A weekly event on my blog where I post about books (not necessarily pre-release or new) that I've just added to my wishlist, along with a little blurb on why I want to read it.
(hosted by Book Chick City & Breaking the Spine)


Inheritance #1:
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
release date: 25 February 2010

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with a pair of cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.

Why it's on my wishlist
The summary didn't really click with me (it seems rather generic fantasy inheritance battle-ish), but from the reviews, the author seems to have created a very unique world of Gods enslaved by humans(!!) I've always loved stories with lore on godly figures and their interactions with the "mortals", so this definitely earns a spot on my wishlist/TBR pile 8D

Argh, two Wishlist Wednesdays in a row. Awful I know, and I apologize, but I'm having dorm-mate issues that has been going on for the good part of a month now. Hoping that will get resolved soon...There's also the fact that I'm obsessively working on my dad's birthday present (coming up in Feb):


It's a cross-stitching project that's been stealing my time for a few weeks now. Only need to finish up the border and work with the water(?) splashes a bit more =)

I'm struggling through some of the books I'm reading because I'm in one of those attention-deficient moods and I start a new book every other day orz
Will try to finish some of the books I've been neglecting in the next week, if school work permits...

This is for the Mini Contest Week 4 at PageTurners. We're supposed to get together some random words/images and make a book cover. The ones the generator gave me were: Bobby C. Robles (fake name), jeer (random verb) and the image below (from flickrcc).


JEER by Bobby C. Robles
I tried to make it...ominous? With the font and all, so the girls being happy in the background are suspended in a moment that they can never return to...or something OTZ
Oh and I added "a novel" because that seems to be some kind of trend? I always find it rather funny for some reason lol

Filler post!

It may seem like I'm slacking off on my NaNoWriMo novel, but in reality I'm working on it! ...the cover that is 8D;
Well, I haven't actually decided the exact cover, but this can serve as a character page too.

progress: 2009.11.20 (click for larger view)

Er, ignore the weird background, it's a temp texture that I'll probably replace later when I draw in the actual forest...
I'm not done adjusting the colours and highlights either, so some of it looks off. This obviously isn't the whole image, I've got a full body shot with the skin and feathers mostly coloured in. Been working on it on and off for about a week now.

progress: 2009.11.27 (click for larger view)

Reworked some of the colours and upped the contrast a lot =D Background still mysteriously missing *cough* You can see a peek of the fire on the edge >D
Gonna try and aim for 20k words for Nano this year...50k is IMPOSSIBLE D8

Ah Yuan, no matter what you say this is going towards my wordcount dammit >P