Tag: Reader Discussion

Throw your desert island books out the window

Posted November 8, 2016 by Jen in Discussions | Tagged: , , | 5 Comments
Throw your desert island books out the window

Desert island books? Pshaw, that’s no good! Who can live on a handful of books? Instead, let’s talk about our desert island romance TROPES! If you got stranded on a desert island and could only read books with 3 romance tropes of your choosing for the indefinite future, what 3 would they be? After a […]

How alpha do you like your men?

Posted March 5, 2013 by Casee in Discussions | Tagged: , , | 1 Comment

In books, that is… I’m reading the second book in Maya Banks’ Breathless trilogy. The first book, Rush, got me thinking about just how alpha some males have gotten since I started reading. Linda Howard was the first whose book’s had what I consider an “alpha” male. Kell Sabin, Dane Hollister, and Gray Roulliard just […]

Pretty Little Liars and Storylines I Hate.

Posted January 26, 2012 by Rowena in Reviews | Tagged: , | 7 Comments
Pretty Little Liars and Storylines I Hate.

A few weekends ago, I took my 12 year old daughter with me to the bookstore to spend the gift cards that I got from Christmas. This was a happy time for me as I LOVE bookstores and I don’t get around to going to any very often. Brenna, who reads when she has to […]

How Do You Decide What To Read Next?

Posted October 19, 2011 by Rowena in Discussions | Tagged: , | 6 Comments
How Do You Decide What To Read Next?

If you’re a book blogger like me then you probably have more books to read than you know what to do with. You come across loads of review requests in your email that you can’t say no to, you see books that you’re itching to get your hands on through NetGalley and you click on […]

Hello, My Name is Rowena….

Posted June 13, 2011 by Rowena in Discussions | Tagged: , | 5 Comments
Hello, My Name is Rowena….

….and I’m an adult who reads YA books. Not too long ago, the YA community was up in arms (and rightly so) over a WSJ article about (overreacting) parents who are worried about the state of YA books. They’re too dark, they’re too suicidal and blah blah blah. The thing that didn’t make a lick […]