Why I think I’m drawn to M/M Romance

This question has been ruminating in my head for a bit now.  I hope it’s obvious, but I’m an ally.   I’m an advocate for equal rights, period.  I read a lot of LGBTQIA fiction, in romance but also in the Young Adult section.  Still, I’m a mostly hetero woman, middle age, married with a daughter, and […]

Review | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

About the Book: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A […]

Challenge COMPLETED!

I have to take one day to commend myself, here.  Bear with me. Every year I set the same reading goal on Goodreads.  It never changes.  It’s always 100 books.  Last year I thought I’d get bold and set it at 120, and I barely scraped out my normal 100 books.  In previous years I […]

Waiting on Wednesday

Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Release Date: 11/22/2016)   There’s something that’s spectacular in Neal Shusterman’s writing.  No matter which book you pick up, there’s always a level of creativity that’s beyond anything else you’ve read.  I guarantee that nobody else has written anything like Unwind, or Everlost.  The compassionate voice he used when writing Challenger Deep is […]

Review | Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan

About the Book: High school graduate Jeremey Samson is looking forward to burying his head under the covers and sleeping until it’s time to leave for college. Then a tornado named Emmet Washington enters his life. The double major in math and computer science is handsome, forward, wicked smart, interested in dating Jeremey—and he’s autistic. But […]

2016 Best of the Best: Part 1

The first half of 2016 is already over, and I feel like I read some really great books.  Of course I’ll end up doing some grand ‘end of the year reads’ blog post, talking about the what I loved and hated that year, but I thought if I do one biyearly I could squeeze in […]