Thursday Cinema: La Belle et la bête!

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Hello everyone and welcome on this Christmas day to a new Thursday Cinema post!
What better for Christmas than a fairy tale? And this year, I picked up a French movie just for you: "La belle et la bête" read Beauty and the Beast.

Story: Belle is the youngest of the six children of a rich merchant. When her father's boats disappear at sea, they are left with nothing but the debt of her older brother. Trying to save his family, his father lost himself in the forest. He is rescued by the beast who asks for his life in exchange of a rose he picked up. Belle goes to the castle instead of her father to negotiate. 

My feelings: As I said, it is nice to have a fairy tale for Christmas. This tale gives a lot more details about the way the prince became the beast than the Disney animation. I enjoyed all the details about the landscape and scenery was really well made. The only problem in that movie is that as it doesn't focus all that much on the relationship between Belle and the Beast, it's rather hard to see how the love comes into play. The other thing is that we don't see enough of the little creatures supposed to be her best friend. Except for that it's a nice movie to watch with your family.

Now, don't forget to go grab your Christmas present at the foot of my Smashwords tree. The books are free until December 26th. Go get one, two, or all of them! Here are the codes to use upon checkout:

Demon Soul: KQ52Y

Attic Mirror: CC79S

Demon and Fairy: QF43N

Harajuku Kiss: ZN37Q

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Thursday taster 23: Parallel slip and Special Christmas Giveaway!

 Hello everybody and welcome to a next Thursday Taster! 

Please don't forget to check on the other tasters, you can find the list here. 

This week we continue with our Parallel Slip story, but once you are done reading, I invite you to go check my books on Smashwords and use the coupon code provided at the end of this post to grab them for free. They'll be free for a very limited time, so don't miss them, you can even get the four of them if you want to. 

Merry Christmas! 

I wasn't the crying type, I had never been but I always considered university as my way out, the way out my dad had prepared for me.

"What is happening princess?"

"I blacked out in front of her, she wants to forbid me to go to university, she won't stop yelling," I answered. 

I was waiting for my phone to vibrate, every second taking like ages.

"I'm at the zoo with your brother, I'll be there in 30 minutes. Prepare your bag."

Then:
"Are you sure you won't regret it?"

I looked at the phone. I looked at myself, crying, almost shaking. I remembered the words of the doctor about me being stressed and she was still banging at the door and yelling at me to let her in. I had prepared for that for weeks, since I had sent my application form to university without asking her permission.

"I'm sure dad."

"I'll be right there."

My dad never let me wait. My dad is like a hero. She was the one who pushed him away, going crazy about me. My dad wouldn't get me to the hospital for every fall, he knew that I would wake up and that they wouldn't do anything to me. He was the one who encouraged me to write down what happened to me when I travelled.

When he left, she had a fight for two years to make sure that I would never see him again. She wanted me to be safe and he couldn't keep me safe because he didn't rush me to the brain scan. It was her way, if I was in the hospital, somehow, nobody would blame her. 

When he was finally out of her life, she let the doctor give me some pills. During the first week, she was really happy. The pills made me drowsy, she was the only one happy. I had not a single travel. She thought that she had managed to get rid of it, of my strangeness. But somehow, my body got used to it, and on the second week, it happened all at once. I was blacking out more than ever, I saw the worlds in front of my eyes even before reaching them. 

It was intense, it was wonderful. 

I couldn't even stay awake enough to swallow the pills. I spend the next two weeks at the hospital, that's when my father visited and gave me this phone. I kept it hidden from her at all time, for ten years. It was insane, but I knew better than telling her, it was my only contact with my dad. He and I talked, a lot, so I didn't believe her lies about him and how he abandoned me, because he was right here. She always said that he paid her to keep me and that it was his way to be a parent. 

Come back next week to get the rest of the explanation... 

As a Christmas present, you can get my books for free on Smashwords until December 26th. Now go get one, two, or all of them! Here are the codes to use upon checkout:

Demon Soul: KQ52Y

Attic Mirror: CC79S

Demon and Fairy: QF43N

Harajuku Kiss: ZN37Q 

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It's December!

I know it's December 2 and that the usual "What the hell are you going to do this month?" post is on the first of the month because that would totally make a lot more sense, BUT, the first of the month was a Monday and Mondays are well after Sundays, rather difficult for me to deal with and on the top of that I have the Pullip series of post on that day. 

Also, I didn't have anything planned for today, so I decided to bother you with my to do list. 

By the way, did you manage to read the first sentence of this post without breathing? Just asking, I'm doing a punctuation experiment. 

So this month:

I will. Finish at least one draft. Preferably Fairy World during the NaNoFiMo challenge... yes, another writing challenge, I need it, it's my drug. I type tons of words on my keyboard every day, I'm that insane.

I will. Read at least 19 books to be able to complete my Goodread 2014 challenge (100 books this year) Last year I read 43/50 so failed. This year I'm already at 81 so no way I'm gonna give up. (Ok, I wanted to give up but I changed my mind).

I will. Get a lot of pretty doll outfit done and put some of them in the Etsy store so that you can get them too, and don't tell me that's crazy even if that's crazy but I can do this. 

It's true that said like that, it doesn't sound like much but I would like to finish before Christmas, so that's why I'm keeping it light. ;)

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Space Spoon. My Spank Or Treat entry!

I participated in the Spank or Treat Flash Fiction Contest. Here is my entry, enjoy!

The story prompt is: 
When Tabitha came home, she found a mysterious box without any label or return address. She opened it to find a wooden spoon. What could it mean?

Here was yet another one, left as always on the kitchen table. Tabitha didn't know how they managed to get into her house, but she had long ago stopped asking herself about it and changing locks. She had stopped calling the police too, they thought she was crazy. She sat at the table to open the box with a knife. Her hands trembled, this should be the last piece of it all. She had waited for it for months.

A wooden spoon...

Was it a joke? Tabitha didn't find it funny. It should have been a long metal piece, long enough to... Wait!

She caressed the handle of the wooden spoon. It was narrow enough, with mysterious carvings all along. The symbols were the same.

Of course, she couldn't decipher their meanings, but she had learned to recognize the patterns over the years. Twenty years of putting her pieces together, at first they had come every hour, she had a mountain of boxes in the kitchen when she came back from work. They would wake her up in the middle of the night with their ringing footsteps on the kitchen floor, she had never seen any of them though. Then, it was daily, smaller pieces. She didn't know what to do with all that junk, if she threw it away, it would be back on the kitchen table in the morning. She had tried burning them, smashing them, still the pieces would always be back.

It took her a year to start seeing them as a big puzzle. It was Bill who suggested the idea.

"Oh, you have things delivered for your hobby? What are you building?" He had asked.

But after he touched the first piece, Bill had never been the same again. She had seen his eyes turning yellow and glimmering in the kitchen light and he had jumped on her. The neighbor had to take him away. Tabitha had still the mark of his teeth on her shoulder after all these years. A panic attack, they had called it. Then Bill had attacked her every time he has seen her, at work, in the street, until he was locked at the hospital.

These things were dangerous, so Tabitha had gathered them all in the old barn behind the house. To forget about Bill, she had created the puzzle. Then the pieces had come more slowly, once a week. In the barn, it was taking shape and Tabitha found herself getting excited about it and anxious, until suddenly, nothing. The boxes stopped coming. She patiently waited for...

A wooden spoon!

Tabitha stood up, walked to her bedroom to get her suitcase and directed her steps to the barn, wooden spoon in hand. The machine stood in the middle, large enough for only one person to get in. She pushed it out. It was light on its wheels.

She entered and place the suitcase beneath the seat. She closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. She places the handle of the wooden spoon in the hole. The machine shook awake, trembled, lights appeared all around, blinding Tabitha's eyes. With the noise, she couldn't hear anything either. She clung at the wooden spoon in fear and excitement. The machine left the ground too fast for anyone to see and it disappeared with Tabitha in the late afternoon sky. 

 

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Fright Night Hop

Hello everyone! 

Today is the starting day of the Halloween Madness and what is better than to start with a blog hop and a scary book? 

Blogger all over the web are high lighting there favorite spooky read so here is mine:

 Blood Roses by Chloe Testa

Blurb:

 It began with a rose and the girl nobody else could see.

Her eyes follow Tom wherever he goes. Watching. Waiting. She leaves him gifts of roses and blood. She is constantly surrounding him. Her touch is like fire and ice and her scarlet eyes haunt him. She will hurt him. So...why can't anybody else see her?

Reality turns against Tom as he desperately clings to shreds of his sanity, knowing she's real. Knowing she isn't just in his head. With time slipping away from him, the battle between the unseen girl and the voice of reason is a dangerous one Tom knows he can never win. He has too much to lose.
As the battle commences, he has to overcome the cruel voice clawing at the back of his mind, whispering in agreement with those around him that he is rapidly falling into madness.

Who do you trust when your own mind rebels against you?

Review: 
This book scared the hell out of me and I'm glad I started reading it in broad daylight. Then, I managed to shake myself and finish it in the middle of the night.
It's the kind of book where you definitely need to know what is going to happen next.
I don't generally read horror so I wasn't sure what to expect. But I did enjoy it a lot.
It's logically insane and would totally drive you crazy, or maybe it's just everyone around going crazy, who know.

The entire plot is extremely clever. The characters are likable and you can relate to them to the point that it made me feel insane and frustrated. I mean you can share every single feeling of the main character and that's a really rare thing to feel.

If there ever is a sequel to it, I would love to read it.

Trick or treat? 

I'm not having a giveaway like many of the other bloggers will have, but that's not too sad, this is a treat only Halloween! 

Free reads for reviewers. 

If you are interested in any of my books (See on the left side). Email me at mescrazyexperiences@yahoo.com for a free copy, please leave a review after reading and I'll be eternally grateful. 

Or if you are not a reviewer, you can join me and try to win a free copy at the Halloween Freak Fest at 11am east on the 24th. 

Now don't forget to go check the fun on other blogs!

An InLinkz Link-up

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237/365 Spank Or Treat Ambassador challenge: Frog Carrier

I'm a Spank or Treat Ambassador. Spank or Treat is an author gathering for Halloween with a lot of games and fun. For day 5, the challenge was to find an unusual use of a wooden spoon and to post it on social media and places. I chose the "Frog Carrier". The truth is I didn't have a wooden spoon so I had to go get one for my project and I couldn't find a big wooden spoon in the supermarket or yaku yen shop so I had to go with a small one. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my picture and the pointy hat. 

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207/365 Harajuku Kiss paperback

I ordered Harajuku Kiss paperback from Createspace with my NaNoWriMo winner code and the two volumes finally arrived today. I'm so happy with how they look. They totally worth the wait. Now, all I have to hope for is that I won't find too many typos when reading them back. That makes it 4 on my collection of paperback of my own books, it's so exciting to see my name on them. Now if by any chance you want any of them, you can have a look on amazon.

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Thursday cinema: What dreams may come (Special Robin Williams)

There is so much to say about this great actor and the very tragic death which came so suddenly. He was standing in front of us all and all we could see was his smile for the camera and not what lay behind. 

Today I decided to have a Thursday cinema special Robin Williams and I chose "What dreams may come". It might not be his greatest movie, but it is not either an innocent choice for me to talk about it, as it is in complete contradiction with what happened recently. 

Story: Chris Nielsen doesn't know he is dead. He wonders why nobody is talking to him until he realizes that nothing can be done and he decides to move on. In heaven, he meets his children who also died in a car crash a few years earlier. At the same time, unable to cope, his wife Annie takes her life and she is sent to Hell with amnesia. Chris goes looking for her and choose to stay with her in Hell instead of going back to Heaven. This manages to shake her and they then both ascent to Heaven.

My feelings: I think this story of love is beautiful. The fantasy world is also a wonderful creation. It's deep, poetic and beautiful. This movie really shook me. It's a call to awareness about depression and loss and suicide and the fact that we have no idea what happens to us in the end. But, it shows that no matter where you are at, there is always somewhere, someone who is going to care. There is no way, good people can go to Hell. R.I.P. Robin.

Let me finish with a quote that Zelda Williams used on instagram 

 

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, le petit prince

 

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206/365 Baby snails

Finally, I'm back on track with my challenge. I wanted to make a special post for day 200 but I missed it so here you go. It's maybe not super special, but instead of just one photo, I'm going to put several. I was lucky that it was raining a little bit and so there was a lot of snails outside, especially small, super small baby snails. One part of me wonder how something that small can have so many distinct parts and the other part of me, is like, damn girl you're a physicist working on molecules way smaller than that what are you wondering about. Still, I haven't seen a molecule with retractable antennas just yet.

Anyway, enjoy today's pictures! 

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Cover Reveal: Tangled Roots by Rebekkah Ford

Today we have something special happening on the blog again. I know you were expecting a video of Demon Soul but once again it will  be delayed. Anyway... Here is the cover of Tangled Roots... Personally, I thing Rebekkah's covers are a bit scary.

Blurb:

After eighteen-year-old Carrie Jacobson discovers she was a witch in a previous life, she seeks to reawaken the past part of her soul. With the help of an eccentric enchantress and a boy who is more than he seems, Carrie succeeds and is spellbound by the memories of her life in the 1600s. She reverts to her bewitching, more volatile form and sets out to break a curse she cast long ago. If she succeeds, she’ll unleash a powerful force, the likes of which has not been witnessed in centuries.

Carrie’s boyfriend Jack (A.K.A. Tree) cannot help feeling unease about the changes he sees in the woman he loves. When Carrie’s past clashes with the present and dark magic intoxicates her once again, Tree must take drastic matters into his own hands and attempt to save Carrie from herself. With Tree’s help, will Carrie be able to resist the allure of her new powers? Or will she plunge into the deep end and give into them?

About Rebekkah:

Rebekkah Ford grew up in a family that dealt with the paranormal. Her parents’ Charles and Geri Wilhelm were the directors of the UFO Investigator’s League in Fairfield, Ohio, back in the 1970s. They also investigated ghost hauntings and Bigfoot sightings in addition to UFO’s. Growing up in this type of environment and having the passion for writing is what drove Rebekkah at an early age to write stories dealing with the paranormal. Her fascination with the unknown is what led her to write the Beyond the Eyes trilogy and Tangled Roots. 

Visit her online at http://themusingwriter.blogspot.com and at http://www.Facebook.com/RebekkahFord2012

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The Fire Of The Soul Series Blog Tour

Today we have Racquel Kechagias with us for the last stop of her blog tour about her new release Last Ashes. 

Blurb:

Chaos has descended on the Underworld, as promised. Anna is un-resigned to her fate as Christian's ideal wife. She refuses to be weak and submissive but she knows the power he holds over her; if she denies him, everyone she loves will die. However, when dismembered corpses start appearing on the castle grounds, Anna finds her courage to fight against the evil in the world, starting with the Overlord.

About Racquel:

Racquel Kechagias was born in Sydney, Australia in 1991. She is the oldest of seven children and although they drive her a little mad she loves them to bits. Racquel spent her childhood nose deep in a book, preferring their company to that offered by the outside world. At the age of 8 she had grown past the children’s section of the literary world and began to grow up with company of the greats such as Shelly, Stoker, King, Tolkien and Poe. From that moment she was inspired by the intricate worlds. She longed to share the knowledge and passion that it took those authors to create their worlds and from that moment on her life was transformed. Racquel Kechagias is the author ‘Last Ashes’ the second book in the ‘Fire of the Soul’ series.

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Harajuku Kiss has been featured in the Dreamcatcher!

Harajuku Kiss has been featured in the new Dreamcatcher! 

This really made my day, I was reading my email while waiting at the hospital so it improved things a lot.  I'll be fine by the way, don't worry! I'm to excited not to be fine, you know the mind control the body!

The Dreamcatcher is build by Gem Sivad and presents amazing books from a lot of people around the writers sphere. With long or short excerpt of the books and author profiles. Including authors from Snippet Sunday. You sure don't want to miss the read, there is a lot to be discovered there. And this awesome magazine is completely FREE!

Go have a look at it. ;) And don't hesitate to browse there the previous issues as well.

Dreamcatcher July 2014, Volume 5 Issue 2

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