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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Everyone knows that characters are one of the most fundamental elements of any story. Dragons are a close second, though. For me, a great character can lift a lousy plot, or a lousy character can drag down a great plot. I want characters I can fall in love with, daydream about, idolize, and sometimes maybe […]
It’s no secret that I love books … and also hate numbers. But you know, sometimes the two coincide, and then I’m … conflicted? I mean, this is a Top Ten Tuesday post, so I imagine it was bound to happen eventually. Numbers mean things. Even more so when they happen to appear in titles. […]
In some brilliant marketing ploy to get us to buy all the books, the end of 2019 has a lot of must-read releases. I mean, what gives? I’ve petitioned to my bosses that they should just give me all of November off paid leave so that I have the necessary time to read all these […]
It may come as no surprise that I have a really short attention span, and so books have about 30 seconds to grab my attention between the blurb and first lines before I wander off to chase butterflies. This is assuming, of course, that I find a random book in the wild, not one that […]
Come, dearies, and prepare yourselves for an ugly truth about the TBR: sometimes, just sometimes, it’s a place books go to die. More of a book graveyard, really. Or maybe not die. That’s a bit dramatic. It’s more like purgatory. Eventually, they’ll be read. Probably. What I’m saying is sometimes books get put on my […]
It’s no secret at all that I’m really picky about the books I read. Am I a book snob? Pssh, yeah, okay, maybe a little. But that’s only because none of you slackers have unlocked the key to immortality yet, and for some reason I’m unable to read all the books in my lifetime. So […]
Look, I know Christmas is still months away, but it’s the early bookdragon who gets the book, right? I’m pretty sure that’s how that saying goes. So I love books. That’s no secret. But I also love not spending money on myself. I blame my Scots-Irish roots and also my grandmother, who I apparently inherited […]