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#FavFiveFriday: Audiobook Edition
Posted on June 3, 2016 9 Comments
#FavFiveFriday is a personal challenge that I’ll be doing just for the month of June in celebration of Audiobook Month. I’ll be using it as a way to highlight my favorite audiobook listens so far in 2016, and I’ve listened to quite a few of them this year. To find out a little more about […]
Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Posted on May 23, 2016 12 Comments
“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Them them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and […]
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads
Posted on March 29, 2016 22 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. They created the meme because they love lists. Who doesn’t love lists? They wanted to share these list with fellow book lovers and ask that we share in return to connect with our fellow book lovers. To learn more about […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn’t
Posted on January 12, 2016 47 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. They created the meme because they love lists. Who doesn’t love lists? They wanted to share these list with fellow book lovers and ask that we share in return to connect with our fellow book lovers. To learn more about […]
Teaser Tuesday & Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR
Posted on September 22, 2015 18 Comments
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what […]
Tough Traveling: Gnomic Utterances
Posted on August 27, 2015 23 Comments
The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan of Review Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in (and inspired by) The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone […]
Tough Traveling: Middle-Aged Heroes
Posted on July 23, 2015 14 Comments
The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan ofReview Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in (and inspired by) The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone who […]
Teaser Tuesday & Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books That Celebrate Diversity/Diverse Characters
Posted on July 21, 2015 10 Comments
A note from your friendly neighborhood blogger: First, I want to apologize in advance to all the people who have been reading and responding to my posts and getting late responses from me (or none) or even mutual visits. I’ve been so busy with work, which I work full-time for the government. I have my […]
Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Posted on July 20, 2015 25 Comments
A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of The Broken Earth Publisher: Orbit (August 4, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars This book had the distinction of being on both my most anticipated […]
Mogsy’s Bookshelf Roundup: New Books, Backlist, What I’ve Been Reading
Posted on May 23, 2015 22 Comments
Bookshelf Roundup is a feature I do every two weeks where I talk about the new books I’ve added to my library or received for review, what I plan to read soon, and what I’ve finished reading in the last fortnight. Received for Review The Price of Valor by Django Wexler – Print ARC, with thanks […]
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