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Cute Romantic Comedy about two writers

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Iiiireader

Love Literary Style

By: Karin Gillespie

Rating: 5 of 5

I started reading Karin Gillepsie’s novels with her series, The Bottom Dollar. I found myself alternating from tearing up to laughing from the beginning to end of each book and began to actively start searching for her books. While “Love Literary Style” is a stand-along book and has nothing to do with the series, it is every bit as fun and touching as her previous works.

In this book, Laurie Lee, is a fairly recent widow who is a sweetheart of a young woman. She has moved to Atlanta from her small town to attend nail school but her heart is really in writing romantic comedies. After all, she has read so many and watched so many rom-com movies, that it must be a snap. When she wins a scholarship to a writing camp, she knows that she must pursue her talent.

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Fun to Color Illustrations to Roald Dahl’s books printed one side of the page

Posted on December 23, 2016 by iiiireaderadmin

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Colouring-Book Adventure

By: ROALD DAHL

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a fun coloring book based on the works of Roald Dahl. I remember the first time my elementary school teacher read us Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then followed it up with James and the Giant Peach. I think that my love of reading and books stem not only from this wonderful teacher (Mr. Oldham) but also from his reading of these particular books.

After hearing these stories, I started checking Mr. Dahl’s books out of the library and immersed myself in the fantasy world that he created. From there, I moved on to other books. When my children were born, the first books I bought were Mr. Dahl’s collected stories. The same is true when my grandchildren were born.
To find a wonderful coloring book based on these stories is wonderful I’m so pleased to have the opportunity to color them. The illustrations are not the ones from the original books but are interpretations by Lee Teng and Leo Brown.
The designs are all quite detailed and some have intricate and tiny parts to color. Some of the designs have a heavy use of black as a color as well as thick black lines for the illustrations.
This is what I found while coloring in this book and testing my coloring medium on the paper:
45 Designs based on a wide variety of works by Roald Dahl (not including illustrated title, presentation and introduction pages)
Designs are printed on one side of the page. On the reverse side, there is a thumbnail image of the design along with the name of the book/story from which the illustration was derived and a quote as well.
Paper is medium weight, white, ever so slightly rough and non-perforated.
Sewn binding (You can remove several sheets in whole by cutting through the threads.)
Most designs reach into the binding.
I could get the book to lay fairly flat by creasing/breaking the spine heavily
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the paper quickly. I suggest using a blotter page under your working page with this type of medium. I prefer card stock but a few pages of regular paper can work well, too.
Water-based markers leave a colorful shadow on the back of the page.
Gel pens and India ink pens do not bleed through or leave shadows on the back of the page. Gel pens take a much longer time than usual to dry.
Colored pencils worked well with this paper. It had enough light texture to allow good pigment lay down. I was able to get deep colors with multiple coats of the same color and layering with two colors worked well, too. Blending was easy with a pencil style blending stick. I tested both wax and oil based pencils with good results.