I’m not going to write about December here because I think I covered that in my two year end post. I still wanted to do a monthly wrap-up to review the books I read and the posts I wrote in December, though. Books Finished Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore Embassytown by China Mieville War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft Greenglass House by Kate Milford Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan […]
Welcome to my eighth annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I like to take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2017, and set some new goals for 2018. Posting and Reading Overview I posted 81 times. I had a vague goal for posting this year, thinking about two posts (incl. one review) a week. I didn’t distribute my posts in an […]
Today the 2017 Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards) finalists are announced! I’m ready to kick into gear in my role as a round two judge in the middle grade speculative fiction category. Mark @ Say What?, Halli @ The Winged Pen, Rosemary @ Mom Read It, Brenda @ Log Cabin Library and myself will deliberate to decide which of the following finalists will be named the category […]
Hosted by Jamie @ Perpetual Page Turner, I like how this survey delves into the specifics of books read and gives me a chance to review all I read and wrote this year. I did remove some of the questions that I didn’t have an answer for, so be sure to visit the original post if you’d like to complete the survey. Links to reviews where applicable. My annual overview […]
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They’ve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens. The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her […]