Category: discussion

Reading a Book for the First Time (or, I Finally Read The Silmarillion in its Entirety)[Discussion]

29 August 2018 / discussion / 0 Comments
Reading a Book for the First Time (or, I Finally Read The Silmarillion in its Entirety)[Discussion]

When I was young and utterly in love with The Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit book, I kept telling myself I would read The Silmarillion by the time I turned 18. In fact, I did not even read the entire The Lord of the […]

Negative Reviews, Star Ratings, and Audience Consideration [Discussion]

7 August 2018 / discussion / 0 Comments
Negative Reviews, Star Ratings, and Audience Consideration [Discussion]

Some Changes Around Here: A Change to My Rating System This discussion post grew out of a response to Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction’s post about her rating system (above).  Negative Reviews Nicole’s post addressed how, as an aspiring […]

The Inevitable Disappointment of Trilogies? (Thoughts on A Conjuring of Light)

11 June 2017 / discussion, review / 4 Comments
The Inevitable Disappointment of Trilogies? (Thoughts on A Conjuring of Light)

I began this post as an ordinary review of A Conjuring of Light, the final book in V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy. I realized most of my thoughts stemmed from the frustration of reading a trilogy’s conclusion, so I’ve structured this post to […]

What is Speculative Fiction? Some Thoughts on Genre

16 June 2016 / discussion / 1 Comment
What is Speculative Fiction? Some Thoughts on Genre

I drafted this post back in January when I was trying to add a genre label to Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. I didn’t know what to tag it, so I took to Google and came across the […]

Blogging Discussion: Mid-Year Check In

14 June 2015 / discussion, thoughts / 5 Comments
Blogging Discussion: Mid-Year Check In

How is it mid-June already?! I always find the first half of the year goes more quickly than the latter half, but this year has been on another level, filled with traveling and visitors and  a new school year that […]