Category: Books

  • EXPeriencing Go Set a Watchman

    EXPeriencing Go Set a Watchman

    Cover photo via Entertainment Monthly. It’s been more than two months since my last blog post, but after buying my first house and dealing with all the insanity that comes with that, I think I’m finally ready to dive back into blogging and keeping up with this little project. Thanks for reading! What a roller…

  • EXPeriencing ‘Inked’ by Eric Smith

    EXPeriencing ‘Inked’ by Eric Smith

    Cover photo via Publishing Crawl. Nothing like a good vacation to get you caught up on your reading! Although my vacation was not filled with lying poolside or on the beach, I did get to have some quality time with my Nook on my flights to and from Orlando. And that meant I finally got…

  • EXPeriencing ‘The Mistress’ by Tiffany Reisz

    EXPeriencing ‘The Mistress’ by Tiffany Reisz

    First things first, when an erotica novel makes you cry (multiple times) because of All The Feels, you know you’ve got a good book on your hands. Two and half years ago, I read my first-ever erotica novel, The Siren by Tiffany Reisz. I blogged about that experience on my old blog, and you can find…

  • [Accidentally Not] EXPeriencing Goodreads’ 2015 Reading Challenge

    [Accidentally Not] EXPeriencing Goodreads’ 2015 Reading Challenge

    You know when the new year starts and you’re making all kinds of resolutions to get in shape and eat better and read more and spend more quality time with family and friends? Yeah, I made all those resolutions this year. And you know how they slowly start to fade away because unless you joined…

  • EXPeriencing All the Light We Cannot See

    EXPeriencing All the Light We Cannot See

    I’ve always been drawn to historical fiction. Ever since I was a kid and would devour American Girl and Dear America Diary books, I’ve loved stories that put you in one person or a couple people’s shoes during a certain event in history. Specifically, I’ve also always been drawn to WWII stories. Perhaps it’s because…

  • EXPeriencing Book Madness 2015

    EXPeriencing Book Madness 2015

    The amount of anguish some sports fans feel when filling out their March Madness brackets is comparable to the anguish I feel when filling out my Out of Print Book Madness bracket. It truly makes a difference when you care about the subject matter of your bracket. Do I care if North Carolina State beats LSU…

  • EXPeriencing the Struggles

    Struggle 1: Yikes. I start a new blog and then I start working so much the last thing I want to do when I get home is sit at the computer longer and blog. Well, I have too many ideas floating around to not keep blogging, and I like this blog too much to let…

  • EXPeriencing the Roller Coaster of Emotions for Go Set a Watchman

    EXPeriencing the Roller Coaster of Emotions for Go Set a Watchman

    Cover image via the New York Daily News. It looks like it’s probably a temporary cover, but I’m digging in. Most of the time I find out about breaking news on Twitter, especially when it’s of the literary sort. Not on Tuesday. On Tuesday, February 3, my best friend texted me a link to an article with…

  • EXPeriencing Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms

    EXPeriencing Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms

    Cover image via this review site that had a good, high-quality version. Never has it been more true than this series, but don’t judge this book by its cover. Mostly because nothing that’s happening on the cover has anything to do with the story, nor do the people even look like the characters. Fantasy novels are my…