Zodiac Book Cover Game

Let’s Play! I thought I’d try something different today. Below I’ve set out 12 book covers, and you have to pick which cover goes with which sign of the zodiac. To help remind you, the zodiac is as follows: Ares Libra Taurus Scorpio Gemini Sagittarius Cancer Capricorn Leo Aquarius Virgo Pisces Some of the covers […]

Today is my three year blogiversary!

To celebrate, Tez suggested I write a ‘what I’ve learned about blogging in the last three years’ post. So here it is! What I’ve Learned About Books and Blogging in the Last Three Years I mostly hate what everyone hates to read, but I don’t love what everyone loves to read. I miss out on […]

Am I Suffering From Reader’s Guilt?

Even now, as an adult and having completed a literature degree, I feel guilty when I read. It may be leftover guilt because I was raised Catholic, and apparently we feel guilty about everything, but I’m pretty sure it stems from something deeper. When I was a child, I wasn’t allowed to read during the […]

Do you close comments on your blog?

Currently I only leave my blog posts open for commenting for 3 months. I figure that I’m not a huge blog and most of the audience reading my posts are pretty timely. My older posts don’t get as much traffic, so it’s unlikely they would attract someone who wanted to comment. But I do confess […]

Are Love Triangles Really An Epidemic?

Not Every M/F/M Friendship Is A Love Triangle It’s gotten to the point where I can’t trust when a reviewer reports there is or is not a ‘love triangle’ in a Young Adult book. Sometimes reviewers say there is a love triangle when there’s absolutely no love between the girl and her two male friends. […]

I Met a Childhood Idol

Once in a Lifetime Because of where I live, I basically get no access to the authors I’m interested in. It’s a fair trek for them without much reward – it’s a small population. I do know that Neil Gaiman has been here before, but that was before I’d read any of his books so […]

Insta-Love: Why All The Hate?

Insta-Love: Why All The Hate? Why does insta-love get such hate from book reviewers? Why are book readers turned off from books that others claim contain insta-love? Why is it that sometimes these books in question do not actually contain insta-love? Is everyone crazy, or just confused? Insta-love is not the bane of YA books […]

Dealing With Jealousy

Jealousy in Book Blogging Sometimes in the life of a book blogger, we forget that it’s not a competition between who has the most views or comments, or who gets the most sought after ARCs, or who meets the trendiest author. Because of where I live, I’m basically never going to meet my favourite authors. […]

UN World Book Day

  Today’s Musing by Moonlight is a Movement piece in response to Old Rocker’s proposal that we book bloggers remind the world that we are not, in fact, bullies. What is Criticism? Book bloggers have a right under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and fair use laws to showcase book covers, quotes, and […]