I’ve mentioned a few times before that I did a literature degree. By that I mean I did what is commonly known as a ‘liberal arts’ degree and all the electives I took revolved around literature. Gothic literature, Regency literature, popular literature (I got to read Harry Potter for class!), literature of Australia, and of […]
It’s halfway through the year and I have still only read a grand total of four books. I didn’t set any resolutions for 2017, probably because just before Christmas 2016 my husband was rushed to the ER for emergency back surgery and came out of hospital two months later in a wheelchair and is still […]
There’s something I’m seeing more and more of in the book community since retellings became the Next Big Thing, and that’s that people are assigning the WRONG retellings to books. Is this a big deal? Probably not, in hindsight. But imagine if someone told you the book was a retelling for Little Red Riding Hood […]
So back in early January of 2016 I made a post about my top ten blogging resolutions I wanted to achieve for 2016. I had a look at my progress in June and now its time to see how I went! I resolve to read and review all of CJ Archer’s Freak House books, I […]
It’s happened to me again. I can never vote in this. I never read the books that get nominated. Literally none of the nominated books in YA fiction or YA fantasy interested me enough in their covers, blurbs, authors, marketing/hype, or reviews by fellow, trusted reviewers to get me to actually pick them up and […]
Five Characters Everyone Loves But I Can’t Stand I know hype is a thing but sometimes, people, I just get so confused over why the masses adore certian characters that I just can’t stand for one reason or another. Take, for example, Celeana Fucking Sardothian from Throne of Glass. We are constantly told how amazing […]
For most of my reading life, I was very precious about my books. I didn’t like to lend books because no one treated them the way they deserved to be treated, and I didn’t like sharing the stories inside, either. My enjoyment of these books was completely private. I hid what I was reading from […]
This is going to be the most random blog post I’ve ever written. A couple of weeks ago I was sick and laid up in bed for over a week, so with nothing better to do, I made myself feel better by watching a TV show by one of my favourite Australian children’s TV producers, […]
I consider myself a spec fic reader, and it’s only within the past couple of years that I’ve begun embracing YA contemporaries as well as my usual fare of fantasy, sci-fi, historical, paranormal and even thrillers. The magic of contemporary YA, to me, is finding the book that I can relate to. The more I […]
Some people have a rule about stopping at the end of a chapter. I don’t. I’ll stop reading whenever. The end of a chapter. The end of a paragraph. The middle of a sentence. My one rule about finishing at the end of a chapter is when I’m reading something dense. It was my […]
