Category Archives: book blogging

My Blogging Valentines

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 by

Happy February, Bookwyrms!   Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day, Palentine’s Day, Singles Awareness Day, or even Discount Chocolate Day (Feb 15th), this is a season to share the love.  Accordingly, I’d like to take this opportunity to send … Continue reading →

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Ten years under hill, over dale, beneath the waves, on faery trails…

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 by

Happy December, Bookwyrms and La-La Landers everywhere! Welcome to the final Year-End Review of the 2010s!  Ten years ago, 24-year-old Neri decided to ignore the call of Srs Adulthood and instead doubled down on her obsession with stories for and … Continue reading →

Posted in adaptations, book blogging, fantasy, favorites, folklore/fairy tales, LGBTQIA, literary travel, Lithuania, magical realism, mermaids, meta, movies, out-of-the-books experience, selkies, year-end review | 2 Comments

Why you should (allow yourself to) read “below your capabilities.”

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 by

Or:  “Reading Without Limits” Goes Both Ways  This is somewhat of a prelude to my Decade-End Review, and somewhat of a response to: Recent discussions on appropriate tween books (scroll down to the “Clean Teen” section), Debates over appropriate trick-or-treating ages … Continue reading →

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Screaming for Fairies: a conflicted story review

Posted on Jan 23, 2018 by

It’s been a month of raising the dead, hasn’t it?  I’ve been resurrecting my old Insatiable Booksluts posts, and now I’ve decided to delete my LiveJournal account.  Apparently, they’ve been bought by a Russian company and now require users to … Continue reading →

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Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’: Guess the book by the 90s song title

Posted on Jun 30, 2014 by

Let’s play a game!  Inspired by Book Riot‘s “We Didn’t Start the Pale Fire: Books Summarized By 80s Song Titles,” I thought I’d make my own list of book-summing song titles — drawn from the 90s, since that’s the decade that represents … Continue reading →

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I hereby de-strictify my previously mentioned challenge

Posted on Dec 26, 2013 by

[sigh]  Show of hands, how many of you saw this coming?  Don’t worry, I won’t hold it against you.  It’s not that I’m quitting, per se, so much as canceling the central rule of the challenge.  Which…ok, that sounds like … Continue reading →

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Now THAT’S how you make a book-based movie!!

Posted on Dec 17, 2013 by

So, I saw Catching Fire on Sunday and felt pretty much like Chester from the Nostalgia Critic‘s “Bum Reviews” – the latest of which, incidentally, is Catching Fire 🙂 (beware of spoilers) (P.S. the NC reviews – though not so much the … Continue reading →

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The Best YA Bracket Game

Posted on Dec 12, 2013 by

Inspired by Entertainment Weekly’s Best YA bracket game, sj of Booksnobbery made her own version a few weeks ago, with 120 titles suggested by her followers.  Readers voted, and sixty titles advanced.  Since then, an upcoming move and other RL … Continue reading →

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2, 4, 6, 8, who do I appreciate?

Posted on Sep 13, 2012 by

Cheesy post title is cheesy, I know. Anyhoo, I’m a bit late to the party, but I’d like to take a moment to appreciate some awesome book blogs in honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week!  Since I like lists, I … Continue reading →

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