Let’s chat about the Author(s) you’ve read the most  Julie: This was an interesting exercise. Did you know you could export your Goodreads shelves? This exports EVERYTHING. Then filtered only for my read shelves, and copied into another Excel workbook. Then I did some formulas to count the number of times the author’s name appeared […]

June is Audiobook month. And we at Chapter Break are avid fans of audiobooks. Here’s an interview we pilfered from here and here.   1. Have you always listened to audio books or when did you begin?   It took many years of me being an avid reader for me to try audiobooks. I started […]

  For Father’s Day, let’s chat about books our fathers have recommended.  Julie: Growing up I always saw my Dad reading. It was typically something sci-fi, maybe with aliens or with some space travel. I would even grab him a scif-fi book from our bookstore at college (and read it before coming home on the weekend) […]

 Let’s chat about the Characters we’d name our children after…    Julie: We had the hardest time naming our son. I wanted to come up with bookish names, but for the most part, my ideas were TV-show character inspired, not so much book character inspired. Neither of these became the name of our kiddo though. […]

  Let’s chat about those series that should have stopped. With one book.  Julie: There are quite a few series where if I didn’t enjoy the first book, I wouldn’t have bothered with any following books. So I don’t know if those are fair to list here. But I’ll list a few where the first book […]

  Let’s chat about those books that we really think should have ended differently.  Julie: You want to know a book that should have ended differently? . That book should have ended differently. Like so: Murder-Suicide.  That’s right. via GIPHY   Lynn: I found some Goodreads lists (here, here, and here) that show a bunch of books […]

 Let’s chat about the books that totally should have had a spin-off series  Julie: Most of the books and the world I’ve loved ended up having spin-offs, which is fantastic and fun. I love when I don’t have to leave a beloved world behind. Here are some books that could use some more stories in […]

 Let’s chat about the Types of Books we are Ridiculously Addicted to!  Julie: I’m addicted to well-written, exciting, bite-sized paranormals. That’s pretty much everything I read.  I want it to be past-paced. I want excitement. I want some sizzly romance. And I want them to be “bite-sized” meaning no 500-page books that draw out the plot forever. […]

 Let’s chat about our favorite sarcastic characters!  Julie: Sarcastic characters are tons of fun. Some of my favorites include: Cat from the Night Huntress series. She’s very um catty LOL and fun. Vlad from the spin-off Night Prince series. Because he’s that Vampire, and he’s cruel and sassy at the same time. is quite sassy […]

  Let’s chat about the gifts our book characters have given to another  Julie: It is pretty awesome when characters give each other gifts, and doesn’t it make you wish you could have that gift too? Here are a couple of awesome gifts in the Harry Potter world. The Invisibility Cloak. Want! The best gift ever, […]