writers – Book Coffee Happy

I find that as I read different books, there are common thoughts that run through my mind. Things that I wish authors would stop doing and things that I wish authors would do more often are always among those thoughts. I present to you a new series I’m calling “I Wish Authors Would Stop Doing This” which will highlight some of these common thoughts. Aaaaand just for fun, a little glimpse into our fun family getaway to Great Wolf Lodge at the end of this post 🙂

If you follow me on Instagram, you saw in my stories that I recently started reading this book.

I don’t have much of an opinion on it yet as I’m not very far into it but I do have one opinion on something that I instantly loved…

SHORT CHAPTERS.

Oh how I love when books have short chapters! I just love flying through short chapters! It holds my interest so much better than long chapters do.

I HATE when I decide to “read just one more chapter”…and find that means I will now be reading 30 more pages. More often that not this means I won’t even begin reading the next chapter and the entire book will therefore take me longer to finish.

I SO wish more books could be written with shorter chapters. I understand that sometimes stories simply won’t allow for it at certain times in the plot…but how wonderful if they could! Break up that scene! Leave the chapter with a cliffhanger that won’t allow the reader NOT to continue reading!

The best example of a book with perfect short chapters (some even just 1 page) is THIS BOOK. There are over 100 chapters in that book…but each is only between 1-3 pages! I literally FLEW through that book because those short chapters held my interest in a way that 30 page chapters simply never could have.

I SO wish authors would STOP writing lengthy chapters!

I personally believe that the perfect length of a chapter ranges somewhere between just a few pages and maybe 10-15ish?

How about you? Do you like it better when books are written in shorter chapters? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

And now I’ll leave you with some pictures of our family getaway last weekend to the Great Wolf Lodge (Gurnee, IL). There were 15 of us total, we all wore matching wolf t-shirts, and we had the best time.

My sister-in-law gave this to me a few months before I got married. It has come with me on every single vacation, overnight stay, getaway, etc. that I have taken over the past 10 years!

My little wolves:

Check out this video…I did the ropes course! It was terrifying.

Have you been to Great Wolf Lodge? We are big fans! This was our 5th visit 🙂

Hope you are having a great Wednesday!

Xo,

Jenny

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As the delicious smell of Twisted Peppermint fills my living room, I have so many book related updates to blog about and share with you!

Last October, I was invited to attend a Midwest Writers Association meeting. The discussion topic was “expressing your passion” and how a writer discovers and applies that passion into his/her writing. It was such a wonderful experience (You can read about that night here). A few weeks ago, I was once again invited to attend one of their meetings as the topic of this particular meeting was blogging and using blogs to promote yourself. I felt so honored to be included and I loved being able to share some of the knowledge that I’ve gained through writing my blog.

The meeting was held at a local independent bookstore. Oh how I just love local independent bookstores!

We met in their beautiful event room and I loved spending the morning in the company of such wonderful authors, bloggers, and writers. Thank you so much for including me, Midwest Writers Association! You can read more about this lovely group of people here.

Do you remember a few months ago when I happily took a few books from our local library book stand at one of our community buildings? My kids and I were there dropping something off last week and of course we spent a long time looking through the current selection.

Unfortunately none of the adult books called to me so I didn’t take any for myself. My kids, however, got some great books!

I told my kids that they were each allowed to choose 1 item. My son chose a frog book and my daughter chose a brand new (factory sealed!) math bingo game. I was DELIGHTED to find the first book in the Little House series for my daughter! Oh how I LOVED this series, I can’t wait for her to read them. I also grabbed The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby for her since it is written by the same author as her current book series obsession: Dogman!

If you follow me onInstagram, you saw that I found this classic at a Little Free Library a few days ago! I happily added this along with the Little House book to the box of classic books I’m collecting for when my daughter is a bit older. Love.

Present for my Niece’s 10th Birthday:

She loved them. 🙂

As for me, I’m currently reading this book:

The release date isn’t until January and I feel extraordinarily lucky that I was able to receive an Advance Reader’s Copy. I absolutely love Mary Kubica. While you are waiting for The Other Mrs. to be released, I strongly recommend reading this one. SO, SO GOOD.

Check out these 2 gorgeous childrens books that have recently been sent to me. I can’t wait to read these with my kids! Full blog reviews (and giveaways!) coming to the blog soon!

And lastly, my daughter was in a play last week (she was awesome and I cried) and here are the flowers I bought for her. They are full of glitter because she’s 7 and there’s not much cooler to a 7 year old than a bouquet of all glitter flowers. #momwin

What are you (or your children) currently reading? Please share in the comments below!

Xo,