Highlights Of January 2018

   January started off 2018 perfectly (and can you believe that I DIDN'T have a hard time writing '2018' up there in that title? Maybe I was actually ready for the new year to start xD)! It was a fairly quiet month lifewise, but I wrote a lot of words and watched some fun movies (The Greatest Showman not being one of them, sadly - I WILL GET TO IT.). Want to hear about it? 

Life has been really quiet lately. January was full of school (I've been plowing ahead so that I can start my summer break early, and hopefully get my WIP all written before Realm Makers), hanging out with my family (and laughing way too hard because my sisters are hilarious), and preparing blog-ish things. And pretending that I'm an artist as I doodle in my journal, even though I hardly have an artistic bone in my body xD. But it's been lots of fun! I'm glad January was a bit of a calm month, so that I had plenty of time to do the things that needed doing.<3

Well, since I finished Forgotten, and anything to do with that story is out of my hands until April, I picked up my beloved Killing Snow and started the rewrite that its been so desperately needing. And I wrote 26k words for it this month, so that's a pretty happy number for me ;).

Oh, and I can't forget - the lovely Melaine J. Morgan has been working on character sketches for the contestants of the Rooglewood writing contest, and her sketches are STELLAR, especially since she's doing them in such a short time frame! I adore the sketch she did of my villain from Forgotten, The Adder. Want to see it?

   I love it so much <3. (even if he is the villain xD)

*gasps* THREE books? And two of those were assigned school reading? Is this a record low that I see??

Yes. Yes, it is.

But I do have an excuse! This was a reading slump month, and I reread half or parts of a lot of books ... and couldn't add them to the list because I wasn't reading them to finish them, just to revisit my favorite chapters. So technically, I did read a fair amount, but not so many FULL books xD. 

- On The Edge Of The Dark Sea Of Darkness by Andrew Peterson. This was a reread that I already knew I was going to enjoy, because I adore this series. And I think this is only the second time I've read it, so #shame (even though I only discovered it late last year xD). But I'm giving it four stars again, and I can't wait to go revisit the second book in this series!   

Ooh, what is this? A new section in my Highlights post? Oh yeah.(and it was very last-minute, which is why there is no image for this section like there should be xD)

So I normally don't watch that many movies, but I've been utilizing Netflix lately - and maybe that's why I didn't read as many books this month, haha. Three of the movies were re-watches (Beauty and the Beast, Moana, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), but two of them were new, and I LOVED them both...

- The Jungle Book. Randomly decided to give this one a shot when I saw it on Netflix, and one of my closest friends told me that it was really good - and it didn't disappoint! The characters were awesome, and the animation was EPIC. Bagheera might have been my favorite ... but then, I'm sometimes partial to black panthers. They are cool xD. This movie gets four stars from me!

- The Hunger Games. OOH, LOOKY WHO FINALLY SAW THIS MOVIE. I'm wildly late to the game, but I wanted to wait and watch this one with the rest of my family (...and maybe I was slightly worried about how the book-to-movie adaption would go xD). I have a ton to say about this one - probably could manage to put a whole post together - but, in a nutshell, it was very good and I really enjoyed watching it, but I like the books better. Still, this one gets 4.5 stars from me.    
 

 

- I helped the lovely authoress Rebekah Eddy redesign her blog, and it was a TON of fun, I love helping out people around the blogosphere <3.

- speaking of which - everyone scramble over to a new blog that just popped up in the blogosphere, A True Writer! True's such an epic, friendly person, and I had a lot of fun giving her a hand in setting up her first public blog <3.

- my friend Micaiah Saldana celebrated her first blogoversary at the beginning of the month, so y'all should hop on over there and check her out! (and my friend Mary Horton celebrated her two-year blogoversary, so also check her out! Her new design is gorgeous <3) 

- Nadine Brandes did a very timely post on if we should try to forgot the past, which I really loved.  (and her recap of her time at BeaulitfulCon was also fun to read)

- Sarah of The Introverted Extrovert posted about four different ways to journal the Bible, which was really neat (now I need a new Bible with extra-large margins so that I can art in them xD).

-  Esther of The Pen of a Ready Writer has been doing a blog series that's sort of a countdown to the announcement of the Rooglewood writing contest winners, and it's been fun so far, so if any of you are waiting impatiently for the announcement to happen, you should go check her out ;).

- Burning Youth did some EPIC posts this month (like this one and this one), but my favorite was probably Beloved Child, I loved it <3.

    I can't say much - not without giving away #surprises - but I've got some fun things planned for February, and I can't wait to show y'all! New editions to my ongoing blog series, a cool book review, and some other special posts are all that I shall mention. AND before I end this post - you guys are probably wondering who won the ebook copy of The Tethered World, huh? Well, THE WINNER IS: Kendra Lynne. Congrats, Kendra! If you could comment your email down below (I won't moderate it, so the internet doesn't know what it is;)), that should get to you soon.

   ... and that about wraps this up! I hope y'all had an epic January, and that February is just as awesome <3.

~ Savannah Grace

how was your January? 

what are some book-to-movie adaptions you've seen? 

chat with me, y'all <3