My Current Reading Selections

I have several library books that I've been renewing and re-checking out since June. So I decided it's time to finish them before they're due.

1st is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Second, Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And third, Dickens A Biography by Fred Kaplan

I have to read about 9 chapters a day to get each of these done by their due date. Do you think I can do it? I'm already behind, so probably not. But what's more fun than giving yourself unrealistic goals and failing to reach them??

Gonna cut this post short cause I'm heading to Raleigh--a real treat after "dinky" Clinton, as the boyfriend calls it. I'm gonna get some Starbucks and feel like a REAL person for a day!!

See ya!

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Two Things

You know how everyone was putting a picture of a giraffe on their Facebook profiles a while back?  Well, I have an even better idea.  Let’s all put a picture of a teapot as our profile pictures in honor of all those how drink tea.  Tea drinkers are highly overlooked (at least in America, with the exception of Boulder, Colorado where Celestial Seasonings teas are bagged).  We need to be more attentive to these people.  Quiet, peaceful, comtemplative people.  They understand the importance of that break in the day called “afternoon tea.”  We can all learn something from this culture of drinking tea.  So, hail to the TEA DRINKERS!  Today I will change my profile pic to a teapot!

The second thing I have to say today is that I finished a novel called Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova and it left me in a rage.  My view of men is quite different than the main character’s opinion of the two main men in the book.  Has anyone else read this book?  Does anyone else share my rage?  I wrote a brief review on Goodreads.  I tried to be nice.  Some say if you are a writer reviewing someone else’s book, you must give a pleasant review (because it’s unkind to say bad things about theirs when you want a good review on your own book).  But it’s not right to lie.  So I just said what I thought but in a nice way.  Because, although it may not be the perfect book for me, there are plenty of people who would give it five stars and those are the people who need to find it.

You can find me on Goodreads here.  I’m curious on your opinion of the book.  I thought it was very poetically written, but the rights and wrongs of the love triangle are a completely different story.  None of this is from a literary standpoint, more from a realistic (and dare I say, moral) standpoint.  The attraction people have to immorality escapes me.  How a woman could be attracted to a man that wants her for her body alone is beyond me.  Does she not know that that kind must have many women and that he will not give up those many women at the drop of a hat (like a certain character did in the book)?  Anyways, if you want to talk more of that nonsense, come read my review and let me know what you thought of the book.

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Exciting News for Freebie Lovers and Impatient People Alike!

My book, Innocence: Mini-book 1 of the Gold Dragon Series, published previously this year on March 10th, is being relaunched via Wattpad, where readers of any age, height or hair length can read it for free!  The first chapter “Home?” will be posted on Friday, September 4, 2015, at exactly 5:00 pm (or as close as possible, barring any Gold Dragon sightings).  One chapter a week will be posted thereafter, only on Fridays.  For those of you who never learned patience, the entire book will be available for sale after Chapter 1 is posted so you can read it in its entirety.  (You smart ones saw that it’s already available for sale, but I advise you to wait because the new, fresh, amazing UPDATED version will be available for sale on September 4th.)  But don’t be too quick to think that you will have your curiosity satisfied with the ending of Innocence.  The ending is only the beginning.

Immediately following Innocence will be book 2, Awakened!  Also posted one chapter at a time on Wattpad, Awakened in its entirety will be for sale after its first chapter has been posted.  

For those who can hold out, you can read each book entirely for free on Wattpad for you...are Stronger Than Rocks!  For those who can sustain the supense for several chapters before caving--you will get the book at a special discount, the Caver price.  And for YOU, you impatient person who cannot wait a moment after reading the last word of the last paragraph to find out what happens next, you get the FULL PRICE!  For you are The Impatient Ones!  (Prices will be announced the week of the launch, right here on Rebecca Yoder’s Blog!  This was the only way I could force you Impatient Ones to wait for something.)

During these two and a half grueling weeks of waiting, I will post pictures that inspired my characters, witty comments (from myself, unless, of course, you care to add a comment below) about life, writing and the books, and any other important crap I deem worthy of your notice to ease your painful waiting.

In the meantime, you can follow me over on Wattpad and read my works in progress going on there. Kingdom of Imagination is a new story updated every Monday, and The Write Man is my submission for the Harlequin Novel Writing Competition. Remember to vote or leave a comment there so I know what you think.

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Thanks for reading!  I’ll see you tomorrow.  I post every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.  Buy!  (Nope, not a misspelling.  A subliminal message to buy my book at the relaunch!  lol)