July 19th favorites: Summer Reads Tis the season for some hot, hot stuff. This makes total sense and I refuse to give up my summertime Alien Romance addiction. Somehow this is the perfect weather to sit sipping a cold drink and reading all about abductions, mail-order brides, cute hybrid babies, forced proximity, sometimes hilarious language barriers, [...]
This is an author toolbox blog post. To get in on the authoring goodies distributed every month, go sign up on the website of our generous leader Raimey Gallant The Brooding Bad Boy* as a trope (otherwise known as Damaged With a Heart of Gold, Alpha Male, or Redeemed Rake, depending on what time period [...]
July 12th favorites: Books outside your usual genre We all know I'm a romance reader. Lots and lots of smushy fluff. When I need a break from that I generally turn to my *other* source of bodily fluids, which is horror. Yes, I know that seems strange. In the midst of this chaos of conflicting reads, [...]
The favorites we're exploring for June 28 is: Books set in Space Like every other genre, I read all over the spectrum of SciFi. So this list has some of your basic YA, some classic adult SciFi, and a little of my new favorite niche, super sexy SciFi romance. Because Ruby Dixon is a gift [...]
The favorites for June 21: Character Deaths Kibby, what are you trying to do to us!? Alright. Okay. If we're going to do this, let's get in the properly devastated mindset first: Now that I'm ready (WHY GOT WRITERS, WHYYYY) I'll go ahead and list for you the literary deaths which were the most shattering, traumatic, [...]
Let me surprise absolutely no one by informing you all I was a HUGE NERD in high school. I grew up in a very small town and went to a very small school. My graduating class (2005! I'M SO OLD) had 22 people, most of whom I had known since preschool. It was like being [...]
Friday favorites is a bookworm celebration created and hosted by somethingofthebook.com. On Fridays, we make lists about books! Come join. June 7 Favorites: Urban Fantasy books Before joining #bookstagram and getting flooded with fabulous recommendations from fellow readers, I actually thought I didn't like urban fantasy. AHAHAHAHA poor smol me. Actually, what I didn't like was missing out on [...]
May 31 Favorites is: Classic Books If I'm being honest, the main type of Classics that I like are children's books. Maybe I'm a child at heart (aka super childish... but I can't be the only 32 year old who thinks pillow forts, a Disney movie, and hot chocolate are the epitome of a good Friday [...]
Our favorites for today (May 24) is Diverse Books. I'm taking this to mean "diverse" in the all-inclusive sense. Okay that came out as a weird sentence. What I mean is, main characters who are persons of color (NOT just side characters), books which include the LGBTQ spectrum, and ownvoices stories. There will be multiple [...]
May 17 favorites: Things about being a reader Today we're doing a listicle, because listicles are so fun. And gifs are even better. Combining the two? The Very Best, even though it makes a silly word (gificle? gifsticle? giflist? Whatever it's fantastic and I'm going with it). 1. I have a whole house FILLED WITH BOOKS. [...]