Happy Halloween! This is hands down the most fun holiday you can celebrate as a booknerd. I mean, the sky is the limit with costume options, right? Take this fun quiz put together by Grammarly and see if maybe this should be a costume you consider. What did you get? I got Pennywise, and I’m […]
Lynn’s Review: Is it odd that I’ve recently read an alternate history book and a book about a girl pretending to be a boy? And Leviathan had both. Let’s start with the format review: Julie listened to the audio. But I read a hardcover copy of the book. With all the amazing drawings […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Julie’s Quote: “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one.” I blinked. “What’s that?” “The year I was born, which is not, as you’ll note, yesterday.” “No one feels like you do, so […]
Author Interview with E.M. Nelson At what point did you decide to be an author and what was your path to publication? I’ve wanted to be an author since 6th grade. I had an English teacher who assigned us a writing project that lit the spark for me. I have written several- really bad- manuscripts which […]
I know some of our readers are a fan of the classics. Some people like old books by authors that may have been dead for centuries. Well there’s an online library available for people just like you, you book sniffers. It is called Forgotten Books. Or maybe you’re a historian or researcher and have a […]
Many books feature Artists as an important character. Let’s chat about those. Julie: Goodreads has some great lists with artists in books: Books with Main Characters who are Artists Category shelf with “artist” category Artistic talent comes in many forms – whether visual, performing, or something else. I can think of quite a few books […]
Lynn’s Review: Vengeance Road is not your average western genre romance. It’s an actual capital “w” Western. With a girl as the lead character. We meet Kate Thompson in a saloon. She’s on a literal vengeance road, searching for the murderous gang who killed her pa. But, the thing is, she’s disguised herself as […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Julie’s Quote: I stretched out my hands as if to ward him off. “Not yet. I want to know what your end game is first.” Another flash of teeth, […]
Guest Post: What would Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein) think about the new Victor Frankenstein movie? It’s coming out in November, and it stars James McEvoy and Daniel Radcliffe. (Q and A with the stars.) It’s yet another interpretation of Mary’s famous story, that she wrote in 1816 at only eighteen. Since then there have […]
Guest Post: Marie Landry’s Favorite YA and NA Books Thanks so much to the ladies of Chapter Break for having me here today! I thought since the Angel Island companion series is a mixture of YA and NA, I’d share some of my favourite books in both categories. by Stephanie Perkins I’ve read this book […]