Z is for Zealous Book Tag #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl

The #AtoZchallenge is coming to a close today.  This was my first year attempting to write 26 posts (from A to Z)  in one month's time.  It's been fun.  I've met so many bloggers and I am proud to call myself a survivor.  

Today I'm doing a coffee book tag.  This is something I saw on youtube.  You basically find books on your bookshelf that represent coffee or caffeinated beverages.

Let's get started!

STARBUCKS: NAME A BOOK YOU SEE EVERYWHERE.

I used to work for Starbucks but that's a story for another day. I also used to work for Caribou so I guess that makes two stories for different two days.  

I keep on seeing "Brain on Fire" by Susannah Cahalan. Whether it's on a Booktube channel or Goodreads or Amazon, etc.

Y is for Yearlong book list #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #amreading

Intimidiating Book Tag is something I came across on Booktube.  It's basically answering questions about your TBR (to be read) pile.  

Let's get started....

1.A book on your TBR pile that you haven't finished

My dad is a die-hard Stephen King. fan  I went out to purchase Under the Dome as my first Stephen King novel, but I found it daunting.  Lots of characters and very rambling plot.  Although the premise seemed intriguing: tells the story of a small Maine town whose residents are suddenly cut off from the rest of the world with a indestructible dome preventing them from escaping.

Sweet Side of Zumba

      
Yesterday, it was Zumba. We danced to I'll be There in Spanish


Here are some great Zumba Hindi songs as well

Swiss and Brit Writer supports Syria and Iraq @Trin Carl #fridayreads @AquilaElba

Vince Rockston pictured (above)

Swiss and Brit writer, Vince Rockston, joins me today to talk about writing.

X is for X-ordinary Words on Books #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl @AuthorMilliGib #fridayreads

Author Milli Gilbert is interviewing today as part of my YA blog tour and also helping me out with my #AtoZchallenge (writing 26 blog posts within 30 days)

Milli's novel in progress Nerdgasm,  is an "adult" romance, and her first novel. It's about a waitress/engineering PhD student, and a video game programmer from London who looks/sounds like a celebrity -- and gets a lot of crap about it. It'll be released on Black friday of this year, in print and ebook.

And onto the interview...

W is for William Shakespeare #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #shakespeare

   "To be, or not to be-that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles," William Shakespeare

V is for Voices #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl @boardingforties

Voices come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the most sought after voices come from vloggers on Youtube who intrigue us with their candor online.

U is for Unleashing Travel Books #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #Tuesdaythoughts @eatpraylove

As part of my #AtoZchallenge and posting anything Writer(ly) I wanted to unveil a list of the best in travel books. It's important as a writer to read books that interest you.

S is for Steinbeck #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #books

"I wonder how many people I looked at all my life and never seen."  
-John Steinbeck (Author of Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, In Dubious Battle, East of Eden, Travels with Charley)

Q is for Quindlen #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl #thursdaythroughts,#fbloggers, #amwriting, #quotes

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."  Ann Quindlen, author of Still with Bread Crumbs

O is for Oates, Joyce Carol Oates #AtoZchallenge via @trincarl

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." Joyce Carol Oates











Readers, if you want to mention any works by Joyce Carol Oates or just Women contemporaries in general please do so in the comments below.