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Confessions Of A Bookaholic – Guilty Pleasures Edition #61 – Sweet Valley High Super Thriller #4 – Deadly Summer

Posted on February 8, 2015 by DMW

I have to say that this Super Thriller was the best one yet! It was the normal Sweet Valley silliness meets a paranoid schizophrenic genius bomb maker (I admit I kept flashing back to episodes of “Criminal Minds” and “24”). This is one Super Thriller you won’t want to miss! 😉

“Deadly Summer” (Super Thriller)

Sweet Valley Scale: 4.5 out of 5 Twins

Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are working as summer interns at The Sweet Valley News when they hear that a patient has escaped from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Elizabeth is assigned to research the man’s past for an article and discovers that the man, Donald Redman, was once a student at Sweet Valley High. She learns that his classmates tormented him and after a disturbing incident with another student, whom Redman was obsessed with, Redman was expelled. He vowed to get revenge for all of his humiliation. Now a fugitive, Redman sees Elizabeth and mistakes her for the beautiful, popular girl who hurt him the most all those years ago. When their paths cross in the deserted high school stadium, Redman knows he finally has his chance to get even once and for all! Can he be stopped before it’s too late?

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Running Low And Behind – This Battery Needs A Jumpstart!

Posted on February 5, 2015 by DMW

I usually have “Thursday” blogs done in advance. Thursday is my most popular day… but today when I tried to write something (and I have a bucket of reserve ideas) nothing clicked. And my motto is not to force something that isn’t coming, because it just means the timing is off. And I know a lot about bad timing. 😐

I don’t know why, I have had a lot of super productive days in 2015, but whether it is a culmination of crap/stuff or I am pushing myself too hard this year (I always want to be challenged) I find myself lagging behind in almost everything. I mean I am getting a lot of work done, but not as fast as I would like. Or I am busy, improving as a writer, doing things to hopefully reach my publication goal, but still all I see is the long-ass road I have yet to travel. And even practical stuff like how many words I write per day, or how many pages I read per day, or exercise… I am falling short of my expectations.

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Posted in Blog, blogging, Life, Personal, Thoughts, Writing | Tagged "less than 100%", "low battery", "not meeting expectations", blah, goals, jumpstart, overwhelmed, productivity, recharge, tired | 2 Comments

My Trivia Semi-Addiction: Just A Little Healthy Competition?

Posted on February 3, 2015 by DMW

I think a little healthy competition is always a good thing. But then again, I’m a competitive person, whether it is competing with someone else, or competing with myself – I am always trying to be the best. I don’t have anything to prove to anyone else, and I’m not looking for validation, but for some reason being competitive is as much a part of who I am, as being stubborn is. And ask anyone, I am incredibly stubborn.

My striving to be the best or do my best surrounds my day-to-day life as much as it does those big moments. I mean, I do grade myself on thirty some goals every day, and then weekly and so on, and I do this not only to keep track of my progress, but also because it pushes me to be better. I reached a goal this week – next week I want to double it. I am always trying to best myself, and I think it’s the key to progress and my own personal growth.

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Confessions Of A Bookaholic – Guilty Pleasures Edition #60 – Sweet Valley High #57 – Teacher Crush

Posted on February 2, 2015 by DMW

This book is like a bad eighties version of the movie “The Crush,” featuring Alicia Silverstone. I mean this girl has got it bad, and goes just a tad over the deep end… You’ll have to read this train wreck to believe it! 😛

“Teacher Crush”

Sweet Valley Scale: 4 out of 5 Twins

Olivia Davidson, the pretty and talented Arts Editor for Sweet Valley High’s student newspaper has always been independent. So it comes as a total surprise to Elizabeth Wakefield when Olivia confides that she is lonely. Everyone that Olivia knows seems to be going out with someone, and she’s ready for a new boyfriend herself. Then Stuart Bachman, a gorgeous local artist, starts teaching a painting course at Sweet Valley High. Olivia takes his class and immediately finds herself madly in love with him. Soon Stuart Bachman is all Olivia thinks or talks about. And it looks as if he may return her feelings. Has Olivia found true love, or is she in over her head, and on her way to some serious heartbreak?

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Confessions Of A Bookaholic – Guilty Pleasures Edition #59 – Sweet Valley High #56 – Lost At Sea

Posted on February 1, 2015 by DMW

One of our favorite twins is marooned on an uncharted island! You can’t miss this – it’s Sweet Valley High meets Gilligan’s Island in a way you won’t be able to forget – no matter how hard you try! 😉

“Lost At Sea”

Sweet Valley Scale: 4.5 out of 5 Twins

On a beautiful, sunny day a group from Sweet Valley High set sail for Anacapa Island, on a special science field trip. Jessica Wakefield is looking forward to a few hours of sunbathing and flirting while her twin sister, Elizabeth, can’t wait to get to the island to study the marine life. Neither of them could have ever imagined the nightmare the trip will become. On the way back from the island, a sudden and violent storm sets in and the group is forced to abandon ship in the middle of a raging sea. Then the lifeboat that is carrying Jessica and Winston Egbert capsizes and they disappear into the fog. Once the storm clears, Jessica’s life preserver turns up, and soon the Coast Guard finds the missing lifeboat, but it’s empty! Will Jessica and Winston ever be found? Alive?

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