Top Books of 2014
I sadly didn’t jump on the bandwagon with Top Ten Tuesday last week because of finals, but I still wanted to share my top books of 2014! Considering I’ve only read […]
Category Archives: reading
Guest Author & Giveaway | Megan Crewe On Fast Drafting
I present to you Books and Bark’s first official guest blogger and author, Megan Crewe! This (awesome) guest post is part of the blog tour of Megan’s new YA sci-fi […]
Book Review | A Wolf Called Romeo
This book is so sad. Because you know stories about animal friendships are always sad. But because of that, it was quite amazing. Let me tell you why. (Caution: photographs […]
Book Review | The Queen of the Tearling
The cover of this book is pretty much amazing. And I loved the premise. A lot of the reviews on Goodreads have been bipolar, and while I don’t think the […]
Bookshelf Tag!
Well, now you guys get to hear all about my amazing (and really large and messy) bookshelf! Desiree B tagged me, and since I have probably overloaded you guys with book […]
Book Review | Cinder
I am reading so many good books lately. Yes, I liked this book. A lot. And you might think it’s easy to please me, because What’s Left of Me, which I reviewed […]
Book Review | What’s Left of Me
If I had to sum up What’s Left of Me in one word, it would be this: FANTASTIC. It was one of the first good books I have read in a long time. […]
Interview with Author Ellen Cooney
The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances releases today! I’m very excited, seeing as I reviewed the book, and gave it 4 out of 5 wagging tails. I’m even […]
Book Review | The Mountaintop School for Dogs
Evie wants to leave her old life behind. Her ugly family life, her ex-boyfriend, the drugs. So she applies to The Sanctuary, a dog rescue center high up in the […]
Reading Round-Up
Well, I am a horrible procrastinator, so instead of writing my review for The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, I decided to go through and make a list […]
Review & Interview | The Secret Life of Dog Catchers
In April, I met Shirley Zindler, author of The Secret Life of Dog Catchers, in a coffee shop, by accident. They were out of places to sit, so we kind of stole the […]
Wishing You a Wonderfully Ridiculous Towel Day 2014
My favorite holiday of the year is not Christmas. It is not Easter. No, it is not even the delightfully beautiful day of Halloween. My science-fiction loving side does not […]
My Thoughts on Paper Towns
Let me first just say how much I love this book’s cover. Secondly, let me just say I finished this book in a day. I read this book on the recommendation […]
In Which I Edit My Manuscript | Chapter 1
I actually finished editing Chapter 1 of my manuscript a while ago, but it’s a pretty long chapter, so I’ve been lazy typing it up. I’m still on my “Alpha” round […]
A Piece of Writing Motivation for the Procrastinating Writer: WriMo Edition
Life gets in the way of things. It’s a fact of life, accepted by all, loathed by many. Life gets in the way of watching that Doctor Who marathon you’ve […]
Book Review | Great Expectations 4 Stars
It’s Victorian-era England. Pip is just a simple forge boy chosen to entertain rich Miss Havisham and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. Though he finds himself falling for Estella, Pip […]
Book Review | Divergent 3.5 Stars
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, life is split into five factions. When Beatrice is sixteen, she must choose a faction forever. Should she stay with her family, or should she […]
The Art of Not Writing
The height of my blog’s popularity was in December and November, where I posted on this blog nearly every day… And more importantly wrote parts of my novel every day. […]
YA Plot: Getting Rid of Parents
Spoilers for plot of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, I Am Number Four, and Divergent. Don’t read if you are planning on reading/are partway through reading one of these books […]
Hitting 100 Pages
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Wow… hitting 100 pages has been an amazing three-year journey for me and my […]
Hang On… Did You Just Say TOWEL DAY?!
TOWEL DAY It has recently come to my attention that there is a holiday called Towel Day. No, I’m not joking. It’s a real holiday. If you’ve ever read Douglas Adams’s […]
The Bindi Biographies, Part I: Of Sleep and Squirrels
Every so often, our dog will go outside, bark at some neighborhood squirrels for a while, and then settle down on the mahogany-colored deck, whining in sadness. She seems to […]
