Category: Books
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I haven’t been completely idle in the 7 years since I put this blog on pause. For a couple years, I had a stint as a blogger at Luna Station Quarterly, a short fiction market by women-identified writers. My blog was called Spaceships and Notebooks. (To be honest, I find the name kind of trite.…
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According to my notebook, I’ve read about 40 books in 2018, not including the ones I started and dropped. Here are some of my favorites from the year.
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Back in January, I posted a 2017 year in review with the intention to post longer write-ups about my Top 5 lists. Almost two months later, I finally have a moment to sit and write these out. Here are my top 5 books read in 2017, followed by 3 honorable mentions and a handful of…
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What I got was Written Off, a cute mystery novel by E. J. Copperman. The premise was out there but still fun: a mystery writer gets a call to consult on a missing persons case by her own fictional character. Attention-grabbing premise, don’t you agree? And it’s a mystery, which is out of my normal…
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Here is part 2 of 2 posts detailing the books I stopped reading and recorded on Goodreads.
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One of my high school friends admitted to always finishing everything she reads, even if she hated it. I don’t agree with this reading philosophy. Life is too short to read a book you don’t like.
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is recommended for people who like military science fiction and people who enjoy analyzing the literature they read.
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Star Wars: Kenobi is recommended to people who enjoy fun spins in the Star Wars franchise, people looking to start reading in the Star Wars Legends universe, and people who like the character Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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The Air Awakens Quintet is recommended to people who enjoy feminist heroes and people who like ]romance elements trumping fantasy elements. Would give this book to someone as young as middle school-aged.
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Rebel Belle is recommended for people who already enjoy Young Adult fiction or people who would like a new twist to the same-old-same-old. Other books in the series include Miss Mayhem and Lady Renegades.
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The Unincorporated Man is recommended to people who enjoyed 1984 and anything by Robert Heinlein. Other books in the series include The Unincorporated War, The Unincorporated Woman, and The Unincorporated Future.
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Every once in a while, there is a story, piece of entertainment, what have you, that captures the attention of everyone except me. This piece of entertainment will be aligned with everything I enjoy in a story, but the premise is something I side-eye. And then I consume said piece of entertainment and BOOM. My…
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Synopsis: Seraphina, the court composer’s assistant, has a secret, but it is hard to keep a secret of this caliber when you are solving a mystery with the prince and princess of Goredd. On top of that, the leader of the dragons is coming to celebrate forty years of peace between Gerodd and the dragons,…