Who needs an excuse to buy a book? Well, today’s your chance. September 7th is National Buy a Book Day! This happens every year to encourage people to support their local bookstores. This is not an anti-ebook or anti-Amazon day. It’s just a day that urges us to enter our… Continue reading
I got two chapters into my morning Bible reading before I realized…I’d already read them. Yesterday. And I couldn’t tell! My Bible flopped into my lap and I inwardly groaned. Why can’t Scripture stick in my head? No matter how many times I’ve attempted to memorize whole chapters or re-read a passage, it… Continue reading
Raise your hand if you can define the word “dystopian.” Anyone? Anyone? (Bueller? Bueller?) It’s hard for me to raise my hand and I’m writing it! I figured since I’m promoting my dystopian book, A Time to Die (which releases in 5 weeks! Ahh!) I might as well educate everyone on the term dystopian because, honestly,… Continue reading
We all have them — those books that leave half our hearts inside of paper pages. Those books that, when we finish, we can’t imagine reading anything else. Ever. Those books that somehow turn our emotions into vapored ink. I wanted to share six books/series (aside from the Bible) that… Continue reading
Assassins. An underground school. A girl who can turn invisible. A brilliant author who thought it all up. Welcome, Hannah Cobb, author of Mortis! I don’t host many guest authors, but after reading an advanced copy of Mortis, I just couldn’t help but share it on my blog. You can read my… Continue reading
I write dystopian. So, of course I went and saw the new movie, Divergent. Yes, I read the book first. Don’t panic. Guilty confession: I didn’t have high expectations for the movie. In fact, I expected it to be average at best. I’m not an enormous Divergent fan, mostly because I felt like… Continue reading
I’ve just discovered the world of reading challenges on the blogosphere. Have you known about these? Apparently, there’s an entire virtual world of challenges that encourage reading — reading in different genres, different age groups, different time periods, etc. The varieties are endless! I summary, a reading challenge is a… Continue reading
In 2003, I started keeping a book journal. In this small journal, I recorded every single book I read, including the page numbers and the date finished. My own paper-form of Goodreads! Sometimes it’s embarrassing to look at what I devoured as a romance-hungry teenager, but now I look back… Continue reading
