Let's Talk: Favorite Childhood Book

Since I’m spending the Christmas break at my parent’s home I've had the chance to go through my pile of read books. Among them is sitting one of the first books I read as a child and one of the main reasons I fell in love with the Fantasy genre to begin with. This made me think about the very first set of fantasy books that I had, at least that I remember. I had the typical children books, the re-written Grimm’s Fairy Tales published by people I don’t even remember. You know which ones I mean, the more or less 10 pages long books that you can find even at the supermarket or the drugstore. But then my aunt went vacationing to Disney World and she came back totting 7 huge books for me; big enough to reach my waist when I was a kid. Those books where my first reading treasures.

Two of those books where mostly board games with storytelling intertwined; the other 4 where the Disney’s princess fairy tales movies turned into books (Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty); and the last one, the last one was my personal favorite. It was a spiral-bound, suitcase shaped, story book with a few games in some of its pages. The book was a series of short stories (one related to the next) about forest creatures and their everyday lives. It had mice, birds, squirrels, bunnies, foxes, turtles, and others, as well as dragons, gnomes, fairies, and elves. It was a beautiful story about friendship and love, about mischiefs vs intentional harm. The type of story that its meant to teach kids a moral lesson.

Let's Talk: Book Déjà Vu

With the end of 2012 approaching lot’s of reading challenges have sprung, most of them are aimed at finishing, or rather, diminishing our eternally growing To-Be-Read (TRB) piles. If you are like me, you have read countless books on the same genres. So I wonder

What book(s) have you read that has one or more element that reminds you of a previous novel? For example, I’m currently reading How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 1) by Kerrelyn Sparks [currently $0.99 at Amazon] and I’m at a part that although is not developing the same way, in its essence it reminds me of Jeaniene Frost’s Halfway to the Grave. Another one was when I began Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed Series –I love it, but throughout the first three books I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was reading another version of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. So I ask you, which book(s) have you read that gives you a déjà vu?

Long Overdue, Hi Again!

Hello my amazing followers!!!! I know, I know, it's been way too long since the last time I did anything here in the blog. I had no intention to abandon you at all, but college has a way of messing with time frames immensely.

Because of this, and because I still have about one more year and a half to go before I finish my degree I'll remain on and off the blog. I'll will still blog (as well as my sister occasionally) but will not be as frequent as before.

I'll try to be more active, I have a bunch of books that I have read, but I haven't yet reviewed. I'm planning to filter those in as this trimester moves along. Also, there is a new Blog Tour on the horizon due at the end of November (check the Upcoming Tours section on the sidebar for more details).

Now, unto something else I wanted to talk about. I finally fixed the drop down menu! YES! I've been struggling (as you may know) with finding a menu scheme that works correctly. That is, that doesn't drops behind the blog's main bar and side bar. That it actually drops propertly to the sides as I want it to, and most importantly, that is multi-leveled. Yay!! I succeded!!

Please feel free to try out the menu and leave me some feedback in the comments section below. It will be greatly appretiated.

Thanks for this feat goes to Rahul Ippar from Helper Blogger and his post on how to Create Multi Level Drop Down Menu in Blogger. Thanks you so much for that wonderful post. And thank you, my great followers for sticking around all this time ~.^

Chit-Chatting: Was biblical Cain the first Vampire?

*Stands in the road looking at the passersby wondering the best way to approach. The proverbial light bulb goes on and she says...*

Hello my amazing followers, I have a questions that I will love to ask you. I'm hoping that I can engage you in conversation; get to know your opinions a bit better. So...

What's your take on the whole "Cain as the original Vampire" trend that's going around?

Background:
I just began a vampire book called Grace Through Blood, and the very first thing that can be read is a Bible quote (the book only uses verses 10, 12 and 15):