H.G. Wells Quotes - Top Ten Tuesday

Ten quotes from this month's featured author - H.G. Wells

1. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
   ― H.G. Wells


2. “If we don't end war, war will end us.”
   ― H.G. Wells


3. “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
   ― H.G. Wells


4. “Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”
   ― H.G. Wells


5. “What really matters is what you do with what you have.”
   ― H.G. Wells


6. “I hope, or I could not live.”
   ― H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau


7. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
   ― H.G. Wells The Time Machine


8. “Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
   ― H.G. Wells The Time Machine


9. “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
   ― H.G. Wells


10. “I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.”
    ― H.G. Wells

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Girl From Long Guyland - Pick of the Month Review

The Girl from Long Guyland by Lara Reznik Genres: Mystery, Drama

     This is a story about peer pressure. Laila Levin left for college at the tender age of seventeen. Her first adventure out of the nest allows her to spread her wings and enjoy her freedom. She has always felt a sense of not quite belonging and on the college campus she falls in league with some very hot, but very bad boys. Even twenty-some years later, Laila has a successful career, a loving husband, two grown sons and still finds herself in situations where she is bending to make the popular choice amongst her peers rather than what is in her own best interest.

     The book almost begins in the middle. The plot unfolds through flashbacks of Laila's life during college and what is happening in her present day life. When her old college roommate commits suicide, Laila's past and present collide following the revelation of circumstances in the past that lead to the FBI reopening the missing person's case of one of their old friends. This group of five people are the only ones who know what had happened and made a pact to never discuss it again, not even among themselves. Until somebody does talk, and the entire house of cards falls as each person shifts the blame to another and it is all a matter of he said, she said to figure out who was really to blame.

Harriet Tubman Biography Review

Harriet Tubman - The Moses    of her People by Sarah H. Bradford Genre: Biography, History,    Nonfiction

     Today marks the 100th anniversary since the death of Harriet Tubman. Slave birthdays were not celebrated and as far as she could recollect she was born around 1820-21 and passed away on March 10, 1913. Around the age of 13 she received a serious head injury at the hands of her master. Her skull was partially bashed in and would forever give her the appearance of being slow and stupid as well as having other health complications, but she was far from stupid. Harriet was a calculating, brave, and deeply religious woman. Her cunning helped save the lives of hundreds of slaves during a time when anyone - black or white - could be put to death for harboring or assisting slaves to escape to freedom.

The Island of Doctor Moreau - Featured Author Review

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells Genre: Science Fiction, Classic, Horror

     This story is told in the first person point of view of a man who has been shipwrecked and rescued at sea by a passing ship. It is hard to imagine the inconveniences of such situations back then. Pendrick pretty much is powerless over his future as his circumstances put him at the mercy of wherever the ship is sailing to. To complicate matters, the captain of the boat is a drunkard and becomes spooked, forcing Pendrick to disembark on the secluded island where he is dropping the other passengers and cargo. Pendrick relates to us the horrors of the creatures that he finds residing on that island.

March Monthly Picks

     March is the month of ... hmm, not much that I can relate to literature at any rate. St. Patrick's Day and Easter fall within this month, but those really aren't great holidays as far as book ideas go. So I'm just picking a hodgepodge of different books that look interesting.

Mystery Suspense

Humor

Paranormal Romance

     *These were free ebooks on Amazon when I wrote this post, but as with all books on Amazon their prices fluctuate often so please double check the price before downloading!

As A side note, while trolling through Amazon's Kindle store looking for this week's monthly picks, I happened to notice that The Phantom of Valletta was free. It is a fan-fiction sequel to The Phantom of the Opera that I reviewed back in January. Check out my review and see if it is a book you might enjoy. I know I did.

March Featured Author - H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells Born:   September 21, 1866 Died:   August 13, 1946 Main genre:   Science Fiction

     Born Herbert George Wells in Kent, England and called Bertie by his family, Wells had poor health as a child, in fact his parents were often worried that he wouldn't survive his childhood. At the age of 7 he was bedridden for several months with a broken leg. This started his love affair with the written word as he read several books during this time, even some written by Charles Dickens and Washington Irving. As a teen, he was apprenticed to a draper but didn't care for the profession much. Instead, he continued his education with the aid of a scholarship to the Normal School of Science where he studied physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology.

Flashback Friday - The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Genre: Classic, Historical Fiction

     Some books are worth reading over and over again. Granted, if there was a surprise plot twist, you aren't going to have that feeling of awe during the re-read. However, a lot of times I pick up new details that didn't seem important on the first read but on the second time around facts will click in my head as my excuse for a brain realizes just how this small piece of information fits into the big picture. Somehow it would feel like cheating to review the same book a second time or to just copy and paste my original review into a new post and attempt to make it all new and sparkly again. For those who have just found this site and haven't looked through my archives (seriously does anyone read the complete archive of a blog?) I have decided to periodically highlight certain books that I have reviewed in the past, that just HAVE TO be read, at least once in life, if not more.