Top 5 Wednesday – Favourite Magic Systems

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes in which you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's topic is favourite magic systems. "Kathy, why do you have like a thousand shelves on your Goodreads?" Well, readers, I have them for moments like …

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 – 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 …

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 …