This week’s prompt: What fantasy or Sci-fi should be part of the literary canon? I have no idea what this prompt is asking me. What’s the literary cannon? Also what are people who don’t really read sci-fi or fantasy supposed to write? Okay, let’s take this one step at a time. I’m going to guess READ MORE
Month: March 2025
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | WINTER 2024/25
It’s amazing to think that we might be on our way out of winter! We only just got past our snow, and it’s still a little chilly out there. But the sun is starting to come out, even feel a bit warm, and it just feels like it’s turning. We’re even getting new shoots springing READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK I’M NERVOUS TO READ AND WHY
Oh man, there are so many books that fit this prompt. Any book longer than 500 pages. Any book with difficult language, including dialect (Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange) or just general impenetrable language like Ulysses. Most classics because I’m out of practice with the language of the period. Any book that I know is going READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS CHARACTERS HAVE SAID
Oh man, quote prompts are always so hard! I don’t make notes of them, and my memory is pretty much useless these days. So there’s zero chance I’m going to remember any, and I don’t have a way of looking them up at will! So I’m turning to Google for help on this one. I’m READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a week. Not terrible, but a little full on. I spent an extra few hours driving to prepare for an unfamiliar and busy route to a field trip my kid was going on, which was super stressful as it involved bumper-to-bumper traffic as 5 lanes merged into 2…. on a bridge. Not my READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ONE LAST STOP – CASEY MCQUISTON
Similar to Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, this book has been zooming around the internet (and being discussed very positively) since shortly after it came out. This is also a romance, which isn’t my usual genre, but as you guys know I do make exceptions for books that are, you know, just good books. As usual READ MORE