Tag: tropes

  • Books to Avoid: Cranky Book Reviews

    Books to Avoid: Cranky Book Reviews

    I must confess, I have been a somewhat cranky reader recently. Here’s the thing: I hear complaints about the quality of books available in KU all the time. Having my own in that pool makes me wince a little when I see those criticisms. But…   It’s all true. You know what else is true?…

  • Quitting Time

    Quitting Time

    This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last week, at the Mad Genius Club. In it, I talked about how I’d learned to quit books. It’s not that I’m quitting reading, oh, no. What I did was learn how to put a bad book down instead of letting it suck part of my…