Sneak PeeksThis is especially common in urban fantasy and paranormal romance books, but I've seen it in other genres too, especially when the mass market paperback is released and it's also promoting the next hardcover release in the series ( Read more... )

Where's Waldo?

Over the weekend, I had several people ask whether or not I'd reviewed certain books, and I realized that since I've redone my journal format and my tagging system, it might be a good idea to show everyone how they can find reviews in this blog.

If you're looking for an author alphabetical by last name, click hereIf you're looking ( Read more... )

Signature GuaranteeRaise your hand if this is familiar: you go somewhere. A reading or a book signing (sometimes, it's two in one!) or you meet the author at a convention and decide, after conversing with said author, you'd like to buy a book from them. Mind you, you've never read the author before, but you get the book and get the book signed. And ( Read more... )

Short But Sweet

Monday is a busy day for me, so much so that I didn't have time prepare an article of any sort so instead, I thought I'd leave you with a question. Ready?

What's your favorite read so far in July?

Mine? It's been an odd month for me, but I'm going with the second book of Karen Traviss's Wess'Har War series, Crossing the Line. ( Read more... )

Everybody's Doing It!

If there's one thing I'm biding my time over, it's e-readers. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I hate reading on computer screens. This is because I critique on computer screens, and my brain is in automatic let's-find-something-WRONG! mode. So reading for FUN on computer screens? Not a good idea ( Read more... )

For June, I decided to make the monthly wrap-up a separate post. Part of me wants to see just how "popular" these posts really are, and the other part of me has too many topics I want to babble about on Maintenance Monday to use up a column on this, so to speak. I should've posted this sooner though, so sorry about that ( Read more... )

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200We all have them. Our absolute favorite authors. I mean, there's authors we like. Authors we love. And then there's authors that it doesn't matter HOW BIG your To-Be-Read pile is, said author's latest will go STRAIGHT to the top. I never gave this much thought until I drove 35 minutes to the nearest bookstore ( Read more... )

Happy List Day!There are a lot of little things I want to bring to your attention or mention, so today, you're getting a list ( Read more... )

Adapting to Adaptations

I'm in no mood to babble, so we're going to keep this short and sweet.

When it comes to adaptations of my favorite books, I'm always equal parts excited and scared, especially when it involves the literary SF/fantasy field, because there so much potential for both awesomeness and disaster.

When it came to Alice Sebold's ( Read more... )

Tag, You're It!

I've been thinking about my tagging system for a while. It's one of the things that's kept me from changing my layout too much, because I've got SO MANY TAGS that it makes the cloud formation really difficult to navigate. But the list function is a little unwieldy too, which was why I put up a poll last week to determine which tags ( Read more... )