Welcome to part 2 of my series on fairy tale retellings! Other parts in this series: Fairy Tale Retellings: Cinderella Fairy Tale Retellings; Beauty & the Beast MORE COMING SOON! Along with Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast is one of the most popular fairy tales. This is totally shown in how VAST an array of …
I want to do a whole series of posts on one of my favorite topics - fairy tale retellings. I figure what better place to start than one of the most well-known as well as most retold stories of them all - Cinderella. Other parts in this series: Fairy Tale Retellings: Cinderella Fairy Tale Retellings; …
Lydia over at SilverWolfReads wrote a post about trying out adult romances, and it set me OFF, y'all. She mentioned having The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne on her list, as well as The Kiss Quotient and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang, and my comments were many and long with …
The Guthrie is doing a run of Cyrano de Bergerac, which is my absolutely MOST FAVORITE PLAY, and I really want to go to it! Fittingly, Netflix also just released a movie that's a modern day teenage rom-com retelling of Cyrano as well, and so this post was born!! I don't know why Cyrano de Bergerac (written by Edmond Rostand) …
Continue reading Discussion: Cyrano de Bergerac retellings (in print and film)
I saw this tag over on A Great Read and knew I HAD to do it (even though I don't normally do these memes/tags). Ready for a game of telephone? She found the tag through JennReneeRead , who originally saw it over at The Book Nut. Note: Clicking the book covers will take you to the book's Amazon …
I asked on my Twitter account the other day whether people keep a digital catalog of their books, and if so what method/tool they use. LOTS of people said they use Goodreads - but that it's pretty out of date. I don't keep a digital record of which books I own, but I'm thinking about …
This year I'm trying something new for me and creating a TBR each month. So far I haven't done a very good job of reading the books on my TBR, but it does help me to focus at the beginning of the month on what ARCs I've got out there that are releasing soon, what …
Continue reading April TBR & Discussion: Do you make a monthly TBR?
2019 Reading Challenge Book read in March: 7 Total books read: 38 Goal: 100 Discussion posts in March: 3 Total discussion posts: 7 Goal: 31-40 Backlist books read in March: 2 Total backlist books read: 17 Goal: 100 Contemporary romances read in March: 3 Total contemporary romances read: 21 Goal: 21+ Status post with reviews linked up is here. Retellings read in …
With KissCon Weekend Affair a little over a week away, I realized I need to get on the ball about which books to bring (and buy!) to get signed!! KissCon is going to have a really impressive line-up of authors, and I'm limiting myself to just having my favorite book by the authors I really …
Continue reading Author Signed Books (and my #KissCon stack!)
So I'm still plugging away on Project Re-Shelf Yourself, where I'm trying to organize the utter chaos that is my bookcases. I've got Annie and Ari coming to help me on Sunday, March 24th to help, and I really need to figure out how I want everything organized by then! You can see what I'm …
Elley the Book Otter 