tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70733721827125895372024-03-04T22:36:43.953-06:00Etcetorize ReadsEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-60989135308697180692016-12-27T08:26:00.001-06:002016-12-27T08:26:59.005-06:00I'm still Reading!I'm not blogging, but I'm still reading!
If you're interested in more book reviews just join me over at Goodreads. You'll find me there as Etcetorize.
Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-19896498071376044832016-10-28T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-28T07:30:10.165-06:00The Witch's DaughterPart historical romance, part modern fantasy...
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads.com): In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-85243877849368154642016-10-27T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-27T07:30:44.237-06:00The Witches of East EndThe book that inspired the TV show...
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via melissa-delacruz.com): It's the beginning of summer in North Hampton, and beautiful Frey Beauchamp is celebrating her engagement to wealthy Bran Gardiner, the heir to Fair Have and Gardiners Island. But Freya is drawn to Bran's gorgeous but unreliable brother Killian, and sparks fly when the Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-40782622780967972392016-10-21T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-21T07:30:03.645-06:00The Witchcraft MysteriesMore occult fun from Juliet Blackwell!
Summary (via Goodreads.com): Lily Ivory is not your average witch. Her spell-casting powers tend to draw mischievous spirits while keeping normal humans at a distance. But now her vintage clothing store could give her a chance to make friends in San Francisco....
Lily hopes for a normal life when she opens Aunt Cora's Closet. With her magical knackEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-90761864454758379262016-10-20T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-20T07:30:11.811-06:00If Walls Could TalkAnother fun, cute, and mildly spooky book for October~
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (Via Goodreads.com): Melanie Turner has made quite a name for herself remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now her reputation may be on the line.
At her newest project, a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel is visited by the ghost of a colleague who recently met a Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-40027802721649725352016-10-17T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-17T07:30:01.422-06:00Simple Bag
This post originally appeared on my crafting blog, Etcetorize, back in 2014. If you're short on time and want a fun and easy book bag or treat sack, then this is a great tutorial for you!
Do you have some little goblins that you have to take out Trick or Treating soon? Here's a fast and easy project to help you gather their goodies~
Here's what you need to make your own Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-48095369626666884782016-10-14T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-14T07:30:14.843-06:00Magic Potion MysteriesIf you enjoy reading about cute witches who are on the side of the good, have loads of interesting characters in their lives, and manage to solve a crime or two along the way, then you'll enjoy this wonderful (albeit short) series of books from Heather Blake.
Book Depository has all three books, with no shipping fees!
These books were my first foray into this genre, which I didn't even Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-20882688269223128992016-10-13T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-13T07:30:33.329-06:00The Diviner's Tale
Don't forget...it's Spooky Books Month here at EtcetorizeReads!
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads): Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning in upstate New York, having been hired by a developer to dowse the land, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body hasEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-9493030883064332282016-10-10T08:00:00.000-06:002016-10-10T08:00:29.576-06:00Happy ThanksgivingIt's Thanksgiving in Canada!!
Have a great day!
Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-21862614403894067412016-10-07T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-07T07:30:12.987-06:00Brownies and BroomsticksWhile this book isn't exactly spooky or scary, a good witch book can make the lead up to Halloween fun too!
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads.com): Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah's quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-85756142852339252142016-10-06T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-06T07:30:03.707-06:00The Historian
Let's kick off Spooky Book Month with a really spooky book!
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via TheSwanThieves.com): the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-84313715596339487712016-10-04T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-04T07:30:15.652-06:00Spooky Book Month!
Do you like Spooky Books?!?!
All month long I'll share reviews on all the books I've read that feature vampires, witches, spells, and more!
Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-38484290704064382692016-10-03T07:30:00.000-06:002016-10-03T07:30:14.106-06:00Spooky BookbagOctober is here and that means two things.... fall is most definitely here and Halloween isn't too far away!
This week's crafty project is for the sewer's out there. I've had this great 'halloweeny' fabric sitting in my stash for way too long, so I thought I better put it to use before my niece and nephew head into their teen years and are suddenly too old for such fun fabric.
I'm Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-20143019379613369752016-10-02T09:15:00.001-06:002016-10-02T09:15:42.446-06:00Happy FallEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-17404588358249356742016-09-30T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-30T07:30:16.477-06:00At The Water's EdgeI didn't think I was going to like this book...but I LOVED it! And I think you willtoo!
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads): After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son’sEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-2991267757650240902016-09-29T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-29T07:30:01.525-06:00TBT: The Signature of All ThingsI just started reading Elizabeth Gilbert's latest book,Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit her last fictional novel while I'm at it~
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary from Goodreads.com: In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-22116941352814866492016-09-27T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-27T07:30:17.199-06:00Read Anything Book ClubHere we go, we're going to try one more time to see if anyone shows up for the Read Anything Book Club Meeting! Don't be shy, share your latest favourite book that you've read so we can read it too!
Just link up your latest favourite read~
Don't be a wallflower...join the party!
<!-- start LinkyTools script -->
<!-- end LinkyTools script -->
Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-16136928658659102612016-09-25T11:26:00.002-06:002016-09-25T11:26:55.193-06:00I'd Rather Go BarefootEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-57394686786099405902016-09-23T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-23T07:30:14.469-06:00The Lost Art of MixingThe delicious follow up to The School of Essential Ingredients...
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads.com): Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There’s Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers and ritual; Chloe, a budding chef who hasn’t learned to trust after heartbreak; Finnegan, quiet and steady as a tree, who can Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-13372582784922788542016-09-22T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-22T07:30:17.775-06:00Parlor GamesTravel back 100 years and see what life as a single woman was like~
Book Depository
Summary (from Goodreads.com): A sweeping historical novel based on the true story of a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective. The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-54301078134587144142016-09-21T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-21T07:30:27.838-06:00Imagination LibraryLast week I put on my cowboy boots and took a VERY special trip down south so that I could see one of my main musical idols and inspirations....DOLLY PARTON!!!
We had amazing seats but at first my camera had a hard time navigating all the sequins and rhinestones~
She sang all my favourites plus a few new songs from her new Album "Pure and Simple", which already sound like classics~
Her Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-6346172785233309062016-09-20T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-20T07:30:19.403-06:00Read Anything Book Club
Time for our next Book Club Meeting! Don't be shy, share your latest favourite book that you've read so we can read it too!
Just link up your latest favourite read~
Don't be a wallflower...join the party!
<!-- start LinkyTools script -->
<!-- end LinkyTools script -->
Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-50733562289162165802016-09-19T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-19T07:30:46.558-06:00Bookmarks to ColourI didn't have any time for crafting this week (I'm going to tell you why on Wednesday!), so I'll just share some links to places you can find FREE Bookmarks to colour. Make sure to go directly to the sites listed to download the files at the best quality.
Visit kurld.com for pages and pages of more bookmarks to download and colour~
You can find lots of fun free Autumn bookmarks at Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-64411603251094583382016-09-16T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-16T07:30:09.000-06:00The Scarlet ContessaYesterday I told you about a Rebel Queen who lived in India...now learn about the warrior queen from Italy!
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via Goodreads): Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took Etcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073372182712589537.post-91614636721852876012016-09-15T07:30:00.000-06:002016-09-15T07:30:31.983-06:00Rebel QueenFrom the internationally bestselling author of "Nefertiti "and "Cleopatra's Daughter" comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi - India's Joan of Arc - who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom.
Amazon
| Book Depository
Summary (via michellemoran.com): When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth centuryEtcetorizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12340556321412795388noreply@blogger.com0