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SEAL TEAM SIX OUTCASTS
by HOWARD E. WASDIN & STEPHEN TEMPLIN

SYNOPSIS:
They are the Outcasts. Because people don’t want to know what they do.
  In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, the President wants to finish the job once and for all and orders the assassinations of the seven men vying for bin Laden’s place. The president doesn’t want any of them left to dominate . . . and that means he has only one choice. But doing what’s needed without political repercussions will take a small team flying under the radar. A team capable of finessing the U.N.’s distinctions on national sovereignty and acts of war. A team like the Outcasts.
  Alex Brandenburg: SEAL Chief Petty Officer and Outcasts Team Leader. Disobeyed direct orders by refusing to let a deadly terrorist live to kill another day. Francisco “Pancho” Rodriguez and John Landry: SEAL Petty Officers First Class. Took the pursuit of justice into their own hands with explosive results. Catherine “Cat” Fares:. Navy Petty Officer. Holds an unbeatable record for pissing off the top brass with her strongly stated opinions on the combat readiness of women.
  The team’s mission: Take out the seven terror merchants vying to take Bin Laden’s place. The team’s status: Expendable.
  As the Outcasts track down first one target, then another, and are hot on the tail of the third, they start to realize that they are closing in on a larger plot at hand and will have to do what SEALs do best to ensure the security of the United States: Break the rules, and get the job done.
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Guest Author Mari McCarthy

Today Robyn, from WOW, is stopping by with an old friend who has visited in the past.  She has a new book out that can help all of us.   So without further ado, please help me in welcoming Mari McCarthy back at the CMash blog!!

ABOUT MARI McCARTHY

When Multiple Sclerosis robbed her right side of strength Mari decided to teach herself to write with her left hand. She gained more than strength, she found herself–buried talents, hidden baggage, and a way to heal herself from the inside out.

 Now a certified Journal Therapist, Mari shares her knowledge and experience with others by teaching them how to find their own strengths and talents and use them to solve problems and achieve goals.

Mari L. McCarthy is The Journaling Therapy Specialist, founder of Create Write Now and Journaling for the Health of It™.  Mari offers guidance, counseling and encouragement to writers through her many journaling eBooks and in private Journaling Jumpstart consultations. Mari’s next Start Journaling and Change Your Life in 7 Days Challenge will be June 4-10 http://www.createwritenow.com/start-journaling-workbook. Please join her!
Vist Mari at her website and blog.

GUEST POST

Offbeat Journaling Practices – Journaling on your daily train commute, or before bedtime, or doing your Morning Pages faithfully are some commonly known journaling habits. Here are some less common ones.

Offbeat Journaling Practices
By Mari L. McCarthy

Though mostly we think of journaling as something we do in quiet, private moments at home, it may be useful to remember it can be a far more mobile habit than that. If conditions at home aren’t always conducive to journal writing, try any of these substitutes.

Take your journal with you and write:

  • During your morning commute
  • At your lunch hour
  • Sitting on a bench, as part of your daily walk in the park
  • Instead of ducking out for an afternoon snack
  • While waiting for appointments
  • In the bathroom, if you tend to sit for a while
  • To get back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night

Where you journal is one thing, why you journal is another. Again, the most common concept of journaling suggests it’s for the purpose of emotional dumping. And while that purpose is extremely useful and good, it alone is far from the only motivation to journal.

Journaling may be done for the purpose of remembering, documenting, guiding projects and challenges, projecting the future, solving problems, and a million more reasons.

You can also journal to record elements of your life. This is where things can get sweetly offbeat, while the returns can be remarkable. For fun, let’s consider a few ideas along these lines.

If you think of journaling as keeping a (usually) daily notation of something, creating a record that you can read over anytime in the future, then you could journal:

  • How you feel while drinking your coffee this morning
  • Today’s weather
  • Comments on your closest relationship
  • What you notice on the way to work
  • What you have for lunch
  • What you want today
  • Today’s achievements
  • Today’s failures
  • Today’s mistakes
  • Today’s humor
  • Something new I learned today
  • The most beautiful thing in your day
  • The song that’s playing in your head
  • How your workout went
  • Something you are grateful for
  • Spiritual musings of the day

Well, as you can see, we could go on forever. Which is the point. Just about anything you care about can be journaled.

I suggest a separate notebook for offbeat journals like these. And note that you’re likely to start off enthusiastically but eventually hit a wall. After many days of eager entries, suddenly one day you do not know how you feel, or you just don’t want to talk about the weather or today’s mistakes or whatever your chosen topic. Remember that this is the precise time to persevere! It is after you go beyond this hump that your discoveries multiply.

I’d love to hear some of your ideas about offbeat journaling, so please drop in a comment!

Mari L. McCarthy, journaling therapy specialist and author, owns Create Write Now, a website dedicated to all things journaling. The site includes hundreds of journaling prompts, personal journaling stories, interviews, a blog, and many other resources. Mari publishes many ebooks and e-workbooks to help journalers accomplish amazing things. She also conducts online Challenges, and you won’t want to miss her upcoming Start Journaling and Change Your Life in 7 Days Challenge, June 4-10.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Journaling, like any writing adventure or exercise program, tends to be cyclical—there are the times when you can’t wait to get-to-it and times when you can’t get started. Mari has the fix! It is her new e-workbook Start Journaling and Change Your Life in 7 Days.

In this workbook Mari addresses the most common roadblocks we come against in our journaling practice, from writer’s block and lack of time to finding motivation and silencing our inner critic. Whether you are new to journaling or need to climb out of a slump these seven days of writing prompts will get you moving in the right direction.

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by MARI McCARTHY

SYNOPSIS:

Journaling, like any writing adventure or exercise program, tends to be cyclical—there are the times when you can’t wait to get-to-it and times when you can’t get started. Mari has the fix! It is her new e-workbook Start Journaling and Change Your Life in 7 Days.

In this workbook Mari addresses the most common roadblocks we come against in our journaling practice, from writer’s block and lack of time to finding motivation and silencing our inner critic. Whether you are new to journaling or need to climb out of a slump these seven days of writing prompts will get you moving in the right direction.
THANKS TO AUTHOR, MARI McCARTHY
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I am not responsible for lost or damaged books that are shipped
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W.W.W. Wednesday

      

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

                                                

What do you think you’ll read next?

      

Teaser Tuesday

    

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Someone had pounded a white cross in the sand that was taller than Jordan was, and the cross was decorated with streaming pink ribbons and there were bouquets of flowers-some of them fresh-leaning against the base of the cross. Jordan wondered if Zoe had seen the cross.

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Monday Memes

      

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

This week’s question: (not up at time of posting.  Will update later today.

My answer:

May is being hosted by Martha’s Bookshelf

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of A girl and her books and is now on tour.

According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”
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Sunday Salon

     

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Hello Sunday Saloners.  Welcome!  How was your week?  My week was a bit busy but I did manage to accomplish a few to-dos on my list.

Reading:  I signed up and participated in the bout of books read-a-thon.  I wasn’t able to get in as much reading I had hoped for but did finish 2 books and started a 3rd.  I don’t know why, but it seems any time I plan on a read-a-thon, RL life has other plans for me.   The 2 books read, and the reviews written, were:

          

The read-a-thon ends tonight so am hoping to get more reading in to reach my goal.  I received several books this week that I am looking forward to reading.   I will share those tomorrow during Mailbox Monday.

Blogging:  As I said, I wrote 2 reviews.  I have to write my reviews as soon as I finish a book while it is fresh in my mind.  One reason, I didn’t spend the time reading was due to being at the computer.  I drafted up posts for future guest author showcases and giveaways.  I like to create these posts way in advance of the scheduled date so I don’t have to scramble at the last minute especially if RL interferes. 

Real Life:  Another reason why I didn’t put the amount of time in that I had planned to was due to the fact that I wasn’t feeling well and am facing some health issues.  So I was either in a doctor’s office, and Murphy’s Law,  I usually wait for quite some time and can get my reading in while waiting for my turn to go in, but the doctors were on time this week or I couldn’t read due to medical tests.  And because I haven’t felt well, when I did sit down to read, I ended up doing this:

How was your week?  Did you read any good books that you want to share?  lol Just what I need and that is to add to my already enormous “hopefully in my lifetime tbr list” lol.

Review “The Lost Years” by May Higgins Clark

The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: April 2012
ISBN-10: 1451668864
ISBN-13: 9781451668865
Pages: 304 pages
Review Copy from:  Simon & Schuster
Edition:  HC
My Rating: 5

Synopsis (from Publisher):
In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.
Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever.
Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in.
Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing?
It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father’s death. Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.

My Thoughts and Opinion:
What can I say about the Queen of Suspense that hasn’t been said? I became of fan when I first read While My Pretty One Sleeps back in 1991. I will be honest, it has been a while since I have read one of her books and after reading this one, I realized why I enjoy her books and that I have some catching up to do. I have always wondered how, and am amazed, a writer weaves an intricate plot with characters that has the reader trying to figure out the “who done it”. Does it start with the ending? Ms. Clark takes you on a wild ride with The Lost Years. A man is murdered for being in possession of a valuable and 2000 year old historical parchment, and his wife, who is suffering from dementia, is charged. But did she really do it? More suspects come to light but the reader will not find out until the last chapters. Was it close friends or maybe even the mistress? The story alternates between characters and had this reader changing her mind as to who the actual killer was with every new chapter. A “can’t put down” book as only Mary Higgins Clark can write. I could not stop turning the pages on this mystery. A thriller that is highly recommended, but be prepared, once you start reading this book, you won’t want to take a break. The suspense is fast paced right to the end!!!!

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No items that I receive
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(2012 Challenges: Challenge Addict, Romantic/Suspense, FreeReads, Where Are You, A-Z, Merely Mystery, 52 in 52, Outdo Yourself, 100+)