Feels like yesterday I was writing the post for February's box! How time flies. Anyway, I was greeted with this month's Fandom of the Month box by the postman this morning, and I completely forgot what the theme was. I was already aware before but my memory is like a sieve.  Anyway, it's that time again…

Two weeks ago on a Tuesday, we were visited by a Dark Cloud of Negativity. The resulting Top 10 Series That Started Strong But Let Us Down was therefore utterly delightful. We only managed thirty-four complaints and sixty-five lamentations over how disappointing disappointing endings are. So in honor of karmic b…

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her anc…

'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all h…

In this wonderland that we call a book-blogging community, we are mostly tit-for-tat. You show me yours and I'll show you mine. (Comments. I'm talking about comments.) It's amazing. Welcoming. Friendly. Helpful. And, at times, exhausting. Our entire comment culture is, theoretically, a wonderfu…

Mark this day down in history! It's a Top 10 Tuesday list where we are effectively forbidden from featuring Harry Potter, and Lexie is prevented from mentioning Maggie Stiefvater. That's as close as we get to scandal most days. And the withdrawal pains have already started. This week also marks the first …

Human: So, you write? Me: Do you have time for this conversation? Human: It's okay. I have an hour. Me: You do not have time for this conversation. At The Honest Bookclub, we make small, achievable goals. Our first was world domination via the subliminal messages in our social media posts * . (Small …

Hello again, my bookish friends. That marvelous time is upon us again, and that is book box subscription time ! Bookish goodness! I know that The Fandom of the Month Club is not always 100% bookish but this month it  darn well is. I've only subscribed to FOTM so far, but I think I shall consider future o…

There are few things more disappointing to a book dragon than enjoying a series, and then have it fall... flat. The rest of the books in the series just don't measure up to the magical, magical potential it once had. We've all had our fair share of them. And often we can't decide if it's worse that we …

Happy International Women's day! Unlike the National Cereal Day before ( and no, we are not kidding ), this one: actually stands for something has wider implications is celebrated in various parts of the world. (But then again, we do love our cereal, too. One ought never to underestimate the power of goo…

She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Halfpenny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal wit…

This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed—or committed? —and the boy who's sent to kill her. Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she's pretty sure she can get away with …

As it turns out, diversity is an astonishingly diverse concept. We invoke it when raising racial issues. We invoke it when raising political issues. We invoke it when we really, really want to make a room full of movie industry bigleagues squirm in their seats at the Oscars. And we sometimes, rarely, invoke it t…