Sunday 27 September 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#80)




Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. Astronauts aboard the ISS change clothes near a filter that sucks up the skin particles that would otherwise float around.

2.  A single LEGO brick can take 432 kg (950 lbs) of pressure before it cracks.

3.  On August 10, 2015, NASA astronauts ate food that had been grown in space for the first time.

4.  The world record for most claps in one minute is 1,020.

5. A group of barracudas is called a battery.

Friday 21 August 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#79)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1.  Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.

2.  A cat's tail contains nearly 10% of all the bones in its body.

3.  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

4.  A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

5.  A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.


Source: Bootstrike

Friday 14 August 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#78)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1.  Most oysters can live up to 20 years in captivity. 

2.  The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.

3.  Oysters have three-chambered hearts that pump colorless blood throughout their bodies.

4.  A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

5.  Butterflies taste with their feet.

Friday 7 August 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#77)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. The whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of film.

2. Snakes don't have eyelids.

3. Spiders, lobsters and snails have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin which contains copper.

4. There are more than 1,200 water parks in North America.

5. The highest wave ever surfed reached a height of 24.3m (80ft).

Saturday 1 August 2015

August Giveaway: Get organised with a Notebook [INT Ends: 31/8/15]





It's the start of the month which means it's time to kick start a new (international) giveaway! Since you guys liked the notebook giveaway so much last time, this month I'll be giving away another in case you missed out last time and still want an opportunity to get organized. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then enter below.


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Friday 31 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#76)




Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists.

2. Each day, up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth.

3. An average adult's skin spans 21 square feet (2 m2) and weighs 9 pounds (4 kg).

4. A grizzly bear has to eat almost 20,000 calories a day.

5.  The scientific name of the llama is "lama glama."

Friday 24 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#75)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. 2% of people have armpits that never smell because of an unusual genetic variant.

2. Hippos produce red sweat which acts as a sunscreen against UV rays.

3. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of water.

4. A baby spider is called a spiderling.

5. Slugs have 4 noses.

Friday 17 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#74)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. Dogs wag their tails to the right when they're happy and to the left when they're frightened.

2.  90% of all meteorites ever found have come from Antarctica.

3.  A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

4.  The Marshall Islands won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees.

5.  The U.S. has more Spanish speakers than Spain.

Friday 10 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#73)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1. The word "volcano" originally comes from the name of the Roman god of fire, Vulcan.

2. The Emperor Penguin is able to dive to depths of over 500m and stay under water for up to 27 minutes.

3. Snakes can open their mouth up to 150 degrees.

4. The distinctive smell of Crayola crayons comes from beef fat.

5. In their first year of life, baby blue whales gain 200 pounds (91 kg) every day.

Friday 3 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#72)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:


1.  Beans increase flatulence because they carry a type of sugar called "oligosaccharides", which are hard for bacteria to break down, so they release gas in the process.

2.  Birds "see" the earth's magnetic field as spots in their normal vision.

3.  The animal in the Firefox logo isn't a Fox. It's a Red Panda.

4.  The offspring of a donkey and a zebra is called a "zonkey."

5.  Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.

Wednesday 1 July 2015

July Giveaway: Get organised with a Notebook [INT Ends: 31/7/15]





Congratulations to Kim Neville who was the winner of our last giveaway. It's the start of the month which means it's time to kick start a new (international) giveaway! Since you guys liked the notebook giveaway so much last time, this month I'll be giving away another in case you missed out last time and still want an opportunity to get organized. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then enter below.

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Goodluck! 

Friday 26 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#71)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:

1. Men sweat up to twice as much as women.

2. Fetuses don't develop fingerprints until 3 months' gestation.

3. Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh a whopping 354 pounds on Jupiter.

4.  IKEA consumes 1% of the Earth's wood supply every year.

5.  A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.

Friday 19 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#70)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 

This week’s five facts: 

1. At the center of every raindrop is an impurity such as dust, clay or soot. It is almost impossible for raindrops to form from pure water.

2. The opah, or "moonfish", is the only known fully warm-blooded fish.

3. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

4.  A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

5.  Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Friday 12 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#69)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. This week’s five facts:


1. 1 in 10,000 people have their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.

2.  Crying makes you feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.

3.  The Harry Potter series were the most banned books of the century in the U.S.

4.  There's a Cereal Cafe in London where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world.

5.  A knork is a combination of a knife and a fork.

Friday 5 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#68)




Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. This week’s five facts:


1.  New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.

2. Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.

3.  Cats can swallow and digest their food without chewing it.

4.  A group of zebras is called a "dazzle".

5. It would take a snail nearly 4,575 years to circle Earth .




Wednesday 3 June 2015

Guest Post: The Thing About Social Media



Okay. We all know what social media is. We use it for school, for wasting time, and other nonsensical shenanigans, right? Today, I’m gonna be talking about my experiences with social media, as well as my advice regarding this broad topic.

Social Media enables everyone to connect with others through different networks with different platforms. Some makes use of only 140 characters to share stuff, others use pictures and text and friend requests. It’s hard to define Social Media as something constant—since it changes with every update, like, share, or reblog.

It’s pretty safe to say that Social Media is useful to us. We use it everyday! May it be for academic purposes, for research, or just for reminiscing past friends, Social Media offers a way to do all of those.  In fact, I myself have reconnected with my classmates since we were in Kindergarten. I’ve seen their change from the awkward, nose-picking children I knew, into the great people they are now. I’ve contacted my classmates from Grade 1, who were now staying in the United States.

Social Media can revive those past connections, and even establish new ones. Making new friends is now easy. Just click a button, and wait. Then you can start talking about your mutual interests, and that relationship soon blooms into an online friendship that will last for some time. Of course, that’s not always the case. Some people become “friends” on Facebook or anywhere else, without actually wanting to talk to each other even virtually.

The speed it takes for someone’s update to appear on your feed is astounding. That’s why it’s easy to spread news on Social Media. Many people with troubled cases involving missing friends/family, or persons requiring donations use this in order to inform the mass of what’s happening. And it works. Here in the Philippines, the authorities help those in need as fast as the post appears on their timeline.

Of course, the world we live in is a big two-sided blade. There may be limitless boundaries on the good things Social Media can do, but there are also numerous adversities that it can inflict to us.
Perhaps the greatest of these, for me, is privacy. Sometimes, Social Media can be a pain in the arse when it comes to your personal space. When you forget that your post wasn’t on “private”, or when you post something on the wrong site, the results might be disastrous to you. When you put it out there, it’s OUT there. It can be shared and reposted to other sites. It’s as if Social Media takes ownership of whatever you posted as its property, and you can never take it back.

I’ve experienced this, actually. Enter 7th Grader me, clueless of how to use Social Media. On the first year of highschool (7th Grade is considered first year), I really, really disliked the seniors. They were rash, naughty—generally not nice. So I did something careless. I logged on to Facebook, typed “The seniors are good-for-nothings”, and clicked post. That was the biggest mistake in my life, but I don’t regret it. I voiced out my opinion, and they reacted like children. They swarmed outside our classroom, and when I came out, they hugged me. I know, isn’t hugging a nice thing? In that instance, no. I felt every bit of humiliation they’d intended. Of course, we were counseled, and everything went back to normal, but I’ll never forget that glorious passive-protest that I’d done.

The only rational advice I can give to everyone out there is to be responsible. Think before you post. And I mean it. Think of how you phrase your words thrice. Choose your friends, your followers, et cetera. If you want to be undercover, use incognito. It won’t hurt. All there is to it so to be responsible of your actions, keeping in mind what would happen after you do what you wanted. That’s all.

Be good.

Author - Raffy Perez

Monday 1 June 2015

June Giveaway: Get organised with a Notebook [INT Ends: 30/6/15]






It's the start of the month which means it's time to kick start a new (international) giveaway! Since you guys liked the notebook giveaway so much last time, this month I'll be giving away another journal in case you missed out last time and still want an opportunity to get organized. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then enter below.


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Goodluck! 

Saturday 30 May 2015

Guest Review: For The Love of Ash by Taylor Lavati



 

Title: For The Love of Ash
Author: Taylor Lavati
Published: March 9, 2015
ARC provided by author in exchange for honest review.



Synopsis:

Maggie Larken is a reformed party girl. After her parent’s death, she’s left to raise Asher, her nine-year-old brother.

Luke Wilson has done everything his parents have ever asked of him. A new teacher, Luke constantly questions where his life is headed.

When Luke and Maggie meet, neither is in the market for a relationship. But sometimes life has other plans. Both navigate new waters as they try to decide where their priorities should lie, while also seizing what they want.

In this heartbreakingly real tale of love, Maggie and Luke discover what being a family truly means.



What I Thought:



For The Love of Ash was an amazing read, from the characters to the real life plot twists. There was a lot to follow, but it was easy to follow. The scenes in the book were described so well that I thought I was there experiencing what was happening with the characters.

Maggie amazes me. She gives up her life to take care of her brother after their parents died. She not only is his sister, but becomes a mother to her brother. She takes care of him and puts his needs before her own. She doubts her parenting abilities but shows she can handle everything life throws at her.

Luke cares for his siblings when he returns home from college to protect his younger siblings from their abusive father. There is some child abuse, but we don't see it happening, we see the child after the fact.

Luke and Maggie are much alike in more ways than one. They are both caring for their younger siblings and being a parental figure in their lives.

For the Love of Ash is a book I highly recommend. It's a page turner and an easy read. It's a single book so you can jump right in and enjoy it. I enjoyed the entire book and wished it didn't have to end. Everything was so real and interesting. I couldn't put the book down and I doubt you will be able to as well.

Review by Katlynn from Kat's Reading Corner

Friday 29 May 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#67)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. This week’s five facts:

1. The Amazon River once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west.

2.  Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.

3.  The Amazon River discharges 5 times as much water as any other river on the planet.

4.  Cat kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate by drinking seawater.

5.  There's a restaurant built into a grotto in Italy.

Tuesday 26 May 2015

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Monday 25 May 2015

Cover Reveal: Wild Blue Yonder by Megan Tayte



Synopsis:

IN A WARPED HEAVEN, SHE MUST CHOOSE HER FATE: OBEDIENCE OR REBELLION

When Scarlett Blake chose life-after-death as a Cerulean, she expected to grieve for all she left behind: her boyfriend, her best friend, her mother, her home. But at least Cerulea, her heaven, would be… well, heavenly. Right?

Wrong.

The world in which Scarlett awakens is very far from her idea of a utopia. Picturesque, sure, and serene. But there can be no paradise within the unforgiving walls of a prison, be they of cold, hard stone or beautifully blue water.

Now Scarlett faces her hardest decision yet: be a good, dutiful Cerulean, or be true to herself and fight for freedom.

And if she can find a way to escape, what then? Can she finally reunite with her lost sister? Can she save Sienna from the murderous Fallen? Can she evade her destiny with the Ceruleans?

Can Scarlett Blake ever reclaim her life-before-death… or must she let go of all she loves?




Author Bio:

Once upon a time a little girl told her grandmother that when she grew up she wanted to be a writer. Or a lollipop lady. Or a fairy princess fireman. 'Write, Megan,' her grandmother advised. So that's what she did. Thirty-odd years later, Megan writes the kinds of books she loves to read: young-adult paranormal romance fiction. Young adult, because it's the time of life that most embodies freedom and discovery and first love. Paranormal, because she's always believed that there are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. And romance, because she's a misty-eyed dreamer who lives for those 'life is so breathtakingly beautiful' moments. Megan grew up in the Royal County, a hop, skip and a (very long) jump from Windsor Castle, but these days she makes her home in Robin Hood's county, Nottingham. She lives with her husband, a proud Scot who occasionally kicks back in a kilt; her son, a budding artist with the soul of a paleontologist; and her baby daughter, a keen pan-and-spoon drummer who sings in her sleep. When she's not writing, you'll find her walking someplace green, reading by the fire, or creating carnage in the kitchen as she pursues her impossible dream: of baking something edible.

Website link:
http://megantayte.com/



Participating blogs:


Write for the World
A Lick Of Romance
Maureen's Books
Tome Tender
A Thousand Words A Million Books
Palmer's Page Turners
Just A Bookworm
Book Wormie Joss reviews
Bookfever
To Read, or Not To Read
Beth Art From the Heart
Insane About Books
It's All About Books
A Belle's Tales
Lost in a Good Book
The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
The Bibliophile Confessions
Kirstie's Passionate About Reading
Princess of the Light
Tina, The Bookworm