It's an adult rom-com with tons of sass and some very enjoyable characters, which is great. I like that it's a friends-to-lovers story.

The first time I picked it up and saw the title written in Sharpie on a coffee cup and the main character biting her straw, I knew this was going to be the kind of sassy, adorable romance I couldn’t put down, and at no point did it disappoint.

Lena thinks love is the result of brain chemicals; Marcus is scared of death. They’re opposites whose problems they will help solve.

It’s a dystopia back before dystopia was a hot item on the shelves via Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. I’d say it’s along the lines of George Orwell but with a religious tone and a happy ending.

At this time of year, I most love trees with blossoms. You know the ones I’m talking about. Trees with pink blossoms that look like cotton candy and trees with fluffy white blossoms that look like popcorn balls. When the blossoms get all thick on these trees, my word to describe them is “frothy.”

Today we’re going back to a high school style of writing: a compare/contrast of two similar books, both of which I happen to quite like: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver and A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody

If you need ideas for what to do during your own physical distancing, here are 15 ideas from what I’m doing/plan to do.

It’s time for another sequel review! This time I’ll be looking at P.S. I Still Love You, the sequel to the adorable Netflix hit, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Draft one of Nanorimo done!

This year was an on and off year for reading. I read some books I absolutely loved and several I felt pretty meh about.

Frozen 2 has character problems. For example, why does Anna leave Kristoff?

I’ve created a two-part plot breaking down different aspects of the movie. This time around, I’m talking about plot and artistry; the next post will be about characters and specific issues I have with this sequel compared to other sequels.

When I told my boyfriend I was thinking about doing NaNiRiMo, he started laughing uncontrollably. “NaNo what?” he asked between chuckles.

Unlike many people, I didn’t get into Sophie Kinsella via her popular Confessions of a Shopaholic series.

To summarize the synopsis from the back cover, this is a story about a space squad of misfits who stumbles on a secret of galactic importance. It’s told from seven different points of view, and it doesn’t really matter whose perspective you’re reading at the moment—they’re all hilarious.

Everyone’s got a guilty pleasure, right? That thing we enjoy but don’t want anyone else to know about it because it’s embarrassing, weird, childish, etc. I decided to come out about mine: Star Wars junior novels.

When you get a kick-in-the-pants email sent from a writing mentor at 4:30 a.m., it makes you think about your life. In my case, the email wake-up was something along the lines of, "Why have you been fiddling with one manuscript for the last six years? You should have at least two or three complete manuscripts at this point. If you want a career as a writer, you need to step it up."

Books like this—romance in genre terms, or possibly love stories—may be regarded as "cotton candy" or "fluff," but I disagree. I think these books fulfill an important purpose.

Here are my best-of 2018 reading recommendations!

Happy fall! School started, the leaves changed color, and that morning nip gets me now when I head off for a morning run. So it seemed like a great time to highlight some books where school plays a big role.