November New TBR

ircus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley Goodreads | Amazon Goodreads Summery Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician …

#BookishTalks : Second Books

So I hate second books.  I prepare myself anytime I start a second book to just hate it and suffer through so I can continue with a series I know I’m going to love. Don’t get me wrong.  I love series.  Some of my favorite stories are book series, but second books always seem to …

Bookish Belongings: Posters

Bookish belongings is back with Posters.  If you’ve filled your room with all the books you can manage, why not add some posters to the walls to continue the bookish theme. This site has a bunch of minimalist posters of classic stories.  I really love them all and wish I could have a set of …

#BookishTalks | Ain’t no party like a Potter party

So I’ve been binge-listening to Book Riot’s podcasts.  If you like keeping up with the world of books, you should put this on your listen list. Recently they were talking about Harry Potter and how only The Deathly Hallows made it on the top 20 best selling books in Amazon’s history. The first reason for …

Story Starters #3

Use these prompts for writing inspiration.  For an extra challenge, us all of them in one story. First line A table full of teapots, and all but one was poison. Story Idea A group of creatives (writers, authors, musicians, etc) who can make their creations reality decide to remake the world into the future that …

Pages and Places: New Orleans

So this is the first in my feature Pages and Places.   I’ll be talking about bookstores, libraries, bookish places, meet-ups, places I like to write, or anything else that has books and inspires writing.  So in the spring I went to New Orleans.  And while I was doing a walking tour in the garden district with …

Cover Love: The Paper Magician Series

  So I don’t know how many people are loving the Paper Magician Series by Charlie N. Holmburg, but if you haven’t read it you should.  I devoured the first two books, and need to get my hands on the last one.  The first thing that drew me into this series was the cover.  It was …