Category: Musing by Moonlight

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 […]

Aentee @ Read at Midnight is hosting a CRIT YOUR FAVES blog hop. Often, it’s too easy for us to turn a blind eye to the flaws in our favourite books or series. Although there is no such thing as an objectively perfect work of fiction, it’s difficult to confront issues in the things we […]

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, […]

​Today I’m guest posting on It Starts At Midnight with a very personal post about caring for someone with a mental illness and what happened when I had to call the suicide hotline. Drop by to read my story and support the other hosts and blogs taking part to help shatter the stigma against mental illness. […]

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 […]

Why is everyone shipping platonic relationships into sexual/romantic ones? Is there no value on platonic relationships? I remember watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and begging – begging – the director not to change it from the book as Harry and Hermione danced inside the tent. The sexual tension between them killed me because […]

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect on the resolutions I set myself in January and see how I’ve progressed. I can’t even remember half of them off the top of my head, so taking a look at them again is a good opportunity to see if/how I’ve progressed and to reaffirm where I […]