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Little Bulldozer struggles to fall asleep in Bedtime for Little Bulldozer, a sweet and clever bedtime picture book by New York Times bestselling author Elise Broach with illustrations by Barry E. Jackson.
Falling asleep isn't always easy, especially for a loud and rumbling little bulldozer. Once he finally gets into bed, he can't fall asleep no matter what he tries to do: has another drink of oil, gathers his favorite stuffies, and even reads his favorite book. Still, something's not right, and only his sisters—a steamroller and a crane—can make it better. This reassuring and clever bedtime story is for young ones who need a bit of help "bull-dozing" off to sleep.


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Communities Reinvent Themselves with the Help of the Arts
Text and photo by Jennifer Hughes, NEA Design Specialist
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Henry Walston leads a tour of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig conservation center for conference attendees.
I just returned from a powerful gathering of innovative leaders and doers in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. For three days in March, more than fifty participants from arts and cultural organizations, federal/state/local government agencies, and rural economic development organizations gathered for Art + Leadership: Powering Rural Economies conference. Hosted by the City of Rocky Mount, nonprofit organization Art-Force, and the Imperial Art Centre, the conference brought together an incredibly diverse group of participants to exchange models and explore new approaches for arts and culture to drive community and economic revitalization in rural America.
As a Strong Cities Strong Communities (SC2) designee, Rocky Mount was uniquely positioned to convene these national, regional, and local leaders. The city and region provided a backdrop rich in cultural heritage and arts assets; including the Imperial Art Centre, a premier cultural facility occupying the former industrial site of the Imperial Tobacco Company. SC2 leadership facilitated connections between the city and the event organizer. From there, local Rocky Mount leaders ran with the idea to host the event. Participants at the conference included everyone from a community development specialist from Federal Bank of St. Louis to the director of North Carolina Arts Council to a community projects coordinator from the Greenville, North Carolina Police Departmen to a manager from the Opa-locka, Florida Community Development Corporation. What united this varied group was their shared interest in ways that the arts, designers, and creative thinkers profoundly impact the health of communities across the country.
Rural America is undergoing a profound economic restructuring, and many small towns have turned to their cultural and arts assets as sources of new economic development and a hook for retaining and recruiting young talent. Regional site visits to Wilson and Kinston, North Carolina, provided ideas and inspiration for arts revitalization strategies. With support from private foundations, the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Wilson is developing a landmark park and conservation apprenticeship program to restore and display the work of internationally renowned vernacular artist, Vollis Simpson. When complete, Wilson's Whirligig Park will feature more than 29 kinetic sculptures and its development has already sparked commercial and residential investment in the adjacent historic district. Simultaneously, the conservation effort has included a work force development strategy to train local residents in metal fabrication, engineering, and mechanics. In Kinston, participants toured the African American Music Trail, a cultural destination for both visitors and local residents, which serves to build civic pride and to connect several rural towns of North Carolina; highlighting events, museums, and local music makers steeped in the rich music tradition including funk, jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, and church.
Mayor David W. Combs of Rocky Mount opened the conference with a declaration of the arts' important impact on the local economy and quality of life for residents. He is not alone. Mayors of cities and towns across the country have turned to the arts and creative placemaking for a fresh approach to community development. The NEA's recent resource, Exploring Our Town, documents more than 70 of these creative placemaking projects--including Whirligig Park--realized through robust partnerships between local government, nonprofits, business organizations, and community groups.
In the words of conference keynote speaker and thought leader, Jeremy Nowak, "The arts and art making are not the dessert, but are a key part of the meal." In other words, arts and culture are key contributors to a community's well-being, along with adequate transportation infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic opportunity. The economic impact of the arts has been well documented, with arts and cultural production accounting for $638 billion or 4 percent of GDP. However, the cumulative contributions of creative thinkers, artists as civic entrepreneurs, and the broader cultural community far exceed these economic calculations to include social impacts as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco recently documented. From conversations in Rocky Mount, it is evident that arts and cultural strategies hold great promise for American communities to reinvent themselves and imagine a stronger, more resilient future.

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17 Jul 06. Britain's long-term defense equipment program faces a multibillion-dollar shortfall, with combat aircraft acquisition and upgrade funding needs projected to double in the middle of the critical period. Projections for the Defense Ministry's next 10-year plan, from 2011-21, reveal a serious gap between available funding and anticipated program costs. Defense Ministry figures seen by Aviation Week & Space Technology indicate the "program excess" is estimated to be £11.6bn ($21.4bn) over the period in question. The Defense Procurement Agency's present budget is about £6bn a year. The so-called Equipment Program 07 (EP07) period also includes a hike in fixed-wing aircraft expenditure. According to the ministry's own figures, beginning in 2014-15, there's a sharp increase in funding, including for the Joint Combat Aircraft (JCA), as the U.K. refers to the Lockheed Martin F-35. This is estimated to cost £10bn. The purchase of a third tranche of the Eurofighter Typhoon would also fall mainly in this period. Tranches 1 and 2 of the four-nation program are already under contract. The British Tranche 2 for 89 aircraft cost £4.3bn; Tranche 3 for an additional 88 aircraft will also be in this order. BAE Systems is the U.K. industrial lead on the program. (Source: Aviation Week)
20 Jul 06. Manufacturing industry HR bosses have rounded on the Government agencies set up to solve the sector's skills problems, condemning them as "a waste of time" and "of no use". At a manufacturing skills summit in Oxford yesterday (Wednesday 19 July), 100 manufacturing executives, with responsibilities for hiring, training and hanging on to their staff, heard a panel of senior HR directors from industry giants Unipart, JCB, Nestle and St Gobain turn on quangos like the Learning and Skills Council and the various industry-specific sector skills councils. In response to an innocuous enquiry from People Management magazine editor and summit facilitator Steve Crabb about the effectiveness of the agencies, the HR bosses variously described them as bureaucratic, over complicated, a waste of time and "having nothing to offer me". "We've tried grant-funded skills and found them singularly unsuccessful; a waste of time," said JCB's group HR director. It was a sentiment echoed by Alan McLenaghan, site director at St Gobain Glass who said he had told the quangos, "You have nothing to offer me." "By the time you've got to know about them it's a year, then you start to engage with them, then everything changes; they are over complicated and not well publicised," said another delegate. Matt Stripe, senior HR Business partner at Nestle in York and John Greatrex, group HR director were no more complimentary, both preferring to tackle their own recruitment, training and retention issues. Asked to indicate whether or not they had engaged with any of the agencies, fewer than a dozen of the 100 delegates answered 'yes' and each of them said the liaison had not been successful. Among other issues, the role staff from Eastern Europe were playing in sustaining British manufacturing was much praised, while age discrimination laws due to come into effect in October would "hit hard" and were viewed as "quite frightening" because their full ramifications had not been thought through.
16 Jul 06. EADS, the Franco-German parent company of Airbus, is calling on the British government to allow it to compete for a greater share of defence and aerospace contracts in exchange for its continued investment in the UK. Ahead of this week's Farnborough Air Show, Robin Southwell, UK chief executive for EADS, also raised doubts about the suitability of BAE Systems, Britain's biggest arms manufacturer, for the role of national defence champion. He questioned whether the UK wanted to "continue down the line to have a national champion that has such a clear focus on the US". The approach risked creating a "level of dependency on the US that is unhealthy". Tom Enders, the Ger
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Colin Calderwood says he does not feel any need to dismiss speculation linking him with assistant jobs at Birmingham and Nottingham Forest.
The Hibernian manager was delighted with his side's 1-0 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
And he said: "The one thing I haven't done is quash it early on, but I don't feel I have to.
"I enjoy my job here and I feel we are building something here that will be very profitable in the long run."
But Calderwood would not completely discount talking to the English Championship clubs should they make an approach and be given permission by Hibs' board.
"It is always something you would want as a player," told BBC Scotland. "You always want people at your football club that are wanted.
"I am not embarrassed by it, but rest assured that all my work is dedicated to Hibernian.
"In the end, there is nothing to decide because I could very easily get the sack.
"You always hope that someone thinks you are good enough to make an offer."
Forest boss Steve McLaren this week appointed former Leicester boss Rob Kelly as his number two, but Birmingham manager Chris Hughton is still on the look out for an assistant.
Calderwood says he is fully focused on the challenges facing him at Easter Road.
"Our aim to to try to make Hibernian a successful club.
"We are going to have a real season of trying to achieve that."
Hibs' victory came courtesy of a Garry O'Connor strike in stoppage time.
"If there is a goal that goes in over the next month that is slower, I will be very surprised," said Calderwood.
"He had a terrific powerful shot in the first half and some miraculous defending cleared the ball off the line in the first half.
"We have a lot of learning to do and a lot of improving to do.
"Their chances came from set-plays and we lost a goal last week from a set-play."


A documentary based on the stories of Lars Stavig, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1876, and his brother Knut, who stayed behind in Norway. The two exchanged more than 150 letters spanning more than five decades from 1881 to 1938, the Stavig Letters give voice and reality to the immigrant experience from the perspectives of both countries.
Made possible by the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


When a person dies with a will, one of the things the probate process regarding the individual's estate generally involves is the terms of the will being carried out.
How probate proceedings regarding a deceased individual's will end up going can vary quite a bit from instance to instance. Sometimes, no issues arise in relation to a will and the process goes through without any disputes. Other times, serious questions arise in relation to a will that leave some family members of the deceased wondering if they should challenge the will through will contest litigation.
The will not meeting the formal requirements of Michigan wills law, such as the execution rules.
Portions of the will being forged.
The will having been made due to the person who made the will being subjected to undue influence, such as fraud, duress or coercion.
The person who made the will having been in a state of incapacity (though things such as illness, drugs or alcohol) at the time they signed the will.
A person obviously can feel very concerned when they come across information or evidence that brings into question the validity of a deceased loved one's will. Given how big of an impact a will can have on the various members of a deceased person's family, it is very important that only valid wills be enforced.
When a person suspects that a deceased loved one's will may have been invalid, they may be unclear on what the law allows them to do and what actions could best protect the rights and future of them and their family.
Our firm can help individuals who are facing tough probate issues, such as issues regarding potential validity issues with a deceased loved one's will. Among the things we can help individuals who think that a loved one's will may have been invalid look into include: whether they would have standing to contest the will, whether there are in fact grounds to challenge the will, what legal options are available and what course of action would be best suited for their situation.


This Vegan Carrot Cake is moist, airy, and filled with spice. The Vegan Carrot Cream Cheese Frosting has a deep caramelized flavor with a smooth and creamy texture!
Carrot cake is reserved for springtime, gracing the dessert table around April and May. However I wanted to flip the seasons, and turn this cake into an all-year classic, defying its typecast Easter-time role.
Using pumpkin pie spice cuts down on prep time and still delivers those earthy, warm autumn flavors. I finely grated the carrots and drained the liquid, this prevented any disturbance between the ratio of wet and dry ingredients.
Oh and this cake is vegan. I state this fact late in the post, because this cake feels far from vegan. Some vegan cakes take on a bread-y and leaden quality. The secret ingredient to having an airy and tender cake crumb? Aquafaba. The liquid from a can of chickpeas. Yes, you read correctly. Adding three tablespoons in place of every one egg yields a cake that has structure and tenderness.
I used 9-inch cake pans to create a wide and low, almost torte-like, structure. You can easily bake the cake in 6-inch pans to create that popular tall and narrow look.
Now the frosting. The frosting is my favorite part. Boiling down the carrot juice concentrates the carrot flavor, creating a thick and glossy syrup. This frosting has that subtle taste you get when roasting carrots—deep sultry caramelized notes. No food dye here, the intense orange is 100% natural. The vegan cream cheese at the end of the recipe, is not a typo. Since this is not real cream cheese, over whipping the vegan cream cheese will produce a gritty texture. If you add the vegan cream cheese near the end of the mixing process, you prevent the frosting from breaking.
This Vegan Carrot Cake has complex flavors from the Vegan Carrot Cream Cheese Frosting and the warm spices mixed into the cake, surpassing any traditional carrot cake!
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 9-inch cake pans with baking spray, line bottoms with parchment paper, spray paper, and set aside.
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in a large bowl, set aside. In another bowl whisk brown sugar, oil, aquafaba, apple cider vinegar, and vanilla. Pour wet into dry, whisk until there are no pockets of dry ingredients remaining. The batter will still look lumpy. Fold in grated carrots and chopped cashews.
Divide batter between two pans and bake for 26 to 30 minutes, rotating halfway. A toothpick inserted should come out clean with a few moist not wet crumbs. Let cakes cool in pan for 10 minutes, before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely. For an even moister cake, wrap cake layers in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
In a small to medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring carrot juice to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, continuing to cook until the liquid has significantly evaporated and the texture changes into a thick syrup and has a deep amber orange color, about 60 to 80 minutes. Makes ⅓ cup. Refrigerate in a heat safe bowl until cool.
Beat butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, about 30 seconds. Scrape bowl and paddle, add powdered sugar, flour, carrot syrup, vanilla, and salt, beating for 2 minutes at medium speed. Add cream cheese and beat until incorporated and smooth another 1 minute.
Apply a bit of frosting onto a cake board. Secure the first cake layer, apply an even layer of frosting. Top with second layer. Apply a thin crumb coat. Chill for 20 minutes, apply a final thicker layer of frosting.


The Administrative Services Department supports the City of Plymouth's core services and provides support to the City Council, Charter Commission and other commissions. It is made up of six divisions.
Due to weather, the Plymouth Yard Waste Site is closed April 11-12. The site is expected to reopen for regular hours Saturday, April 13.
A snow emergency has been declared in Plymouth. Full city snow removal will begin at 4 a.m. Thursday, April 11. Please be patient and drive carefully.
The Plymouth Charter Commission has openings. Seats will remain open until filled, but preference will be given to applications received by May 10.


The new Alesis SRP 100 headphones represent Alesis' consistency and quality when it comes to quality studio headphones. Over-ear, Studio Ref..
The new Alesis SRP 100 headphones represent Alesis' consistency and quality when it comes to quality studio headphones.
The SRP100s are optimised for personal listening devices, tablets and for audio interface connectivity in the studio with a lightweight yet durable design, closed back earpads for comfort during long sessions, and 40mm drivers for warm, rich frequency response. These are a great backup reference to have in the studio at minimal cost to give you another perspective on your mix.


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NORTEC now dumps training those most in need
By Aslan Shand
Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre. Photo supplied
Aslan Shand
Employment and training provider NORTEC have recently withdrawn the government funded outreach program aimed at providing language, literacy and numeracy training to help people access employment and training opportunities.
Like their recent termination of small business incubators in the region, NORTEC only provided the Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre (MDNC) where the program was run with a very short notice – two weeks.
The Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program was based at the MDNC and was accessed by a range of age groups who used the program to create opportunities for meaningful work where literacy and numeracy has been a barrier.
The Department of Education and Training said NORTEC closed the Mullumbimby site owing to low student numbers; however, it is understood by The Echo that some students believed they were being diverted away from the Mullumbimby program prior to its closure.
'On average there were ten or more students in classes at any one time,' said student Tanya Winters who completed the last three sessions of her course in Murwillumbah after the Mullumbimby service closed.
On paper, NORTEC appear to be servicing this area, even though they no longer deliver any local services. Students are now required to travel to Ballina, Kingscliff or Murwillumbah to access them.
'Locally based programs are very thin on the ground in the Byron Shire,' said Julie Williams, MDNC manager.
'I am weary of organisations being funded to deliver across LGAs without a locally based presence, or at least an authentic partnership with a locally based organisation that has an ongoing relationship with the community.'
'When purse strings get tight, the first thing to go is "outreach" services which leaves a community high and dry. It doesn't get the funded service and can't apply for funding because on paper – there is already another organisation delivering.'
When NORTEC applied for the funding for delivering the SEE program across the north coast region, the MDNC provided a reference, 'and it is my understanding that the innovative model of co-location with access to wrap around services was the basis for the successful tender,' said Ms Williams.
As part of the innovative service provision, NORTEC paid a room hire fee to the MDNC that included exclusive teaching space, reception, unlimited internet, access to support and electricity. The fee then helped pay the wage of a community support worker, ensuring that the 'Neighbourhood Centre provided students with access to wrap around community and social support services such as parenting support, social inclusion, volunteer and work experience opportunities, emergency relief, personal support, DV services etc.' said Julie.
Tanya also pointed out the other training services were difficult to access without a car, as bus services were minimal at best. The Echo understands that there have been a significant percentage of students who are no longer able to access the services in Ballina, Murwillumbah and Kingscliff owing to the cost and challenges of travel to the regional sites.
'The additional money that students receive in their benefit for travel wouldn't even cover two trips to either Ballina or Murwillumbah,' said Julie.
'If there had been a conversation with the MDNC regarding the business of NORTEC not being able to afford the hire fee, we would have looked at reducing the hire fee to what was affordable, or supported the program to find an alternative site close by. We would have done whatever we could have to ensure that the SEE program continued in the Byron Shire so that community members had access.'
NORTEC was contacted in relation to this story, but there was no reply by deadline.
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Fatal crash in Ballina
New South Wales police are investigating after a fatal two-vehicle crash at Ballina on the weekend.
Finding Ballina's hidden treasure
A short drive south of Ballina, at Pimlico, is the recently opened Ballina District Museum. With extra visitors in the area for school holidays, and weather not ideal for the beach, The Echo went along to meet some of the volunteers working to bring the region's history back to life.


Plus qu'un rapport de projet, le rapport de vulgarisation de RESTORE est un document cadre qui souligne les réalisations de RESTORE, tout en regardant au-delà du simple programme de RESTORE et en mettant l'accent sur les politiques et les défis techniques qui doivent encore être surmontés pour faire avancer la restauration des cours d'eau.
In according with the April 2004 law of transposition of the Water Framework Directive, the Local Urban Plans must be compatible or made compatible by the end of 2014 with "protection objectives defined by the land use planning and water management".
The project aimed to improve the decision-making process for the management of the hydraulic structures. Contribute to improving the biological quality of watercourses, including by improving the physical processes including restoring river continuity.
The restoration aimed to increase the area that can be colonised by crayfish by removing ponds and re-establishing the stream in its original bed. Restore upstream-downstream continuity and the habitats of the European brook lamprey, bullhead and brown trout.
The River Bièvre rises near Guyancourt in the Yvelines département and is 36 kilometres in length.
It flows into the Seine in the 13th arrondissement (district) of Paris. Since the 11th century, its 200 km² catchment area has been very heavily modified.
Works were undertaken to slow down the flows and restore similar hydrological conditions to those that existed in the 1970s. Prevent regressive erosion. Raise the ground water table in order to improve forestry production.
Restore habitats and hydraulic flows at all times of the year in order to ensure river continuity.


This seems like such a silly topic to be dreading, but I was not looking forward to it at all. I rarely, if ever, write reviews for the books I read. I used to be very into writing music reviews for the CDs I bought on Amazon, but for some reason I find it much harder to comment about books. I always feel like my reviews would be incredibly repetitive, or too spoiler-y. I hate when books are spoiled for me, and I wouldn't want to do that to anyone else, but I find it hard to comment about books in any level of detail without risking spoiling something. It's also hard sometimes to figure out what people would consider a spoiler. Looking back on my Goodreads page, I saw that the majority of the reviews that I did end up writing were when I wanted to give the book a half-star rating, and I guess I felt the need to justify why it was halfway between a 3 and a 4, or a 4 and a 5. Most of the time though, I just give my rating and leave it at that. For some reason, the majority of the books that I have reviewed are children's books, which I guess is because there is a much lower risk of spoilers.
1) All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven – I left literally a two sentence review of this one, commenting that I'd worried it would be a fairly typical YA road trip book, but it ended up impressing me. I'm not linking this review because it is literally the same comment that I just mentioned.
4) Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes – Again, it's a children's book but one that has really stuck with me. This is one of the handful of books that I also reviewed on my blog (here), with my original intent of using this blog to review books for my rejects challenges (that I eventually abandoned). I reviewed this one because it is an excellent children's book that I think deserves a lot more attention. (Review here).
5) Testimony by Anita Shreve – I think this review was from my short-lived phase of actually trying to review many of the books I was reading for my challenges. This is one of the few reviews I've written that I would almost consider a "real" review, or at least an attempt at one. I really enjoyed this book. (Review here).
6) Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten – I'm not surprised at all that this was one of the books that I'd reviewed. Actually, I would say that "rant" is a more accurate term! This book had such a great concept and I was really looking forward to reading it, but was very let down by the execution. (Review here).
7) Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Barbara Park – This is one of my all-time favourite children's books and something that I still find a lot of fun to read even now as an adult. Junie B. Jones is an absolutely hilarious character, and I think this first book is still the best in the series, covering Junie B. Jones's anxiety about her first day of school. I reviewed it because it's a series that I think most kids would love and I'd hope is still getting some attention. (Review here).
8) The Babysitter's Club Graphic Novels by Raina Telgemeier – I reviewed the first four graphic novel adaptations together on my blog (here), and wrote separate reviews for Kristy's Great Idea and Claudia and Mean Janine (linked below) on Goodreads. I was completely obsessed with the Babysitter's Club series, and I love that it's getting revamped into this new format. I reviewed the two mentioned above specifically because I wanted to comment about the strengths of the graphic novels in general, and specifically about how amazing Claudia and Mean Janine was, especially since it was not one of the original series that I really loved or remembered. (Reviews here and here).
9) Defending Jacob by William Landay – This is still one of the best books I read in the past few years, and I felt compelled to review it even several months later because of how much it stuck with me. I went into this book not expecting very much, but ended up really loving it and it is one that has stuck with me even 4 years later. (Review here).
10) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead – I think I felt compelled to write a short review for this one because I definitely didn't love it as much as everyone else had, and wanted to explain why. I think this book was a victim of it's own hype for me. It had some parts that I really enjoyed, but I just couldn't get into it and I was disappointed I didn't like it as much as everyone else. (Review here).
I'm surprised that I haven't done this tag before. It was created by EmmmaBooks (original video here), who is one of my favourite channels, but more than that, I very strongly remembered doing these questions at some point. I think I must have answered these questions as part of a read-a-thon game or something on one of my Goodreads groups instead. This tag is all about things that we wish would have been different about books, which seems like a lot of fun! In her video, Emma also commented that this tag was inspired by the Totally Didn't Book Tag, which is something I can also tackle at some point in the future.
Immediately I think this is a difficult question since I'm generally fairly happy with the way authors wrap up their standalones, but I would definitely love to see more of Nimona! I've already read this book twice and can't get enough of these characters.
Harry Potter is the obvious and cliche choice, but I'd love to have a spin-off following the Marauders, or the Order of the Phoenix and see what everyone else was doing, especially during the events of the 5th and 6th books. Otherwise, it's a tough choice because I feel like every series I would have chosen already has a spin-off lined up. The Raven Cycle has the upcoming Dreamer Trilogy, ACOTAR is still on-going, and the Lunar Chronicles already has the Wires and Nerve graphic novels. I would love to see more set in any of these worlds, but I'm having a hard time thinking of books that need a spin-off series that don't already have one.
For this one, I'm limiting myself to authors who only have one or two books already, otherwise the list would be way too long. The first name that came to mind is Kathryn Stockett (author of The Help). I also can't wait for more books by Akemi Dawn Bowman (author of Starfish and Summer Bird Blue), who has multiple upcoming but untitled books listed on Goodreads, and by Nicola Yoon (Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star). I also almost forgot to mention Corrie Wang (author of The Takedown)!
I really struggled to come up with anyone from a book for this one, but the first character who came to mind was Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Full disclosure: I am not up-to-date on the graphic novel seasons at all. I've only read up to the end of season 8. I get why the show went in the direction that it did with Willow and Tara, but I really wanted them to end up together.
In general, I would love if a YA love triangle would end up with the main character choosing the childhood friend for once! It's so rare for that to actually happen, and I actually can't think of any examples off the top of my head. The childhood friend is usually thrown in as an obstacle for the main character and the "real" love interest, and I wish this wasn't always the case.
The Delirium trilogy had an extremely frustrating and vague ending! There was a lot of great build-up, but it left everything so ambiguous and I remember feeling very disappointed with it.
I often have a hard time watching any kind of adaptations for books that I know well since I inevitably end up comparing and getting annoyed with what was skipped over or changed, but I would love to see the A Court of Thorns and Roses as a movie or the Daughter of Smoke & Bones series.
Definitely The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. I think a TV series would do a much better job at capturing the atmosphere of this series. I'd also love to see The Lunar Chronicles as a TV series, or maybe a movie franchise. I'm not entirely sure which way I think would be better.
The Matched trilogy! I don't think much was added to the story by adding another perspective in each book, although I can understand why it was done. To be fair, this trilogy kind of fell apart a bit as it went on anyway. The same goes for adding Four's perspective in Allegiant — while it makes sense why the author would suddenly choose to do that, it didn't work for me because I couldn't differentiate him from Tris. I often found myself having to check the start of the chapter to remind myself who was talking.
I haven't read either of these yet, but I own them and the pictures actually look a lot better than it does in person. Both books are an obnoxiously bright shade of yellow. For Before I Go, it seems silly to colour the entire cover that way since it clashes with the yellow flower petals, and I don't think the bright pink on the other cover looks very nice with the bright yellow either.
As much as I don't pay attention to cover art, it does bug me a bit when they randomly change in the middle of a series. If you're going to pick a cover design, at least stick with it the whole way through. In general, I'm not really a fan of people's faces on book covers, so I don't mind when they move away from that (ie. Shatter Me). I think that's part of why I don't like movie tie-in editions, since I'd rather not see the actors on the covers. I'm not even sure why I don't like people on book covers!
What tends to bug me about cover changes partway through a series is that it makes my copies seem so inconsistent. For example, I own Flame in the Mist with the cover below, but can only find Smoke in the Sun with the other cover below, and it bothers me that they don't match!
I could just pick Matched for this one again. I actually enjoyed the first book in that series, and looked forward to reading the rest because I'd seen so much hype for them, but it was disappointing. The middle book was boring, and the last book suddenly brought in a whole new plot element (a plague) that had never been mentioned previously, and although it was interesting, it seemed out of nowhere.
I had a surprisingly hard time with this one! I follow quite a few bloggers and vloggers, but many of them seem to focus mostly on contemporary books. It's funny because when I think of the videos I watch, I know that many of them discuss fantasy series like The Raven Boys, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, and of course, Harry Potter. But when it came time to actually think of my favourites, I seemed to only find channels that focus on contemporaries. To be fair, the two or three channels that I really consider my favourites focus primarily on YA books or sometimes adult contemporary, and one channel focuses quite a bit on thrillers. I find I often gravitate more towards videos or blogs about contemporaries because it seems easier to talk about those without risking spoilers, especially when so many fantasy books are parts of a series. I like to get at least some specifics when I read about a book I'm considering adding to my TBR, so it's nice to be able to read some plot detail without worrying about spoiling previous books. In general, there are so many great content creators out there, and I often watch multiple book-related videos or read book blogs daily!
Top 5 Wednesday is a meme created by Gingerreadslainey on Youtube, and is now hosted by Sam at ThoughtsOnTomes. The official GoodReads group with the weekly topics can be found here.
1) Emily Fox of BooksWithEmilyFox – Emily Fox was the first person who came to mind for this week's prompt. Emily Fox reads mostly sci-fi and fantasy, and although our tastes are pretty different, I love her videos and always look forward to a new one. I don't read a ton of sci-fi, and although there are many books that Emily talks about that I also love, there are also many that I'm not so into. I think of all the channels here, she is the one that I have the least in common with, but it says something that I love watching her videos anyway, even when the books themselves are not necessarily ones that I would pick up.
2) Sam of ThoughtsOnTomes – I guess this is a bit of an obvious choice, since Sam is now in charge of Top 5 Wednesday, but she is also one of the first book-related channels that I subscribed to. I love how Sam is upfront and honest about her opinions, but in a very respectful way. It is because of her videos that I finally decided to read the Grisha trilogy and especially the Six of Crows duology, which has now become a favourite. I love watching Sam's videos to stay up to date on new and upcoming SFF releases, and I've enjoyed many of the same books that she has recommended.
3) Grace of G-Swizzel Books – This is a channel that I've been watching for quite a while, but has only recently become a favourite of mine. I started watching G-Swizzel's videos because of Top 5 Wednesdays and book tags, and soon followed her because I realized we had quite similar tastes, at least when it came to SFF series. I love her videos because she is Australian and often mentions books that I might not have heard of otherwise. I also love her energy in her videos and how she enthusiastic she is about the books that she is talking about. Her videos are always a lot of fun to watch.
4) Hannah of A Clockwork Reader – This was one of the channels that I didn't think of immediately because I more closely associated it with YA contemporary books, but Hannah also reads quite a bit of fantasy (and she is a huge Harry Potter fan like me!). Hannah was also among the first channels I subscribed to and I always look for her new videos. My taste in books tends to be quite similar to Hannah's and I look to her videos for recommendations very often. I think she speaks very well and expresses her opinions so eloquently. It's also fun to see her videos with some of the other channels that I follow (ReadbyZoe and HaileyInBookland, both of whom I watch but a bit less often).
5) Emma of EmmmaBooks – I feel like I've only really gotten into Emma's channel in the past year or so, but she's very quickly become a favourite. It's also a channel that I immediately associated with YA contemporary, which is a bit weird because what I remember most strongly of her videos is Emma's obsession with Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments books. Looking back at her videos, Emma does talk quite a bit about fantasy books and series so I think it definitely works as a SFF channel, at least partially. Emma is another vlogger whose tastes tend to be quite similar to mine, and I love her content in general. I always look to her videos for recommendations and they are a lot of fun to watch.
It's looking to be a very rainy week this week, so this prompt couldn't be more appropriately timed. When I think of a "rainy day read," I tend to think of books that really captured my attention or that I wanted to read in one sitting. I love to stay indoors when it is raining and just read for the whole day. To be fair, I generally love to stay in and read any day, but I love the whole atmosphere of a good book while listening to all the rain outside. To some degree, I also associate rainy day books with books that are very atmospheric or a bit on the darker side. I guess that just seems to fit with the gloomy weather in my mind. The books that I ended up choosing are all books that I found very compelling, and would have loved to have an entire day (rainy or not), just to read them straight through.
I'm just finishing off this book today, after very grudgingly putting it down to go to bed last night. Akemi Dawn Bowman is quickly becoming one of my favourite new YA authors, and I would also highly recommend Starfish as a rainy day read, or really for any day. Actually, of the two I think I enjoy Starfish a tiny bit more but they are both 5-star reads for me. This book is about a teenage girl named Rumi whose sister has died in a car accident. Rumi is sent to Hawaii to live with her aunt while her mother deals with her own grief, causing Rumi to feel abandoned. Rumi is also struggling with the fact that her sister Lea was her songwriting partner and they had a song in progress when Lea died and is struggling to finish the song on her own. I think this book would be a great rainy day read because it is so impactful and beautifully written. The Hawaiian setting could also be a great getaway from the rainy weather, although I have to admit that I found the use of pidgin English by many of the characters a little hard to read at times. This is the kind of book that kept me so absorbed in the story all the way through, and it's been really hard to put it down.
Big Little Lies would also be an excellent choice for a rainy day read, but I feel like I've mentioned that one quite a bit on this blog. This is actually my favourite Liane Moriarty book so far after Big Little Lies, and it had such an interesting premise. This book is about a group of nine people who are all visiting a health resort for a ten-day retreat. The book alternates between the perspectives of the various guests, as well as the resort's owner and employees. It is a lot of perspectives to keep track of, but I had no trouble telling the characters apart, although I found some more interesting than others. I thought the book was very unusual, and there were a few unexpected turns toward the middle that I didn't expect to enjoy, so I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I was still completely invested. I thought the characters were all well-written and realistic, and I was especially intrigued by the odd methods that the spa was using, and the way Liane Moriarty kept me guessing about what the owner's intentions were. It was a very intriguing story and easily kept me reading!
This was one of my most highly anticipated books to read this year. It came out last May, but I didn't have any room to squeeze it into my 2018 reading challenges, so it was one of the first to be added to my list this year instead. It is about a woman named Winnie who is part of a group called the May Mothers, who are all parents with infants born in May who meet to support each other. While out with the other parents one night, Winnie's infant son goes missing, and several of the others in the group take it upon themselves to help figure out what happened. This book captured my interest from the very first pages, although I was surprised to find that the thriller element was not quite as prominent as I expected. What I loved most about it was how the author addressed so many different attitudes toward motherhood through the perspectives of different women in the group. I loved the writing and the characters, and the ending caught me off-guard (in a good way). I think thrillers in general make a great rainy day read, and even though this was not as much of a thriller as I thought, it was a great read.
It's safe to say that these books have become my recent obsession, but with good reason. I read Vicious in December last year and it immediately took one of the top spots as a favourite of the year. This duology, which is rumoured to possibly have at least one more book coming, is about two college roommates and rivals, Victor and Eli, who shared an interest in the development of extraordinary abilities. When their experiments go horribly wrong, it leaves the two of them with opposing views on EOs (people with extraordinary abilities), and seeking revenge. Vengeful follows the events of the first book five years later, but I won't reveal too much since it is tricky to do that without giving any spoilers for the first book. In general, I think V.E. Schwab's books make great rainy day reads because I find that I prefer to read them straight through as much as possible. Her characters are very interesting and her story premises are so creative, and I seem to enjoy them best when I read them uninterrupted. I think a rainy day would be the perfect opportunity to read these straight through.
I'd been meaning to read this book since mid-2016, when I first saw it on Goodreads, about 6 months before it was released, although I somehow kept putting it off until this year. I finally picked it up this year, and it is one of the strongest books I've read so far this year. This book is about a teenage boy named Adam, who begins to work as an aide for the school psychologist, with the task of bringing another student to his appointments. He soon realizes that this student is his former foster brother, Julian, who had been sent to live with his Uncle Russell. This book is definitely not a light or fluffy contemporary, but it is a very memorable one. I immediately connected with both of the main characters and thought they each had a distinct voice. I especially loved how the author developed their backstories, and the amazing bond that develops between the boys. It is another book that is difficult to discuss without giving spoilers, although I think the synopsis hints at the direction of the story strongly enough. I think this book would be a great rainy day read because it is such a compelling, character-driven story and one that would be great to read in one sitting.
This is another duology that I think has become a recent obsession, but again with good reason. It is about a criminal mastermind named Kaz Brekker who is hired to carry out a heist, with the help of a team of other misfits. I enjoyed the Grisha trilogy but didn't quite love it, so I was completely blown away by this duology. I especially enjoyed the incredible cast of characters and the dynamics between everyone. I've come to realize that I generally enjoy books like this that have an ensemble cast of unusual people. I also loved the intricate plot, especially because I'm not usually interested at all in heist stories. I definitely think it is worthwhile to read the Grisha trilogy first. It isn't absolutely essential, but I found it very helpful. This is another duology that I think would make excellent rainy day reads because the characters will draw you in, and because the complexity of the schemes that the characters undertake are easier to follow if they are read straight through. I'm so glad I read these books.
I'm sure I've mentioned this series to death by now, but I think they would make the perfect rainy day read because of the atmosphere. The series is about a girl named Blue who meets a boy named Gansey and his friends, a group of students from the local private school, who are searching for the sleeping king Glendower along the ley lines. This has been the first series in a long time that has captured the same kind of feeling for me as my first time reading Harry Potter. I think the books are so atmospheric, which adds so much to the air of mystery around the ley lines and the boys' quest. I do remember finding the plot a tiny bit confusing at first, but it didn't take long for me to get fully invested in the story, especially because of the strength of the amazing characters. These books have quickly become one of my all-time favourite series and I'm already looking forward to eventually reading them all again. With four books in the series, it's probably too much to devour in a single rainy day, but I think reading these while listening to the rain would add so much to the already incredible story.
I would actually recommend most Jodi Picoult books for a rainy day, but I singled this one out because it is one of my favourites. In general, I think Jodi Picoult's books would be great for a rainy day because I never want to put them down once I've started them! To be fair, I haven't read her first two books yet, and there are a couple more of her earlier books that I'm not such a fan of (Keeping Faith and Picture Perfect were both my least favourites, although still quite good). House Rules is about a teenage boy named Jacob who has Asperger's syndrome, and a strong interest in forensics. When his social skills tutor is murdered, Jacob quickly becomes a suspect, with many of the behaviours that are characteristic of his ASD appearing to be signs of guilt. I thought this book was incredible because of the way Jodi Picoult brought us into Jacob's mind, while also showing how he appeared to the people around him. I especially loved how it tackled the difficulty the justice system has with people who behave differently. I've read this one twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times. I would highly recommend any Jodi Picoult book for a rainy day, but especially this one.
This was another book that I somehow waited way too long to read. I think it became one of those books that I actively avoided because it seemed too overhyped, to the point where I decided that it couldn't possibly be that great. I finally picked it up in December of 2017 and was completely blown away by it. It is definitely one of the strongest thrillers that I've read, and I'm glad I finally decided to listen to the hype. This book is about a man named Nick Dunne whose wife Amy has gone missing on the couple's fifth anniversary. Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. I find it nearly impossible to discuss this book in any amount of detail without risking spoilers for anyone who, like me, is still late to picking this one up. What I think I can safely say is that it is very intricately crafted with such fascinating characters, and it is definitely a book that was really hard to put down. I think this would be a great rainy day read because of the darker tone to the story, and also because it would be a great one to read in one sitting.
I've always been a bit hesitant to mention this one of this blog since I thought I'd brought it up a lot over the past few years. Surprisingly, when I looked back on my earlier posts, it seems like I haven't included it nearly as much as I thought. This book was easily a standout of my first year of reading challenges, and possibly even the single most memorable book of that year. It is about a teenage boy who is accused of killing a classmate, and his parents have conflicting views about whether their son could be guilty. I was hesitant to pick it up at all because I'd read it for a prompt requiring a book that my mom loves. Although we have similar taste to a degree, she loves quite a few books that I have no interest in at all. This book did get a tiny bit slow in a couple of places, but overall it was such an intriguing story, with some plot points that still haunt me even now, 4 years after I read it. It did an amazing job of keeping me guessing about Jacob's innocence or guilt, and I've yet to read another book that handles this kind of plot as well as this one did.
When it comes to looking at reading patterns over the course of a year, or even a month, I've noticed that it seems to be much easier for people to look for the inevitable reading slump. I've seen so many blogs and vlogs complaining about readers feeling like they are in a slump. Trust me, I know the feeling. I've had so many reading slumps over the years, and it can be really hard to pull out of one. What seems to be much less common, however, is hearing about reading that is going really well. In fact, I'm not even sure we have a word for whatever the opposite of a reading slump would be. The best I could come up with was "reading streak" but I'm not sure if that really sums it up either.
What I mean by a "reading streak" is when we find ourselves having a great time with our reading for an extended period. Instead of having several books in a row that were disappointing, a "streak" could be reading multiple excellent books one after the other. I thought of this recently because it's happened to me. In the past two weeks alone, I've read three books that were easily 5 stars (Vengeful, The Perfect Mother, and Nine Perfect Strangers), one that was a 4.5 (Circe), and I'm currently in the middle of Carry On, which I'm expecting will be a 4.5 or 5 star read by the end as well. I also have Summer Bird Blue coming up next, which, if it's anything like Starfish from the same author, I'm expecting to love too!
As good as I've become as finding books that I'm fairly confident I'll enjoy, I don't think I've had a streak of so many great ones in a row this year since January, and that was because I re-read the entire Harry Potter series. In fact, this year so far has been a little hit-or-miss, in the sense that I've often read a couple of books that I've really enjoyed, followed by one or two that were a bit disappointing. Even looking back at my previous years of reading challenges, it seems pretty rare for me to have so many consecutive books that are 4.5 stars or higher. Each year had multiple books that I loved, and a majority that were in the 4 star range, but nothing that I would necessarily classify as a "streak." I think the closest I came was in November of 2017, where I had 5 books rated 5 stars in a row, but one of those was a re-read of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Actually, when I looked closer I found another streak in May of last year with 5 consecutive 5-star reads (Turtles All the Way Down, Every Note Played, Gemina, Obsidio, and Keep You Safe), so it seems like it happens only once or twice per year.
In general, I think many of us who blog or vlog about reading tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves to read more and read quickly, so it can be tough to avoid the slump mindset. Aside from when I'm just not really enjoying the books I've chosen, I find that I feel most slump-y when it feels like the books I'm reading are taking too long. I don't like to rush through books for the sake of crossing items off my challenge lists, but it does sometimes cross my mind that I should be reading it faster. When I'm really into a book, I tend to read it quickly anyway since I don't want to put it down, but sometimes I just don't have as much time to devote to it so it takes a little longer. Sometimes, I need to take that step back and remind myself that it is totally fine to slow down a bit. No one is policing my reading challenges, and there's absolutely no consequence of not finishing "on time" (except for my own logistical headaches if I try to carry books forward to the next year's challenge!).
I've also wondered if one of the reasons I don't have these kinds of streaks more often has to do with the way I organize my reading. I've mentioned before that I intentionally try to space out the books I'm most excited for throughout the year so I don't go through them all too quickly, and leave myself with books that I'm not as interested in. There's always a few prompts per year that I'm just not into at all, and pick whichever book is the least painful for me to still fulfill the prompt. It's rare that I find a book that I love on prompts that I really hate, but sometimes it works out well (ie. Beartown for a prompt about a sports-related book, which I ended up adoring and giving 5 stars). In a way, it seems like my method might be a little counterproductive, since it often leads to purposely separating books that I expect to get 4.5 or 5 stars out, thus breaking the streak.
I've found it helpful to separate books out like this, but on the other hand, I also find these kinds of reading streaks very helpful to my challenges too. It's very motivating to read book after book that I'm loving, and it makes me want to keep the momentum going by reading more and choosing more books that I expect to love. With my current library stack, I've found myself looking at the titles and trying to guess how many of them will contribute to keeping my streak going longer. There's nothing in it right now that I expect to be any less than 4 stars, although to be fair, I'm not sure if I should count 4 stars as a reading streak when those books already make up the majority of my reading. In a way, I also find that reading streaks help me go into the next book with a more positive attitude. Instead of going in unsure about whether I'll like it, I pick up the next book hoping it will just add to the streak. Of course, it can be a bit disappointing when it doesn't, but I think I'm much more likely to enjoy a book more if I already go into it expecting to like it. I'm very curious now to see what the longest streak I can accumulate is, although I don't plan on changing my reading specifically to make sure streaks happen.
Discussion Time: What is the longest "reading streak" you've ever had? Why is it so much easier to talk about slumps?
We had a very similar prompt for Top 5 Wednesdays around this time last year. I dreaded it then, and I dread it even more now! There are hardly any characters that I would think of as jokesters in the sense that I assume the prompt is referring to. Mostly, the only ones that come to mind are the Weasley twins. After much struggle to figure out a way to differentiate the prompt a bit, I decided to focus instead on "funniest characters" instead of jokesters specifically. I tend to think of "jokester" in the relatively narrow sense of someone who plays tricks or pulls pranks on other characters, whereas a very funny character for me is often someone who makes snarky/witty comments, which I guess is a different kind of joke anyway. I think I commented last year that characters who are intended to be funny can be pretty hit or miss since it depends on whether your sense of humour matches the characters' kind of joke, but these are all characters that I found very funny at the time.
1) Georgia Nicolson from the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison – To be honest, I can't remember if I ever finished the whole series, but these books were my favourites for years! It is about a British teenager named Georgia Nicolson, written in the format of diary entries where Georgia talks about her friends, families, and crushes. I'd love to re-read this series at some point, although I'm not sure I'd find it as funny anymore. Even when I first read it, I found it tough sometimes to read too many in a row without getting a little bored/irritated with the characters, but Georgia is very funny!
2) Nina Zenik from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo – Nina quickly became one of my favourite characters in this series, and her humour was a huge part of that, especially in her interactions with Matthias. To be fair, there were quite a few funny characters in this series because many of them had exactly the kind of witty humour that I love, but there are certain specific scenes involving Nina that made her stand out most. Unfortunately I don't own copies of this duology (yet) so I can't find the specific scenes that I'm thinking of, but I loved how Nina brought such a sense of humour to the group in general. I think out of everyone, she was the most relatable to me (maybe because of her love of cake), and she was so much fun to read.
3) Kenji from the Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi – I'm quite a bit behind on this series, and I also made the mistake of waiting almost a year between each of the first three books because I was trying to read so many popular series at once, and limited myself to just one book in the series at a time. To be completely honest, I don't remember that much of Kenji's role by now, but I remember finding him very funny (although a bit obnoxious at times). He was a lot of fun to read, and I especially loved seeing him effectively break the fourth wall once and call out Juliette and Adam for being too melodramatic. It was so much fun to see a character thinking exactly what most readers would have been at that point, and directly mentioning it!
4) Captain Thorne from the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer – I think I've mentioned before that Thorne was a character I didn't expect to like very much because he seemed like such a player, but he very quickly won me over when I saw his dynamic with Cress. More than that, Thorne has exactly the kind of snarky, sarcastic humour that I tend to love in books. I loved his dynamic with the rest of the group. In general, this was a very funny series that balanced the humour really well with the rest of the storyline. It's been quite a while since I finished reading it so it is hard for me to remember specific Thorne scenes that I loved, but I always looked forward to reading any parts that he was in and Cress was my favourite in the series in part because of him.
5) Zuzana from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series by Laini Taylor – I was originally going to pick Nikolai from the Grisha trilogy, but although he is definitely among my favourite funny characters, I thought my reasons for him were very similar to those for Thorne, and I also wanted to avoid two characters by the same author. My next choice would have to be Zuzana, because she brought so much levity to a series that was otherwise quite dense and at times dark. Zuzana's scenes were always so much fun to read. Like Nina, I think it was partly the love of cake that won me over, but in general she was a great character and hilarious!
It's pretty much impossible for me to follow this week's prompt the way it is written, because I can't think of a single outrageous thing I've ever done for books. I've always been a huge reader but I don't go to book events, conventions, etc. I'm not particularly in midnight releases (mostly because books are so expensive when they first come out!) or book signings. I'm not the type to skip school or work just so I'm able to read more, although there have been times where I've been tempted. In general, I'm too much of a rule-follower to do anything really outrageous. I decided to tailor this one a bit to focus more on some weird/unusual things I've done involving books, so hopefully that is a close enough fit.
1) Hoarding books – Library book sales were always my favourite time of year. My library gave out fairly large bags, and they only charged $1 per bag which could be filled with whatever we wanted from the tables. I often left with more than 1 stuffed bag, but didn't always end up reading everything I took. At that point, I didn't care much about the condition of the books so I would take anything that seemed even remotely interesting. The problem is, I also have a very hard time letting go of books so even though I never read them, it took me a long time to actually get rid of them too.
2) Collecting non-fiction books and using them to create my own "school" – I was always a bit frustrated with my school. I was supposed to be in the gifted program but only tried it for a couple of months before quitting because I hated the teacher. I always had in mind the idea that I would be better off creating my own school, so I would collect tons of non-fiction books (mostly from the aforementioned book sales) and made lists of "assignments" for myself for the "classes" I was taking. I never really did any of the work, but had a lot of fun making up an entire school system. I had a couple of toy backpacks that I filled with my "school" books and assignment lists, but never really followed through with it.
3) Collecting facts from books (AKA copying pages by hand) – When I was in elementary school and I had a PA Day or a school closure for any reason, my mom would take me with her to her job at the library. She worked and I would sit and look at books. When I was going through that "design my own school" phase, I would often end up bringing pads of paper and sitting with books about animals or other topics that interested me, and literally copy out pages word-for-word because I thought it would help me memorize the information. Usually, it was books in the Eyewitness series.
4) Hiding books that scared me – I can think of two books specifically that I had to hide because I was so creeped out by them. One of them was The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost, and the other was the Babysitter's Club book The Ghost at Dawn's House. I've always been a coward when it comes to ghost stories, and these books both scared me so much that it freaked me out to even see them. I don't actually remember the Berenstain Bears book much at all, but The Babysitter's Club book was a bigger deal because I collected them all and had them in order on my shelf, so to have this one missing bugged me, but I also couldn't stand to see it there either because it would just remind me that it scared me.
5) The "Lurch" – This is another Babysitter's Club-related one, but I also got really creeped out by Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls. I've always had a bit of anxiety about creepy phone calls in the sense of calls where you're home alone, and the phone rings but no one is there. I wasn't scared enough of this one to have to hide it, but I remember the word "phantom" freaking me out so my parents suggested that I should just replace it with a different word instead so every time I saw the word "phantom" on the page, I'd just think the word I chose. Somehow, the word I ended up picking was Lurch from the Addams Family. I have no idea why, since he was never my favourite character or anything, but at least it worked!
6) Obsesssively re-reading the same books – I like to re-read in general, but I used to have this really weird habit of associating very specific books with certain events, and I felt almost compelled to read them at the same time every year. For example, I had a couple of Buffy the Vampire Slayer books that I always read at New Years while waiting for the clock to hit midnight, so for years I would take out the exact same ones every time and read them only on New Years Eve. I also would take the exact same Babysitter's Club books to my grandparents' house when we took our annual trip. I had it in my head somehow that I needed to take the same books every time, but I have no idea why.
7) Deciding to be an author with my best friend in fourth grade – My best friend and I spent most of our time in the fourth grade working on our own illustrated books, to the point where we imagined going into business together when we grew up. He would draw the pictures, and I would write the stories. We wrote 2 books and started a third, which I still have. Fast forward about 20 years, and neither of us are authors (nor can we draw), although he did end up becoming an English teacher. I've always had an interest in writing but I've never been able to actually follow through with any of my story ideas.
8) Keeping a journal because of my obsession with the Royal Diaries – I absolutely adored The Royal Diaries series when I was younger, and they motivated me to keep a journal of my own. I went through several years where I tried to commit to writing in a journal literally every day, and it went really well for a long time. The problem was I think I also partly thought of my journals as a book that would eventually be read by other people, like the Royal Diaries series. I never completely made anything up, but I definitely think I made many of my journal entries a lot more dramatic than they really needed to be so they would be "more interesting"… yet I never wanted anyone to read them either. I got very upset when one of my friends snooped through my drawers and read one, even though I was writing as if it should be read. I also remember writing certain things that I thought "should" be in there (ie. having a crush on someone when I actually didn't) because that was the kind of thing that was in the books I was reading.
9) Colouring in my Little Mermaid books – Anyone who knows me now would know that I absolutely hate to have markings of any kind in my books. I find it extremely distracting to have any other writing on the page. I had some The Little Mermaid chapter books that I received as a gift, although I can't remember who they were from. Apparently there were about 12 books in the series, but I can only remember the first two for sure. I'm pretty sure I had 3 or 4 of them. The Practical Joke War and Arista's New Boyfriend both look very familiar. These books were new stories featuring the characters of The Little Mermaid in new stories, with black-and-white illustrations. I somehow got the idea in mind that I was going to colour in all of the pictures myself because they would look better. I don't think I ever finished colouring them all, but it's definitely unusual of me to do that!
10) Stayed up way too late to finish a great book – I'm sorry to end off on such a mediocre one, but I've run out of anything really unusual. I'm kind of a night owl anyway, but it's unusual for me to stay up very late to read because I need to be awake for work. I have no problem staying up a little past midnight, but there have been times where I knew I had just a few pages left, and I've decided to just stay up a bit and finish it off. Occasionally I regret it because I might actually be too tired to process what I'm reading properly, but usually it's because I'm so invested in the book that I really want to know what's going to happen. I can only think of a handful of books that I've done this for, so it definitely counts as something unusual that I do, or at least unusual for me.


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ANGELA: ASGARD'S ASSASSIN #1
Written by Kieron Gillen & Margueritte Bennett
Art by Phil Jimenez & Stephanie Hans
Published by Marvel Comics – $3.99
• All her life, Angela — the finest warrior of Heven — was raised to hate Asgard with every fiber of her being.
• And now Angela knows the truth about her identity: She is Thor's sister. She is an Asgardian.
• Cast out of her home and wanting nothing to do with Asgard, Angela must now strike out on her own!
• But what does Angela have that both Asgard and Heven want? And why are they so eager to get it?
• Visionary writers Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett team with the legendary art team of Phil Jimenez and Stephanie Hans to finally throw the spotlight onto the Marvel Universe's most dangerous inhabitant!
Why It's Hot: I never thought that a book featuring a Neil Gaiman created character with a creative team that includes Kieron Gillen and Phil Jimenez would be flying under the radar, but it is. Throw in the rising star that is Margueritte Bennett, and the extremely talented Stephanie Hans and you have the makings of an absolute must read book. I have a feeling that this book is going to surprise a lot of people. Oh yeah, I already mentioned Phil Jimenez on art right? I did? Okay, well this book has art from the great Phil Jimenez.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1
Written by Christopher Sebela
Art by Diego Barreto
Published by BOOM! Studios – $3.99
WHY WE LOVE IT: We can't get enough John Carpenter! It means so much to us to have brought BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA to comics the right way. The response has been so strong that we knew we had to bring another Carpenter classic to comics in a style and approach that does ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK justice.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If you already love the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK film, this is a noBut if ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is new to you, writer Christopher Sebela has been garnering high praise for his recent BOOM! Studios original DEAD LETTERS, as well as for his Eisner Awardoriginal, HIGH CRIMES.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The crime rate in the United States has risen 400 percent. After humiliating the President in front of the world and destroying America's one chance to end World War III, Snake Plissken has become America's Most Wanted man in a land of criminals and the insane. Everyone wants Snake dead. Luckily, Snake knows the feeling all too well. War hero. Outlaw. Renegade. Snake's back!
Why It's Hot: First Jack Burton, and now Snake Plisskin. Big Trouble In Little China has shown that BOOM! Studios can be successful in licensed comics based off of John Carpenter movies that star Kurt Russell. So why not continue the trend by bringing one of the most iconic action characters ever to the comic page? This should be a lot of fun.
HELLBOY & THE BPRD #1
Written by Mike Mignola & John Arcudi
Art by Alex Maleev
Published by Dark Horse Comics – $3.50
A bizarre series of murders and rumors of something worse lead Professor Bruttenholm to send a young Hellboy to a Brazilian village on his first mission. Hellboy and a small group of agents uncover something terrible in the shadows of a sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress
Why It's Hot: A brand new Hellboy title overseen by Mike Mignola himself featuring a who's who of creators. If you think that sounds awesome then you aren't alone. First up is writer John Arcudi, and artist Alex Maleev telling the story of Hellboy's first mission. Maleev drawing Hellboy with Dave Stewart on colors is a beautiful sight to behold. If you haven't read Hellboy in awhile, or never before, this is a great jumping on point!
SECRET SIX #1
Written by Gail Simone
Art by Ken Lashley
Published by DC Comics – $2.99
Gail Simone is back with the NEW 52 debut of the fan-favorite team – THE SECRET SIX! Six strangers are brought together under mysterious circumstances for an explosive first issue that will leave everyone asking, "What is the Secret?"
Why It's Hot: One of the absolute worst parts of the 2011 New 52 relaunch was the distinct lack of Gail Simone's Secret Six. The cult hit was one of the very best books DC had been publishing, and many readers were sad to see it go. Well fellow readers there's reason to rejoice this week, as the Secret Six are making their New 52 debut! What will this incarnation of the team look like? What kind of awesome depravity do Simone and Lashley have up their sleeves for them? Find out this Wednesday!
THANOS VS. HULK #1
Written by Jim Starlin
Art by Jim Starlin
• An all-new four-part story by fan-favorite Jim Starlin begins here!
• The Hulk is kidnapped by Pip the Troll and traded to Annihilus!
• Then Thanos of Titan gets thrown into the mix…
Why It's Hot: Marvel continues to capitalize on the Thanos craze, brought on by his inclusion in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, by by bringing back his original creator for yet another project. Jim Starlin, fresh off the Thanos: Infinity Revelation OGN, continues his work on his most famous creation with brand new a mini series event! It's the Mad Titan versus the Green Goliath in a cosmic throw down in the "Mighty Marvel Style."
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Tags Alex Maleev, Angela, BOOM! Studios, Christopher Sebela, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Diego Barreto, Escape From New York, Gail Simone, Hellboy, Jim Starlin, Ken Lashley, Kieron Gillen, Marguerite Bennett, Marvel Comics, Mike Mignola, Phil Jimenez, Sinister Six, Stephanie Hans, Thanos vs. Hulk


Rfotofolio is pleased to share the work of Ellen Cantor. She show us how one art form can honor another in her series Prior Pleasures.
Ellen please tell us a little about yourself.
I was born in Chicago, IL, but have lived most of my adult life in Southern California. I graduated from the University of Illinois and UCLA Environmental and Design Program. After a career as an Interior Designer, I shifted my focus into fine art photography in 2000. I am married, have two daughters and four grandchildren.
It was almost by accident. My husband used to take most of the photographs and I was the director. I realized that if I wanted to get the shot I saw, I would have to take the photographs myself. I knew that I needed to learn to use the SLR and took some classes. Immediately, I found a way to express myself.
I have eclectic taste in art leaning toward modern and conceptual. One of the first photographers I loved was Eliot Porter because of his use of color. I also admire Uta Barth, Joann Callis, and Robert Heinecken, all conceptual photographers. I recently saw an exhibit of Dubuffet and discovered his abstract works that were unknown to me.
Aline Smithson, photographer and blogger at Lenscratch has been very influential in helping me grow as a photographer.
Growing up in Chicago, I loved to go to the Art Institute. Two of my favorite, non-photo images, are Caillebotte's Paris Street Rainy Day and Seurat's La Grande Jatte. I have many photo books and enjoy choosing a new favorite every-time I revisit a book.
Ernst Haas for his pioneering work in color, selective focus, and capturing moving objects.
Your images seem to be based on objects, that in turn convey a memory. Would you tell us about the series Prior Pleasures.
Rediscovering these books led me to realize the power and value of the hands-on-experience of reading. As I documented each volume, I was transported to a time and place that allowed for imagination and fantasy. With this series, I examine what it is that we remember and how we honor objects that inspired our early creative thinking. Ultimately, Prior Pleasures is meant to remind us that books can excite and enrich our lives.
Yes. Being creative is a part of my life, like brushing my teeth.
I work at home in a studio created from two extra bedrooms. For several years, I have been doing still life. I like to take objects of memory that I have saved or received when my mother passed away and create images from them. I look to make photographs that go beyond what is in the viewfinder—finding the unseen in the seen.
I set up my still life on a table using natural light or a soft box with off camera lighting—very simple. For Prior Pleasures, I used multiple images in camera.
My perfect day would be time to photograph, take a walk on the beach, go out for a nice dinner with family, and relax in the evening with my husband.
I think working alone is the most difficult part of being an artist. The other difficulty is finding ways to get my work out into the world and keeping up with technology.
I am looking at ways of creating photographs that are off the paper or on different materials.
Thank you Ellen for sharing your work and words with us.
To learn more about the work of Ellen Cantor please visit her site at, Ellen Cantor Photographs.
Beautifully executed conceptual project, made richer because of the cherished personal memories. Makes me want to read Kidnapped again.


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Designing Marketable Indie Game Capsule Art for Steam (and other platforms!)
ByTaya Beleanina
One of the most important assets for any game is the key art – promotional visual imagery that is used to communicate the game's themes, genres and identity to potential players. Key art can be found on nearly every platform, from social media headers to physical game copies, store pages to posters on double-decker buses. Impactful key art is a powerful tool in marketing – it can help you stand out in a crowded market and can often be the very first thing that players see in relation to your project. The quality, suitability and appeal of what they see can easily be the difference between them finding out more, and skipping your game altogether.
For many indie games, key art is often limited to the digital space – as physical publishing and traditional advertising are expensive marketing channels for the humble first game. This often includes social media channels, email marketing ads and arguably most importantly – the store page. Whether you're launching on Steam, Epic or Nintendo eStore, your game will need to have key art as one of its main marketing materials. When used on these store pages, the key art is often referred to as a capsule or capsule art. These are the images you see when browsing an online store, and on a game's store page – the visual identity of your brand and project.
To help your game succeed, your capsules should be impactful and marketable. There are hundreds of games releasing daily across all gaming platforms in every genre, from huge triple AAAs to tiny indies, from sprawling MMOs to 2-hour narrative adventures. These are all vying for attention and will be your competition. Not only does your capsule art need to stand out, but it must also successfully communicate the game's appeal and theme to let players know whether this is something they would be interested in.
So how do you design your capsule art to be marketable?
Follow the Rules
First and foremost, you need to know which store pages you are planning to use – each one has particular rules for capsule art on their platform, and you will need to ensure that you note down the right dimensions and guidelines before getting started.
For example, Steam requires your game to have a header capsule (sized at 460px x 215px), a small capsule (sized at 231px x 87px), a main capsule (sized at 616px x 353px) and a hero capsule (sized at 374px x 448px). Each of these capsules serves a different purpose – for example the small capsule will be shown when your game appears in search or in "Other Games Like This", while the header capsule appears in the top right of your game's store page. As such, they must be designed differently, but still keep your brand and identity consistent, through the use of color schemes, motifs, fonts and of course, your logo.
Quality and Clarity
Next, after considering the dimensions and guidelines of your store page, you must ensure that you design your capsule art to be both high-quality and very clear. Players are less likely to take your game seriously if the capsule they see is blurry, unreadable or looks like it was created in 2 minutes in Microsoft Paint (unless that is the look you decided to go for as part of your marketing strategy!)
Make sure that the game's name and logo are easily visible in all formats. This is especially key for smaller capsules like those that appear in search, as these are often very small. Steam's official guidelines echo this, indicating a requirement for the small capsule as:
"Small Capsule should contain readable logo, even at smallest size. In most cases, this means your logo should nearly fill the small capsule."
When you look at current games, you can see how other studios have taken heed of this advice to create clear capsule art, and often those who have not. While AAAs often have a wealth of brand recognition they can rely on, for an indie game is it especially key to look as polished and clear as possible to help your game stand out and be visually appealing.
As well as being clear and high-quality, your capsules should be visually appealing and communicate your game's unique selling points to hopefully convince players to find out more and ultimately buy your game. This is a little less clear-cut as each game is unique and will (in most cases) have its own identity.
The first thing you can ask yourself is – is there already key art for the game that could be repurposed for your capsules? It's always a good idea to maintain consistency across your many platforms and it can help with brand recognition and helps position your game as high-quality and professional. However, be careful with this approach as not all key art will be suitable for a capsule, especially if it has been designed to appear in larger formats like on a website. Having a highly detailed capsule with lots going on can make it difficult to make out what is being depicted or what the game is about.
If you don't already have suitable key art – you will need to create some. Think about your game and everything that it offers players. What are its genres? What is the plot? What themes and feelings do you want to convey? What are the main features? Once you have a general picture of what the game looks and feels like, you will need to think about its unique selling points. What helps it stand out from the competition? Is it a cool mechanic that hasn't been tried before? Is it a cast of lovable and complex characters? Is it a sandbox game where you can literally do anything? All of these USPs can be represented visually in different ways. Going through this process will help you understand what you want your capsule to focus on, and you want players to feel when they see it.
Competition &Trends
Once you have answered these questions and have thought about what you want your capsule art to contain, a good natural step is to do some research. This involves going to the storefront of your choice and seeing what other games in your genre are doing with their key art, how games similar to yours have communicated their games visually and what the current trends are.
Genre research can be really helpful in showing you what players of any particular genre are expecting from a new game. Often, genres have very specific ways in which they use capsule art to communicate themes and features, which together combine to become staples of a genre. One clear example of this is FMV (full motion video) games – "a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models) to display action in the game" (Wikipedia). Here are some example header capsules from Steam of games in the FMV genre:
From these examples we can see games in the FMV genre often (but not always) utilise photographs of the actors in the game to communicate the genre – showing that the game contains real people rather than rendered characters. Additionally, we get the sense that FMVs generally deal with serious subjects – as can be seen through the choice of shots, colour schemes and expressions used in the capsule. Doing this research can help you understand how your game can fit in with players' expectations of a genre, or alternatively help you stand out from the competition if your game goes against genre conventions (for example a really up-beat silly FMV).
Competitor research can be used in a similar way, though this is usually more targeted than genre research. Here you need to think about which games are similar to yours in more than just genre. By finding these comparable games and seeing how they have communicated through their key art and capsules you can consider how you can help your game stand out.
For example, let's take the recent launch of Valheim, an open-world survival game with a Viking theme. Here is the capsule art:
Notice how the capsule conveys two of Valheim's core USPs on the market – the unique viking setting (the shield) and the co-operative play (showing two characters). This helps it stand out, as in contrast, other capsule art of games in a similar genre and with similar mechanics, often portrays solitary characters or create a sense of isolation.
The last thing to look out for is capsule art trends. Often, as different games experiment with new key art and find things that work, you will see particular trends becoming more popular, whether it's a particular colour scheme, art style or even logo position. Research what is trending right now on the store front of your choice to understand what is working for others and what players expect.
A good place to start is Chris Zukowski's website How To Market a Game and his well-researched and insightful articles on capsule trends in July 2020 and October 2020.
Ensuring that you have thought strategically about your capsule art will help the marketability and overall success of your indie game. Remember:
Check the capsule art rules and guidelines for your platform.
Make sure your capsure art is high-quality and clear.
Help your game stand out by focusing on its selling points and how you want players to feel.
Carry out research to check what is expected in your genre.
Armed with this knowledge, you should be able to more confidently design capsule art which will help you market your game. Happy creating!
2018/19 trends in indie game marketing & PR
ByLewis Denby
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ByChris King
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Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I am a sucker for cute Piggies decorative stuff....anything with the Piggies icon on it ...I am sold ! So you can imagine the collection of Piggies stuff in the house. And my dear Cuz Piggy will be helping me in my collection. Each time she travels oversea, she will surely keep an eye on this Piggies related stuff and bring home one or two items for me and this is an example ! This is a phone decorative chain with two Piggies ! So darn cute.... :) So adorable !
and now I am looking for a Piggy Bento Box !!!!


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Q: express server error Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client I am using a react frontend and sending form data to a express server backend. I have managed to send and receive this data however only in console.log form. The contents of this from is being sent in json and is viewable in a console.log however I need this info in variables to use in a script and whenever I try put the data into a variable to use, I get the error
Error [ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT]: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client
my code is
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const { response } = require('../app');
const { json } = require('express/lib/response');

const app = express();

var balls

//app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

// app.post('/idle', (req, res) => {
//   console.log('got body', req.body);
//   res.sendStatus(200);
//   console.log(req.body);
//   console.log('big nuts ' + balls)
// })

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('idle', { title: 'idle get placeholder' });
});

var body

function getKeyByValue(object, value) {
    return Object.keys(object).find(key => object[key] === value);
}

/* POST home page. */
router.post('/', function(req, res) {
    console.log(req.body)
    //not worky
    //console.log(getKeyByValue(req.body, 'accName'))
    //console.log(Object.keys(req.body))
    //res.send(res.body)
    //console.log(req.body + 'log');
    res.render('idle', { title: 'idle post placeholder' });
    //obj = JSON.parse(req.body)
    //body = req.body
    // password = req.body[password]
    // steamGuardCode = req.body[steamGuard]
    // console.log(accName + password + steam)

});
module.exports = router;

sorry about the variable names. I name them that for testing and forget to replace them
also I kind of left all my test fixes in there so anything commented doesn't work

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