Books, Writing, and Content for your Reading life
In an attempt to be completely prepared for King of Scars, I reread all the Grisha trilogy books. It's a good thing I did because almost all of the characters are from this book and I'm pretty sure the ending wouldn't make any sense if you don't remember what happened. So even before I begin [...]
Over Galentine's Day, I was given the opportunity to go see Five Feet Apart a month before it releases everywhere. My friend, Kari, and I decided to get some dinner beforehand and then head into the movie. When we checked in and got there, they gave us free popcorn, free soda, and a swag bag [...]
I didn't think I would like this book at first. Books with a lot of hype, a lot of readership, and a few awards scare me. What if I read it and I don't like it? What if it's all my writing pet peeves? I've disliked a lot of Pulitzer Prize winning novels over the [...]
Let me tell you how I'm not happy about breaking my TBR to fit this book in, but I will say that I'm happy I read it. I loved Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give, and I knew I would love On the Come Up. If you're looking to find The Hate U Give Part 2, you're looking [...]
So you just finished that widely-loved novel and...you hate it. Well, not hate it but you just don't get why everyone else loves it. No, it's not even that. Every time I finish a book and my opinion is different than everyone else, I feel like a salmon going upstream while everyone is going downstream. [...]
In an effort to make myself more accountable this year, I'm going to be sharing some reviews and stories to my blog. This includes a category dedicated to nonfiction. As I might have written in the past, nonfiction is just one of those things that slips below my radar every year. I make an effort [...]
When I first started this series, I thought this was going to be a Dune-style story of a future where the world is covered in sand, people are trying to live and not doing a good job at it, and the politics is a little funky. What I got was nothing close to that and [...]
