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Today's special guest on my blog is Marlene M Bell, Author who shares her top 5 duties when feeding sheep. There's also a spotlight on her children's picture book MIA AND NATTIE: ONE GREAT TEAM! Be sure to enter the GIVEAWAY to win a Nattie plush, Nattie mousepad, a Nattie pendant, and/or a signed copy of the book - three winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/11/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-mia-and.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Nattie’s mouth was a little crooked. Her legs were a bit shorter than usual, and one horn was too straight, like a unicorn’s horn.
But Mia thought Nattie was perfect.

On a visit to her grandma’s farm, eight-year-old Mia discovers a newborn, orphaned lamb outside in the cold and takes her to the laundry room, naming her Nattie. As she tries to nurse the lamb back to health, Mia discovers that Nattie is different from the other lambs and struggles to fit in with them like Mia does with other kids her age.

When her grandmother says she will sell Nattie to a neighbor, Mia must come up with a plan to keep her friend around — one that will show the family just how special Nattie truly is.

Kudos Comment

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Final Destination (2009) in Movies

Oct 22, 2020

Rigorously uncared for - chock full of series-worst dirt acting, bullshit writing, and some of the lamest CGI you'll ever encounter in a studio picture this millennium. All-around just pathetic, has an unshakable sense that this was rushed and indifferently shat out beyond belief... however... it's also only 82 minutes including credits and is quite possibly the most playful one until this point in wringing the tension out of the deaths where - outside of the eyesore opening premonition (two in a row so far for the series) - there isn't even a semi-weak one to speak of. Swift, vicious, full of trashy spills, and has Mykelti Williamson - truthfully this would be a great time if anyone involved actually gave a shit about it and it didn't come out in that 2-3 year period where everyone thought 2004-looking F-tier 3D which no question ranks among one of the worst trends in cinema was the best thing ever. The racist being dragged down the street is not only a top 20 franchise demise, but actually lands more effectively now than it ever did. Fair enough. Glad they followed up this planned series ender ( l m f a o ) with an actual movie, though.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Delirium in Books

Sep 5, 2019

Delirium

Lauren Oliver | 2011 | Children, Dystopia, Romance

7.8

(19 Ratings)

Book Rating

3.5 stars

It took me a while to get into this. If I'm honest, it was the introduction of Alex at around 50/60 pages in that had me getting excited. He was just different to everyone else, he teased Lena and acted like he hadn't been through the "cure".

Going off topic for a minute. Love as a disease and there being a cure for it? I was intrigued and put off by the idea at the same time.

However, seeing Lena being introduced to all these new things was sweet and Alex was probably the best guy for the job.

As for Lena, she annoyed me a little at the start, being so against anything that was new. At that point I liked her best friend Hana more, but seeing how bad it was for people who were different to what was expected, I got her reluctance and felt sorry for everyone living under the controlled conditions.

The ending has left me a little torn over whether to read Pandemonium next or not. I would really like to know what the heck's going to happen but at the same time, I'm not really in a rush to do so. Hmmm...what to do?

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Along Came a Spider (Transplanted Tales, #3) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

The main thing I liked about this story was how the characters were rarely how they were portrayed in their particular rhyme or story, for example, Olivia Snow White running an adult business; whod have thought?? Haha :P

Its brilliant and contains almost all of our favourite characters from Al Addin to Juliet Capulet (she gets mentioned, anyway)

Im just sorry I missed the first two books in the series though they arent really necessary to understand this one, and I presume tell the story of two of the other couples mentioned in this one (Red and Nate and Lavender and Seth). I have to admit the author does a good job of making sure you dont miss out on much that happened in the previous books by retelling it from another characters viewpoint, though it isnt quite the same as reading it as it happened, if you know what I mean. It isnt necessary but it is an advantage to read Red and The Better to See You before this one.

That being said, the author has a great style of writing and I was quickly dragged into the story. Its a mix of action, mystery and romance. What more could you ask for?

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated White Trash Beautiful (White Trash Trilogy, #1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

I really enjoyed this (as you may have gathered by the amount of time its taken me to read it) and couldnt help but urge Cass to leave her abusive boyfriend and to run away with Tucker. A slightly crazy move when shed only known him a few days, but for me, if I can become emotionally involved, then its a good book. And I was so emotionally involved in this.

Tucker was a charmer and I think I seriously fell for him in those first few pages. Then when he sticks up for her, considering he doesnt really know her, when her boyfriend comes in I went all *sigh* swooning.

Cass on the other hand has never believed she was worthy of more than she had and that was kinda hard to read. To believe you being hit and pushed around is all you deserve simply because youre hiding a bit of money away in the hopes of a better life is quite sad and I really felt for her.

But then Tucker appeared and showed her she could have more and again *sigh*

As you may have gathered I quite liked this book and Im looking forward to reading more from Cass and Tucker :)