A Case for New Adult

November 23, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

A children’s book is generally marketed for readers around the age of 5-8, though it depends on when the child starts reading. Around 8, they’re probably ready for some light chapter books, which start to teeter toward the middle grade age range of 8-12. Eventually, and this is where it gets sticky, young adult comes […]

Tag: Dark Academia

November 19, 2020.Reading time 21 minutes.

I saw this tag over on Kim @ Traveling Books, and I was hooked right from the idea of a whole tag about dark academia, but then the questions were fantastic and got me gushing, so here we are. This was originally created by Youtubers *emmie* & CarolynMarieReads! What is your favorite “academia” or “dark” book + […]

Urban Fantasy VS High Fantasy

November 9, 2020.Reading time 17 minutes.

This is not going to be a divisive post. Wow, I just had the hardest time spelling the word divisive. I hate the versus here because it sounds like I’m pitting urban fantasy against high fantasy when, really, I’m just talking about what I like about each, and why they’re such different subgenres of fantasy, […]

Bookshelf Tour: High Fantasy, Part I

September 30, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

TTT: Authors I’ve Read the Most Books By

July 7, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

This week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic for TTT is one of my favorites. I wrote a post a million years ago about my auto-buy authors, and while I could go scroll pack in my posts to try to find it, I’m not because that would take forever, so let’s consider this a kind of […]

TTT: Books to Reread

June 16, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

I’m a huge fan of rereading. I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like to because there are so many other new to me books to read that I get wrapped up in, but if someone told me that I could only reread books for the rest of the year, these would be […]

TTT: Books Featuring Disabled Narrators

May 12, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Happy Tuesday! I’ve always liked Tuesdays because it’s my yoga teaching day, but this one is even more fun because we’re talking about some of my favorite books in the world–those featuring disabled narrators. While there are many, many excellent books out there, I’ve somehow managed to narrow down my top ten, so let’s get […]

TTT: Purple Prose

April 7, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Ah, yes, purple prose, the thing everyone loves to hate and ya girl over here is always down for. I don’t know what it is, I just love language that’s stupidly superfluous and totally over the top. I feel like I don’t shout about the books on this list a whole lot, so why not […]

TTT: Authors Who Have a Fun Social Media

March 10, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

Oh, I am all over this week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic for TTT. I follow a lot of authors on different social media platforms, and as soon as I saw this topic, I knew it was going to be a fun one because I could immediately think of six right off the top of […]

TAG: Women’s History Month!

March 8, 2020.Reading time 19 minutes.

It’s Sunday, so I know this is a strange day to see me posting on, but it’s International Women’s Day today, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to do Margaret’s tag @ Weird Zeal for the Women’s History Month readathon she’s hosting this month! And, if you’re super hyped about this readathon like I […]

Mary and the Words

Tag: leigh bardugo