DNF Reviews: Tarnished are the Stars & The Good Luck Girls – Why does YA Hate Me? (I’m Open to Suggestions)

Here's a fun stat for you: I DNFed 5 books in the past month and a half, and four of them were YA SFF. And I'm pretty sure they're at least 60% responsible for the reading slump I'm currently in. Conclusion? 1) Recent YA SFF is just missing a lot of the stuff I crave. …

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 …

DNF Review: Here and Now and Then – Your Name Is What Now?

Title: Here and Now and Then Author: Mike Chen Publisher: MIRA Release Date: January 29th, 2019 Genre(s): Sci-Fi Subjects and Themes: Time Travel, Families Page Count: 336 (hardback) Rating: DNF @ 37%     Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect …

Top 5 Wednesday – Books at the Top of My TBR

“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: Top of Your TBR. And...that's it. No fancy rewording for this one; it's what it says on the tin. (Though I did limit …

Top 5 WedTuesday – Disappointing Books of 2018 That I Still Appreciate

"Kathy. I think it's time for an intervention." "Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about. As usual." "'Top 5 WedTuesday'? Published one day before the next Top 5 Wednesday?" "Oh, get off my back. You make it sound like I do this every other week. This is literally the first--" "And speaking of …

August 2018 Wrap Up – It’s Not You, Scifi, It’s Me…But It’s Also Kind of You

So mental-health wise, life has been a veritable mess from July to August. After a trip to the emergency room, days of yelling and apologizing, and talking to from doctors, things are now marginally better. I've been throwing myself into art which has been helping quite a bit. And while it feels like I'm creeping …

Top 5 Wednesday – Book List for a Class On Developmental Psychology

"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: Book list for a class on (Genre/Trope/etc). After a panicky, "Oh god, it's 12 AM and I haven't chosen a topic yet," I ended …

June 2018 Wrap-Up

So today is supposed to be a Diversity Spotlight Thursday post day (say that five times), but it's been a stupefyingly busy week, what with Canada Day weekend and work stuff, which led to me completely losing track of time. Confession time: I write the majority of my posts the day before they're to be …

Review: The Rig – Black Mirror But With Less Rampant Cynicism

Title: The Rig Author: Roger Levy Publisher: Titan Books Release Date: May 8th, 2018 Genre(s): Science Fiction Page Count: 617 pages Goodreads Rating: 6.5/10         The Rig is one of those books that I know a lot people will love for its sheer originality and exploration of complex themes, but just didn't …

Diversity Spotlight Thursday: Pirates Ahoy!| 3 Days, 3 Quotes [Day 2]

Diversity Spotlight Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Aimal from Bookshelves & Paperbacks. Each week you come up with three book for three different categories: a diverse book you've read and enjoyed; a diverse book that's already been released and is in your TBR; and a diverse book that hasn't been released yet. And …