Am I A Failed Blogger?

I’ve had a pretty rough reading year and I’ve managed to read less than one book a month. My blog has taken a hit due to my lack of reviews despite my consistent blogging of at least twice a week, even though it’s been a rough year. I’m mostly posting weekly memes but I’ve seen […]

Stop Accusing Everything of Being Instalove

I am so fucking sick of seeing reviewers claiming every single YA with a romance is ‘instalove’. What is insta-love? It’s when the main character meets her (or his) romantic interest and is instantly willing to proclaim love and change the world and risk everything to be with that person. I’ll give you some examples […]

Booklovers, You Need To Add This Chrome Extension

There’s an extension built for Chrome and coming soon to Firefox that every book blogger should know about. It’s called Library Extension. What it does is add a little box when you’re browsing book pages on Amazon or Goodreads and tells you whether or not your local library (whatever library you use) or has a […]

5 Reasons to Use An Alias in Book Blogging

I’ve been book blogging for five years now, and reviewing for seven. That’s five years of crafting and maintaining this alias, ‘Nemo’. I picked the name because it is Latin for ‘no one’. Of course, I’m a nobody sharing my opinions online and I find that ironic. I think people who share their real names […]

Why I’ve Not Been Reading This Year

I figured out why blogging has been so hard for me this year. And it’s not just any one issue, but a collection of things. 1) I’ve been beating myself up because now that I’m working less, I should have more time to read, right? But I figured out that I actually did most of […]

Read What You Want To And F*ck The Haters

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 […]

Help! I’m In A Book Slump And I Can’t Get Out!

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 […]

Stop Misassigning The Original Stories in Retellings

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 […]

On Failing to Read the Goodreads ‘Best Books’ of 2016

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 […]

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