Sunday, 10 April 2016

Reading With Chuckles


I have renamed my TBR Reading Challenge and changed it back to Reading with Chuckles as it sounds better, especially at times when I have no specific challenge running. So this is where I'll share what I read and abandoned each week, and I'll give the odd update on the state of my poor TBR! It does suffer at times...! The link under the book takes you to the Goodreads page for that book so you can decide whether to read it, and see my reviews when they are posted.

Well I admit it, I've grabbed so many free and cheap books over the last 3 months that my tbr is fully out of control so for the moment I'm going to forget about it and go with the flow...a lot of these books are short so I'll catch up on them at some point and get the numbers down again. I refuse to care right now! Fun reading is more important than stupid numbers!!! 

No theme this week but most were prepper related. I love these because they are fast paced, waffle free disaster stories, usually with great characters. I'm sooo enjoying the Bug Out series! 

FINISHED:

Ellisa Barr-Outage (first 6 chapter extract)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22010657-outage-chapters-1-6 

NJ NcConnell-Escaping the Undead 2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26199291-escaping-the-undead 

Bobby Andrews-Prepper's Crucible 6
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29089668-pepper-s-crucible 

Robert Boren-Bug Out 2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23643429-bug-out-part-2 

Robert Boren-Bug Out 3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705887-bug-out-part-3 

Robert Boren-Bug Out 4
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23753760-bug-out-part-4 

Robert Boren 5-Bug Out 5
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24456868-bug-out-part-5 
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Kindle Scout Nominations #1


“Chester! Chester! Don’t die, you can’t die!” The boy’s sobs soon turned to terror, because the insects had turned on him now, they settled on his face, his arms, his entire body. A swarming mass of insect’s with bloodsucking proboscises. Pain shot though Oliver’s body as the sharp pincers drove deep into the lacerated tissue of his lips. He screamed in horror as they sucked at the fluids around his eyes and crawled into his nostrils. Death was a slow agony. 

That was a small extract from a book that is hoping to be published through the Kindle Scout program. For details on Kindle Scout, which is about voting for books that Amazon should publish, see my previous blog post about it. I've read the extract from this book and it sounds pretty good-a book version of a Sci Fy monster film! I would like to see this book by Sylvestor Murray get published and get a free ebook copy for voting for it, so if the book sounds like your kind of thing, get over to Kindle Scout to vote for it!
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Influence Books Published with Kindle Scout

I first heard about Amazon's Kindle Scout when it launched in 2014. An author asked me to vote to help get his new book published and I was intrigued by the concept, plus I liked the sound of his book. I went to the site but was told I couldn't join as I wasn't a US citizen, which was really disappointing. However now it seems available for all countries that have an Amazon site so I couldn't wait to join! And it is very simple!

You go to the Kindle Scout site and sign into your Amazon account and that's all you need to get started. Browse the available books hoping to be published, read an extract online or on your Kindle if you have Wi-Fi enabled. If you like what you see, press the Nominate Me button and you have registered a vote! Each book is available for nomination for thirty days and at the end if it gets enough votes, Amazon will publish it and all the readers who voted for it get a free e-copy!  Now how cool is that!

You get three nomination votes to use at one time. When the 30 day period is over, you get your used vote back. If you have used your three votes and see something great sounding, don't panic! You can change your votes right up to the deadline for each book and your vote is only counted for the book when the 30 days are up. With books being launched daily and a 30 day vote period for each book, it should be easy to manage your votes and not have to switch. But it is nice to have the option! Full details are available here: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/

This is a great way for those of us who support Indie authors to do something productive and try to help get it published. So go and vote for books on Kindle Scout, tells friends about books there that might interest them so they will vote and plug the books you want published on your blogs to get MORE votes! You CAN make a difference! 

Lets help get some Indie books published!
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Saturday, 9 April 2016

Children From Hell


All I want is a quiet life and instead the street suddenly has Children From Hell. A family moved in last year and since then, one of their two kids has been getting on my last nerve. The parents kick them out the house every chance they get, probably because the boy, excuse my language, is a little shit. So they tell him to play somewhere else and it's my house he plays outside. Oh lucky me.

He yells and screams and swears non stop. He climbs on top of our bins, hides the small food waste bin or takes it away to play with it, he swings on our gates, rides his scooter down our garden path, throws rubbish into the garden and makes a bloody nuisance of himself, driving me round the bend. This morning I seen him grabbing our bin and about to walk off with it so I went outside to sort him out, telling him in my Loud and Angry Voice to stay away from our bins and driveway. You should have seen the look of shock on his face at someone finally giving him a telling off. Obviously his parents have never given him any discipline, judging by his reaction. He and sister instantly vanished back to their own house and quiet has been restored. And he is only four years old at the most. He'll be real trouble when he's older so lets hope they move away soon.

I must admit, telling him to get lost was soooo satisfying...! 


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Stacking the Shelves #129


Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! Click on the link under the book to find its page on Goodreads or Smashwords. 

Please note that I always leave a message on your STS/SP if you visit me, but if you use DISQUS or a similar third party I will not be able to leave a comment on your page. I don't allow any company access to my social media accounts and I certainly don't allow them to edit and take over my accounts the way DISQUS does. So if you use DISQUS, I can't leave comments on your page so I can't really follow you back, sorry! And sometimes, I have problems leaving messages on blogs hosted by Wordpress-they try to block me so there might not be a message from me some weeks or you might get a double message sometimes! Blame them, not me!
                          
This has not been a great week for being productive, more a case of catching up on household chores! I had to get the shopping, three loads of washing, changing the bes, first lot of ironing, cleaning the kitchen...and that was just Monday and Tuesday. Gah! Then it was making the soup and preparing a few meals to save time for later this week and cleaning the bathroom, and getting the hoover out. Plus I spent most of yesterday hunting online for car insurance for my uncle which was a laugh a minute. I am having a total rest today. My dad is parked in front of the TV watching the horse racing so he has been little help!

I didn't feel up to reading at the start of the week because I was knackered and feeling a bit down but that improved by Wednesday and I've read a couple of books-none were great though which was a pity! I picked up the first three books in a War of the Roses trilogy which was exciting and they have gorgeous covers! I also got a pre-ordered book from Amazon (Benedict Jacka's newest!) and paperback versions of a zombie series that I've been reading on ebook. A good booky week! The downloads are mostly ones I got a few weeks back except the dinosaur ones which I grabbed this week. Yea! I've decided not to stress about my tbr-it'll reduce in my own time so I refuse to care right now!

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