Daily Archives: January 8, 2016

A really good mystery and police procedural novel

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Iiiireader

The Girls She Left Behind: A Novel (Lizzie Snow)

By: Sarah Graves

Rating: 5 of 5

girlssheleftbehindI was able to dive right into the action of “The Girls She Left Behind” without having read the first book in the series. I enjoyed the book well enough that I will certainly go back and read the first novel as it will undoubtedly fill in a lot of the background information on the characters. While that would be nice to have read, it wasn’t necessary for the action of the mystery in this book.

Lizzie Snow is a big city cop who has moved to a small town in Maine in hopes of finding her young niece, who was abducted years before in the same crime that left her motherless. There is a continued element in this story where Lizzie has her hopes raised and dashed or fears raised and relieved with regards to her niece.

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Fun and Easy to Color Animal Designs printed on one side of non-perforated thin white paper

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Iiiireader

Adult Coloring Books: Animals – Stress Relief Coloring Book

By: Adult Coloring Book World

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a cute book of animal designs which have been hand-selected by the publishers (which means that they have licensed the images from the artists) from around the world. This gives us a variety of styles and designs within one book instead of having to purchase multiple books. Most of the designs in the book are full body but a few (such as the cover) are head shots. The designs are mostly fairly simple to color but have enough detail to make coloring them fun. For the price, it is a great book to pick up if you are an animal lover and you like to finish your designs quickly.

All of the designs stop well before the binding. The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so.

All of my markers bleed through and my gel pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don’t ruin the following page with leaking ink.

While I could wish for thicker, perforated paper, it appears that this is the quality that comes from CreateSpace (which is an Amazon company.) What I really like about the CreateSpace is it is a way that independent artists can get their work self-published. That way, I get a huge choice of design styles albeit with not the best paper.

These are the coloring medium that I use for testing. If there is something else you feel I should be testing, please let me know and I will see if I can add it to my growing pile:

Markers: 1) alcohol-based Copic Sketch, Prismacolor double ended markers (brush and fine point), Sharpies (fine and ultra-fine) and 2) water-based Tombows dual end markers (brush and fine point), Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, and Pentel markers

Gel Pens: Sakura, Fiskars, Uni-ball Signo 0.38/0.28 and Tekwriter

Coloring Pencils: Prismacolor Premier Soft Core, Derwent Colorsoft, Prismacolor Verithins, and Faber-Castel Polychromos

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