Reading & Writing Updates

So there are items on my previous update that have been crossed out and others that haven’t. There’s also NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which I will be doing an article on at the end of November and in which I’m faring miserably!

I haven’t finished Twin Magnolia, sadly. So my current reading list is:

·        Twin Magnolia: A Soul Call by Victoria Popescu (but I have done some decent progress today, hope to finish it tonight & review it tomorrow tops)

·        Blue Into the Rip by Kev Heritage

·        The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (the first instalment in The Merlin Trilogy) is still on hold at page 128.

I have, however, added a couple of new pages to the blog and made some background and font colour changes for those who haven’t visited in a while. I wanted to do something a LOT more interactive but I’m just not that much of an html/code geek. Sorry!

Still on my to-read list:

·        2 Officers by Essam Youssef (I’m dying to start this book!)

·        Ghost Music by Patrick Linder

My attempts at reading Arabic this month have so far failed epically! I guess it will be the December plan.

Anyone participating in NaNoWriMo and would like to contribute or be interviewed for my article, which will be published on this blog and student magazine for Cairo University, can e-mail me at: nadanessinmotion@gmail.com

In Progress/Under Construction

I wasn’t sure what to write about and figured my blog should also act as a reminder for the list of things to be done/books to be read and reviewed.

Currently writing:

·        Review of Shiri by D.S. Taylor (for Author Alliance)

Currently Reading:

·        30 Scary Tales by Rayne Hall (Halloween Review)

·        Entitlement by Mike Worley (Mystery) (for Author Alliance)

·        Twin Magnolia: A Soul Call by Victoria Propescu (for Author Alliance)

For Author Alliance means I will post it here on the blog, two weeks after its publication on the Author Alliance website and will also be tweeting about it from here.

Starting 1^st of November, I will be reading the following:

·        2 Officers by Essam Youssef (Arabic), which I will be reviewing in both Arabic and English.

·        Twin Magnolia – if I haven’t finished it – though hopefully I will by the 30^th of October.

I will be looking forward to some more Arabic reads then and hopefully pick up with studying and revising my previous German levels and reading some short or children’s stories or blog posts.

With all these to-dos, it’s a bit hard to focus on writing much, if at all. So the moment I finish October’s to-read, I’ll be back to writing poetry and stories and taking a closer look at the writing prompts. This week’s #VisDare looks interesting, might try to give it a shot sometime tomorrow. I’m also looking forward to Lillie McFerrin’s weekly word prompt, which will be posted tomorrow.