Alright everyone, did you fill out your Bookish Bingo Cards? Share your cards, and link up your posts below! Recap of 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 the month, we will […]
Let’s chat covers some more. What book covers just turn you off a book? Julie: List time! These types of things turn me off a cover. Swords. Only swords. Blurry weird floating heads. Bright crazy colors that blind. Unreadable fonts. Overly vulgar looking covers. Awkward positioning of characters. Overuse of a stock photo. Cutting off […]
Lynn’s Review: The Serpent King is what book clubs are for: to point out books I would never read on my own. I read the blurb, and was thinking to myself, no way am I going to enjoy this book. I even put off reading it until the very last minute. Literally the day before […]
Thanks to Storiarts for sending me this lovely scarf for me to enjoy and share with you. We’ve all seen the trend of bookish gifts, especially clothing. I mean, why not wear your favorite words? We like to hang our favorite words or characters up on the walls or display them on shelves – it makes perfect […]
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 […]
Let’s talk about books that make us friends with someone. We can be friends if you have read these books. Julie: What is it about finding someone who has read a book you adore that makes them an instant friend? Somehow that shared experience of reading a book makes you two so much closer. We […]
Lynn’s Review: The Secret Garden was one of my favorite stories as a kid. Both the book and the movie. While I was looking for a book made into a movie or tv show for April’s bingo card, I received a fortuitous email in the form of a free download for The Secret Garden. So […]
Guest Post: Saving the Universe by Robert Eggleton The following article discusses the evolving role of fictional heroes from the perspective of Lacy Dawn, the protagonist of Rarity from the Hollow, a double Gold Medal winning adult literary science fiction novel. “Lacy Dawn is the last person you would pick to be the savior of […]
We recently had Indie Bookstore Day so let’s chat about our favorite Indie Bookstores! Julie: We are lucky in that Houston is rich in Indie bookstores. I have visited (and wanted to hug) a few of them, and yet I know there are still more I haven’t been to. What I love about these Indie […]
Surviving Fictional Worlds Today we’ll talk about surviving fictional worlds. We all know that sometimes, the worlds we love in fiction can be dangerous. Which fictional worlds would you want to live in? Which worlds do you never want to dive into? Which worlds are you content to stay behind the glass, so to speak, […]