Today is Tolkien Reading Day! Anyone who knows me also knows that I love high fantasy. There is no question that Tolkien is the gold standard of that genre. Why the 25th of March? Because that is the date of that Sauron met his mortal end during the fall of Barad-dûr. This is the day […]
How about something a little different today instead of Music or Movie Monday or Man Crush Monday? M Books for Monday!!! I thought I’d curate a list of fabulous books with the letter M! Matched (Matched series, #1) by Ally Condie. → Great dystopian YA! Magic Bites (Kate Daniels series, #1) by Ilona Andrews. → […]
My TBR is insane, both on my Kindle and on my actual bookshelf. I set absolutely no goals of ever working through it because no sooner do I make headway and I get new ones. Then you add in the library, and I’m screwed! Here’s a taste of my TBR: The Whole Golden World by […]
I came across an article on last Wednesday about a woman who recently returned a children’s book to the library in Silver Spring, Maryland. Here’s the kicker… It was 73 years overdue! Can you imagine the late fees on that? Luckily enough for her, the library system had eliminated fines on children’s books years before. […]
Before I wrote fiction, I was a professional tech writer for Corning Glass. And before that, I wrote scores of military documentation on all kinds of topics. That kind of writing gave me a love of research and facts. So, why not turn that to one of my favorite things? Books! I wasn’t looking […]
My husband says I’m an addict and a hoarder. I tell him I’m simply a collector. The advent of the e-reader was a good day for him because it meant at least part of my “collection” was hidden from his sight. This was good for me, too, for two reasons. One, as it was […]
Maybe it’s cliché, but sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction. Every now and then, I come across a book or movie and discover that it was inspired by true events. Like the Silent Hill movie franchise, based on a town in Pennsylvania and the hallucinations said to have been experienced by people affected by the […]
There are so many books coming out this month and I want to read them all! Smoke in the Sun (Flame in the Mist, #2) by Renée Ahdieh: 5 June Little Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone: 5 June Us Against You (Beartown, #2) by Fredrick Backman: 5 June Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi: […]
I scoured the internet and my own shelves to bring you this list! The Outsider by Stephen King (Kindle) The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton (Kindle) Awakened by James Murray (Kindle) The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Gibbs (Kindle) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Kindle) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony […]