Favorite 2016 Reads!
   It's incredibly hard, at least for me, to list favorite reads of anything. I don't tend to get hung up particular reads, but there are some stand out peices from this year that either somehow managed to tickle the fangirl in me or managed to stick with me. Especially in the later... Continue Reading →
2017 Reading Goals – Challenges
  So my next goal of ‘things to read’ are two challenges I want to complete. And I’m hoping that I’ll be able to complete these challenges with books from my other two goals! So two birds with one stone!    First off I’ll say I’m starting but definitely not finishing The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.... Continue Reading →
Thoughts and Review : Miniatures by John Scalzi
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi by John Scalzi Highly Recommend! Published by Subterranean Press Publication Date : December 31st, 2016 Available as eBook & hardback - 144 Pages Source : NetGalley (thank you!) The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the... Continue Reading →
Mini-Reviews : Volume 22
  The next few things I read really bounced me around.   I started off with something I would definitely describe as melancholy with The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepard. This one is about a young girl in a WWII children’s hospital who can see winged horses in the mirrors and reflective... Continue Reading →
Thoughts: Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles #1) by Maria Turtschaninoff
Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles #1) by Maria Turtschaninoff Highly Recommend! Published by Amulet Books Publication Date : January 3rd, 2016 Available as eBook & hardback - 265 Pages Source : NetGalley (thank you!) Only women and girls are allowed in the Red Abbey, a haven from abuse and oppression. Maresi, a thirteen-year-old novice there, arrived in the hunger winter and... Continue Reading →
2017 Reading Goals : Authors To Be Read
 I’m trying to set myself a few specific goals this coming year. A lot of things are going on in real life for me, and in an effort to sort those out I’m setting some strict goals for myself. This is probably as a result of feeling like I have no control over a lot... Continue Reading →
Fall Used Book Haul
I'm trying to limit my book buying the past few months. I'm on my Read 5, Buy 1 ban. I also have limited my used book store visits severely. I finally went back last week with a sackful of books for trade. I had a goal to buy fewer books then I traded in -... Continue Reading →
Initial Thoughts: Reading and Watching Miss Fisher/Phryne Fisher Mysteries
   I wasn’t planning on going to into depth on my recent read of Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood. I enjoyed the snot out of that little book – but I didn’t really feel like I had too much to say on it yet. I decided to hunt down the TV show with fingers... Continue Reading →
Mini Reviews : Volume 21
   I definitely didn’t shake the spooky feeling after October. I was on a roll, even after Anna Dressed in Blood.   So I picked up Slade House by David Mitchell, and oh man talk about spooky. It’s an shoot of his most recent hefty work of Bone Clocks which is waaaay up... Continue Reading →