The past two weeks have been busy, but good. I got to see the touring production of Hamilton with my family, which was awesome, knocked out a bit of spring cleaning, re-organized my editing binder, binged the new season of Shadow and Bone, and now I'm getting a girls' weekend with my niece since my brother isn't … Continue reading Odds & Ends 3/6-3/19
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Review: Spells For Forgetting

My thoughts on Adrienne Young's slow burn mystery
Odds & Ends 2/6-2/19
I'm feeling pretty good about the past two weeks. I made myself a writing schedule with specific benchmark goals to reach, and I stuck to it pretty successfully. I'm feeling a lot more satisfied with my world-building now, so my next phase will be examining how some of those elements affect my plot going forward. … Continue reading Odds & Ends 2/6-2/19
Review: The Midnight Library

It's a Wonderful Life meets the multiverse in this book by Matt Haig
Odds & Ends 1/9-1/22
The past couple of weeks have been all about trying to find a balanced routine & keeping up my writing rhythm. I've found I'm more successful at that with smaller, short-term goals that let me measure progress with my writing while still allowing me to step away and get things done in other areas of … Continue reading Odds & Ends 1/9-1/22
Review: The Ballad of Never After

Review of the second book in Stephanie Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart series
2023: A Reading Preview

This will be my last post of 2022, so that means it is time to look back on what I've read this year and start setting my reading goals for next year. Not surprisingly, 2022 was definitely a year of children's books for me. Sandra Boynton is my niece's favorite author, partly because of the … Continue reading 2023: A Reading Preview
Odds & Ends ???-12/11
It's been a minute since my last post, hasn't it? No, I was not taken, I did not join witness protection, nor did I go into early hibernation (though that last one sounds tempting). My computer simply decided this fall was a good time for a prolonged swan song. I took it in for a … Continue reading Odds & Ends ???-12/11
Books I’m Glad Were On My High School Reading List

Assigned books. Summer reading lists. Group reads. Whatever form they come in and whatever teachers call them, students rarely get excited about the books they have to read for class. Sometimes they downright hate them. Even people like myself, who really like reading, can probably name at least one book they only finished because a … Continue reading Books I’m Glad Were On My High School Reading List
Review: Once Upon a Broken Heart

Review of the first book in Stephanie Garber's newest series