18 Books Involving Intelligence
One of my favourite prompts for next year’s ATY challenge is # 17. A book involving intelligence. Of course, for me the obvious choice is a book about AI, but the best part about this prompt is its flexibility, you…
25 Books Related to the Sea
It’s getting to that time of year where reading challenges for next year start popping up. The Around the Year in 52 Books challenge list has been voted in, and with that I’ll start my new series exploring reading challenge…
Hurtling Towards the End of the Year
Celeste @ A Literary Escape tagged me in this end of year book tag that I’m assuming people were doing back in autumn and now it’s very nearly the end of the year, but oh well. Here’s my late addition:…
Get to Know This Fantasy Reader
Celeste at A Literary Escape tagged me and since I’m totally procrastinating on the things I should be doing, why not answer some questions about my fantasy reading? Please consider yourself tagged if you’d like to do this too. What…
Surviving ten years of book blogging
It’s hard to believe I’ve had this blog ten years. There have been some wobbly moments, especially over the last year of course, but I’ve decided I like my little bookish spot on the internet, even if it turns out…
Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades, Oh My!
The third Popsugar Reading Challenge prompt is to find a cover with a heart, diamond, club, or spade on it. I have so many options for this one I am very tempted to tick off all four shapes. The easiest…
Afrofuturism On My Shelves
The second Popsugar Reading Challenge prompt has resulted in a lot of discussion about what is afrofuturism in the Goodreads group for the challenge. There are some better definitions here and here, but how I understand it, it’s a cultural…
Boarding School Stories FTW
I’ve found myself reading a lot of books set in boarding schools recently. I’ve always enjoyed this kind of setting, maybe its appeal stems from when, as a teenager, I daydreamed of being sent away to a more exciting place,…
Chick-Lit is Not a Bad Word
Everyone now and then, someone gets their knickers in a twist over the use of the term “chick-lit” and it being demeaning to their work. It’s certainly not the readers of the genre, who use it with affection. We can’t…
I Turned Out All Right
The hot potato in the book blogosphere at the moment is that Wall Street Journal article on Young Adult fiction. I don’t read a lot of YA books now and I didn’t read ANY when I was a teen. I…
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