The holidays are over and my brain feels full of holes. I’m still tired (and cranky, truth be told) and I just can’t seem to focus on anything for too long. I can barely remember what I read last night, much less last week or last month. I feel like my reading should be confined …
I want to talk guilty pleasures, but I realized that I don’t feel guilty about anything that I read. The only time I feel guilty about books is when I waste time with a crappy book when I could be spending time with something awesome. But, there are books that other people try to make …
I have had the worst time coming up with something to write about this month. I started three or four different drafts on different topics, only to abandon them because I got bored with myself. And then I realized that there’s something that’s been bothering me for a while and I need to get it …
Let’s talk Romance. No, I’m not asking you to send me flowers and chocolates and wine and dine me (though if you’d like to do so, I won’t object). I’m talking about a genre that accounted for approximately $1.08 billion in sales in 2013, or 13% of adult fiction sales. (See more facts and figures …
I don’t know how it happened, but there’s not a lot in this world that I’m afraid of. Not really afraid of, anyway. Clowns are rather terrifying (and also NOT FUNNY), but in spite of what movies may tell me, I don’t believe that they’re all cleaver-wielding homicidal maniacs waiting to slaughter me in my …
When you read a lot, you often have to ask: What do I keep? Which of these books do I love just a little bit more than the others? My rules for the keeper shelf are fluid and constantly changing. There are usually a few authors and series that enjoy “automatic keeper” status at any …
I read a lot. I mean, a lot, a lot. (But not alot, even though an Alot is adorable.) Sometimes, when you read as much as I do, you start to spot trends that maybe aren’t really trends. For instance, there was a short period of time where I read several books about the death penalty. Before that, …
