Let’s chat about some books we enjoy reading around Halloween time!  Julie: I can’t say I have a specific book or series I read around Halloween time, because, let’s face it I don’t have time to re-read. Plus, I enjoy the paranormal genre any time of year! And paranormal creatures that are unique are my favorite! It […]

  Let’s chat about our favorite books set on a school campus.  Julie: Like Lynn said, there are some classic and iconic books set on a school campus. But there are so many more than the Harry Potter, Twilight, and Vampire Academy franchises. A favorite series of mine set on a school campus is the Soul […]

 Let’s chat about the books we wish we could read for the first time all over again!  Julie: I keep going different directions with this topic. Should I want to read for the first time the series that got me reading again as an adult? Should I want to read again for the first time […]

 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 […]