I Was Nominated for 2 Liebster Awards!!

Wow!! So not only was I nominated for my first blog award this week, I was nominated for it TWICE! Thank you, Shannah @ Book Reviews by Shannah and Laura @ Crafty Booksheeps! I am so honored that you would choose The Indigo Quill for this award!

The Rules For Accepting This Award:

- Link back the blogger that tagged you.

- Nominate ten others and answer the questions of the one who tagged you.

- Ask ten questions for the bloggers you nominate.

- Let your nominees know of their awards and tag backs. 

Question Set #1 from Shannah @  Book Reviews by Shannah:

1. Who is your favorite author and why?

I always loved Karen Kingsbury and her ability to use her stories to change lives. They are inspirational and she is so real with her writing!

2. What made you want to become a blogger?

I've been a blogger ever since we got dial-up in the 4th grade (Open Diary, anyone?). But I have always had this desire to start a book review blog and finally did it earlier this year, boy am I glad!!

3. What is your favorite book and why?

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. Such a beautiful book!!

4. What would be your ideal vacation spot?

In a cabin buried deep in nature somewhere.

5. If you  had to choose, what would you do: Read or Write?

That's a tough one..probably read. I really love reading!

6. What is your favorite spot to read?

The park. I really love being outside!

7. Which blogger has been your biggest inspiration?

Umm..I was first introduced to this stuff by Sarah @ I'm Loving Books. So I think I'd have to say her.

8. If you could choose any person in the world to spend the day with, who would it be?

J.K. Rowling. I bet it would be absolutely magical.

9. What are your other hobbies (besides reading)?

I spend my time doing music, whether it's Worship Team at my church or practicing for my major. I also like making things. I've been upcycling a lot to decorate our house...I love watching The Junk Gypsies!

10. What inspires you daily?

Knowing that I serve a much bigger purpose than what I simply see in front of me.

Question Set #2 from Laura @ Crafty Booksheeps!

1. Who is your favorite author (s) and why?
Refer back to Q#1 in the first set! ;)

2. What do you enjoy most about blogging and would you recommend it to others?
I enjoy the community of it, and being able to share something I love with others and vise versa. As long as you understand the pure joy of it, then yes I would recommend it.

3. Is there a book you didn’t think you’d like, but you ended up loving it?
 The "Barbie Girl"/"Barbie World" books by Heidi Acosta. Totally exceeded my expectations!!

4. What would be your ideal vacation spot or your dream vacation?
I kind of answered this in the last set but I'll pick a different one..I've always wanted to go stay at the Enchanted Manor on the Isle of Wight that portrays many of Josephine Wall's artwork.

5. How many books are on your TBR shelf?
Oh dear...waaaaay too many!!! Hundreds.

6. What is your favorite spot to read?
Nature. :)

7. Do you have a favorite snack while reading?
 I have this serious thing for chips and homemade salsa. 

8. Which blogger has inspired you the most?
Sarah @ I'm Loving Books

9. What are your other hobbies (besides reading)?
As previously stated, music & crafting!

10. What’s one of your biggest book pet peeves?  
PLOT HOLES. 

My Nominations:

Rainy Day Reads
Go Book Yourself
That Artsy Girl's Book Blog
Music Plus Books
Feed Your Fiction Addiction
The Lonesome Chapter
Books, Biscuits, and Tea
Read. Sleep. Repeat.
Book Hostage
Amused by Books
Desert Rose Reviews
Always YA At Heart

Your Questions:

1. What is your favorite genre and why?

2. How long have you been book blogging?

3. What is the one book you think everyone needs to read? Why?

4. Hardcover, paperback, or eBook?

5. Who has been your blogger-inspiration?

6. Name 3 things you enjoy doing other than reading.

7. If you could own an entire series, which one would it be?

8. Coffee, tea, or something else while reading?

9. What is your favorite movie adaptation of a book?

10. Which book are you looking forward to coming out in the near future?

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Friends of the Library BIGGEST Book Sale Event

My favorite time of year has once again stumbled upon us! All these for $6:

Plus an entire stack of old beat up sheet music that smells like grandma's attic. Mmmm. :) 

How do I do it, you may ask? Well, the Greene County library system does their Biggest Book Sale twice a year where people donate a bunch of books and all proceeds go to keep up all the libraries in the county.

My friend Rachel and I go every time and see what treasures we can score. We went a few months ago and got a few books about $1-$4 each (not to mention she got the WOW 1996 CD which was the best Blast-From-The-Past ever, we listened to it the rest of the night!). They announced as we were getting ready to check out that on Sunday, the last day, if you paid $5 you could fill up an entire bag of books from the Better Books section. If you filled up a bag on the Non-Fiction, Older-books section you only had to pay $1!! So, I filled up one from each side and came back this time in the Spring!

They had some amazing resources...nutrition/health, yoga, Christian Fiction, graphic design, writing/editing/publishing, home made stuff, pregnancy books (I thought would be useful some day), and even sheet music! I got some awesome Music Education resources, including the SATB sheet music of some Bill Gaither and incredibly old school Steven Curtis Chapman. And the EXACT SAME World of Music book I used when I was in Elementary School! 

This time around my homegirl Rachel was visiting our hometown and my mother and step-dad were visiting us, so I dragged mother with me and she actually enjoyed it, too. No good history or biography books this time...or really good fiction either...but we scored some great home improvement and landscaping resources!

I also plundered over to the antique book section, but by then usually all the good stuff is gone. However, sitting by its lonesome self on one of the shelves was an unpublished manuscript of "Dana's Valley" by Janette Oke & Laurel Oke Logan. No one had grabbed this yet? I know it's not the most famous book, but I still felt like I had gold in my hands. So I grabbed that, too.

My last pile of loot from the Fall:

After that, I knew this would be a very beautiful relationship between me and the county libraries for a very long time. ;)

Review: Dreamweave II, Analyzing Psychic Dreams by M. R. Thoreson

Title: Dreamweave II, Analyzing Psychic Dreams

Author: M. R. Thoreson

Publisher: Thor Productions

Publication Date: February 28, 2012

Pages: 279

Genre: Dream Analysis

Source: ARC from Publisher

Rating:

Summary (from Goodreads): Dreamweave is a manual to help the beginning dream journalist understand his dreams and their content. It has a dream symbol glossary with real dream examples for comparison. Dreamweave has dream examples that are focused on relationships, happy and sad, with explanations as to why the dream occurred. There has never been a dream book before that pinpoints dreaming the future, why it is dreamed, and outcomes.

I received this book off Netgalley and it wasn't quite what I expected. It was more a collaborative analysis of other people's dreams, when I expected it to be more of a "dream dictionary" sort of thing. If I had an interest in other people's dreams and situations, then this would be perfect. However, those are entirely irrelevant to me and I was rather looking to decode what components in my own dreams represent. Interesting, but irrelevant to me at the time.


Edit 12/28/18: I would not normally do this, but I feel any future reviewers that may consider working with Ms. Thoreson should be very cautious. When I reviewed this book, it was one of my very first ones. The name I received was from NetGalley...7 years ago. I have never before spoken to this author, but out of nowhere she has begun posting messages on all of my social media claiming I refused to change her name to her initials, namely on Google, after several attempts of trying to contact me (again, I’ve never spoken to this individual in my life) and that I was doing it for attention. After sending her a few messages back telling her I changed what I could, but I have no control over how Google displays her name from that long ago, instead of contacting me back she decided to start posting similar claims on my website and Google+ account. After continuously harassing me, she threatens to report me to the BBB. DO NOT work with this author! She is petty and will harass you with no intent to resolve issues. 

May all your wildest dreams come true,