NaNoWriMo Week 3

Current Word count: 38,479 I didn't do as well this week as I have the rest of the month, but I'm still on track to win this thing. I'm at a weird part of the story. I'm near the end of part 1, which will end with the due between Laurens and Charles Lee. Right …

His Hideous Heart- edited by Dahlia Adler

The Details Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: September 10th, 2019 Genres: Horror, Mystery, Fantasy, retelling My Rating: 5 Stars Goodreads Blurb Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes …

NaNoWriMo Week 2 check-in

I'm writing this Thursday evening, with a word count of 28,255. I'm about 2 days ahead of schedule, a am cruising. I think it's because I have such a good idea of what happening in the story right now and how I want the next six months of the story to play out. There are definitely …

Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

The Details Publisher: Dial Books Published: August 28th 201 Genres: YA, Contemporary, Fiction My Rating: 5 Stars  Goodreads Blurb Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever …

NaNoWriMo Update

Hi, I planned to write this update on Friday, but I was sick, so it didn't really happen. Therefore, I'm updating today. Expect to see NaNo Updates on the 15th, 22nd, and 29th, from me as well as a wrap up post the first week of December. (This, honestly is more for me than you, …

Calendar Girls-November 2019

It's already November, can you even believe? I'm sort of excited about it finally being the end of 2019. But before we get there, we have two more Calendar Girls posts to go, starting with this one! Calendar Girls is a monthly blog event created by Melanie at MNBernard Books and Flavia the Bibliophile and now be hosted by Katie …

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

The Details Publisher: Doubleday Books Published: July 11th, 2017 Genres: Horror, Mystery, Fantasy My Rating: 3.5 Stars  Goodreads Blurb 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since …