So April has been kind of a whirlwind! I feel like I say that every month, but it’s always true! Chris and I have been packing, packing, packing, and in every other spare moment I’ve been trying to read. As you can see, it wasn’t my most productive reading month. I didn’t read for almost…
Once upon a time, there was a twitter discussion about an asexual spectrum imprint at a publisher. That morphed into discussions of an anthology, and today, I’m pleased to present you with Flaming Aces & Arrows, an anthology that is open for submissions! Flaming Ace and Arrows Anthology aims to be a YA collection for the…
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so go see what other authors decided to write about for this week’s prompt! There were so many good books in 2016 that there was absolutely no way for me to read them all. SO, here’s the ones that have caught my…
I received a copy of Den of Wolves as an eARC from the publisher, Roc, and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine… Healer Blackthorn knows all too well the rules of her bond to the fey: seek no vengeance, help any who ask, do only…
I received a review copy of White Nights, Black Paradise as part of the Rich In Variety blog tour, in exchange for an honest review and movie cast post! In 1978, Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church once at the forefront of progressive San Francisco politics, self-destructed in a Guyana jungle settlement named after its leader, the…
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so go see what other authors decided to write about for this week’s prompt, Top Ten Unexpected Villains! This week’s theme is Villain and I couldn’t decide how to do this without spoiling some of these books, especially for the unexpected theme that I went…
Bullet journals and annotated books have been popping up all over my instagram and twitter feeds, and I think they’re absolutely beautiful. They are – everyone has their own unique styles, and it’s so interesting to look at – but they are not something that I feel any need to do for myself for three specific…
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so go see what other authors decided to write about for this week’s prompt – tackling the TBR! I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t read as many of the classics as I would have liked to. There are just SO MANY BOOKS out…
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, so go see what other authors decided to write about for this week’s prompt – books that made me want to learn! I have to admit, I’m fairly impressionable when it comes to books. Characters who really love what they do make me…
Sammie and I got matched up by Jillian at Rant & Rave about Books for a blind date with each other, and despite neither of us being good at answering emails, we managed to come up with a fun post that relates to books and food – two topics that rarely lead us astray! Sammie lives…
I decided that I would try something new over the last few months. What I decided to do was give audiobooks a try, as well as put some more nonfiction into my reading schedule. Since I was in the middle of moving and cleaning up my new apartment, I decided to try Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of…
For as long as Fei can remember, no one in her Soundless village has been able to hear. Rocky terrain and frequent avalanches make it impossible to leave the village, so Fei and her people are at the mercy of a zipline that carries food up the treacherous cliffs from Beiguo, a mysterious faraway kingdom. When…
Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land in Girl with Glass Feet. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the…
For those of you that follow me on Goodreads, I have had the same reading goal for the last 5 years. I’ve said that my reading goal will be 100 novels a year. Since then, I’ve only reached that goal the first year that I did this challenge.I only read 65 books this year. Given…
I was contacted by Ryan from Invaluable.com and asked to write a blog post about what books I would buy at an auction, and what books I would have on my dream shelf. I thought that sounded fun, so I agreed to do it. Honestly, a lot of what I was interested in on their website was…