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I believe we’ve had this topic before, but I’m purposefully not looking up my old post about it. Let’s see how I answer it this time without that influence.
(I promise the baby goats in today’s photo are relevant to the post 😂).
1. Disabled and/or chronically ill heroes whose diagnosis is not the main storyline.
2. Failure. (For example, how characters deal with not getting what they want but maybe ending up with something even better instead).
3. Rabbits. You all know how much I love rabbits!
4. Antarctica. I can think of so few books set there, but with global temperatures rising I wonder if humans will eventually start living there year-round.
5. Fitness and exercise. So many heroes and heroines are described as being in great shape, especially in the thriller genre, but the plot often glosses over how much work it takes to grow and maintain those strong muscles.
6. Sick days. Whether it’s food poisoning, the common cold, or something much more serious, characters in books almost never have a few days spent in bed feeling icky. I find that odd.
7. Socially awkward characters. I wish we had more examples of protagonists who maybe don’t always make a great first impression but who are wonderful folks once you get to know them.
8. Funny things that pets do (but the pets do not die in the book).
9. Genuinely kind and good people from every walk of life. (Can you tell I’ve been reading too many scary stories lately?)
10. Slice of life fiction. I need low-stakes conflicts. Show me what happens when Henry runs out of coffee beans but doesn’t live close to a coffee house or when Agnes forgets to shut the back gate and the goats all escape. That’s the sort of trouble I want to read about.
As usual, I’m focusing on the positive for this week’s prompt. Here are ten books from various genres that have fantastic plot twists.
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March and April are a muddy, rainy time here in Southern Ontario. The dry, sunny scenes filled with colourful flowers that you see in the media or in stock photos do happen here, but not until May and June after the ground has firmed up and the plants have actually had a chance to, you know, grow.
This week’s list was much easier to come up with than the prompt from last month that asked us to list characters we want to meet.
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The meals I make are filling and made from common and generally inexpensive ingredients. That is to say, I’m no Martha Stewart or Megan Sussex, but I do like experimenting in the kitchen.
Here are some of the books I started reading in the last month or two but did not finish. I’m including my reasons for not finishing them in today’s post because of how subjective these things can be.