Tag: Books
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Am I A Mood Reader? How Can You Power Through Your Reading Goal When You’re Feeling Slumped.
How do I know I am a Mood Reader? How can you “Identify” yourself as one? It took me a while to fully identify myself as one, however once my accidental DNF pile started growing I started becoming suspicious. I had a lot of books I would remember liking, but the bookmark has stood in…
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DNF – Was it ever that serious?
What does DNF mean? DNF is a common term used in the book community, meaning a reader “Did not finish” a book. This can be because they didn’t like the book, forgot about the book, lost the book, etc. More times than not, it’s because the reader disliked the book enough to put it down.…
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Jeff Hays, the voice behind the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, has some advice and new stories for you!
I met Jeff Hays at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 and was one of the few interviews I was able to get. Jeff Hays is well known as the audiobook narrator for Dungeon Crawler Carl, and founder of Soundbooth Theater. Soundbooth Theater is an audio production company that specializes in “multicast audiobooks and cinematic audio”. To explore…
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When Do You KNOW You’ve Completed Writing and Editing?
When am I “done” for the day? When I feel like I am. Something I have watched on and off for a while was Brandon Sanderson’s writer’s workshop was that he writes when he feels like writing, but to improve you should write about two hours a day. I take this to heart and find…
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Do Sprayed Edges No Longer Feel Special?
When the trend started Sprayed edges go back to the 10th century to beautify books. It was originally used to protect books and manuscripts, sometimes identification. In today’s modern era, they are a stance of beauty and uniqueness in books. I believe the trend really started with book subscription boxes. During the pandemic, a lot…
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Week 1 Into Stormlight: The Way of Kings Failed Me, Will Words of Radiance Impress?
I know, it’s crazy that I split up series and haven’t continued much farther into them. I read TWoK a year ago, and Mistborn just this last year, both of which I rated in the 3 star range. However, I decided to go into Words of Radiance. My goal was to see if it was…
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1 Cohesive Book Club Rule You Should Consider Before Joining
The Book Club Suggestion However, you start your book club and someone says “This month’s book is going to be It by Stephen King”. Uh oh. You have one month to read a 1000 page book or listen to a 45 hour audiobook. You are a full time employee, maybe you’re even in school, and…
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AI vs 3 Narrators: Not so Authentic Voices
What Do Narrators Say? At DragonSteel Nexus 2025, I sat down at a panel for audiobook narrators after initially talking to Jeff Hays, Audiobook storyteller for Dungeon Crawler Carl. In the panel, there was Kaleo Griffith and Jennifer Jill Araya, storytellers for Isle of the Emberdark and Jeff Hays for Dungeon Crawler Carl. In this…
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Required Reading: Is It Still Beneficial Today?
That’s subjective to each reader. I would have originally stated: No, because it’s not fit for all kinds of readers. Now, reflecting on this when I originally wrote it in 2022, I would say no way of required reading will fit every kind of reader or non reader to be “effective”. I am a reader…
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The Intimidating Factor of a THICCC with 3 C’s Book: A Simple Fix?
What makes a large book feel intimidating? Weight There are a few factors to this, however, I think the biggest factor to this is the weight of a book. You will be holding this book in your hand for hours to read. It can get very hard to get comfortable while reading a bigger book.…