Halloween is just a couple days away, and I’ve never much been into the costumes or the candy, but what I really love is all the creativity people show when carving pumpkins! It’s mostly 80% awe, 5% wondering how they did it, 5% considering how horribly I’d mess up if I even attempted it, and […]
Title: Steel Crow SagaAuthor: Paul KruegerPublication Date: September 24, 2019Publisher: Del Rey BooksFormat: NetGalley eARC [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle. A soldier with a curse Tala […]
It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep. “First Line Fridays” is by Hoarding Books and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out […]
Confession: I don’t drink lattes, pumpkin or otherwise. Phew. It felt good getting that off my chest. To be fair, there are no coffee shops anywhere relatively close to me except for a teensy local thing, and I’ve only had espressos there as a treat a handful of times. Because really, I don’t need espressos. […]
It’s time again to ask ourselves the three W’s:Would you live in an ultra-modern Internet of Things house?What if all the walls there had eyes?What if you were paid to live there? Wait, no, that’s not right. We ask these three W’s:What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll […]
So if we can’t judge books by their cover, what does that leave us with? The title? I mean, this is great, in theory, when you’ve got gorgeous titles like the ones I featured last week in Extraordinary Titles That Demand Some Attention. But what about the rest of them? Titles come in all different […]
Every job has its perks and shortcomings, and working in a library is really no different. Except for being surrounded by all the books and sitting there all day listening to them hiss, “Pick meeee,” and totally judging you when you don’t. Technically, I’m NOT a librarian, per se (not certified, anyway). I’m just the […]
It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep. “First Line Fridays” is by Hoarding Books and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out […]
It’s time again to ask ourselves the three W’s:What would you do for the ones you love?Would you sacrifice yourself for them?Would you claw your way back from hell? Wait, no, that’s not right. We ask these three W’s:What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? WWW […]
It’s said that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover … but what about by its title? I mean, face it, those are the two things you first see about a book, and first impressions matter, regardless of what some people would have to believe. So that’s just what we’re going to do today, […]