22 Friday Jan 2016
Tags
book, book review, books, Bridesmaids, chick-lit, drama, fiction, Jane Costello, review, reviews, romance
genre: romance, drama, chick-lit
Four weddings, three disgruntled ex-boyfriends in the congregation, two wayward ‘chicken-fillet’ boob enhancers, and one gorgeous man, it’s tough being a bridesmaid.
Continue reading
04 Thursday Dec 2014
Tags
adult, audio book, book, book review, books, Chad Kultgen, depression, drama, fiction, Men Women and Children, movie, review, reviews, sex, trailer
genre: adult, drama
Instead of a summary from Goodreads, I want to show you the trailer for the movie as that was how I first discovered this book.
Interested in seeing the movie, I decided to buy the book.
Mature content follows.
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Ermisenda
Tags
authors, battle, books, cheap book covers, contemporary, cubiertas de libros gratis, diseño de libros gratis, drama, epic fantasy, ermisendadesign, free book covers, free novel cover, freebies, historical fiction, horse, knight, landscape, marketing, photography, romance, self-publishing, sunset, YA
I have created some more free book covers using my own photography and free stock images from sxc.hu! Sunset Kisses can fit drama, romance, or contemporary fiction. While The Knight’s Circle could fit historical fiction or epic fantasy.
Authors with all budgets deserve to have a winning cover representing their hard work. This is why I have created free and QUALITY book covers to share with all those writers out there. These graphics can be used for their intended purpose, as a book cover, but can also be used to introduce stories on your blogs, etc.
Visit Ermisenda’s official book cover page on Ermiliablog here to see how you can grab one for your own novel.
I also create unique covers for your novel for an affordable fee, my email address is ermisenda@live.com. I can help with any graphic design job; book covers, website/blog banners, magazine covers, etc. Just send me an email or leave a comment below with your question or request.
Because your novel deserves to look its best. ErmisendaDESIGN.
Freebie Table
Name:
Email:
Freebie of choice:
Author Name:
Book Title:
Quote: [keep it short]
Comments: [if any]
Traducción en español: Estos cubiertas de libro son gratis por todo el mundo. Hablo español y entonces me pueden enviar un mensaje a mi correo ermisenda@live.com. Alli me puedes decir cual cubierta te gusta mas, el nombre de tu libro, y tu nombre autor. Tambien hago cubiertas por un precio razonable si quieres algo unico.
– Ermisenda Alvarez
04 Wednesday Sep 2013
Tags
book, book review, books, drama, historical fiction, Kathryn Stockett, review, reviews, The Help
genre: historical fiction
This is my second read; the first time, I thought The Help was nonfiction so I was quite disappointed when the delusion was shattered. I’ve read some other things in between to cleanse the palate and came back to it with a different expectation. Read the full review to find out if the second read was better than the first.
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
08 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Ermisenda
20 Tuesday Nov 2012
Tags
book, book review, books, drama, fiction, Handle with Care, Jodi Picoult, review, reviews
genre: drama
Synopsis from Goodreads
Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby,
just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they’d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of “luckier” parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it’s all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She’s smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.
Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow’s illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?
As an author, I sometimes feel guilty giving bad reviews, but we’re not all going to like each other’s body of work. As such, I feel obligated to go into detail explaining my reason for bad ratings more than good, meaning this is going to be a long one and because I cannot explain my rating without giving away some spoilers, I’m going to post it up front.
If I could give Handle with Care a 0 I would. Since I cannot, I reluctantly give it a 1.
27 Friday Jul 2012
Posted in Ermisenda
Tags
bullying, drama, high school, insult, offensive, play, Shakespeare, writing
Have you ever needed the perfect insult for that arch nemesis? I have found the gold mine of offensive insults! You can thank me later, or now. If only I had this kit of wickedness in high school… Thou shall feareth me, lumpish beef-witted flap-dragon!
Share with us some of your own Shakespearean insults!
– Ermisenda Alvarez
28 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Eliabeth
Tags
Bachelor Pad, Dance Moms, dancing, Downsized, drama, Hulu, reality shows, The Bachelor, TV
I’ve recently discovered Dance Moms on Hulu. I’ve only watched three episodes in the middle of the second season, so I know I don’t have the full story, but I don’t think my position would change even if I did.
If you can’t take the drama, get off reality TV.
There are certain people who are not cut out to be on reality TV. That’s not a bad thing either. There was one contestant on The Bachelor and Bachelor Pad 2 that admitted she wasn’t cut out for the back-stabbing and mind games that many reality shows bring out. I think she was wise to be able to take that away from what others might view as a negative experience.
On the other hand, you have Dance Moms. One of the mothers may or may not be engaged. She was engaged at one point, which she told the camera in private, but then she stopped wearing the ring and refuses to talk to the other mothers about it. Spoilers follow, and not all content is appropriate for younger readers.
Ermilia 