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Photo Theme: Joy

Today's theme from Keyhole pictures  is Joy.

My friend and I will get to see our fave band A1 . We're hoping they'll be playing a couple of their new songs from their album even if this was a greatest hits concert. This is the first time for us to see two other main acts in the same night! This can be shallow for a lot of people but for now I like to be shallow. :D

From their Waiting for Daylight album
1) It Happens Every Day 
2) Don't Wanna Lose You Again - which they got 2nd place at Eurovision 2010. Yay!
3) In Love and I Hate It
4) Bad Enough 
5) Nothing in Common 
6) Take You Home
7) Six Feet Under
8) Good Things Bad People
9) Perfect Disaster
10) The Life Could Have Been
11) Out There
12) Waiting for Daylight

Friday Fiction Flash: "Nightstorm"

Join Dottie at Tink's Place for her flash fiction. Every Monday a new picture for the Monday Morning Flash Fiction Challenge comes up and if you want to join, post your FF on Friday. Check out her site for how to a participate. Enjoy!


Note: This flash fic takes place before the "The Fury of the Lost." 

"Nightstorm"


She didn't mean to get lost and get cornered in that order unfortunately; those two situations were staring at her face at that moment. 

Follow Friday (13)

Follow Friday is hosted by Rachel of Parajunkie.com and Alison of Alison Can Read  If you want to join in the fun just head over the blogs mentioned above and start checking out the various answer for today's question: 


Q: Many readers/ bloggers are also big music fans. Tell us about a few of your favorite bands/ singers that we should listen to in 2012.

A Winter's Respite Read -a-Thon 2012

 

 I decided to go for A Winter's Respite Read-a-Thon 2012 which will run from January 23 to 29, 2012 hosted by Michelle over at TheTrueBookAddict. 

 It will start  12:00 AM Monday and end at 11:59 PM Sunday. Times are central standard time so adjust your times accordingly.  I plan to host a mini-challenge (or two or more) and there will be a giveaway for every one who signs in at the starting line and completes a wrap up post at the end.  Of course, like most read-a-thons, the books read must be novels or novellas, adult or young adult are fine, but no children's books.  You DO NOT have to participate the entire week.  Join in when you can, start in the middle, end early...whatever works best for your schedule.  As long as you sign in at the sign-in post and do some kind of wrap up post, you're in for the giveaway.  As with my previous read-a-thons, it will be a week of relaxed reading during which we can personally challenge ourselves and whittle away those ever looming TBR piles/shelves/libraries.  I hope you will join me!

 I'm planning to read

Review: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Summary: 
After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson is finding his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any normal friends. But things don't stay quiet for long. 

Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders that protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters, the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millennia. Only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name: The Bermuda Triangle. 

Together with his friends, Percy must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family, one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.


Status: Owned copy

Waiting on Wednesday: Sheildwall by Justin Hill

Release date: 26th April 2012

Published by: Abacus

ISBN No:978 0349123370 

The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country's great warriors. When Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking invader. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, and as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close.

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating