First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Avital Cohen wasn’t wearing underwear. Standing behind the […]
Mom came back home last Sunday afternoon, and it is wonderful to have her back home. The best part is that she got scared and is resting and elevating her legs. Mom may not to have gotten a traditional family seder, but yesterday I made chicken soup and […]
This past week had a lot of ups and downs, and the weekend has been gray and rainy, which always makes my joints hurt more. The high point of my night is going to be when I finish scheduling this post and get to put my heating pad […]
You know how it feels when you find the most amazing item ever, and you want to share it with the world? Well, I got to thinking and figured that I can have this be a blog feature every now and then. When I find a good crop […]
I finished February with 17 ARCs left to be read. For such a short month, February felt like it was about eleventy billion days long. March was probably one of my most stressful months in a long time, and I’ve dived back into reading and using it as […]
This has been a rough week and an even rougher weekend, as I’m still trying to adjust to being unable to do anything close to what I was able to before. Over the weekend, my mother got sick, and has been feeling rotten. I have been trying my […]
Happy December! November was a really fun month for me—I was so excited to finally take a vacation and refresh my spirit. I hadn’t realized exactly how burnt out I was becoming until I had a break from my regular life. I’ll be returning home this week, and […]
This week’s prompt is books I was assigned to read in school, with bonus points for offering my own thoughts on the book. The vast majority of my schooling was long enough ago that I really had to think about the books that stood out in the vast […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “It was seven in the evening, and Clara […]
It’s another Sunday, and that means we have another discussion ahead of us. This week I want to discuss creative license. This is when an author intentionally strays from accepted facts to achieve an artistic goal. I’ve encountered this most often in historical fantasy—where the author changes an […]
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