What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I began reading this book and realized it was about a gifted, apparently-on-the-spectrum guy and a gifted girl without neuro-issues, I felt a bit of ‘oh, another one? are guys with Asperger’s sadly becoming the new trope that girls sigh over?’ and felt a bit disgusted and a bit bored and almost stopped listening. But it’s not. It’s not ‘just...

What is the Celtic Coasts Reading Challenge? A group created and curated by Carolyn of RiedelFascination that covers all three Celtic countries!  Whatever genre your passion might be;  if your author is born or residing in Celtic country, if your literature takes place among these countries, or is connected to them strongly:  this group is for you. The challenge runs from February 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020. I’ll be posting all the...

What is the My Kind of Mystery Challenge? If you read any mystery material at all:  this group of readers/reading challenge is for you.   “My Kind Of Mystery” is a reading challenge for every kind of mystery. That  includes autobiographies, tutorials, and other books by and about mystery authors, not just fiction.   Carolyn of RiedelFascination created and curates it. She also included a list of books she’s planning...

I have been asked whether Harry Potter  and its fandom influenced the creation of The Fury Triad. Really! Why would you even imagine that Snape influenced This Crumbling Pageant’s villain, Mr Jones, aka Vespasian Wyllt? ::blinks innocently:: Wait. Am I being coy? I am being coy. Enough of that piffle. You wouldn’t be the first to notice. The review that spelled it out with the most detail came from Author Ashlyn Macnamara, whom I...

Books reviews don’t have to be hard. They don’t have to be long. They don’t have to be detailed. Amazon & Goodreads reviews–short and easy? Sure. Here’s how. You see authors asking for reviews all the damned time but who has time for that? But if your reason for not reviewing is that you’re too busy, and besides, they they have to be long, or it’s too much work writing them, or you’re...