CLEAN TEEN PUBLISHING A New Kind of Publishing We are excited to be able to tell your amazing readers about our new publishing company: Clean Teen Publishing. CTP is a new Indie publishing company that publishes Young Adult and New Adult fiction. We opened our doors in late February of 2013 and we already […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme run by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten 2014 Debut Novels We Are Excited About Rose’s List of Top Ten: So this was much harder than I could have imagined. Debut novels are a little difficult to have a list of “looking forward to reading this” because […]
Since when is sex love? Is it okay to substitute lust for love in literature? As a reader, does this work for you? Rose: Okay so I get the fact that we read fiction as a form of escape and pleasure. However, one of my biggest pet peeves in books is when the love […]
Join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name. Also, do not forget […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a brand new meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Rose’s Quote: But, if for some reason we’re not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I’m begging you…don’t give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. […]
Julie’s Review: The Blue Between is a pretty quick YA sci-fi that is pretty entertaining but left me wanting a bit more. I liked the premise – girl gets hit by lightning and all of a sudden starts disappearing and appearing in strange places, getting accused of being a runaway. Under hypnosis she realizes she’s […]
Today we have a guest post from a woman who uprooted her life in California and moved to New Zealand. Please welcome Jamie Baywood. It was always my dream to live abroad when I was growing up in California. I had bad dating experiences in California and read in a New Zealand tour book that […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme run by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2014 Both Bookish and non-book related: Rose’s List of Top Ten: To be fair, only a few of my resolutions are book related. Here they are in no particular order: Walk Maddox at least […]
Julie’s Review: I met Rose Garcia, a local Houston author at the Houston Book Rave in the fall. I was super excited that she gave me an ARC of Final Life when I told her I’m a local blogger. I read it quickly around Thanksgiving vacation, which was quite fun since the book starts right […]
Guess what! We’re starting up a discussions feature here at Chapter Break! We’re calling it Chat Between Chapters. We hope to make this a weekly feature. Join us as we discuss bookish topics 🙂 How does book blogging affect your reading of books? Do you think it makes you pick better books? Julie: I’ve been […]