Editorial

Reader Confession – Have you re-read any of your childhood favorites?

April 17, 2019 By Maryse 11 Comments

Ahhhh I love this subject!! And Leslie is the one that got me thinking:

Leslie M: Ok, so I just read Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret for my “Time’s top 100″ in our challenge. So funny to re-read something from my childhood with an adult perspective. “We must, we must, we must increase our bust.” I feel so far removed from an 11 yr old girl, I could never write a realistic coming of age book. The silly things that seem so important…

Anyway, it was fun. Maybe I need to pull out some Nancy Drew. read more

Reader Confession – What happens to our ebooks when we die?

March 27, 2019 By Maryse 5 Comments

Not really a confession per se (other than neither one of us thought of this beforehand), but now we’re thinking.

I know… it sounds a little morbid, but it’s something to consider, and I’m so thankful that JulieO brought this to our attention.

She messaged me saying:

My girlfriend told me something interesting the other day that I had never thought of.

Her aunt passed away and they had a ‘reading of the will’ and her granddaughter, who is in her twenties was bequeathed her 4 kindles which were loaded to the max. Apparently they both shared a love of books. Someone else got other household items or the car etc. but she was overjoyed with the kindles. read more

Remember When…? Reminiscing about the last 10 years on the blog…

March 3, 2019 By Maryse 24 Comments

My blog turned 10 just a few days ago, on February 28th 2019!! And our book crew have been reminiscing, so I couldn’t help but compile these fun “remember when…” tidbits into a blog post.

And bev is the one that kicked it off, (she’s our resident questionnaire-er…er.) 😛

P.S. Gah!! I SO wanna do Tasha J’s “meet up” suggestion. OMG YES PLEASE!!! 😀 That would be heaven. We’d need to build our blankie forts that night too. My dogs would be so happy too!! *snort* read more

Reader Confession – Spending time searching for books, adding to TBR & collecting as opposed to reading…

February 20, 2019 By Maryse 19 Comments

Tee hee!! Yes. I am so guilty of this myself. I love that we can struggle with the same “book collecting” needs, the squirreling over awesome reviews and blurb jolts, click to our hearts content and feel guilty about it together. Although Nay doesn’t seem to feel so guilty about it. 😉 *snort*

Tasha J started us off saying…

Tasha J: My new hobby as of late seems to be searching for books, reading synopsis’ and reviews, adding to tbr and collecting as opposed to reading….then I will read a book or 2 and go back to this. How do I control myself?? read more

Reader Question – Rules for genres… what do you consider a "romance" novel?

January 3, 2019 By Maryse 17 Comments

Okay so this one doesn’t necessarily have us searching for a particular book, but brings up an interesting topic as many of us long-time readers are learning there are actual rules for various “genres”.

Melanie asked me about this, and I thought it would be perfect to open up for discussion!

Melanie asks:

I have a question about genre rules. I’ve thought one way my whole life about what romance novels are, but I learned last night in an author group that there’s an entirely different set of rules, and I’m hoping I can get your opinion on it. read more