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The Friday 56 (With Instagram 56 & Book Beginnings)

Welcome to week 413! RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . I'm still on this one. It's 703 pages and I'm almost halfway through. Having 3 jobs really gets in the way of reading sometimes..... I'm posting early due to work, but the IG56 will be added after work tonight. Here is my snippet from page 296 on my kindle, about 42%... View this post on Instagram A second week with book 5 from The Throne of Glass series for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jan 31, 2019 at 7:29pm PST Book Beginnings leave your links in the comme

January Monthly News

Welcome to the January 2019 edition of the monthly news! Happy New Year to you all!! I hope it is off to a great start! It seems like I watched more than I read, but I am on my fifth book of the year. It just happens to be 700 pages, and with 3 jobs it's tough to get done. Wow, all the snow we got the last couple weeks of January. Boy oh boy, it made up for the lack of in December. And the cold too.... brrr! What about where you are? Are you experiencing a weird winter too? BOOKS: Chasing Mona Lisa by Tricia Goyer & Mike Yorkey 365 Days of Happiness: Inspirational Quotes To Live By Dirty Daddy by Bob Saget Elevation by Stephen King (recommend) MOVIES: Succession Season 1 (recommend) Halloween 2018 (recommend) Night School   First Man (recommend) Sharp Objects (recommend) YEARLY TOTAL: 4 Books, 5 Movies & 0 Products BOOK OF THE MONTH: BOOK OF THE YEAR: BLOGGER /MONEY-MAKING RESOURCES:   1.   SwagBucks 

Sharp Objects Season One

AVAILABLE NOW! Not Rated  2 Discs AMAZON US    |    AMAZON CA    |    AMAZON UK Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful 13 year old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story - and survive this homecoming. REVIEW: I did not read the book. Frankly, I'm glad, since the subject matter probably would've had me throwing the book across the room. It took me a bit to get into while watching the episodes. It was probably the four

The Friday 56 (With Instagram 56 & Book Beginnings)

Welcome to week 412! RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . Here is my snippet from page 56 on my kindle... View this post on Instagram This week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 is book 5 in the Throne of Glass series. A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jan 24, 2019 at 5:54pm PST Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. How many books did you read last year? Will your goal be to match that numbe

First Man #Movie & #Giveaway

AVAILABLE NOW! RATED PG 141 minutes AMAZON US A Biopic on the life of the legendary American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, on his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. Exploring the sacrifices and costs on the Nation and Neil himself, during one of the most dangerous missions in the history of space travel. Starring Ryan Gosling. REVIEW: A superbly made movie!! Seriously, the scenes were pretty phenomenal. It made for some pretty intense moments along the way. The space scenes were incredible. I loved how much real footage they used as well. I thought I knew a lot about the moon landing of '69, though it was 8 years before my time. Even thought I knew a far amount about Neil Armstrong, but after watching this film, I realize I knew nothing at all. Had no idea he was up in the atmosphere so many times before the famous landing, but alas, he was. It really was a wonderful depiction of such an iconic event. I also didn

Elevation by Stephen King (4)

Kindle:  6928 KB Print:  160 pages Publisher:  Scribner (Oct. 30 2018) ASIN:  B07CMKXZ2J AMAZON US    |    AMAZON CA    |    AMAZON UK Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face–including his own—he tries to help. Unlikely a

Night School #Movie (#Win Too!!)

AVAILABLE NOW! RATED PG 117 minutes AMAZON US In 2001, high school student Teddy Walker drops out of school when he finds himself unable to concentrate during a crucial test. Years later, in 2018, he works as a barbecue grill salesman while dating a wealthy woman named Lisa, having developed a careful financial strategy that allows him to maintain the illusion that he is better off than he actually is. However, his life falls apart just as he learns that he is going to inherit control of the store when the current manager retires. As he proposes to Lisa in the shop, Teddy accidentally triggers an explosion when a champagne cork pops open a gas tank, with the manager taking the insurance from the explosion and running away. Starring Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish. REVIEW: A pretty cute movie! The hubby and I watched it together and at the end we both thought it was cute. Yup, that was literally the word we used to describe it. It had a few really fun

The Friday 56 (With Instagram 56 & Book Beginnings)

Welcome to week 411! RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . Here is my snippet from page 56 on my kindle... View this post on Instagram Master storyteller Stephen King for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jan 17, 2019 at 7:15pm PST Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. Is there anything that drives you bonkers when you're reading a book and makes you