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Category: Books
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Defending fiction
Over at the Mad Genius Club I have a guest post from Amie Gibbons up, and I think if you enjoy reading, this is a good post for you. I asked Amie Gibbons for a guest post after I saw a short thing she’d written indignantly defending fiction: “Don’t tell me fiction is a waste…
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Review: Pack Dynamics
Larry Correia announced a while back that he was planning to book bomb Julie Frost’s new novel, Pack Dynamics. There was a delay, waiting on the paper version, but I’d picked it up on the day it came out in ebook, so today, since we’re bombing the lovely and intelligent Julie, I’m reviewing the book.…
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A List of Books for Big Boys
The list of Books for Big Boys This list is intended to be a companion to the list of Books for Big Girls, which is a study in heroism. This list is the opposite of the other, in that it is strong female lead characters who can serve as role models for what to look…
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What’s in a review?
I realized as I explained why and how I review a book, recently, that it’s been a while since I did that here on the blog. I do have a bit of a review philosophy: I try to only review the good stuff. There are valid reasons for negative reviews, and I have done a…
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Eat This While You Read That: Leo Champion
I was kidding around with Leo when I asked him for a dish to write up for ETWYRT. I don’t even have to ask, I typed, I can just make pizza and serve it with Mountain Dew. Hey! He came back, I’m eating a lot healthier now! After some time to think, he told me…
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Review: Via Serica
I’d picked up Via Serica, Tom Rogneby’s latest, without a clear idea of what it was about. I don’t usually do that, but I was in a hurry, Dorothy Grant had just shared a link, and I’d really liked his Minivandians tales. So I grabbed it and went on with whatever I was doing that…
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In the Shadows
September 2015 Author Earnings report is out! Indie self-published books: And then at the top of the graph, in various shades of blue, we have indie self-published books. For simplicity, in this series of charts, we’ve included uncategorized single-author-publishers (who are basically all unconfirmed, low-selling indies) in the indie category. In 2015, we began tracking in our reports which…
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Pleasantly Fluffy Reviews
And by fluffy, I don’t just mean light and airy. I actually mean soft and pettable and furry all over. I’m reviewing two totally different story forms today: one is a novel, the other a new-to-me webcomic. Off Leash by Daniel Potter is a fun little Indie book I picked up through a promotion recently,…
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2nd Annual Indie Author Labor Day Sale
A curated list of authors selected works and put them on sale, just for readers like you. If you’ve been waiting for the next fun read, or for a reason to Read Indie, this is that time. All the books are priced between $2.99 and $0.99, affordable ways to explore new worlds. You will find…
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Review: Slavery among the Indians of the Northwest
While I usually review fiction on this blog, I do read a lot of nonfiction, for pleasure, school, and professional purposes. My reading ranges broadly, according to what I’m required to read, or what catches my fancy. This week, though, I will confess to an ulterior motive. I read this book because of who wrote…
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Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy Mirror-posted from According to Hoyt this morning. Cedar Sanderson A meta-analysis of the utilization of, and reading recommendations for effective bibliotherapy in a non-clinical setting. Bibliotherapy is the use of reading to improve mental health, reduce anxiety, and increase ‘mindfulness.’ Firstly, what is mindfulness? Psychology Today defines it neatly. “Mindfulness is a state of…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…