A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan is the first instalment in the The Memoirs of Lady Trent fantasy series. The story is an account of a natural historian that discusses how she became fascinated with dragons as a kid, and how that infatuation would influence her entire life growing up, from finding love…
Happy Saturday morning, chums! I hope that you are all doing swell. The weather in my corner of the world is very chilly with a high chance of rain, which makes me very happy. This means that I have an excuse to drink lots of hot cocoa all weekend long. I can’t really complain about…
Welcome to the second instalment of Fantasy First-Liners! When I initially posted the series, it was scheduled to go up every Monday during Summer. It is safe to say that I haven’t been keeping up with this like I would have preferred. Life became a bit too hectic this season so my planned weekly serials…
Happy 4th of July to all of those who are celebrating this American Independence Day. For the rest of you friends, top o’ the morning to you! I hope that you are doing swell thus far into the week. Summer has officially begun, and it definitely feels like it’s going to be a scorching hot…
When I think about all the books that I read in the month of June, my heart swells with disbelief, to be honest. I just can’t believe that I blew through so many reads! It has been years since I was able to read more than twenty books in one four to five-week period, and…
Happy Wednesday, y’all! Many of you who follow me on Twitter or via other socials may have already heard about my library shenanigans, but I’m going to briefly go over it here today. A few weeks ago, in an effort to fight my low days—common with people who have Bipolar Disorder—as well as to find…
One of my favourite genres to read is science-fiction. The imagination and the storytelling potential that comes with speculative fiction can be absolutely brilliant, especially when it involves alternate histories, dystopian nations, technology beyond belief, interstellar travel, galactic political intrigue, plus much more. There is almost always something to learn, something there to inspire, awe,…
For March, I decided to try my luck with a mini-TBR (to-be-read) list. For anyone who has been following either my blog or BookTube platforms for a bit, you have listened to me explain that I am not someone who creates monthly TBR lists because they tend to put me into a reading slump. This…
Good morning and happy Saturday to you all! Today, I will be sharing all the books that I bought/received during February. There are 21 total titles here. I am pleasantly surprised with the variety and diversity of books that I ended up with with this month’s haul, and I am super eager to jump into…
Brave 10 is a historical fiction, fantasy manga series written by Kairi Shimotsuki. I originally read the first volume back in 2014, shortly after watching the anime. The premise intrigued me enough to see if the manga called for my attention. I do remember not being impressed with it at all and decided to drop…
Good morning and happy Friday to you all! With the weekend upon us, I decided to catalogue all of the books that I received during the holidays so that Sir Betrothed and I can spend the entire weekend marathoning video games. We began doing this to celebrate the end of 2017, and it’s been so…
Good morning to all of my bookish and otaku followers out there! Today, I’m going to be briefly sharing with you all some of the books that I’m currently reading. Since my last reading slump, I have noticed that my ability to fly through books has been diminished somewhat, but in all honesty, I have…
One of things that is guaranteed to make me re-read a book are genuinely fantastic friendships. Maybe it’s because my family consists of my friends; people who have shared a shattered road of obstacles with me since we were wee, little youngsters. A lot of my favourite platonic relationships in books and anime tend to…
With the Summer season of shows fast approaching their finale, I decided it was a good time to take a look at the offerings for the Fall anime line-up. I have noticed that quite a few of the simulcasts will be continuations of other serials, or films, previously released, most of which I’m not familiar…
Happy Sunday morning to you all! I hope the weekend has been treating all of you rather well. I’ve managed to acquire a cold… while Summer is still going strong… How? I have no idea, but it really sucks. Aside from the ick, my weekend has been pretty fun thus far. For today’s post, I…
