Book lovers tag πŸ““πŸ“”πŸ“•πŸ“—πŸ“˜πŸ“™

I have been tagged by the blogger MusicGirl19 to do this Book Lover’s tag. Thank you for thinking of me! I do love books, and reading, so was definitely up for this one!

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Do you have a specific place for reading?

I could read anywhere, in bed, on the sofa, on a lounger in the garden, by the pool… the one place I cannot read is in a car or coach. I get a really bad headache! Trains and planes are fine though!

Bookmarks or random pieces of paper?

I do love a good bookmark, but I have been known to fold corners. But at the moment I am reading via my Kindle, so a bookmark is a bit defunct!

Can you just stop anywhere or must it be at the end of the chapter?

I definitely prefer to stop at the end of a chapter, but if I have to, I try to find a natural break… unless I am tired and I fall asleep mid page!

Do you eat or drink while reading?

Yes, I do, but not all the time, I’d be huge then! I can even cook and read at the same time!

Music or TV while reading?

I prefer silence to be honest! Its too distracting. T, I start watching, and Music, I will end up singing along!

One book at a time or several?

One definitely! I have to give one book my full attention!

Do you prefer to read at home or elsewhere?

I love to read, curled up on the sofa or in bed to be honest, but would happily read anywhere!

Read out loudly or silently?

Silently, most definitely!

Do you read ahead or skip pages?

No, I don’t, or not any more! I used to be cheeky and check the ending, but not anymore!

Breaking the spine or keeping it like new?

I like to break the spine, itg shows me the book has been read and loved!

Do you write in your books?

I don’t annotate. That is something I was happy to leave behind, after studying! But I do like to write my name in the front of some books!

I won’t nominate anyone specific, but I do urge you to have a go at the tag if you are a book lover too, just for the fun of it!

Link back to me so I can read your answers!

Happy reading!

One Liner Wednesday

I don’t usually take part in this prompt but felt inspired to do so after the Manchester attack this week.

“Don’t allow the actions of a few to colour your viewΒ of the whole world.” – Ritu

 

For Linda G Hill’s #OneLinerWednesday challenge.

β€˜Skin’ – FFF43

Matt has a corker of a song for us this week as our #FFF (Flash Fiction Foray) prompt this week!

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Skin by Rag’N’Bone Man.

And here’s my take!

You.
The almost perfect one.
The one that got away.
We never got past that initial stage, before our future crumbled before my very eyes.
I can still remember the feel of your touch upon my skin, as you brushed past me.
My eyes followed you, as you strode purposefully ahead, my heart and mind conjuring up images of our β€˜happily ever after’.
Then, as quickly as I had imagined our future, you destroyed it. Crushed it.
With that one kiss.
Not on my lips.
But on the mouth of another man…
Why do I always choose the wrong blokes?!

Thoughts For Manchester

What news to wake to this morning.

at least 22 dead, including children, and 59 injured (so far) after an explosion outside the Manchester Arena last night, following the Ariana Grande concert. And there are still someΒ classed as ‘missing’…

Apparently a bomb like bang was heard on one side of the arena and then a swarm of concert-goers from that side descended on the other side in terror.

There were many children at the venue too, going to watch their favourite singer. How horrific to have to go through this… I’m just glad this happened outside the venue… imagine the carnage had it been inside.

The singer is also shocked, and devastated that something like this happened at her concert. She is ‘broken’.

It has been classed as a suspected terrorist attack.

Thanks to the emergency services who swarmed to the site on duty and worked selflessly through the night to safe keep the rest of the city.

I thanked goodness that I was not aware of anyone who was there, but my thoughts went to my friend who had been to an Ariana Grande concert a few nights previously with her two daughters… What must she be feeling…?

I wondered… do I mention this to the children? They are 9 and 11 and may be too young to be exposed to all this, but then I know they are aware of all the other horrific attacks that have happened over the last year or two. That’s the joy of the internet, and gossip.

My Lil ManΒ is at secondary school so the older children would definitely know, so we watched the news unfolding this morning.

My Lil PrincessΒ is an Ariana Grande fan, and will always sit and watch her songs, and look for information about her. It was inevitable that she would find something out. Better I explained the tragedy to her than her finding out alone, because I knew what her reaction would be.

Tears.

First thoughts from her was “Is she [Ariana Grande] ok?” Β and since then she has been asking me “Why?”

Isn’t that the question on the lips of everyone?

Why all this senseless killing? Not just from last night, but all these terrorist atrocities? No God wants you to kill innocents. That is no God indeed, if He is asking you to kill the life He created…

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of all concerned.

Two Hearts – #RomanticTuesday

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Two hearts yet one beat
Connecting us forever
For eternity

We face everything
Floating through life hand in hand
Kindred souls entwined

Electric touches
IgnitingΒ untamed passion
Like a naked flame

Ritu 2017

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