Author: Brin

Best of the Best: May Madness

Posted May 1, 2015 by Brin in Discussion Posts / 0 Comments
Best of the Best: May Madness

Andi @ Andi’s ABCS posted the Best of the Best challenge back in March where she did her own version of the March Madness bracket using her top 5 star reads. Best of the Best: May Madness This looks like so much fun so when Andi recently re-posted her bracket and set an open challenge for bloggers to take part, I jumped right in! I first saw this on another blog I follow Bookmark […]

Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2015

Posted April 30, 2015 by Brin in Discussion Posts, Monthly Wrap-Up / 2 Comments
Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2015

Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2015 April wasn’t a great month for me reading-wise. I was still recovering from the flu and was feeling a bit down remembering all the things that happened this time last year. I ended up not devoting as much time to reading as I had hoped but it has picked up the last week or so so I am pretty hopeful that I will be on track […]

Princess of the Midnight Ball

Posted April 30, 2015 by Brin in Reviews / 4 Comments
Princess of the Midnight Ball

I love fairy tale retellings and I can clearly recall picking up Princess of the Midnight Ball a few years ago specifically because I saw it was a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The only other interpretation of this story that I have read was Juliet Marillier’s excellent Wildwood Dancing, which is a personal favourite. That may be the reason I put off reading this one for so long, fearing […]

Characters Who Could Use A Hug

Posted April 28, 2015 by Brin in Memes, Top Ten Tuesday / 6 Comments
Characters Who Could Use A Hug

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s theme is: Top Ten Characters Who Could Use A Hug I wracked my brain trying to come up with this week’s topic. It was hard dammit!! I like the structure of being told what to write lol. 😉 Anyway, here is what I cam up with! 1. Mildmay and Felix from Sarah Monette’s Doctrine […]

Stacking the Shelves #65

Posted April 25, 2015 by Brin in Memes, Stacking The Shelves / 8 Comments
Stacking the Shelves #65

Stacking The Shelves – a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews Stacking the Shelves Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! Participants are to create their own Stacking […]