July 2017 Specials

-

This is an announcement to all of the readers of this blog. Because it is summer, and I have finished school, I have decided to provide my readers with an extra article each week through the month of July. Most of these articles will be shorter than the typical articles I post every Monday, and I will also be drifting from the weekly schedule I have been following. Come back to my blog every Thursday in July for a special post!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

About Me: An Imprint

-
Image
  Allo (That was an allusion to Hercule Poirot), readers! My name is Chinalyi, and welcome to my blog! I love history, geography, literature, writing, and crime fiction novels so that is what I will be posting about. I live in Southern California and have two siblings. I have a brother and an adorable two-year old sister, but no pets (I'm working on that). I am homeschooled and I just began a long, tiresome 11th grade year. My favorite subjects are history, geography, and literature. I love history since I believe that learning about the past helps me make better decisions in the future. I have always found it fascinating to memorize locations on a map, and then learn about each countries’ cultures. I probably received my desire to travel from my study of geography. Literature class is always appealing to an avid reader. I was introduced to both of my favorite book series in Literature class. Speaking of literature, I would highly recommend The Tod Moran Mystery Series by H
Read more

The Middle East ~ Part 2

-
Image
Histories and Mysteries looks different (again). The tan brown was really bugging me so I decided to go with gray, black, and white. The fonts are also different because there was  some difficulties with the title of the blog on the mobile site. And you may or may not have noticed that I added a "Today in History" feature on the sidebar of my blog. I will probably only change it on the weekdays because I am apt to forget to change it on the weekends. I also condensed the labels for my posts because I had a lot of those before. I hope you like the new design.  The geographical map of the Middle East  Today's article continues our study of geography. There are quite a few countries in the Middle East. I am going to do a short overview of the geography of the Middle East for this article, and next month I will post about the country of Israel. I did post a geography/history article over the Middle East, but that was more centered on modern history.  But firs
Read more

Central Texas: A Writing Vacation

-
Image
  Welcome back to my blog. Today's article is about my writing/school/regular vacation to Texas. My family took a trip to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas to visit relatives in early fall. This was a school vacation because I still had to spend time on vacation to write my essay and read my homework for the U.S. History college class I was taking. The vacation put a lot less stress on my schedule because I had a good amount of time on my hands to write my first college essay. It was terrifying at first, but I did well on it so that was a relief. This trip was also a writing vacation because Texas is a crucial part of research for a novel I have been writing. I needed two different areas of the country to use as a setting for my novel, and I chose Los Angeles and Dallas. Before this trip, I had only been in Texas for the first year of my existence so I didn’t know what the area looked like at all. I also tend to assume that every large city equals LA, and I was obviously w
Read more