Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme with a different themed book top 10 list for each week. It was started by The Broke & the Bookish, and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It's one of my favorite weekly blog posts to write. This week's theme is "Books I Hope Santa Brings" … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: What I Hope Santa Brings
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It's that time again!!! If you haven't read my blog before, you might not know this, but I'm a HUGE fan of the Bout of Books readathon!! It's 30th iteration is starting January 4th (just in time to help me relaunch my blog!!!) Please join us! This readathon has an AMAZING sense of community built … Continue reading Bout of Books 30!!
Hello, all! It's been a long while since I've posted. Amongst moving, starting an (intense) new job, and life in general, I just haven't had the time or energy to devote to the blog, but I've missed it and all of you so very much!! This is just a short note to let you know … Continue reading I’m Back!
Book Traveling Thursdays is a weekly event hosted by Danielle's Book Blog and The Girl Who Read Too Much. Each participant picks a book to match a theme, then finds the original cover, the covers for your country, and identifies favorite/least favorite covers. For more information, check out the Goodreads page. This week's theme was … Continue reading Book Traveling Thursdays: Yellow Cover Edition
So one of my big blog goals for this year was to post more discussion/reading life posts as well as reviews, weekly events and tags. Now that it's June, I thought I'd get around to doing it! I know I want to get a lot of reading done in the little bit of summer I … Continue reading Let’s Talk About: Reading Spaces
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco is a beautiful, fantastical story. Framed as a flashback, it tells the story of Tea, a young asha (read: witch) in training. Her power? Necromancy, which is alternately loved and feared in her society. Her power is discovered when she is young, and accidentally raises her brother Fox from … Continue reading Review: The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
This book was interesting, I suppose. It kind of reminded me of a shorter version of Game of Thrones, set in ancient China. It was billed as a fantasy, and while there are fantastical elements, it didn't come across to me as mainly fantasy, if that makes sense. The novel follows multiple viewpoints across ancient … Continue reading Review: Portal of a Thousand Worlds by Dave Duncan
This weekend, I'm participating in the 24 in 48 Readathon! More info here. (I borrowed the graphic from the blog). I'm aiming to get the full 24 hours before 11:00 p.m. CST tomorrow (Sunday)! It's hour 12 & this is my first update, here goes! Hour 12 Update Currently Reading: Here We Are: Feminism … Continue reading 24 in 48 Readathon Updates!
Happy New Year, everyone!! Every New Year I set resolutions. I always set the usual: get in shape, eat better, etc., but now that I have a blog, I thought it would be fun to set some resolutions about my blog & bookish life in general, so here goes! Bookish Resolutions Track all of my … Continue reading Blogging/Bookish New Years Resolutions!!
I picked this book up after (1) seeing the author at Southern Festival of Books and (2) it fit the space for a purple cover for Fall Bookish Bingo. It's a YA sci-fi pick, and I found that I enjoyed it. The story follows Elder & Amy, both on a spaceship headed for a new … Continue reading Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis