Tag: Reading
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How to best support Indie Authors
Buy and Read their Books! Duh… right? This is basically step one to the process,and honestly the easiest step. Buying an author’s book sounds like one of the only ways to support them, but there’s some tricks here. When buying their book, the best way is to buy from them directly (their own website or…
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Fantasy Difficulty Levels Explained by Book Series – Are You Strong Enough?
Fantasy Level: Beginner Percy Jackson and Harry Potter are great fantasy series that are easy to digest. Simple magic systems allow for easy following, The real-world setting makes it easy to feel empathy for the characters. Also, young characters allow for less complex thinking patterns. There are less adult topics like marriage or brutality. These…
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Red Rising – Per Aspera Ad Trauma
Red Rising by Pierce Brown KU NOT supported Genre: Sci-fi Trilogy. Continues into a second 4 book series. Rated 4.44 Average on Goodreads between all 3 books My Rating: 5 Stars across all 3 A series I told myself: “I won’t read it because it’s Sci-fi”. Red Rising by Pierce Brown is a highly rated…
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The Ultimate Protagonist Starter Pack – Brandon Sanderson Edition
Trauma If you are in therapy, diagnosed with any sort of mental health condition, or just a ball of anxiety, Congratulations! You’re already half way there. Your childhood trauma has become the backbone of you as a Brandon Sanderson character. Sanderson is known for writing characters in The Way Of Kings with mental health disorders…
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Slow Down! Reading is about decompressing, Not Bargaining your Reading Goal!
Reading Goals Setting a reading goal is like a New Year’s resolution, but you likely have an app to remind you of your progress in that goal. Then when November and December come around you’re only half way there and now you’re speeding to get to your end goal, but did you actually enjoy it?…
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Quality vs Quantity – Book Publishers are Pounding the Bar into the Ground
Quantity and Trends Publishers started to follow trends that are being pushed by readers, usually found on Tiktok, to influence what comes to our shelves. Which means the trends that are super loved have become a checkmark on the list to get published. What are some of these trends? This is only scraping the top…
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A Series That Is So Traumatic, It Became Known For It
I am not a fan of sci-fi anything. I am not a Star Wars or Star Trek fan, and have no interest in anything space or math based. This steers me away from Sci-fi very quickly. After YEARS of nagging from others, I attended the popular author’s panel at Dragonsteel Nexus and decided to add it…
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Bookmark Alignment Chart, Are You Evil?
Disclaimer: This is all good fun and made from my own opinion. This is not intended to hurt anyone’s feelings or judge anyone. Embrace your alignment! The Alignment of Good! Lawful Good Book Ribbon, Special bookmarks(Sentence pointer, corners) Neutral Good Magnet Bookmarks Chaotic Good Thick bookmarks: Resin, Leather, Wood This category falls into book-intended items…
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Shield of Sparrows – Where a Lonely Bird Finds Freedom
Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry $20 average Amazon, KU supported Genre: Fantasy/Romantasy Uncompleted Series Rated 4.38 Series Average on Goodreads My Rating: 3.5 Stars Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry, a classic romantasy taking Booktok by storm. Did it live for the praise? Or was it another flop that booktok overhyped? You’ll find on…
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Is the Cosmere capable of being the Next “Marvel” Cinematic Universe?
The News In late January, Brandon Sanderson announced to the world that he was working with Apple to bring the ENTIRE cosmere to TV. This came as a shock to many due to previously failed adaptations. However, the deal was made with Apple because they have allowed Brandon to take creative control: including writing the…