Double Feature — Book & Movie Review of Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy #booksandchai

I picked up this book, thinking I’d get a body-positive message out of it. But it fails on that account. A fat girl who cringes at other fatter girls — even while coming to their aid against bullies — and makes a mockery out of the one thing that she was going to use to…

January 2020 — A Wrap-Up

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith So, Mr. Smith’s books are usually a hit or a miss for me. For instance, I loved the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency installment that I read last year. But the book before it was a bore. Thought I’d give another series a try and found it’s the same. In…

Treats: Health in a Box Is So Much More than Just Healthy!

I review Treat and HomeChef’s weekly lunches.

Reading Anniversaries: First in a Series & Singles–November Edition

You know where to go for the November 2017 reads! 2016 Kaijus? In a book? Sign me up! Read my review here. 2015 Okay, since I read this book before I started this blog, here goes: That fauxBotany was everywhere Plants on the disc, while including the categories known commonly as annuals, which were sown this…

Review Overdue Series– Whimsy Moon Bookmarks, Online Book Outlet Giveaways, Paperback Emporium, & Desi Writer Lounge’s Literary Open Mic Night

Whimsy Moon Who doesn’t like a touch of whimsy in their lives? Click on the link and look at the designs on their page and you will end up ordering something or the other. The designs are quirky and just plain, whimsical. They delivered on time and the product arrived in perfect condition. I found…

A Review Overdue Series — Why the Notebookush Box is the Box For You!

  I had been waiting for the Mystery Bag for some time now. It all began when I viewed the cutest thing on NB’s Facebook page. It is called the Reader’s Pet and you will completely understand why I went gaga over it if you make a big deal about reading hard copies of books….

April 2017 Wrap-Up

  I was mostly happy with this installment. Kate seemed back to her true kickass self. However, her getting together with Curran reminds me of what happened when Kate & Castle finally came together on the show, Castle. Too smooth and too sweet to be real!   Steven Brust is one of my favorite authors….

Weirding It Out without Weird Enough: Dune Re-Read Update #3

Brief Recap We meet Kynes, the Emperor appointed ecologist on Arrakis who is also a whole lot more but not letting on. People are scared of him and by people, I mean Harkonnen spies! He plans on hating the Atreides but they are just too cute and cuddly for him to loathe. Oh, and he…

I Review for You, A Treasure Trove of 17 Stories about Chess-Playing Unicorns, Presidential Candidates Stuck on Mars, & Everything in Between!

Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny If an anthology starts as strong as this one did, then there’s no way I would not continue reading it! Consider the human species about to become extinct and our fate hinging on a chess match between a bartender, a unicorn, and a sasquatch. Fire Watch by Connie Willis I…

Roseanne Montillo’s, The Lady & Her Monsters, Takes us Behind the Scenes & Plops us Down Right into Mary Shelley’s Life

Oh, what a sad life Mary Shelley led! The book follows Mary’s life right from the moment of her birth and touches on every source of inspiration that led to the writing of Frankenstein. The story would leave Mary for a while at some points and follow other people who were vital to the writing…

Guest-Blogger Icky Loves the Heck Outta the First Book in the Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde

As Icky will tell you later, I browbeat and bullied her into reading this book because I knew how perfect it’d be for her. And what do you know? I was right! Without further ado… Background Quite similar to the phenomenon of writer’s block, there is a thing called reader’s block. The symptoms include not…

When is The Last Werewolf not the last werewolf? Reading the Sequel, Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan

Turn-Offs So, the last werewolf wasn’t the last one by far! In fact, there was a group of werewolves, just waiting to be discovered. Then there were the new ones that Talulla kept making and they arrived at exactly the right moment. One of the things that turned me off about this book. The cliffhanger…