Tag: Reviews-

  • Hold Your Breath: A Review

    It’s been a really, really long time since I set aside an entire day for reading just so I could finish a book…but that’s exactly what I did on Monday for Katie Ruggle’s Hold Your Breath. Because wow…can that lady tell a story! Keep reading for my thoughts–and for your chance to win a copy of…

  • The Book of Eve: A Review

    My name is Linda, and it has been more than a year since I posted my last review. Full confession? It’s been almost that long since I even read a book, never mind reviewed it. sigh But life is calmer now (shhh! don’t tell the universe I said that!), and so here you go: my thoughts on The Book…

  • Calling all readers!

    Hello, dear readers! I have a special project going on…wanna help? (Spoiler alert: it means you get to read my new books before they’re released!) Here’s the scoop: I’ve started compiling a list of readers interested in receiving  advance copies (warning: this means they won’t be copy edited, so typos may occur!) of my upcoming…

  • All Dogs Go to Kevin: A Review

    It’s been ages since I wrote a review–mostly because it’s been ages since I actually finished a book. 😛 Oh, I’ve started a good many of them, but finished? Not so much. Time has been rather more precious than usual over the last few months, and so I’ve been particularly protective of it…which has made me…

  • Guest Posts, Giveaways, and More!

    It’s FRIDAY!!! Anyone as excited as I am?!? There’s just something about that day that says, “ahhhh…get ready to kick back and relax” — even if it’s lying through its teeth in my case, lol. On the agenda this weekend: we’re moving our remaining at-home daughter into a new bedroom (hubby is completing the new…

  • Review of NIGH by Marie Bilodeau

    Once upon a time, there were no more happy endings… So reads the tagline on the front cover of author Marie Bilodeau‘s new novella, Nigh, which released yesterday. And people, she’s not kidding.  😯 At 57 pages long, Nigh is the first segment in a serialized novel about two worlds colliding: ours, and that of…

  • Review: Well Fed (Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat)

    I love food. I love growing it, shopping for it, cooking with it, sharing it…yup, I think you can safely say I love just about everything about it. What I love most, though, is that after years of eating an all-too typical North American diet of way too much sugar and overly processed foods with…

  • Movie Review: Interstellar

    I’m guest-posting today at I Smell Sheep with my first-ever movie review…well, more like random thoughts, really, but we can pretend, right? Check it out here! 🙂  

  • How to Respond to a Negative Review: Lessons from #HaleNo

    All right, boys and girls, it’s hard-lesson time. Any of you who read my blog know that, while I’m happy to offer advice and share what I’ve learned, I tend to be fairly quiet about voicing strong opinions. Not this time. This time, I’m disgusted. Appalled. Shocked. Heck, I’m darned near rendered wordless, and we all…

  • Early Review of The North, by Sean Cummings

    Why I read it:Well over a year ago, Sean Cummings (a writer friend I’d met on Twitter) sent me a draft copy of The North via email. I wasn’t a fan of zombie novels (or zombies in any form <shudder>), and so I let it sit…and sit…and sit…until eventually, somehow, it disappeared from my inbox (I…