In case your get-up-and-go needs some help getting going…and because I do love my superheroes 😉
You can change the whole world
Gonna take it over
Gonna start it over
Don’t you know what we can be?
Author: Cora Lee
Cora Lee is a National Bestselling author of Regency romance. She went on a twelve year expedition through the blackboard jungle as a high school math teacher before publishing Save the Last Dance for Me, the first book in the Maitland Maidens series. She then followed it up with six other novels and novellas ranging from sweet and traditional to spicy and suspenseful.
When she’s not walking Rotten Row at the fashionable hour or attending the entertainments of the Season, you might find her participating in Regency Fiction Writers events, wading through her towering TBR pile, or eagerly awaiting the next Marvel movie release. If you’d like to find out more about Cora or her books you can sign up for her newsletter, or connect with her on Facebook, BlueSky, Bookbub, or Goodreads.
Cora’s TBR Challenge Check-In
Two months down, fellow readers! Is your TBR pile getting smaller yet?
I’m finally starting to make some headway. I listed to John McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue when all was quiet at the day job. If you’re a language nerd, you should definitely read (or listen to) this book. The author did his own narration, so if you listen to the audio don’t expect world-class acting. But the man clearly knows his stuff and enjoys his work 🙂
I’m working on two ebooks this month as well: A Night To Surrender by Tessa Dare (the first of her Spindle Cove series) and, from my TBR library list, The Proposal by Mary Balogh (the first in her Survivors Club series). Tessa Dare has quickly become one of my go-to authors when I want a fun, well-written Regency, and Mary Balogh has been one of my favorites for years. Our weather here in Michigan has recently devolved back into snowy, sloppy winter, too, so I suspect my free time the rest of the week will be spent with a fuzzy blanket and my Kindle.
Quote of the Week
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/oliver-wendell-holmes
Quote of the Week
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do..
–Eleanor Roosevelt
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/first-ladies/eleanorroosevelt
Friday Favorite: More of What Jane Saw
Two years ago, Sir Joshua Reynolds’ portrait exhibition was one of our Friday Favorites. This year, the good folks at What Jane Saw (brought to you by the University of Texas) are back at it, expanding the virtual art tour to include an exhibit of paintings devoted to Shakespeare’s works.
“You are invited to time travel to two art exhibitions witnessed by Jane Austen: the Sir Joshua Reynolds retrospective in 1813 or the Shakespeare Gallery as it looked in 1796. These two Georgian blockbusters took place, years apart, in the same London exhibition space at 52 Pall Mall (it no longer exists). When Austen visited in 1813, the building housed the British Institution, an organization promoting native artists. On her earlier London visit in 1796, it was the first-ever museum dedicated to William Shakespeare.”
As with the Reynolds exhibit, a menu bar runs across the top of the window allowing you to brows paintings by catalog number or placement withing the building. Clicking on a painting opens up a dialog box with a ton of information about the piece.
Quote of the Week
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
–Helen Keller
http://www.afb.org/info/about-us/helen-keller/biography-and-chronology/biography/1235
Friday Favorite: All The World’s A Page
This week’s favorite involves books in a format complete different from what we’re used to seeing. It’s a project called All The World’s A Page by Blotto Design in Germany. They’ve taken entire books, one at a time, and printed them onto 70 x 100 cm posters. You can read more about the process in this article from Wired, or check out the other books Blotto has transformed here (hint: one of them is Pride and Prejudice).
Cora’s TBR Challenge Check In
It’s the end of our first month, fellow readers–did you start the challenge strong?
I’m struggling already. The big bad migraine monster is chasing me again, so I’m losing some valuable reading time there (more than I’d care to admit, actually). The day job has been unusually busy these past few weeks, too, so I haven’t been reading at my desk as I thought I might.
I am going to get back to audio books at work, though, which went well before. I can play the book right from my computer while I go about my daily tasks, and pause it when I need to talk to someone. I only need to make sure I actually get my work done, and don’t sink too far into the book 🙂
Regency Word Wednesday
Pyrotechnicks
“The act of employing fire to use or pleasure; the act of fireworks.”
Quote of the Week
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
–William Shakespeare
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 