Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for June 4, 2021

June 4, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June (would have started today, but Rafflecopter is currently not allowing us to get the code): giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: image, bar, express, redeem, privilege

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for June 2, 2021

June 2, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for June will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

NOTE: Last month’s winners were Astilbe, Shari Elder and Wendi Zwaduk — please email us at lasreviews@gmail.com and let us know whether you’d prefer an Amazon GC or a 3 month cover ad at the site. Thank you!

Today’s topic is: My favorite book and how I’d cast it for a movie

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1. Tanith Davenport  5. Shari Elder  
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3. Patrick Prescott  7. M | RAIN CITY READS  
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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes from Persuasion

June 1, 2021 By 29 Comments

Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday!  This week is a Freebie week.  Last week’s topic was on quotes, and I’m still in the mood to find good quotes.  A while back I did a post on quotes from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and so this week I decided to pick quotes from Persuasion.  I really need to make time for a re-read of it.  Enjoy!

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

“The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.”

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Yellow Roses in Clear Glass Vase on Brown Wooden Table

“Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge – that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’
‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.”

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”

Which of these is your favorite?  Have you read Persuasion?
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May Book of the Month Poll Winner ~ Numbers Game by Desiree Holt and Liz Crowe

May 31, 2021 By 1 Comment


Numbers Game by Desiree Holt and Liz Crowe
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary, Erotic Romance
Rating: 5 stars
Reviewed by Larkspur

Voted BoM by LASR Readers 2013 copy

Former professional football player and coach Duncan “Hatch” Hatcher fumbled his career and marriage. Now divorced and ready to tackle his future, he has an opportunity to redeem himself as coach of his college alma mater’s football team. But how can he turn the team’s losing streak around and keep the secret of his downfall buried when the school agrees to a documentary that will allow a lovely journalist to dig her way into his past…and into his heart?

Olivia Grant’s ex-husband almost wrecked her journalism career while he definitely did a number on her self-esteem. The documentary on Duncan Hatcher is the perfect way to rebuild both. As a freshman in college, she’d had a crush on the senior football hero, but he hadn’t known she existed. She never expects the sparks that fly between them as they work on the project nor the struggles they must face if they both want to win.

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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for May 28, 2021

May 28, 2021 By Leave a Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June: giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway starting this week at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: resource, food, extinct, address, tumor

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for May 26, 2021

May 26, 2021 By 2 Comments

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

Starting today! Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for May will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

Today’s topic is: My fantasy vacation

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3. Judy Thomas  10. M | RAIN CITY READS  
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5. Aymee  12. J. Lynn Rowan  
6. Megan Slayer  13. Colletta's Kitchen Sink  
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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes about Dogs

May 25, 2021 By 34 Comments

Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday!  This week’s topic is quotes fitting a particular theme.  I absolutely love dogs, so I decided to browse Goodreads in search of quotes about dogs.  Let’s get to the list!

“Happiness is a warm puppy” -Charles M. Schulz

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” -Josh Billings

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.  For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.” –Charles M. Schulz

“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.” –Martin Luther

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” –Dean Koontz

This is my dog Cannoli when she was a puppy.

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” –Roger Caras

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” –Dean Koontz

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”- Orhan Pamuk

“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.” –Samuel Butler

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” –Agnes Sligh Turnbull

What do you think?  Which quote do you like the most?

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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for May 21, 2021

May 21, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June: giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway starting this week at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: publish, loss, dragon, result, pest

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for May 19, 2021

May 19, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

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Today’s topic is: Recent Topics I’ve Googled

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2. Patrick Prescott  8. Aymee  
3. Marianne Arkins  9. Michael Mock  
4. Lydia Schoch  10. Megan Slayer  
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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June: giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway starting this week at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: ban, cane, angle, firm, mind

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