All too soon summer is over, time for us to reflect on our summer reading. Did you get to all the beach reads you wanted? Did you complete a summer reading program at your local library? Did you tackle a book that has been on your TBR list forever? Did you read any of the “hot” summer titles? Did you follow any celebrity summer reading lists? Well, enough about you, here is my summer reading in a nutshell. I once again participated in my local […]
CBR Diversions: Oh, The Horror – With a Chainsaw
I am a huge scaredy cat! I cannot watch horror movies or read horror books. I still have nightmares from scary movies I saw as a kid. This makes me the perfect person to pen the Cannonball Read Horror in Summer blog post. Nowadays, there are so many subgenres of horror books – Gothic, Paranormal, Psychological, Post-Apocalyptic, and Sci-Fi, to name a few. But I am taking you back to the old horror genre of Splatterpunk. How could anybody not love that word? Under the […]
CBR Diversions – To Give a Book, or Not to Give a Book…
When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes. – Erasmus The season of gift giving holidays, including our own Holiday Book Exchange, is approaching. You have an excuse to buy books! That makes this the right time to ask you for your opinions on: Books to give as gifts, Book-related things to give the book lover who has already bought the book you were planning to give them, Gifts that you, a book lover, can […]