![Pet: A Unique and Important Reading Experience [YA Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pet.jpg?fit=1000%2C1519&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been […]
Welcome to my 2020 mid-year check in! In this post, I check my progress on my reading goals, challenge participation, and blogging goals. I also review my ratings of every book I’ve read so far in 2020. Reading Goals 62/102 books read – I originally set this goal at 100 books. I increased it after reading a number of very short (under 150 pages/each) works of non-fiction. 1/7 books about/by J.R.R. Tolkien (not including […]
![Most Anticipated Releases for the Second Half of 2020 [TTT]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/top-ten-tuesday-new-host.png?fit=500%2C203&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
The title of this post says it all. List ordered by release date. Entirely speculative fiction and primarily middle grade fiction, with one adult (#1) and two young adult (#5 and #9) titles. Middle grade continues to impress. As you’ll see below, so many great stories, so many awesome covers. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (Jul. 21) – Puritanical society + dark powers + feminist fantasy + […]
![My First Robin Hood Retelling [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/outlaws-of-sherwood-forest.jpg?fit=261%2C437&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Robin is an apprentice forester in the woods of Nottingham. The arrows he makes and sells earn barely enough extra coin to retain the title to his father’s small lands. The sheriff of Nottingham’s jealousy toward Robin’s father is just as fierce towards his son, and the sheriff’s men take every opportunity to harass the young woodsman. But when Robin defends himself by accidentally killing one of the sheriff’s men, […]
I participated in my first Top 10 Tuesday (embedded above) on 19 January 2016. TTT had already been running for years by then. :O Is there anything else in book blogging that’s ten years old?? Lots of thanks to the former team at The Broke and the Bookish for starting TTT and Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl for keeping it going. To celebrate, we’re looking back at the first […]