Rose’s Review I had never heard of Cora Carmack until meeting her in Dallas at the taping for ABC Nightline. Other avid book readers gathered at A Real Book Store recognized her immediately. I admit I felt left out. During the taping, everyone was asked to read a favorite section of a favorite […]
Feature for Aug 16, 2013 – Share something you’ve learned about book blogging or just blogging in general in the last month. Rose: This past month I learned that being organized is key to getting read what you need to get read and discipline is key to reviewing what you read. Sometimes I get so behind […]
Welcome to Chapter Break’s stop in Gliterary Girl‘s Summer of Love hop! We are a tour host with Gliterary Girl and are excited to participate. I was trying to think up some summer reading recommendations for a romance theme, and then I realized I don’t really read summery romance type of books. My co-blogger does […]
Julie’s Review This was a short read so it will be a short review. Honestly, this was a bit of a waste of time. There were some funny moments in Magnus Bane’s misadventures in Peru, but overall this was just silly and didn’t even answer the question! I really liked Magnus Bane in […]
Feature for Aug 9, 2013 – Back to school. Create a reading list for the imaginary English Lit class you’ll be teaching this semester. Rose: Okay, so I am never sure how to determine if a book is school appropriate or not, but here are a few that I would teach in my imaginary class: […]
We’re super excited to participate in this Blog Tour for City of Bones! Each day in August a participating blog will recap the next chapter of City of Bones. Some blogs will have some extra goodies about the book as well. Then, when all the recaps are complete, we’ll enjoy going to see the movie! […]
So on Wednesday, July 31st I attended this really cool local Houston event called #SummerWithATwistDinner organized by Eat Read Rate and Katy Budget Books. We met at a restaurant and had dinner and got to chat with authors. We had fajitas yum! The authors were (from left to right in the awful cell phone photo […]
Feature for Aug 2, 2013 – How do you handle a book you don’t like? Do you DNF or do you power through? Rose: I typically reshelf the book as TBR. I have a hard time giving up on a book and I know that sometimes I might set a book aside due to disinterest […]
Julie’s Review I’ve only read about a handful of “steampunk” novels so I’m still a newbie and struggling with the world building. This novel was definitely a struggle for me and I wished I had a dictionary to help me keep up with the types of families and their names and […]
The Beat the Heat Read-a-thon runs from July 29th through August 11th. What does this read-a-thon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for two weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal! There […]