Reading Challenges & Community [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

28 December 2019 / thoughts / 6 Comments
Reading Challenges & Community [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

Welcome to the final part in this series of reflections! Thanks to everyone who has shared thoughts and encouragements with me so far. This post is about participating in the book blogging community via reading challenges, readalongs, and other communal activities.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Answering Kids’ Questions about Death [Family Reads]

26 December 2019 / family reads / 2 Comments
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Answering Kids’ Questions about Death [Family Reads]

Ash began our conversation with “I have nothing to say about this book”. I felt the same way. I responded with “It’s short, it’s boring, it’s underwhelming” but we immediately agreed ‘boring’ wasn’t the correct adjective. The content of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?…

Combined Review of Two Contemporary Stories: Other Words for Home and More to the Story [MG Reviews]

17 December 2019 / review / 6 Comments
Combined Review of Two Contemporary Stories: Other Words for Home and More to the Story [MG Reviews]

I struggle to review contemporary middle grade because I’m not passionate about the genre. I read these two titles because I wanted to be able to book talk them. That’s my main motivator for reading any contemporary middle grade…

Developing a New Review Structure [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

15 December 2019 / thoughts / 5 Comments
Developing a New Review Structure [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

Today’s post synthesizes what I learnt from the previous two weeks. Here are a list of changes (grouped by content, format, and design) that I would like to try in my reviews.

10 Books I Own But Haven’t Read [TTT]

10 December 2019 / top 10 tuesday / 5 Comments
10 Books I Own But Haven’t Read [TTT]

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie. I don’t know why I picked this topic. Usually I pick one that I missed recently…but this was the topic on November 5, 2018, lol. Well, anyway. My topic is books I […]