Life of a Random

Aaaaand we're back with the February section of the Book Blogger Organization Challenge  hosted by Brittany at The Book Addicts Guide . I need organization in my life and my blog ( lots of it ), so I'm loving how this challenge gives me specific goals without strict deadlines hanging above my head. You can click here to read my January post . :) You might remember the objectives I challenged myself with in January, some of which I did and...some that I wasn't able to do. It is now time for a whole new set of challenges. *dramatic jazz hands* This month's focus: Blog Maintenance This month's Twitter hashtag: #BlogOrganization my goals tbr On another note, I'm still looking for people to guest post for Life of a Random sooo if you're interested don't be shy. :)

The great year of 2014 is winding down...and this of course calls for a recap of my favorite books of 2014, through the awesome Top Ten Tuesday linkup courtesy of The Broke and the Bookish . :) It was hard but not as hard as I thought it would be. Drum roll please. :) These are not in any particular order. 1. Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen Honestly, this book had me turning pages SO fast and my emotions didn't know what to do. Even though the premise of trolls and the way the author dealt with story building was fantastic, I think the book's strongest point was in the characters. I was so invested! They were written like all amazing  characters (at least to me), very complexly. 2. Hex Hall trilogy + School Spirits   by Rachel Hawkins         No, I'm not cheating by listing four books for one slot. Nope. ;) The thing is, though, that the whole Hex Hall trilogy and School Spirits (not shown here) are so amazing that I c...

Since I'm planning on coming back in full force on my blog soon (YOU CANNOT STOP ME), Cait's tag celebrating her new blog website Paper Fury  is a perfect post. But before I start talking all about my blog, go check out Cait's! Seriously. She's awesome.  RULES: Grab the set of ten questions, answer them, and use Cait's button or link back to paperfury.com. You can also add your post to her linky if you want. :) 'Bout This Blogger I feel like I've used this before but I can't contain my swag, guys. 1. Why did you start  blogging? Because I wanted to have a way to express my feelings, I guess, of just whatever. At first, I used my blog to just talk about my life or different things I had opinions on. Just the idea that people were seeing my posts, even if it was just 5 views, was an awesome feeling. Especially since they weren't family members ;) 2. What’s the story behind your blog’s name? The story behind my blog's name...

The image below was placed there because I like it. It's pretty. Also, the quote is a necessity, I think, in any relationship. source @freegreatimages.com I'm so sorry that I have been very absent from the blog, but college is proving to be very challenging. I've got something due every week it feels like and when I have free time I'd usually rather spend it wasting my time listening to kpop or watching funny vlogs. Which, of course, is very un-bloggerly of me but...eh, what can you do. But this week I have come with a Sunday Swoons post! Sadly, Briana can't join in since she has no wi-fi. I think we need to send her kind thoughts and tons of virtual gifts to make up for that, don't you? No wi-fi. *shudders* Therefore, I shall be surging forward to host Sunday Swoons today. If you'd link up, it would make me and Briana very happy! (Or at least B will be when she finds out ;)) (You can find a more complete set of rules here .) Our topic...

(More detailed rules can be found here .) This Week's Topic: Romantic Writings | Talk about couples that you have created in your books, stories, and worlds. That's basically the only requirement so have fun with it. :) Romance in My Writing I have never written a complete book, and honestly, I haven't gone too far in writing relationships yet either. So this will just be me rambling about the kinds of couples I tend to write and maybe snippets of what I have written for my couples.  source @ Pinterest I'm a big fan of "one and only" couples so that's usually what I write. I don't want to write stories about people who are only together for a short period of time. I want people to believe in true love and loyalty (since that's such a hard concept to grasp in all these current novels) and that it lasts . Not all guys are players, not all girls are flirts.  source @ Pinterest Before anything else, I want my couples to b...

This week we're discussing diversity in couples. As always, GO CHECK OUT BRIANA'S POST. Oh, sorry, *smiles sweetly* didn't mean to scare you. Please go (That was better, right?). For a more detailed list of rules, you can go here . Diversity in Couples This is a very relevant topic, that hasn't been dealt with enough. According to me. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this post because I'm already two days late (bad, Skylar) but it's definitely something that is very important, maybe even more so to me since my mom and dad are different races and, when they met, they had different religious beliefs too.  But for now I'm going to focus more on the "race" part. Mostly I'll be focusing on it as it relates to America, but if you have comments and input on it whether you're from America or not feel free to. :)  This is SO important. America is a nation of diversity, with many different kinds of people. Why isn't ...

Heyyy. This is a double post since Briana was awesome and was chill with me taking a weekend off because of me being overwhelmed with school (I'm a freshmen in college if you didn't know). Originally, I was just going to skip last week's topic. However  I thought about it and decided that I would have time to write a little bit about it and  today's topic. It's late, but I say better late than never. Last week's topic was Couples on Covers . Briana and I thought this would be a good topic because there is no arguing that there is tons  of disagreement over couple-y covers, on whether we like them or not, or if we like one type over another. It's such a relevant topic. So have fun with it! I can't wait to see what you do with the topic. :) For a specific list of rules, you can visit my Sunday Swoons page. But the basics are-- please give credit to me for the link-up picture, link back to us either through me or Briana, and have fun. :) Also...

Sunday  Swoons  is a weekly  feature  hosted by Briana  @Reader, Writer, Critic  and myself where we discuss all things romantical in fiction whether it's our favorite couples or quirkiest pick-up lines. We've both been busy which explains the lateness of this post. Oops. I hope you like reading our posts. Briana was the mastermind behind this topic :) Link up and have fun with us! Rules: 1.  You're welcome (and, in  fact , encouraged ;)) to use my/our button in your post, just please cite me as the source. 2.  You can post in whatever style you would like:  list,  discussion ,  etc. as long as what you are talking about goes with the topic for the week. 3.  You either must follow the topic given OR you can do a post on the opposite of the topic we give. (Example: Our topic-- Top 5 Favorite Couples, Your topic-- Top 5 Least Favorite Couples.) 4.  Your posts don't have to have anything to do with books you are rea...

Sunday Swoons  is a weekly  feature  hosted by Briana  @Reader, Writer, Critic  and myself where we discuss all things romantical in fiction whether it's our favorite couples or quirkiest pick-up lines. This week's topic is brain child of both Briana and I. I really think it has room for a lot of different topics and I can't wait to see what you come up with. :) As always, don't forget to check out Briana's post.  Rules: 1.  You're welcome (and, in fact, encouraged ;)) to use my/our button in your post, just please cite me as the source. 2.  You can post in whatever style you would like:  list, discussion,  etc. as long as what you are talking about goes with the topic for the week. 3.  You either must follow the topic given OR you can do a post on the opposite of the topic we give. (Example: Our topic-- Top 5 Favorite Couples, Your topic-- Top 5 Least Favorite Couples.) 4.  Your posts don't have to have anything to d...

source: Briana  @Reader, Writer, Critic Figments Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Briana @Reader, Writer, Critic  where we share our writing and anything related--like snippets from our WIPs, character interviews, or even conversations between a character from one story and a character from another story.  Today I'm sharing another snippet from the story that I'm mainly working on now. Maybe sometime in the future I'll do an interview or something like that. :) My hand burns where it touches Keelin's. And I see flashes of images, fast as the speed of light, hurtling, zipping, careening through my mind. They are so intense--so strong--that the air itself seems to be resisting the attempts I make to breathe it in.  And worst of all. The very worst of all is the emotion that rolls so strongly through my body that I feel like vomiting up my breakfast.  I yank my hand back and give Keelin a forced small smile. "You'll be fine, sweets....