Let’s chat about sports in books. Who are some of your favorite characters who are also jocks? Julie: I’ve been trying to rack my brain to figure out if I’ve read any books where our main hero or heroine is a jock or really into sports, but I’m drawing a blank. Methinks this is not […]
Alright everyone, did you fill out your Bookish Bingo Cards? Share your cards, and link up your posts below! For a recap, here are the rules: Each month we will upload a new bingo card. You download the bingo card and mark off squares as you read books each month. At the end of […]
Go out on a Blind Date with a book and Chapter Break! Can’t decide what to read next? How about trying a blind date with a book. Below you’ll find some book covers that I drew myself! And by drew, I used the computer because my hand writing/drawing skills are sub par. Click on […]
Writing to Please Everyone (HINT: It Ain’t Gonna Happen…) by Rachel Dunning The first book I ever wrote got two reviews almost instantly after publishing: A scathing, horrible, painful, depressing one-star. And a glorious, over-the-top, mind-blowing, filled-with-gifs, praising, laudatory five-star. The one-star was on Amazon. The five-star was on Goodreads. By chance, I happened to […]
Julie’s Review: The New Agenda is treated more like a prequel than a continuation of the story from The City Center. Ava links into the mainframe to try to find Morray, and finds his memory archive – from there we follow William Morray’s coming of age story. While this was an interesting way to present […]
Let’s all celebrate “come in from the cold” day, and read a book instead. What is your favorite way to read a book in winter time? Julie: So if you know me, you know that I hate the cold. I much prefer to curl up with a warm blanket and a cup of tea, and […]
Chapter Break is doing a Read Along! During the month of February, join Julie and Lynn as we read . Each Saturday in February, we’ll post our thoughts on the current chapters. And for an hour on each Saturdays, we will be doing a twitter discussion with everyone who is reading along with us. […]
We’re starting a new feature here on Chapter Break called Chat About Covers. ‘Cause you know we all judge books by covers, whether we admit it or not. We judge the style, the color and font choices, and just the overall look. That might not keep us from reading the book, but we do […]
would be the best person to draw from when it comes to writing, be it a story or a thought or whatever. He had said that “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” And most aspiring writers place the excuse of inability to publish for their lack of […]
Julie’s Review: The Short Life of Sparrows is beautifully written and is a breath of fresh air in the coming-of-age paranormal genre. I’m gonna list this out, because lists. Love the lists. Things I loved about The Short Life of Sparrows: How this book has a dual narration, but the narrators are not the couple. […]