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And I’m back! Sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve posted but life has been hectic. Work and my growing career as an artist has left me little time to do anything (including sleep). So not surprising I ended up feeling not my best. I’m feeling much better! New post and reviews are coming soon, but in the meantime I’m catching up with my fellow bookies! . How’s your November been treating you so far???? . . . . . . . . . . #fantasy #unitedbookstagram #bookstagram #bookswerecommend #instabook #bookphotography #booknerd #booksofinstagram #reading #bookaholic #bookish #bookaddict #goodreads #fallreads #amreading #bookclub #readingislife #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #ilovebooks #atx #novemberreads #bestseller #bookies #ilovereading #readersofinstagram . Photo by @willowsmock_books
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Arthurian Romances ✦✦✢✦✦✦✦✢✦✦ by Chrétien de Troyes, William W. Kibler (Translator), Carleton W. Carroll (Translator) My rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 . . I was 7 maybe 8 when I was over at my Gran’s house when I first saw it “Excalibur”. My Uncle J was sitting on the couch, completely engrossed in the story as I stormed in, threw my book bag on the ground complaining about the events of a second graders life. Realizing that my uncle neither responded or that he was paying attention to me. So I sat on the couch, arms crossed upset J didn’t understand the gravity of the upcoming dance competition and I not having a routine set as yet. . Suddenly from the water a hand emerges—the lady of the lake. . “What is this?” I thought. Strange mythical persons, endless quests, unrequited love. I was hooked. My uncle as soon as the credits started turned to me, asking me what I had thought of the story. I replied that it was a great movie. My uncle was shocked—he says, “this is not just a movie—but a weaving of tales that has been long spoken before you and I were alive.” My uncle was a born poet. He started to tell me about more about these myths when it was time for me to go home. My mom is in a hurry. She has a shift at the hospital starting soon. My uncle runs to get something, a book. “Take this,” he says. I read the title “Arthurian Romances”. . Later that night, after dinner and homework I turn the pages and find myself lost in a world stranger than the movie had revealed to me. Since that time I have been a reveler of legends and fables and looking back on it this was probably why. If you have yet to read this I recommend it but be prepared to loose a bit of sleep. . . . . . #medieval #bloglovin #books #bookswerecommend #instabook #bookblogger #bookphotography #booknerd #booksofinstagram #reading #bookaholic #bookish #bookaddict #goodreads #booklover #ilovebooks #atx #austintx #historicalfiction #ilovereading #readersofinstagram #arthurian #arthurpendragon #merlin #welshliterature #wales #chrétiendetroyes #Perceval #Grail Photo by @willowsmock_books @kindlefiction @tiffanyrankin_art @bloglovin e (at Round Rock, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnY91Okl2DR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=smkdxpqoy0lt

✦✦✢✦✦QUICK FACTS✦✦✢✦✦ Medici family, French Médicis, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany, during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530). It provided the church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe (most notably in France, in the persons of Queens Catherine de Médicis and Marie de Médicis). They were the patrons of Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci , Galileo Galilei, and many more. April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treachery, and revenge. The conspiracy was led by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy. Bankers, mercenaries, the Duke of Urbino, the King of Naples, and Pope Sixtus IV entered secretly into the plot. Florence was plunged into a peninsular war, and Lorenzo was soon fighting for his own and his family's survival. The failed assassination doomed the Pazzi. Medici revenge was swift and brutal--plotters were hanged or beheaded, innocents were hacked to pieces, and bodies were put out to dangle from the windows of the government palace. All remaining members of the larger Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was expunged or destroyed. . . . . . #bloglovin #books #bookswerecommend #instabook #bookblogger #bookphotography #booknerd #booksofinstagram #reading #bookaholic #bookish #bookaddict #goodreads #booklover #ilovebooks #atx #austintx #historicalfiction #fiction #ilovereading #readersofinstagram #AprilBlood #LauroMartines #Renaissance #Italy #Medici . Photo by @willowsmock_books (at Round Rock, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnXDrThlJGW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1953576bx8jh2

I read a lot of fairytales (please don’t judge 😂). One of my favorite writers in the genre is Hans Christian Anderson. Maybe—actually I’m almost certain of it, my recent reading has influenced my latest artistic endeavor. I’m in the middle of sketching out my fantasy world with mermaids, fairies, and goblins. This so happens to come in mind the same day I read the Little Mermaid. Coincidence 🤔? Whatever the case my reference library is brimmed with Hans Christian and those famous brothers of Grimm and many more that I’m too lazy to type out.😁 . . . . . #fantasy #unitedbookstagram #bloglovin #bookstagram #bloglovin #bookswerecommend #instabook #folklore #booknerd #booksofinstagram #reading #bookaholic #bookish #bookaddict #goodreads #booklover #ilovebooks #atx #thelittlemermaid #fairytales #ilovereading #readersofinstagram #Hanschristianandersen #fairies #goblins #fantasyillustrator . Photo by @willowsmock_books
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✦✦✢✦✦ #bookswelove ✦✦✢✦✦ ✬ Mystery of the Egyptian Scroll (Zet Mystery Case #1) by Scott Peters ✬ “You, who have dug deep and sifted hard for a story to read, have unearthed an ancient treasure: a mystery from the dusty ages, when a boy could be a hero and fight for the good of all . . .” ✬ ZET TRIES TO TRACK DOWN A MISSING SCROLL IN HIS FIRST EXCITING ADVENTURE. ✬ 2-year-old Zet and his sister Kat are in charge of the family pottery stall now that their father is off fighting the Hyksos. Who knew putting food on the table could be so hard? When he hears a thief has stolen an important scroll--and that there's a reward for the thief's capture--he's determined to win it. ✬ The chase leads him into forbidden temples whispering with the voices of ancient gods, into a web that threatens to crush his family forever. ✬ ✬ ✬ ✬ ✬ #mysteryoftheegyptianscroll #mystery #bloglovin #books #bookswerecommend #instabook #bookblogger #bookphotography #scottpeters #booknerd #childrensbooks #booksofinstagram #reading #bookaholic #bookish #bookaddict #goodreads #booklover #ilovebooks #atx #childrenadventures #austintx #historicalfiction #fiction #bestseller #ilovereading #middleschoolbooks #ancientegypt #summerreading ✬ Photo by @willowsmock_books @kindlefiction @tiffanyrankin_graphics @bloglovin e (at Round Rock, Texas)

#TLCBookToursPartner "...Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you." - Leon Brown My review for All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller, a tale of Cinderella's stepmother will be #ontheblog Thursday. It's not written in the fantasy style like another famous teller of stories behind the Fairy Tales but rather as a memoir. I found it to be fascinating and I couldn't put it down. . . #bookreview #alltheeverafters #danielleteller #bookreview #historicalfiction #bookswerecommend #amreading #bookblogger #books #bookaholic #bookaddict #booksofinstagram #instabook #reading #cinderella #bookswelove #bookclub (at Riverbend, Montana)