How Historical Fiction Became a Source of Comfort These Last Few Weeks

Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you're all doing well and keeping relatively sane! I kind of pulled a disappearing act again, but March was uh...yeah. I had to go through some adjustments. The past couple of weeks has been interesting. I'm forgetting what day it is, I've been crying non stop to The Weeknd's new …

Crawling Out of Cave Hiatus: What I’ve Been Up to, 2020 Blog Goals (Changes are Afoot…)

  Hello friends!!! I am crawling out of my hibernation cave like a big grumpy bear in need of more sleep and less stress to say, I'M BACK. *Poses* *Scattered applause* Launching and organizing a book promotion took up much of my time for the past two months (I'll have to write up my experiences …

I’m Back! – Health Nightmares, Weird Analogies about Canadian Health Care, and Queer Mermaids

Hey everyone! I'm back (possibly? hopefully?) from my completely unintended hiatus! Sigh. Let me be blunt: these past two and a half weeks have been the absolute worst. You know the saying "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb"? Well, June came in like a beautiful flying unicorn spraying rainbow …

Update (I’m Back!) and Discworld Month 6 (Better Late than Never…?)

Happy Holidays, everyone! I'm back from my unannounced hiatus! Incidentally, I'm a broken record. November and December are generally not great months for me (one of the million things they don't tell you as a kid is how the holidays can go from the Most Wonderful Time of the Year to Time of Dread as …

October 2018 Wrap-Up – Book Things & Art as a Double-Edged Sword

It's the middle of the month...and you know what that means! 😀 So, I was going to include mini reviews for some of the games I played in the past month because Nicole @ Thoughts Stained With Ink was like, "Heck yeah! You should totally do that!" But the post was getting kinda long and …

Review (DNF): Mage Against the Machine – An Exercise in Anger Management

Title: Mage Against the Machine Author: Shaun Barger Publisher: Saga Press Release Date: October 31st, 2018 Genre(s): Fantasy, Science Fiction Subjects and Themes: Artificial Intelligence Page Count: 512 (hardback) Rating: DNF (@ 50%)     The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up …

Shelfie By Shelfie #1

This is a tag that I first saw on Tar Heel Reader, which is run by the indelible, incredible Jennifer, and was created by Beth from Bibliobeth. Thank you to Jennifer for bringing this to my attention and to Beth for coming up with this awesome tag! "If you want to join in, you share …

Blogger Recognition Award – A 6 Month Anniversary On Which I Attempt to Give Advice on Blogging and Life

I was nominated by Gerry from The BookNook UK for the Blogger Recognition Award about a month ago! Gerry ranks among post-it notes and cinnamon buns with cream cheese as one of the more awesome things that exist in this world, so go shower her with love. Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide …

The Mystery Blogger Award (Part 1)

I've been procrastinating on these tags and have accumulated multiples of the same one, so I'll be splitting this into two parts! For Part 1, I was tagged by two wonderful people--Justine from Milkz Bookshelf and Gerry from the UK Booknook. Justine is a relatively new blogger (only two months old), but she's already been …

Book Blogger Insider Tag

I was tagged by Ashley from Ashley in Wonderland for this, so thank you, Ashley! Her blog is wonderful (and so pretty to look at), so be sure to check out it out! RULES: Answer the questions below Credit the creator: Jamie @ ALittleSliceofJamie Tag at least 5 people Have fun! 1. Where do you typically write …