So I Guess I’m Doing NaNoWriMo (a Crisis)

If you haven't heard of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, it's an annual event in the month of November in which people try to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Daunting? Yes. I have no clue whatsoever how this is going to go, so that's fun! The novel I'm going to attempt is …

Let Me Tell You About My Book Club

So this post started out as my April wrap-up post. And then when I didn't end up reading much in April it was going to be an April/May combo post. But then that didn't happen, either, and I was thinking I might just do a monster "Late Spring-Summer" wrap-up, but I'm just not feeling that. …

Book ADD

I previously wrote about how it feels to be in a reading slump, but I also sometimes have this almost opposite experience that I like to call "Book ADD," which is when you have too many options of books to read that all sound great, so you start all of them and can't decide which …

Creating Book Soundtracks

Do you ever wish books had soundtracks, like movies do? Stephenie Meyer kind of famously did this for the Twilight series; she commented that these were playlists she listened to while writing the books, but they'd work great to have as background music while you're reading, as well. The same can be said of Sarah J. Maas, …

Reading Slump Blues

If you follow my posts you may have noticed that things have been a little quiet here for a couple of weeks. Or maybe you didn't notice, I don't know. I'm not the center of the universe, contrary to popular opinion. I took a bit of a break from blogging because I have a lot …

Independent Bookstore Day 2019!

It is really so kind of the organizers of Independent Bookstore Day to always schedule it for my birthday weekend. I get to buy birthday presents to myself and support indie bookstores! This year we only made it to two stores, as we stayed on the Olympic Peninsula rather than taking the ferry over to …

Bookish Event Theme Ideas (and the Chic Invitations to Go With Them!)

This post is in partnership with Basic Invite, Truly Custom Invitations for all events and occasions! 'Tis the season of grad parties, weddings, and spring soirees. If you're a book lover (which, of course you are if you're reading this blog, right?) and you also happen to be planning an upcoming party or event, you …

Did I Mention I Met Katherine Arden?

This is a little late, but I met Katherine Arden, author of the incredible Winternight trilogy (I've posted briefly about it before, if you're not familiar, and probably will more in the future...) at her book signing at Emerald City Comic Con last weekend! She was really friendly; she gave me a free poster and said …

My 2019 Reading Challenge

There are a lot of Reading Challenges out there. Like, a looooot. (There's even a Star Wars Reading Challenge, which I talk about in the most recent episode of the podcast I co-host, Pop DNA.) Every year I look at all the different challenges that pop up in my Facebook feed or different reading and …

Falling in Love Over Books

This is a story about the moment I fell in love, but it begins many years ago… 1992 Like many book-loving, introverted girls whose childhoods coincided with the years of the Disney Renaissance, I always saw myself in Belle from Beauty and the Beast, only the version of myself that I thought I could only dream of …