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Week 2: (Nov. 9 to 13) – Book Pairing (Julz of Julz Reads): This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go […]

Week 1: (Nov. 2 to Nov. 6) – Your Year in Nonfiction (Leann of Shelf Aware): Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year? Do you have a […]

Happy Halloween! I love this most glorious of holidays! I actually got back to reading this month after my massive slump in September. This is almost entirely due to Sariah Wilson who is my new Kindle Unlimited Queen. Who knew […]

I had no idea who Ilia Calderón was when I picked up this book. I saw it recommended on Twitter but some time passed before I got it from the library and I had forgotten why it was recommended. All […]

I’ve recently been reading books in two long-running series that came out after a really long time has passed since the last installment. I’m a big advocate of authors having something at the beginning of each book in a series […]

I ran across something in an ebook the other day that I had never seen before. I was downloading Sariah Wilson’s Royal Design novella and noticed it said something about it being enhanced and having illustrations. I didn’t pay much […]

Everybody is putting out these end of the decade review so I have to join in.  (Can we just take a moment to acknowledge though that it isn’t really then end of the decade just like 2000 wasn’t the beginning […]

August is Women in Translation month!  I wasn’t going to formally do anything for it but found myself picking up some translations at just the right time. The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia “From the day that old Nana […]

The Ones Who Stay and Fight is the opening story in N.K. Jemisin’s How Long ‘Til Black Future Month. I fell hard in love with this story.  It is a response to Ursula La Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away […]

Romance was the genre I read the most of in 2018.  I tend to approach romance like popcorn.  I read a bunch all at once and then I put it aside for a while.  This year I read 47 romance […]

I love reading romance novels.  I mostly like historicals and ones without a whole lot of explicitly-described sex.  But, I have a confession. I can’t remember the characters or a plot of a romance novel I see people on Twitter […]

I started thinking about this when I read the charts of what was selling on Amazon.  I hadn’t heard of most of the books.  I feel like I’m pretty immersed in book world.  Why wasn’t I hearing about any of […]

1 – E-Book or Physical Book? E-books always and forever.  I know some people think this is blasphemy.  It won’t be the only time I’ll probably be taking the unpopular opinion here.  But I hate clutter and face it, stacks […]

I wish I was into the World Cup.  Everyone is so excited on Twitter.  It seems like the Olympics and I like that.  But, I don’t even know where to watch any World Cup games.  I’m such an uncultured American […]

Once upon a time when the internet was young, I loved a blog called Faster Than Kudzu.  It was funny.  It was insightful.  It belonged to Jocelyn Jackson, who is an author.  I would follow along on her blog as […]

  Over on my Twitter feed I’ve been making a list of books I’ve DNFed this year and why.  I’ve realized that I have a whole subcategory of books I don’t finish reading that could be considered “This is a […]

I don’t like reading about rape in fiction.  Recently though I found myself reading a few books almost back to back that had rape story lines.  That got me wondering about the different ways this topic can be covered and […]

Do you use book tour companies?  Should you? After my first few experiences with tour companies, I avoided them for years.  The books I was sent were horribly bad.  I wanted to change my name and move away so I […]

I was first introduced to historical romances through my grandmother’s vast collection of clean/sweet romances. We called them the Smut Books precisely because there was zero smut in them.  People met, fell in love, got married, then maybe, but just […]

What authors did I love this year that I didn’t know about previously? Hannah Moskowitz I’m not sure what came first – reading the books or following her on Twitter.  I feel like I’ve known about her for a long […]