Recently I’ve been noticing that some bloggers are putting heat ratings, age recommendations, or other content warnings on their reviews. It got me to wondering: How useful are those ratings/warnings to readers? And do they make sense for a blog like mine that covers several genres and spans the gamut… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books On My Fall To-Be-Read list. As usual, they aren’t in any kind of order. All of them will be published this fall, in October or November. Of course, there… Read more »
Description: After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Whew! I… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had a spectacularly busy week on the non-blogging front, so this week’s News & Notes is a little sparse,… Read more »
Kat, Incorrigible Series: Kat Incorrigible #1 Pages: 304 Add to Goodreads Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing… Read more »
I stumbled upon this bookish ABC questionnaire on New Horizons Reviews and thought it looked like fun! Author you’ve read the most books from: Probably Agatha Christie, because I’ve read almost everything she wrote under that name, and she wrote a lot of books (85 under her own name.) Runners-up… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From & Need To Read More! This was harder than you would think, because usually when I find an author I like, I… Read more »
The Little White Horse remains one of my favorite children’s books of all time. When I found out it had been made into a movie, I was both excited and apprehensive, and immediately borrowed it from Netflix. It turns out I was right to be apprehensive. In filming The Secret… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. I’m back… Read more »
