture known as Jacobean that predated America’s nationhood. I never really shared this passion, but in two previous books I came to respect and admire those who do. <br />
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And so I knew a great delight in re-entering this world in <i>Strait</i><i> </i><i>of</i><i> </i><i>Hormuz</i>, only this time at the very highest end. <i>Strait</i> takes place in the rarified world of multi-million dollar art, where the richest of collectors vie with museums and galleries for items that are no longer classed as antiques, but rather as treasures. <br />
The second special component was the location. I lived in Switzerland for almost five years, and many of the venues were places where I worked, and walked, and came to discover myself as an author. <br />
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>In</b><b> </b><b>what</b><b> </b><b>way</b><b> </b><b>is</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>setting</b><b> </b><b>important</b><b> </b><b>to</b><b> </b><b>this</b><b> </b><b>book?</b> <br />
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<b>DB:</b> The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical waterways. Stretching between Iran and the Gulf States, the strait us home to two US fleets. More than a third of all the oil consumed worldwide pass through these waters. But the story actually begins in Switzerland, before traveling to the Sinai and then into the hotly-contested Strait of Hormuz. <br />
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>What</b><b> </b><b>spiritual</b><b> </b><b>theme</b><b> </b><b>is</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>focus</b><b> </b><b>of</b><b> </b><b>this</b><b> </b><b>story?</b> <br />
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<b>DB:</b> One growing area of the missionary church movement is with displaced persons. More than five million Iranians have been expelled from their homeland, or been forced to flee the current regime. This includes virtually the entire Christian population. The missionary church movement has made enormous strides in bringing peace to these families and introducing Christ into the world of Muslims fleeing a Muslim government. <br />
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>What</b><b> </b><b>drew</b><b> </b><b>you</b><b> </b><b>to</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>missionary</b><b> </b><b>church</b><b> </b><b>movement</b><b> </b><b>as</b><b> </b><b>a</b><b> </b><b>theme?</b><b> </b> <br />
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<b>DB:</b> I came to faith in a missionary church. I was working as a consultant based in Germany. The year I accepted Christ, the Southern Baptist Mission Board founded a missionary church in Dusseldorf. I attended the church, I grew in the church, I studied under two amazing pastors, and one of them returned to Europe to marry us. <br />
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It was also where I learned to write. Two weeks after coming to faith, I felt called to writing. I wrote for nine years and completed seven books before my first was accepted for publication. The church, its members, and the elders all played a critical role in bringing me to where I am now. I am living testimony to the vital role played by the missionary church. <br />
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<b>Q:</b><b> </b><b>All</b><b> </b><b>three</b><b> </b><b>of</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>books</b><b> </b><b>in</b><b> </b><b>this</b><b> </b><b>series</b><b> </b><b>have</b><b> </b><b>given</b><b> </b><b>significant</b><b> </b><b>insight</b><b> </b><b>into</b><b> </b><b>the</b><b> </b><b>Muslim</b><b> </b><b>world,</b><b> </b><b>something</b><b> </b><b>critics</b><b> </b><b>have</b><b> </b><b>picked</b><b> </b><b>up</b><b> </b><b>on.</b><b> </b><b>What</b><b> </b><b>experience</b><b> </b><b>do</b><b> </b><b>you</b><b> </b><b>have</b><b> </b><b>with</b><b> </b><b>this</b><b> </b><b>region?</b> <br />
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<b>DB:</b> For the four years prior to moving to Germany, I lived and worked in the Middle East. I was the only non-Muslim in the management structure of a family-owned company. They had three major arms: construction equipment, shipping, and pharmaceuticals. I rose to become Marketing Manager of the pharmaceutical division. <br />
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One of the requirements of this job was to take instruction in the Koran and Islamic history from an imam who taught at the local university. I think this experience played a major role in my coming to Christ. <br />
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<b>Q: How can readers find you on the Internet?</b> <br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">Note:</span> </b>I received a complimentary copy of Strait of Hormuz from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for my honest review. </i><br />
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<b><i>Thanks to Davis Bunn and Bethany house. I really appreciate the opportunity to review his new books. I love his writing.</i></b>Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-28062683799023407402013-10-01T07:00:00.000-04:002013-10-01T09:04:20.435-04:00Unlimited, by Davis Bunn (a review and giveaway)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>About </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Unlimited</b></i></span></div>
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ISBN (Trade Paperback): 978-1-4336-7940-7</div>
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320 pages</div>
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September 1, 2013 from B & H Publishing Group</div>
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Simon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy. He needs Simon's help.<br />
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Upon crossing the border, nothing goes as the young man planned. The professor has been killed and Simon is assaulted and nearly killed by members of a powerful drug cartel.<br />
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Now he must take refuge in the only place that will help him, a local orphanage. There, Simon meets Harold Finch, the orphanage proprietor who walked away from a lucrative career with NASA and consulting Fortune 500 companies to serve a higher cause.<br />
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With Harold's help, Simon sets out on a quest to uncover who killed the professor and why. In due time, he will discover secrets to both the world-changing device and his own unlimited potential.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>My Review of Unlimited</b></span><br />
WOW!!! What to say and how to say it without giving away the whole wonderful plot. I just loved this book. Davis Bunn is such a GREAT writer. Spirituality, intrigue; wonderful, yet flawed, characters; a great plot. Davis Bunn first wrote the screenplay to the movie. Then they decided to have him do a book, also. I can't wait to see the Movie! It should be super! There is so much action in this story.<br />
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Out of 5 stars I would give it <br />
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I loved it. I couldn't put it down. I love their big idea for this book: "unleashing the God-given forces of success that live in every one of us." (pg vii) I could use some of that.</div>
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The device "anchored him [Simon] to a million broken dreams." (pg 14) Boy can I relate to that. I am sure there are others out there who feel the same. Will God give us another chance, or have we blown it to many times?? God gives unlimited grace to us. I am so thankful for that.</div>
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Suspense... this book has it from the very beginning!!! Try this on for size... "The hunter treated Simon's death as a game." pg 19 Wowee!!! The book has Secrets. Can you solve the murder before the book tells you? I had my suspicions from about halfway and it turned out I was right. There was much work to be done. People to be drawn to the Lord. Children at the orphanage to be protected and show the truth of God's word. Even love. This book has it all, as usual for a Davis Bunn book. He is my favorite author right now.</div>
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"What if God brought him here for a divine purpose?" (pg 41) [Simon that is] Does God have a divine purpose for all of us? I know I will never create a device that makes unlimited energy. Does that mean God's purpose for my life is any less divine?? I don't think so. "Simon might have given up on himself. But God had not given up on Simon." (pg 100) It is the same with us. Especially once/if we are one of His, a believer, a child of God. He will never leave us or forsake us. He will complete the work he started in us (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%201:6&version=ESV" target="_blank">Philippians 1:6</a>), the divine work. He has a purpose for my life... and yours.</div>
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"How do you do it?" (Simon)</div>
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"Do what?" (Harold)</div>
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"Your facing ruin. Everything you worked for could collapse tomorrow. But you're talking about changing the world."</div>
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Son, that's the power of dreams. If they're not big, if they're not impossible, they're not worth investing you life."</div>
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Simon backed up a step. "I've forgotten how to dream."</div>
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"Your problem is, you never learned." (pg 177)</div>
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I feel this way. I don't have dreams any more. Things in my life are tough. I don't know if I have forgotten how to dream or if I never knew how. It is hard to dream big, impossible dreams. But God is the God of the impossible. He can do anything. I just need faith, and some hard work of my own, to pursue those dreams.</div>
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Will Simon get the device working? Will the orphanage have to close its doors because of lack of money? Will they figure out who and why the professor was killed?</div>
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Negatives about the book???? NONE!! It was stupendous! </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>About Davis Bunn</b></span></div>
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Davis Bunn is a four-time Christy Award-winning, best-selling author now serving as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Defined by readers and reviewers as a “wise teacher,” “gentleman adventurer,” “consummate writer,” and “Renaissance man,” his work in business took him to over 40 countries around the world, and his books have sold more than seven million copies in sixteen languages. <br />
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<i>Unlimited</i> is Davis’s first screenplay to be released as a major motion picture. The book, Unlimited, is a novelization of the screenplay.<br />
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The inspiration behind the Unlimited film and novel is Harold Finch's book, Success: Four Keys to Unlock Your Unlimited Potential. Download a free copy of Success here: <a href="http://unlimitedthemovie.com/4-keys-book/">http://unlimitedthemovie.com/4-keys-book/</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Trailer for </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Unlimited: The Movie</b></i></span></div>
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<b>The storyline in </b><i><b>Unlimited</b></i><b> is inspired by true events. What actual events inspired the story?</b></div>
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Harold
Finch was formerly the founder and CEO of the first
management-leadership consulting groups in the US. In the mid-seventies
he sold the company to H&R Block for over a hundred million
dollars—back when a hundred million actually meant something. Answering
God’s call, he has spent the past three decades traveling the world,
teaching his concepts for free and helping underprivileged children
learn that they do indeed have both a purpose in God’s eyes, and the
potential to succeed. His experiences form the basis for this story. </div>
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<b>What ignited your idea for the characters to create a device that would convert raw wasted energy into useable power?</b></div>
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I actually wrote the screenplay for the film before writing the novel. This happens occasionally—<i>Godfather</i> and <i>Love Story</i>
were both conceived in this order. While working on the film script,
the producer and Harold and I were discussing what might work as a basis
for the story’s suspense element. We were looking for something that
had the means of revealing this ‘unlimited’ potential in people. I don’t
actually remember who first came up with the idea of wasted energy, but
soon as it was said, we all jumped on it.</div>
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<b>Simon Orwell, the protagonist in </b><i><b>Unlimited</b></i><b>,
is a brilliant, cynical electrical engineering student who finds danger
irresistible. Did you model his character traits after yourself or
anyone you know?</b></div>
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Alas, we all know a <i>Simon</i>.
These days, this type of person is all too common. An individual with
huge potential, who allows himself or herself to become distracted by
the multitude of temptations that basically define modern life. And yes,
I do know several such people. Some turn this into hugely productive
directions, thank goodness. Usually to do so requires divine help, a
clarification of focus, and strength they must reach out and ask to
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of the characters in the story are orphans. What parallels do you see
between the orphans in the story and real-life spiritual orphans?</b></div>
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beautiful question. While researching the core components of this
story, orphanage leaders repeatedly stressed the need to teach orphans
to believe in themselves and their natural abilities. Too often they see
themselves as lost, without purpose, without a role to play, without
chances, without love. What made this story work, I think, is how Simon
Orwell shares these same feelings about himself. And how he comes to
realize God is the only one to fill this need.</div>
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people believe they must wear a mask to hide the parts of themselves
they are ashamed of. How is this story about removing that mask?</b></div>
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much of life remains hidden away. The darker elements of a life without
God only amplify this falseness. Simon has spent so much of his life,
so much of his energy and time, in hiding. As the story unfolds, he
discovers that an essential element of arriving at his full potential is
<i>being</i> <i>honest with himself</i>. This is where the mask is most
damaging, and also where it is often hardest to release. We seek to
hide the truth, even when we know the act is a lie in itself. And the
mirror we require to see the truth about ourselves is the one that God
offers, in infinite patience, in gentle love. </div>
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<b>The title, </b><i><b>Unlimited</b></i><b>, has multiple layers of meaning. What does that title mean to you?</b></div>
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<i>Unlimited</i>
was the title brought to me by the film’s producers. When I first began
working on this story, it was just that, a title. But as I grew to know
Harold, and heard him teach, and read his lesson plan, and then
actually applied what he has come to call his ‘Dynamic Life Retreat’
(see Harold's full teachings on his website, HaroldFinch.com) I have
come to agree with them in their choice. Bringing God into the equation
of life’s direction, success, and reaching full potential does reveal
the true meaning of <i>Unlimited</i>.</div>
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<b>How can readers find Davis Bunn on the Internet?</b><br />
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I am reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10294367-what-s-it-like-to-be-married-to-me" target="_blank" title="What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions"><b>What's It Like to Be Married to Me?</b></a> as part of my morning devotions. I am on chapter 2 and it is about not complaining. It has been a challenging book right from the start. The author has challenged us wives to a 7 day "Gripes Be Gone" challenge. We wear a bracelet that is easily slipped off and on and we are to change it to the other wrist each time a complaint/gripe/murmur leaves our lips.</div>
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Isn't it pretty?<br />
I made it from the beads of a necklace I never wore any more and some seed beads that I already had.<br />
I want to make a few more of these in different colors because I like them and plan on continuing to wear them and do the challenge even after the week is up. I need to get some larger beads like the blue ones in a few different colors... brown, purple, maybe black/silver for a more neutral bracelet I could wear with anything.</div>
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I have found that sometimes I don't even know I am uttering words of discontent. It has become such a habit, I don't even realize I am saying negative things so often. The bracelet certainly has made me more aware. It is not easy not to speak or write, on Facebook or in chats even, complaining/murmuring words. It is even harder to replace complaining thoughts with grateful ones. Doing the Joy Dare, reading my Bible Daily and listening to praise music and hymns certainly does help my attitude.</div>
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So, how about you?<br />
Do you complain much?<br />
That counts muttering in discontent, even if it is under your breath.<br />
Make, or find a bracelet you already own and join me in striving to not complain. An elastic one is easiest to switch from wrist to wrist.<br />
Journal each day how you do, and let me know next week in your comments when you link up.<br />
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My blogger friend Rosann, leader of our UnEmployed Faith group and writer of a book by that title, did a book club with extra insight and questions on this book.<br />
You can find those posts at her blog here: <a href="http://christiansupermom.com/tag/encouragement-book-club" target="_blank">http://christiansupermom.com/tag/encouragement-book-club</a></div>
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Now for my goals from last week, how I did, and new goals for this week.<br />
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<li>*Morning Devotions - including Bible reading (Proverbs), prayer, listening to music and reading a spiritual book. Prayer is my focus this year as that is my word for 2013. Read more of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10294367-what-s-it-like-to-be-married-to-me" target="_blank" title="What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions"><b>What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions</b></a>. A hard study, already, and I am only in chapter 1. Really tough questions that take a LOT of thinking... about myself. I felt like God wanted me to do this study next. My UnEmployed Faith facebook group did this study. I was not able to purchase the book and participate at the time. Later I got the book free. God has something to teach me in this trial we are in. Maybe this book will help me with part of that. Anyway... I felt God prompting me to read and study it. It DOES have a study guide in the back... I already checked and am working on the questions. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - hard but good study. Cha<span style="font-size: small;">llenging th<span style="font-size: small;">ings to think about and do.</span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Read more of "When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances" to my hubby. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - we only <span style="font-size: small;">have the <span style="font-size: small;">journal thoughts at the end of the book to do now.</span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Participate in the <b><a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/joy-dares/" target="_blank">Joy Dare</a></b> in 2013. Writing down 3 things each day that are gifts from God, things to be thankful for totaling more than 1000 gifts in 2013.Write in my other 1,000 gifts notebooks. Catch up some... I probably won't completely catch up ALL the way ... but catching up some would be good. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - as I pr<span style="font-size: small;">edicted I c<span style="font-size: small;">aug<span style="font-size: small;">ht up some<span style="font-size: small;">, but not all the way.</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span><b><b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #76a5af;">Homeschool Goals</span><br />
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<li>Do school with Christopher. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Grade and Record work done, DAILY. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>*Catch up more on Grading Chemistry. I got some done last week but need to do the rest. <span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
<li>Prep the next day's school, especially science and Windows to the World (IEW) for English! Need to order more History books too!! <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
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<b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #674ea7;">Fitness Goals</span></span></b> <br />
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<li>I hope to get back to exercising this week...IF my knee stops hurting. I will be working out on the Wii.<strike> </strike><br />
<span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
<li>Eat fruit and veggies and drink water. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
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<li>Post Goal Planning Monday on time... since this is already up I have one thing for the week done already. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Comment on everyone's blog that links up to the Goal Planning Monday linky. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - no one linked up<span style="font-size: small;"> again... that's ok.</span></span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Blog only what I want to blog about. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - forgot to put that <span style="font-size: small;">I had a <span style="font-size: small;">review and g<span style="font-size: small;">ive<span style="font-size: small;">away to post on my blog... I got that done and posted on Friday last week.</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
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<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Read. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - I finished 2 books this week.</span></b></b></span></li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Work on sorting files on the external drive. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Pack up the little kids games in the basement. Court spent a long time on Sunday getting the basement more organized. It was a disaster area after we pulled things out for the yard sales. Stuff was EVERYWHERE! I want to box up the little kids games that we don't use any more and protect them in plastic bags and put the bags in boxes, so they will stack and be protected for future generations. <span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> For this week that </b></span><b>is </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">13 Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b><b>,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><b><b>0 Partly Done</b></b></span><b>, and </b></span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">3 Not Done.</b></span><br />
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<li>*Morning Devotions - including Bible reading (Proverbs), prayer, listening to music and reading a spiritual book. Prayer is my focus this year as that is my word for 2013. Read more of<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10294367-what-s-it-like-to-be-married-to-me" target="_blank" title="What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions"><b> What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions</b></a>. </li>
<li>Finish "When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances" reading it to my hubby. </li>
<li>Participate in the <b><a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/joy-dares/" target="_blank">Joy Dare</a></b> in 2013. Writing down 3 things each day that are gifts from God, things to be thankful for totaling more than 1000 gifts in 2013.Write in my other 1,000 gifts notebooks. Continue catching up.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #76a5af;">Homeschool Goals</span><br />
<ol>
<li>Do school with Christopher.</li>
<li>Grade and Record work done, DAILY.</li>
<li>*Catch up more on Grading Chemistry. I got some done last week but need to do the rest.</li>
<li>Prep the next day's school, especially science and Windows to the World (IEW) for English! Need to order more History books too!!</li>
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<b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #674ea7;">Fitness Goals</span></span></b> <br />
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<li>I hope to get back to exercising this week. I will be working out on the Wii.<strike><br />
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<li>Eat fruit and veggies and drink water. </li>
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<li>Post Goal Planning Monday on time... since this is already up I have one thing for the week done already. </li>
<li>Comment on everyone's blog that links up to the Goal Planning Monday linky. </li>
<li>Blog only what I want to blog about. </li>
<li>Post review and giveaway of Unlimited by Davis Bunn on Tuesday. </li>
<li>Post Yearly Goal Update for September. Where has the month gone?</li>
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<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Read.</li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Work on sorting files on the external drive.</li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Pack up the little kids games in the basement. Court spent a long time on Sunday getting the basement more organized. It was a disaster area after we pulled things out for the yard sales. Stuff was EVERYWHERE! I want to box up the little kids games that we don't use any more and protect them in plastic bags and put the bags in boxes, so they will stack and be protected for future generations. </li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Pack up some books from our bookshelves. They are getting to crowded and I can't find anything. I can pack up subjects Christopher and I will not be covering this year or next and I can pack up books that are too juvenile for him. Can't believe I only have 1 3/4 years of homeschooling left. </li>
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all content on my blog is ©Debbie Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03164548520559233996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146909084131922017.post-59219246038718294172013-09-27T06:00:00.000-04:002013-09-27T11:03:28.066-04:00I am 'Overwhelmed' (book review and giveaway)I was given the opportunity to receive the book Overwhelmed as well as the Study Guide and a Small Group Study Leader Guide. I received the books, as e-books, for free so I could review it for my blog. Even so, the thoughts in this post are my own and are truthful.<br />
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Are you feeling overwhelmed?</h3>
This is a hard world we live in. We have all be overwhelmed at times.<br />
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<i><b>Overwhelmed</b></i> is a resource designed to meet both the
spiritual and practical needs of those struggling
to overcome financial difficulties.
In the first section, nine women share their testimonies, faith, and
financial counsel to help you go from being overwhelmed by your finances
to being an overcomer through Christ.
As an added bonus, the second section offers more practical advice on
frugal homemaking, women in business, and financial resources such as
handling credit card debt and so much more. <br />
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<u><i><b>My review of the book</b></i></u></h4>
Overwhelmed? Some days I am!! First... before reviewing the book, I will tell you a little about me. 29 years ago my hubby and I married. Since then we have moved 6 times, he has had 13 jobs, and we had 4 children.<br />
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9 years ago he injured his back while working. Our kids were daughter age 18 (our first to graduate from our homeschool just a few months before his injury), daughter age 15, son age 10, and son age 7. My husband went to our doctor and she sent him to therapy. The therapy made him worse. Then we started an almost four year battle with insurance companies, Dr.'s and lawyers to keep my husband getting the help he needed from a Dr. who was both a Chiropractor and a Neurologist, He sent him home to the recliner and started working on him, slowly, and once my hubby had healed some he started therapy with the Dr.'s brother. My hubby also had regular shots for pain from a pain specialist. With the Dr.'s recommendations and our lawyers help we kept hubby from getting surgery that had high probabilities of failing. We finally settled with the insurance company. He was out of work just about 3 years.<br />
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When my hubby was cleared by the Dr., he started looking for work. He had many new restrictions. No driving jobs. No bending or stooping repeatedly. No standing for long periods. No lifting more than a gallon of milk and no jobs that had repeated lifting. And, I may be missing a restriction or two... there were a log of them. He needed a job where he could sit mostly, but also get up and down during the day and not be 'chained' to a desk was best. He had 2 jobs, one that lasted two weeks and then one that lasted 90 days, after that he found a job, that he HATED, that lasted 3 years until they had hard times and let a bunch of people go. Since being let go from that job he has been unemployed for 3 1/2 years and we are still counting. <br />
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I have had a lot of ups and downs during this period of unemployment. I cry. A lot. I read my Bible and pray and feel strong for awhile. Then, more things happen (or nothing happens and I just feel unsure or fearful, or...) Unexpected things happen. Little things. Bigger things. Broken things, and with no money to fix them it is hard. 'Normal' family needs, like new shoes, can be a big deal. My family has been through financial trials many times. God has met our needs all the way through... that does NOT mean I trust God fully, each minute, I have had times of SERIOUS doubt. Yeah, I'll be honest. I doubt God. I don't doubt that God <i><b>can</b></i> do it. I doubt that he <i><b>will</b></i> do it for us... <i><b>again</b></i>.<br />
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Reading books has been a big help in keeping up my spirits. Reading for fun, but also reading spiritual books. God seems to bring me just the book I need when I need it. This was one of those books for me this year.<br />
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I have to admit. Some of the stories the ladies shared helped me more than others. That is natural. Some people's stories will resonate with us more than others. Ones that may not have hit me as hard may be just the thing you need. I liked the variety. Although some impacted me more than others all the stories illustrated the glory of God and His care for His people. It is amazing to me how many different kinds of financial trouble there are and how differently God is dealing with these troubles in the writers lives. Also, the differences in the emotional/spiritual troubles and the lessons God is teaching different ladies/families through their trials. He know just what our deficiencies are and just how to work in our lives to make us more like his Son. Trusting in that process is still HARD. <br />
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Those stories that impacted me are full of highlights. Picking a favorite quote of two from this book is very hard. But here goes.<br />
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"God wants you to rely on Him, not an income. Deliverance will come but in God's timing and for His purpose. Make no mistake--our trials are soul deep." pg 11</blockquote>
Soul deep... that's for sure. Many are the times during this trial that I have cried out to God in anger, doubt, not understanding, fear or with such emotion that I don't even know <b><i>WHAT</i></b> I feel. <br />
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"I know right now you think things look really bad. I know you think that you can't possibly take any more trouble than is already on you. I know that you might feel like sadness and despair have moved into your bedroom, setting up residence alongside shame and confusion and that they are all totally disregarding your comfort, hopes, and dreams. I can imagine you probably feel like you just don't know where to turn. There may be a cloud of darkness all around you, pressing in and testing your faith in a way you never dreamed possible. In a moment, all at once, you have found that you, like the subject in Robert Frost's "Road Not Taken", have taken the less traveled, more difficult, and less popular road and that has made all the difference." pg 46</blockquote>
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"I know you are probably thinking something like, "When did I choose the road not taken?" You see, the day you said, I do! to Christ, you also said, "I will." pg 47</blockquote>
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"This-yes, even this-is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in His sight. No matter the current circumstance, the truth is that if you are a blood-bought saved child of God, you can stand, and you can take every punch the enemy throws. Yes, you can make it because your life is His to care for, and His grace and mercy, faithfulness, and everlasting love are all yours for the asking. I know you may feel like the world is caving in all around you; it can seem that way. Believe me, I know because I've been there, too. But, be of good cheer because when it comes down to it, God is in control, and He knows what is best for you." pg. 47</blockquote>
It is good to know others out there understand what we have gone through. They have been through similar circumstances and had similar feelings. They dealt with their feelings and with the troubles that come from financial difficulties. They dealt with marriage struggles caused by our sin and magnified by our circumstances. Even though they are children of God they struggled with feelings of fear, that God didn't love them, doubts about what he was going to do for them in the future and more. It is great to know I am not going crazy. It also gives me <b>hope</b> for my future too. <br />
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I could go on with the quotes.. and on and on and on... but I will stop and move on to other things from the book. <br />
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Section 2: Financial Resources - most of this was not applicable to our situation. We own a habitat home and it is the low payments and zero percent interest that has allowed us to keep our home this long. Other than our mortgage we have ZERO debt. That is one thing my hubby is strict about. We had financial training before getting our habitat home, and we did learn a few new things there, but we have not been irresponsible with our money. It has always been jobs and/or bosses that have been our problem. Another area they talk about in this section is used cars. My hubby fixes our cars himself, he is very handy in many ways, and so we have always gotten good deals and had good luck with quality vehicles for the price we pay... and we ALWAYS pay cash... hubby will NOT borrow.<br />
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Section 3: Women in Business - I can not make money blogging. It is just not my gift or my passion. In fact, I am blogging less now than ever. I only blog what I feel like blogging because of the emotional stress this trial has inflicted on me. I have homeschooled for 22 years. I have thought about making my unit studies into sell-able items, but I lack confidence and feel there are so many other products out there, better than what I could write. I just don't feel like now is the time the Lord has for me to pursue making money for the family. I am still homeschooling one of our children and don't really have the emotional strength to begin something new. Maybe it will help others, but not me, not right now anyway.<br />
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I have to be honest with my readers. I felt like some of the information in the Women in Business section was just so that the ladies who wrote their testimonies in the book would have a place to advertise. I do not begrudge them this opportunity. They worked hard on this book and if their families are helped by someone knowing about them and their businesses then they deserve it. I just wanted you to know my feelings on it. I found no new information or things that would help me, but like I said maybe it would help someone else.<br />
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Section 4: Home Business Guide and Resources - since I am not planning to start a home business any time soon this section really didn't help me with anything either. There are some good things here... just not for me right now. Some of the topics were: Home Business Opportunities (a list with places/ideas for work from home); Maintaining Your Vision (this was good); and Simple, Not Easy.<br />
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The last section, Section 5: Frugal Homemaking - has tips, mostly for cooking, but also some for cleaning and even Christmas. I have to admit I have not tried any of the recipes, but some of them look really good. Some of them seemed overly simple. Like a recipe for pancakes. We have lots of recipes, including a favorite one for from scratch pancakes, but like I said some of them look good. I have been married a good long time. We make most things from scratch. We don't even buy the cheap brownie mixes... we make them from scratch. Most of the recipes will have to wait until our trial is over because we do not even have some of the most basic of ingredients, most of the time. We are eating very simply these days. A few of the tips they give for saving money would not save money for us... for instance they say to make your own butter, but heavy cream is more expensive than butter in our area and won't make as much either, unfortunately we have had to switch to cheap margarine, for now. Save on organic foods??? we would not afford organic foods when my husband was working. Some of these tips are just not for those on such a tight budget as we are.<br />
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Homemade Deodorant recipe - that is something I might try. I HATE the aluminum in deodorant and have tried one organic one, but I had a reaction to it. Finding the money to buy the Coconut oil may be difficult. to be honest, these days I do not even bother wearing my deodorant most days. Go ahead and judge me, I don't care. My family has never told me I smell. I only wear it when we go out, and that is not often, so a stick lasts me a few months. Some of the other non-food cleaners I would like to try as well. They look like they would save us some money.<br />
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Also some of the tips don't apply to me because we have 5 adults and one teenager in the house. We eat more than a family with 2 adults and 2 little kids. I can't make one chicken go for 3 meals. I just can't. So, we do what we can and save where we can and we have all cut back on our eating. I can't wait until the day I can go to the store and buy anything we want to eat... at least once in a while. I don't want to waste our future money on food, I just would like to satisfy some of my cravings and some of the kids cravings.<br />
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<u><i><b>The Study Guide </b></i></u></h4>
I really enjoyed the study guide. Since the testimonies were my favorite part of the book and this was to enhance that part, it is also a favorite part. For each chapter there are 2 pages in the study guide. The first page has a summery, a verse of the Bible to focus on and then some reflections... things to think about and questions to answer based on the things the author of that chapter talked about. The second page was lovely. It is a little notebooking type of page. At the top is a space to write what you learned from that testimony... no questions just your own thoughts. Next was a doodle with a space to write what God is impressing on you to start or stop doing. Lastly a place to write a prayer, surrounded by fun doodles and a border. The questions were well thought out and really made me think more about what I read and how it could help me to deal with my own circumstances and my relationship with my Lord. Such a great way to get a lot out of this little book. The study guide was my favorite part.<br />
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<u><b><i>Small Group Study Leader Guide</i></b></u></h4>
I did not use the Small Group Study guide because I did the study on my own. But, I did read it. There are a lot of good tips in there that would be great for this study, or any study you were doing with a group. This part is FREE for everyone so you can it check out and it costs you nothing.<br />
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I recommend this book and it's guides. The pdf is VERY reasonably priced, and that is good for those who are having financial troubles. The prices for each part are listed below. I think the testimonies of the ladies, and my favorite part, the study guide; make this worth the money. It certainly was an encouragement to me in some areas and a challenge to me in other areas where I needed the kick in the seat. <br />
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How far have you come? </div>
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We do have far to go.</div>
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But we can do it.</div>
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With God's help.</div>
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God is not finished working on us, if we are His child. He will work on us until His work is complete... that is until he sees fit to take us home to be with Him forever, or until he returns for us ALL!</div>
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Until then we have much work to do. We will fail. We will fall. We will stumble.</div>
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But we can get back up.</div>
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We can ask for forgiveness from God and each other.</div>
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We can try again. Strive.</div>
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To be more like our Savior.</div>
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That is what I am doing.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Have Faith...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>in how far you can go...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">and in God getting you there. </span></b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The heart of man plans his way,</span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">but the L<span style="font-size: small;">ORD establishes his s<span style="font-size: small;">t<span style="font-size: small;">eps."</span></span></span> </span></span></span></i><b> </b></div>
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<li>*Morning Devotions - including Bible reading (Proverbs), prayer, listening to music and reading a spiritual book. Prayer is my focus this year as that is my word for 2013. Read more of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6324079-facing-your-giants" target="_blank"><b>Facing Your Giants</b></a> by Max Lucado. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e <span style="font-size: small;">- I finished F<span style="font-size: small;">acing Your Giants <span style="font-size: small;">last week. I still need to do the review<span style="font-size: small;"> on Goodreads.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">See this coming week<span style="font-size: small;">'s goals for</span> the book I am rea<span style="font-size: small;">ding now. I did not read Proverbs<span style="font-size: small;">, do Joy Dare or read the book with hubby, <span style="font-size: small;">but I enjo<span style="font-size: small;">yed and finished Facing Your Giants. W<span style="font-size: small;">hen I finished I found <span style="font-size: small;">st<span style="font-size: small;">udy <span style="font-size: small;">qu<span style="font-size: small;">estions <span style="font-size: small;">in the <span style="font-size: small;">back of the Kindle book. I<span style="font-size: small;"> didn't know the<span style="font-size: small;">y were there so I wil<span style="font-size: small;">l have to read this again some time and <span style="font-size: small;">d<span style="font-size: small;">o the questions. I <span style="font-size: small;">am now checking <span style="font-size: small;">for questions in <span style="font-size: small;">all my <span style="font-size: small;">fu<span style="font-size: small;">ture/current <span style="font-size: small;">Spiritual books I <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">u<span style="font-size: small;">se from my Kindle.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span><b><b><br />
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<li>Read more of "When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances" to my hubby. <span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
<li>Participate in the <b><a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/joy-dares/" target="_blank">Joy Dare</a></b> in 2013. Writing down 3 things each day that are gifts from God, things to be thankful for totaling more than 1000 gifts in 2013.Write in my other 1,000 gifts notebooks.<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #76a5af;">Homeschool Goals</span><br />
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<li>Do school with Christopher. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Grade and Record work done, DAILY. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>*Catch up on Grading Chemistry. I am behind. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><b><b>Partly Done - I graded the most recent pages so I know how he is doing now... I <span style="font-size: small;">still need <span style="font-size: small;">to grade a bunch of the past w<span style="font-size: small;">ork. I didn't <span style="font-size: small;">have a<span style="font-size: small;">s mu<span style="font-size: small;">ch time this week because of #3 that I added in Pers<span style="font-size: small;">onal/<span style="font-size: small;">O</span>ther <span style="font-size: small;">G</span>oals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span><b><b><br />
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<li>Prep the next day's school, especially science! Need to order more History books too!! <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - I need to or<span style="font-size: small;">der more History bo<span style="font-size: small;">oks, again<span style="font-size: small;">. He reads through them fairly qui<span style="font-size: small;">ckly. <span style="font-size: small;">I need to check and see w<span style="font-size: small;">hat we ha<span style="font-size: small;">ve at home t<span style="font-size: small;">hat I want him to read and w<span style="font-size: small;">hat I want to order from the lib<span style="font-size: small;">rary</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span><b><b>.</b></b></li>
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<b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #674ea7;">Fitness Goals</span></span></b> <br />
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<li>I hope to get back to exercising this week. Working out on the Wii.<b> </b><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">Not Done</b></span></li>
<li>Eat fruit and veggies and drink water. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Blog Goals</span> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TYu-a6u0m7I/T8yzAIIrXRI/AAAAAAAAMC0/09HnXoiVULA/s1600/Promises+to+Keep.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a> <br />
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<li>Post Goal Planning Monday on time... since this is already up I have one thing for the week done already. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Comment on everyone's blog that links up to the Goal Planning Monday linky. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - no one linked up so t<span style="font-size: small;">hat ma<span style="font-size: small;">de this one easy.</span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
<li>Blog only what I want to blog about - this week I would like to join in one meme that I used to enjoy doing, no pressure, we'll see. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - I <span style="font-size: small;">blogged what I could... which was <span style="font-size: small;">G<span style="font-size: small;">PM and nothi<span style="font-size: small;">ng else.</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">Personal/Other Goals</span> </div>
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<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Read. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - I<span style="font-size: small;"> finished 3 books this week... That keeps me 2 books <span style="font-size: small;">AHEAD <span style="font-size: small;">i<span style="font-size: small;">n my goal for the year!!!</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Work on a craft for myself: doodle, cross stitch, scrapbook, digital scrapbook... something. <span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - Doodle<span style="font-size: small;">d "<i>Pr</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>epare Your Fi</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>elds</i><span style="font-size: small;">" from <span style="font-size: small;">the movie <u>F<span style="font-size: small;">acing <span style="font-size: small;">the Giants</span></span></u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">, one of our fa<span style="font-size: small;">vorite family<span style="font-size: small;">/Chri<span style="font-size: small;">stian m<span style="font-size: small;">ovies<span style="font-size: small;">. I will be do<span style="font-size: small;">ing a post on</span> 3 doodles t<span style="font-size: small;">hat I recently did, <span style="font-size: small;">two<span style="font-size: small;"> for friends of my daughters and <span style="font-size: small;">this one for myself, this week... maybe even tomorrow.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span><b><b><br />
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<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">ADDED - Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e - th<span style="font-size: small;">is week I spent 2 whole days working on my computer files. Friday my desktop computer just would not turn on. Hubby t<span style="font-size: small;">ried all kinds of things.</span> Finally he resorted to getting my<span style="font-size: small;"> drive out <span style="font-size: small;">of the computer and put it in an older external drive case<span style="font-size: small;">. He hooked that up to <span style="font-size: small;">an old</span> computer we have in the basement<span style="font-size: small;">. I was a<span style="font-size: small;">ble<span style="font-size: small;">, then, to <span style="font-size: small;">get all my files saved fr<span style="font-size: small;">om my computer drive to an external <span style="font-size: small;">drive<span style="font-size: small;">, so I lost no<span style="font-size: small;"> files. My hubby is my perso<span style="font-size: small;">nal comput<span style="font-size: small;">er tech/<span style="font-size: small;">geek. I am SOOO thankf<span style="font-size: small;">ul for all he has taugh<span style="font-size: small;">t himself to do</span>. I figure<span style="font-size: small;">d my desktop computer was gone for good. He says he may be able to save it. <span style="font-size: small;">I don't think we have the money to do that right no<span style="font-size: small;">w<span style="font-size: small;">, but at least I ha<span style="font-size: small;">ve my lap<span style="font-size: small;">top<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> and all my files were saved, thanks to my wonderful hubby. I had to <span style="font-size: small;">take <span style="font-size: small;">2 full days out of my schedule and work on saving the fi<span style="font-size: small;">les <span style="font-size: small;">and so I got behind in other t<span style="font-size: small;">hings</span> and </span>I still have <span style="font-size: small;">plenty of sorting to do. But <span style="font-size: small;">I am at pea<span style="font-size: small;">ce with <span style="font-size: small;">how it w<span style="font-size: small;">ent.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></b></b></span><b> </b></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> For this week that </b></span><b>is </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">11 Do<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>e</span></b></b><b>,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"><b><b>1 Partly Done</b></b></span><b>, and </b></span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b style="color: black;">3 Not Done.</b></span><br />
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<li>*Morning Devotions - including Bible reading (Proverbs), prayer, listening to music and reading a spiritual book. Prayer is my focus this year as that is my word for 2013. Read more of<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10294367-what-s-it-like-to-be-married-to-me" title="What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions"><b> What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions</b></a>. A hard study, already, and I am only in chapter 1. Really tough questions that take a LOT of thinking... about myself. I felt like God wanted me to do this study next. My UnEmployed Faith facebook group did this study. I was not able to purchase the book and participate at the time. Later I got the book free. God has something to teach me in this trial we are in. Maybe this book will help me with part of that. Anyway... I felt God prompting me to read and study it. It DOES have a study guide in the back... I already checked and am working on the questions.</li>
<li>Read more of "When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances" to my hubby. </li>
<li>Participate in the <b><a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/joy-dares/" target="_blank">Joy Dare</a></b> in 2013. Writing down 3 things each day that are gifts from God, things to be thankful for totaling more than 1000 gifts in 2013.Write in my other 1,000 gifts notebooks. Catch up some... I probably won't completely catch up ALL the way ... but catching up some would be good.</li>
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<span style="background-color: #76a5af;">Homeschool Goals</span><br />
<ol>
<li>Do school with Christopher.</li>
<li>Grade and Record work done, DAILY.</li>
<li>*Catch up more on Grading Chemistry. I got some done last week but need to do the rest.</li>
<li>Prep the next day's school, especially science and Windows to the World (IEW) for English! Need to order more History books too!!</li>
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<b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #674ea7;">Fitness Goals</span></span></b> <br />
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<li>I hope to get back to exercising this week...IF my knee stops hurting. I will be working out on the Wii.<strike><br />
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<li>Eat fruit and veggies and drink water. </li>
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Blog Goals</span> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TYu-a6u0m7I/T8yzAIIrXRI/AAAAAAAAMC0/09HnXoiVULA/s1600/Promises+to+Keep.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a> <br />
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<li>Post Goal Planning Monday on time... since this is already up I have one thing for the week done already. </li>
<li>Comment on everyone's blog that links up to the Goal Planning Monday linky. </li>
<li>Blog only what I want to blog about. </li>
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<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">Personal/Other Goals</span> </div>
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<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Read.</li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Work on sorting files on the external drive.</li>
<li id="yui_3_4_1_1_1326159648034_3306">Pack up the little kids games in the basement. Court spent a long time on Sunday getting the basement more organized. It was a disaster area after we pulled things out for the yard sales. Stuff was EVERYWHERE! I want to box up the little kids games that we don't use any more and protect them in plastic bags and put the bags in boxes, so they will stack and be protected for future generations. </li>
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That's it for me.<br />
Hopefully this coming week will NOT hold any surprises. But, no matter what, my family and I will face what comes... with the Lord on our side to tip the balance. <br />
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