Top 10 Tuesday: Under 2000 Goodreads Ratings

5 July 2016 / top 10 tuesday / 0 Comments
Top 10 Tuesday: Under 2000 Goodreads Ratings

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish  Top Ten Books with Under 2,000 GoodReads Ratings Today’s topic stood out as a fun one for me – a chance to spotlight some under recognized books! Out of books I’ve rated three […]

Library Book Haul: ‘Professional Development’

28 June 2016 / Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Library Book Haul: ‘Professional Development’

Recent trips to the library have seen me checking out books related to librarianship and ESL education. I aspire to become a children’s librarian. I want to learn more about the actualities of the profession. Happily, my library has a […]

Review: 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

20 June 2016 / review / 0 Comments
Review: 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: November 2015 Publisher: Atria Books Length: 269 pagesGenre: Non-fictionWhy I Read: Intriguing subject matterRead If You: Like stories about people who overcome the impossibleRating:  ★★★★Links: GoodReads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  Since reading In the Heart of the […]

Response: What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?

17 June 2016 / response / 0 Comments
Response: What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?

On Wednesday, Naz @ Read Diverse Books posted “What Does the Term Diverse Mean to You?”. I’m bumping the review I had scheduled today to write a response to his post, as I’ve been thinking about it a lot these […]

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 […]