Under Lavender Skies

Hello everyone! Have you been doing lots of reading this month? I have and I thought it would be fun to answer some bookish questions.  I tried my best to write about books that I have read this year but I wasn't able to stick to that for every single question.   1. What is the first book you finished this year?  The first book I finished this year was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  My sister and I were reading this book together, trading off reading it aloud chapter by chapter.  And I did enjoy it but it was harder for me to get through and took a while.  One thing I would say about Jane Austen is not to read two of her books back to back, at least for me, it's just too much.   2. What book did you read from start to finish in one day?  I don't remember if it was last year or the year before but I (almost) read a whole short trilogy in one day.  One Crazy Summer, P.S Be Eleven, and Gone Crazy in Alabama by  Rita Willi...

Hey everyone!  I hope you are all doing splendidly.  This month I am working on the second draft of my book, it's a lot of writing for one month along so almost the entirety of my free time had been going towards writing,  I haven't had much time for anything else.  Let me know if you would like to hear about it!  I adore quotes, some might say I collect them, but I do have several absolute favorites to share with you today.  Every photo paired with these is my own and I use Pics Art to put the quote images together.   #1,  “ So we beat on, boats against the current , borne back ceaselessly into the past.”   #2,  “I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.” #3, "I have been  bent and broken ,  but —I  hope — into a better shape ." #4, "It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world." Thank you for reading!   Did you find any of your favorite quot...

Hey everyone! I wrote this little story (it's only the beginning really) sometime last year. I wanted to play around with writing about different fantastical creatures and this is what I came up with. Do you think I should continue the story? Jasmine Moon The flames flickered before her, the wood burned and crumbled, the metal charred and blackened.  The reflection flickered in her eyes.  She watched, without any exaggeration, as her childhood memories burned.   Just outside of her family's humble treehouse, she was staying at a gentle hover, wings beating so fast it looked as if she was floating above the ground.  She had wished it all to burn so many times before, ‘look at me now,’ she thought.  Her heart beat fast and her eyes blazed with fire and anger. “Look at me now, family,” she said aloud, “family that never really was my family.  It’s my turn to make all the calls.  No one will ever again make me work, destroy everything I love, and s...

Hey friends, this is my 63rd post in a row, that's crazy to me!  Last year I started a series where I planned to write a list of my favorite books from different genres.  I am goin g to pick it up again and share some of my favorite mysteries!    Agatha Christie The queen of mysteries herself.  The surprise, the big reveal, never ceases to amaze me no matter how prepared I am.  I have read:  Murder on the Orient Express Until There Were None  Death on the Nile  and I am halfway through The Murder at the Vicarage  Have you read any of these?  Which was your favorite? I don't think I have one on this list that I liked much better than the others.  I really enjoyed watching the "Murder on the Orient Express" movie after I finished reading it and am excited to watch "Death on the Nile" when it comes out.   The Flavia De Luce series  Flavia de Luce , a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for che...