Top Reasons Why Books Make Great Gifts
Sooner or later, a gift-giving season will be upon us. Whether we’re thinking about a friend’s birthday or are counting down the days until XMas, books are a great item to include in someone’s gift basket.
#Shelflove: Thankful for this Challenge?
No Book Buying Challenge 2015 – November Update As you know, we are co-hosting the Show Your Shelves Some Love: A No Book Buying Challenge. You can also review the details of the post on the “No Book Buying Challenge“ page from the menu above. November’s topic: Are you thankful you did this challenge? How […]
Chat Between Chapters: Cats in Books
Did you know that Oct 30th was Cat Day? I mean, how can we not talk about cats now? Who are some of your favorite bookish cats? Julie: Look, you know I love kitty cats, right? I think it is awesome when there is an important cat character in a book. There are so many […]
Happy Halloween! Which Literary Monster Are You?
Happy Halloween! This is hands down the most fun holiday you can celebrate as a booknerd. I mean, the sky is the limit with costume options, right? Take this fun quiz put together by Grammarly and see if maybe this should be a costume you consider. What did you get? I got Pennywise, and I’m […]
Book Review – Leviathan
Lynn’s Review: Is it odd that I’ve recently read an alternate history book and a book about a girl pretending to be a boy? And Leviathan had both. Let’s start with the format review: Julie listened to the audio. But I read a hardcover copy of the book. With all the amazing drawings […]
That’s what HE said Thursday – Oct 29, 2015
Every Thursday we are hosting a meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Julie’s Quote: “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one.” I blinked. “What’s that?” “The year I was born, which is not, as you’ll note, yesterday.” “No one feels like you do, so […]
Author Interview with E.M. Nelson
Author Interview with E.M. Nelson At what point did you decide to be an author and what was your path to publication? I’ve wanted to be an author since 6th grade. I had an English teacher who assigned us a writing project that lit the spark for me. I have written several- really bad- manuscripts which […]
Have you heard of Forgotten Books?
I know some of our readers are a fan of the classics. Some people like old books by authors that may have been dead for centuries. Well there’s an online library available for people just like you, you book sniffers. It is called Forgotten Books. Or maybe you’re a historian or researcher and have a […]
Chat Between Chapters: Books and Artists
Many books feature Artists as an important character. Let’s chat about those. Julie: Goodreads has some great lists with artists in books: Books with Main Characters who are Artists Category shelf with “artist” category Artistic talent comes in many forms – whether visual, performing, or something else. I can think of quite a few books […]
Book Review – Vengeance Road
Lynn’s Review: Vengeance Road is not your average western genre romance. It’s an actual capital “w” Western. With a girl as the lead character. We meet Kate Thompson in a saloon. She’s on a literal vengeance road, searching for the murderous gang who killed her pa. But, the thing is, she’s disguised herself as […]