Showing posts with label Shannon Duffy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shannon Duffy. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Entangled Blog Tour: Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman and Awakening by Shannon Duffy

Hi everyone! Today, I'm very excited to be able to participate in The Entangled Blog Tour! I had the opportunity to ask the two authors one question so here's my little Q&A with Danielle and Shannon!!

In Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance, Lola does some healing in a rehab facility and in Awakening, Desiree finds rest in the Dreamscape - Is there a place like that for you too? Where do you think, is a universal place for someone to find peace and quiet?

Danielle Younge-UllmanIf I can get to a quiet lake, that does it for me. My parents have a cottage on a small lake in Muskoka and just the sight of the lake soothes me. Even thinking about it soothes me! And when I’m there, I find I can get quiet inside—like the Quiet Place they’re always telling Lola about in rehab!

As much as I want to believe chocolate is the solution for everything, I think the real universal healer/calmer is nature. It could be a lake, the ocean, a forest…whatever helps you disconnect from our every day insanity. There are studies about how nature sounds like birds chirping can calm the nervous system, so it’s scientific as well as anecdotal.
 
I want to say, also, that you don’t have to be an official “nature person”—ie someone who camps and canoes and hikes, et cetera, to benefit from nature. I am a city girl and a homebody, and admittedly wimpy about bugs and not keen on seeing too much wildlife up close. (Not excited to see a bear, in other words.) Sometimes I have to push my self to get outside and just breathe the air, but once I do it’s so worth it.
 
Shannon DuffyThere’s definitely that place for me and it’s the beach. I spend a lot of time in Florida, and on most days, I walk the beach. I love the sounds of nature, the soft rolling waves, and the sandpipers and other wild life frolicking on the sand while the  sun warms my skin. It’s so peaceful and it’s really my happy place where I can just be.

I think for each person it can be different though. Everyone finds their own solitude or happy place in their own way and that’s cool. It’s what makes us unique. I will say that I definitely wish I had a Dreamscape machine. I have trouble falling asleep a lot, so it would be sooo awesome to be gently lulled to sleep with the promise of only pleasant dreams.

Those sound like perfect places to relax and just read! Thank you Danielle and Shannon for answering my question today~ Continue on to read my reviews :D
 

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Stacking the Shelves #43


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Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews that lets us share what we've added to our shelves.



I'm participating in a blog tour and received this book for review. Thank you Raincoast Books! I've started and so far it's pretty interesting :)

Awakening by Shannon Duffy
Awakening by Shannon Duffy

I got a box of goodies from a friend and this was in it~ Thanks so much <3 Ripple's sleepy evil eyes may be because I woke him up from his nap for this picture hee~ #sorrynotsorry
Anything Could Happen by Will Walton
Anything Could Happen by Will Walton

What did you guys add to your shelves this week?