I attended BookExpo America in 2013 and I’m going to share a few tips I learned in case you’re attending this year. 🙂 Take your books home in a suitcase Before BEA when I was reading informational posts, everyone was saying to ship your books […]
Month: February 2014
Why You Shouldn’t Use Blockquotes Just to Make Pretty Boxes
A lot of people seem to think that because blockquote are often styled differently in themes, that means that blockquotes = pretty coloured box. Therefore, many of those people then use blockquote tags when they’re not quoting something, but just when they want the text […]
Don’t Have a Slow Blog! Tips to Speed Things Up
Don’t use release date count downs You know those fancy schmancy sidebar widgets that countdown to a book’s release? You don’t need them. They often use flash or JavaScript and can severely slow down the loading of a page. If you absolutely MUST have one, […]
The Problem With Memes: They Clog Up Feed Readers
I actually don’t mind reading memes on the blogs I follow religiously (through email). Sometimes Top Ten Tuesday, Waiting on Wednesday, and book haul posts are interesting. I like seeing what books my friends are excited about. But what I don’t like is when I […]
My Findings: Whether or Not You Should Have an Image Slider
Recently I asked my readers if image sliders are worth having, and today I’m going to share my findings from both the poll and the discussion that followed. In most cases, you should not have an image slider The poll results show that only 16% […]
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
I’m so torn on Daughters of Smoke & Bone. I didn’t hate it, but I never loved it the way everyone else seems to. What I Liked I loved the setting of Prague. There was something so great about finally reading a book that doesn’t […]
Have Physical ARCs Lost Their Appeal?
Jenna from Jenna Does Books posed a question on Twitter the other day: Curious question: who here still sends physical ARC requests to publishers? Jenna Does Books @jennadoesbooks My response and those from other people got me thinking: have physical ARCs lost their appeal? A […]
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor
I almost didn’t read Maybe One Day, and oh my god that would have been a massive mistake! I think my problem was that I like romance books, and this is not a romance; it’s about friendship. Those kinds of books usually don’t get me […]
Stacking the Shelves (73) – New Battlestation!
New Books Wow, this is the biggest my haul has been in a while! These are all my new books from the last two weeks or so. Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Goodreads Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Goodreads Sunrise by […]
Books I Read Before I Started Blogging
Before I started using Goodreads, I started keeping a text file of the books I read. This only lasted one year, but I thought I’d share some of the books I found on my list! I cut out a few, mostly ones I read for […]