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the nostalgia post;
You know the books you read as a kid that, on looking back aren’t as good as you think, but you’ve still got a warm spot in your heart for them? Yeah, this post is for that feeling. This post is for those books, the ones that you turn to when you need the comfort of your memories, the ones you read when you need to be reminded of your childhood and how much simpler life could be then. There are books that I remember fondly from my childhood. That I can read over and over to spark a feeling of warmth. These books take me back to simpler times.…
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SPOTLIGHT; new author alert
We interrupt our regular schedule to bring you this post. A while back, I talked on Twitter about my niece finishing up and finding publishers for her novels. Well, today she texted me to let me know that she has finally set up her website and is now on Twitter and Instagram! Please follow her at @authorpremk and support a young writer! Her first novel should be coming out later this year – it is called Midnight Castle; A Souls Of Darkness Novel, and is a paranormal romance involving vampires. The synopsis for the second one is not up on her website yet, but it is called Wheel Of Death…
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hashtag twitter book chats; part deux
Yes, I did write a blog post about Twitter chats last year. I was raving about them, and to be fair, most of my thoughts are still the same. I still adore participating in Twitter (book) chats. I still think they are a great way to interact with fellow readers, with finding more books to read, and to interact with writers. However, circumstances have changed things for me in regards to actually participating in chats, and that, my dear friends, is what this particular post is about. Pretty much since late last year, I have been missing the book chats I usually participate in due to a variety of reasons.…
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the year of the diverse?;
It is 2017! And I promised myself that I would try to be better about posting discussion posts on the blog. Yes, that means my schedule is a lot slower than other bloggers, but hey, so long as I keep blogging, right? But even so, it has been difficult for me to get into the right mindframe. I was having a tough time trying to figure out what I should write about for my first post of 2017. And then it hit me. No, not literally. I got an email notification that Cait @ Paper Fury had a new blog post up, so obviously I went to read it. Her…
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2016; it’s a wrap
Would you believe I don’t actually remember when I last posted something on this blog? For someone who only just started blogging this year, that is – probably not a good sign. It’s the same for my bookstagram. I think I posted six or seven photos, and then I’ve hoarded the rest I’ve taken. I don’t even know why. I may have bitten off more than I could chew this year. Not all of that was my fault. I honestly thought, going in, that I would be able to handle things. Last year, even with my Masters going on, I managed to read about 30 odd books. This year, I…
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;the life and times of writers
Let me start off by saying, if you write, you’re a writer. It doesn’t matter if you’re published or not. If you studied English, or whatever language you may write in, in college. It doesn’t matter if you’ve posted your work online or sent it to someone for validation. If you write? You’re a writer. Of course, writing comes in all shapes and forms. I’m not here to go into that. I’m here to go into the most relatable things writers feel across the board. In my opinion, anyway. Note; these posts are taken from Tumblr, and I cropped out the original post’s URL because not all of them were…
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meet your match; the fantasy edition part 1
Meet Your Match is a creation of the Violet Team for the Book Blogger Creativity Project, organised and hosted by the wonderful Nori @ ReadWriteLove28. It is a genre-based quiz that will prompt a suggestion for your next read. If you’ve read the book you’re suggested at the end of the quiz, well, that’s okay! Let’s talk about it, and you can try with another quiz next time around. This was planned as a monthly feature, but for now we’re starting slow, with just a few basic genres, though we hope to recommend a variety of genres and topics. What are you looking for in your protagonist? a) a teenage…
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top ten; book blogger facts
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday by The Broke And The Bookish has such a broad topic that I got a bit confused for a second as to what I wanted to do. I mean, facts about me? As a person or as a blogger or as a reader? It made sense to put together a list of book blogger facts about me. What I did, I will admit, is check out Cait @ Paper Fury‘s What Does A Book Blogger Actually Do? and 10 Things Book Bloggers Should Not Be Worrying About and see what applied to me as a blogger. A lot of the things on Cait’s lists applied…
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hashtag twitter book chats;
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a proper discussion on the blog. June was unproductive for me, and on some fronts, July looks like it might be the same. But I’ve had this in my drafts for a while, and I’ve finally gotten down to actually finishing up this post! I think almost all book bloggers agree that twitter chats are a good basis for not just getting to know more bloggers and getting to interact with more like-minded people, but also for finding more books to add to our TBRs! (Maybe too many? Nah. No such thing as too many!) I was taking part in a few twitter…
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top ten; books that are under rated
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken part in The Broke And The Bookish‘s Top Ten Tuesday, but this one intrigued me. I mean, books that I enjoyed that have under 2000 ratings on Goodreads. My first thought was, how do I check how many ratings there are? (Thankfully, they were kind enough to provide suggestions on their blog, and I used the first one, and it was simpler than I thought.) My second thought was, did I actually enjoy these books? Also – wow, I’ve read books that have A LOT of ratings… Some of these books come from the same series, and some are books I read…