Books about religious exploration somehow fascinate me, so much so that I went ahead to request Leap of Faith from the public library’s repository. Older books that are out of print or for which there are only a copy left are usually pulled from the shelves and kept at the repository. Library users who wish to borrow these books need to pay a small fee to reserve them, so that they can pick them up from their nearest library. I must say, I’m glad I specifically requested this book.
Retrospect #20: May 18th
This week I remembered the difference between semi-sweet and non-sweetened chocolate when baking. I meant to bake brownies for my sister because she asked me to bake a batch. Generally, I reduce the sugar content for all the recipes I use. Now, the recipe that I referred to didn’t state non-sweetened chocolate. Smart as I was, I still went ahead to reduce the sugar content by half. I ended up with something that is much more akin to very dark chocolate squares. Thankfully I poured chocolate chips into the batter, so my non-brownies still ended up balanced. Nonetheless, I think the recipe I ended up with is not for anyone who has a cocoa content threshold level below 75%.
BEING SLOANE JACOBS by Lauren Morrill
I don’t think any book that is so steeped in sports can get any more charming than Being Sloane Jacobs! After I closed that book,I was just sitting there with a silly grin on my face. No kidding. I wanted to hug the book to sleep. It was that adorable. And yet I totally got into the sports parts. They were realistic, they were intense, and all the dynamics between team mates and competitors were so on point, I recognised a lot of the situations both Sloane Emily and Sloane Devon found themselves in.
Relating to the ‘I’: Readers and First-Person Narratives
First-person narrative allows readers to become the characters as it encourages readers to directly experience the thoughts and emotions of the chain characters. This is why first-person present tense is such a popular point of view in YA fiction. It offers a sense of immediacy because it seems to present an authentic voice for the characters.
My Love for Floorball
Ana @ Read Me Away launched her new feature last week, Bloggers Beyond Books, for which she interviews fellow book bloggers to find out about our interests beyond books and blogging. I had the pleasure of being one of her interview subjects, and am very excited to share about my love for floorball.
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