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Crossroads of Ravens, a novel by A. Sapkowski (Book review)

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  Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! Today I shall review Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski. I read this novel a few months ago, but only got to reviewing it now. If you follow my blog regularly, you might remember that I reviewed ‘the last Witcher’ book more than once. In fact, I reviewed what I falsely believed to be the last Witcher book twice. Both times I was proven wrong, as a new Witcher book was published. My mistake is understandable, as writers sometimes have a change of heart and continue their series even after announcing the end.  So, Andrzej Sapkowski keeps coming back to his Witcher Universe and publishing more works.  The same thing happened with Ursula K. Le Guin and her Earthsea Cycle . Le Guin decided to  continue the series years after the ‘last Earthsea’ novel was published. As long as a writer is live and willing to write, a new sequel or prequel can appear in the series. That’s actually wonderful and something to be celebrated. ...
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Seascapes on Wood, Travel with My Art #50, #51

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Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! Travel with My Art series continues. Today I'll share two paintings I made on discarded wood panels. I didn't prep them or anything, I just painted seascapes straight onto them. I wondered whether to include these two into my 'Travel with My Art' series because they do not show a particular location, rather they were inspired by island Hvar in general. After some thinking, I decided to make these two mini paintings a part of my series, so here I am writing about them. After all, island Hvar inspired to me to paint on discarded materials, so here we are with another sustainable seascape.  These wood panels were actually leftovers from a bridge construction. I was hiking in Buna (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and when I saw these wood panels, I was annoyed that somebody just left them there because it looked like litter. Well, technically it was litter.  So, I commented how the workers were lazy to just leave discarded materials from wood...
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