Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Took Me Out of My Comfort Zone (And Helped Me Find New Ones)

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now being hosted by The Artsy Reader. This week's topic is Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone, but I've modified it slightly to "books that took me out of my comfort zone but I didn't necessarily enjoy." Comfort …

Top 5 Wednesday – Books You Want to Read Before the End of the Year

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes, where you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's theme is: Books you want to read before the end of the year, which I'm interpreting as, "already-released books I want to read before the end …

Top 5 Wednesday – LGBTQ+ Books (Sans Cis M/M Relationships)

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes, where you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's theme is: LGBTQ+ Books That Don’t Feature Cis M/M Relationships. If this week's prompt seems rather specific, here's Sam's reasoning: This may seem oddly specific, but …

Top 5 Wednesday – Favourite Mentors/Teachers in Books

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes, where you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's theme is: favourite mentors/teachers. I had a lot going on this past week, so this was compiled kind of at the last minute. Which means it's …

Top 5 Wednesday – Children’s Books to Read as an Adult

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes, where you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. I thought it'd be fun to join in and that it might help me keep some semblance of a consistent schedule for this blog. This week's theme is: …

Moving from YA to Adult Fantasy – Because Not All Adult Fantasy is BDSM Elves

When you're a small child and you happen to be a frequent visitor of libraries, there's a certain sense of ritual in moving up from one range of grade-level shelves to the next. It's the bookish version of being elevated from squire to knight. Except you're the one holding the sword and tapping your own …