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 …

What in the Worldbuilding: Sports in Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Where are they?)

I'm so, so excited to unveil What in the Worldbuilding, a new blog post series where I'm going to be discussing all things worldbuilding in stories. Because I love stories and I love worldbuilding and I love rambling about them even more. For the first couple of posts, I'll be talking about some elements of …

Top Ten Tuesday – Settings I Want to See More of in Fiction

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now being hosted by The Artsy Reader. I've been telling myself that I'll try out a TTT topic for over a year now, but I never actually took the plunge. But I saw posts for this week's topic pop up in my …

Top 5 Wednesday – Characters That Embody the Hufflepuff House

Happy Wednesday! I know I said I'd be back to a semi-normal schedule last week, but I've been suffering from a case of "Oh god, my reviews and posts are flaming piles of garbage" and "WHAT ARE WORDS????" which has had the added benefit of wreaking havoc on my reading pace. Fun, fun times. But …

Top 5 Wednesday – Ideal Hypothetical Mash-ups

"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 weeks theme is: Ideal Mash-Ups. I was debating whether or not to participate in this one because I usually dislike blurbs that go, "Harry Potter meets The …

Top 5 Wednesday – Favourite Jokesters

"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 topic is: favourite jokesters, pranksters, and funny characters. This was a hard one. I had trouble remembering any comic-relief/jokey characters in books, let alone ones that …

Top 5 Wednesday – Favourite Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Other Media

"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: favourite Sci-fi & Fantasy in other media. I consume a lot of SFF media (especially video games and anime) and I wrung my brain out …