National Literacy Month just finished, so let’s chat about it. What does literacy mean to you? Julie: As a book lover, I see literacy as such an important topic. One of my favorite projects is the One of my favorite projects is the Read Aloud campaign. The campaign message is so simple – read aloud […]
Banned Book Week is a week where we celebrate the wonderful works of writing which someone decided should be forbidden. Share your favorites with us. Julie: Here is a list of books banned/challenged in 2015. Some of my favorites in that list include: The Fault in Our Stars Looking for Alaska (well, just about […]
Hey, it’s almost Speak Like a Pirate Day! Also, rum punch day. Let’s chat all things pirate – books, rum drinks, etc. Julie: So rum is my ROH drink of choice. Malibu to be precise. With some diet coke and that makes me happy. Or something fruity and in a pretty glass. As for pirate […]
How do you support your favorite authors? Julie: Here are some suggestions on how you can support your favorite authors. Buy their books to display on your pretty bookshelves. Buy their books for other people as gifts. Read their books! Review their books. Interact with them on social media. Share their books on social media. Request […]
Some books have really weird jobs that are just not realistic. Let’s chat about some of these. Julie: There’s a big kick lately on books with the self-made Billionaire. We are all familiar with the [easyazon_link identifier=”B00O5QVJG4″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″ cart=”n”]Fifty Shades[/easyazon_link] series as famous as it is, but I find that to be an unrealistic […]
Let’s focus on some authors who we just LUV to follow on social media. These authors are awesome at it, posting all the time and sharing fun stuff with us. Julie: You know who rocks at social media? Colleen Hoover rocks at social media. From her Instagram videos about her life as well as when […]
Let’s chat about cookbooks or cooking sites. Cause you know we all love to eat. Julie: I don’t read cookbooks exactly, but I do read various cooking sites and blogs. Lots of blogs. Why do I read so many blogs? But that’s beside the point – lots of blogs like to share amazing food porn either […]
Alright Pardner let’s hear ’bout ’em westerns. Do you read them? Any particulars you recommend? Do I sound drunk in that first sentence? Julie: I don’t tend to read a lot of historicals in the first place, so I don’t get to read about many cowboys. Actually, we ended up putting “cowboy” on last month’s […]
Let’s chat about Social Media. What posts do we like to see the most on social media? What types of messages do we like to share? Julie: So… I’ve gotten quite a bit social media happy. For the most part, I have one account. Except Facebook pages – this blog has it’s own FB page, […]
It’s Body piercing Week, so let’s chat about our book boyfriends with piercings. Julie: It is hard to separate piercing from tattoos but in many cases, they go together, do they not? There’s a lovely list on Goodreads for these hotties. My favorite that first comes to mind? Landon Lucas Maxwell, from [easyazon_link identifier=”0425266745″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Easy[/easyazon_link] […]