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Mix-Tape Mondays: Dirty Hippies Edition
This week, by special request, Mix-Tape Mondays is featuring a book with no cover that only three people have read! Grove by K.L. Eden. That’s right folks, I wrote this book. It was a seat-of-the-pants...
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Random Review: Ender’s Game
I loved this book. Full stop. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Ender Wiggin is the specially-commissioned brilliant third child in a family tracked for its ability to create brilliant children. His...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Monster Mash
It’s that time again, folks! This week we’re takin’ it back to the old school, ‘cuz imma old fool, who’s so cool… Frankenstein by Mary Shelley! A classic! This is the very first week I was not able to...
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Random Review: Duma Key
It took Stephen King his entire life to write this book. Duma Key by Stephen King After a debilitating job-site accident wealthy contractor Edgar Freemantle is left with one arm, a barely functioning...
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I’m still here
Hello fellas and gals in internet land! Now that you’ve caught your breath and are no longer gasping with shock over the return of fresh content to Ink, allow me to tell you what’s been goin’ on: 1. I...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: For Those With a Sweet Tooth
Back in action, for this installment of I bring you a carefully crafted and perhaps overly theme-adherent playlist for Sweetly by Jackson Pearce This update of Hansel and Gretel is the second in...
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Random Review: Sweetly
This will probably be a short review, because my feelings for this novel are solidly middle-of-the-road. Sweetly by Jackson Pearce After the disappearance of their younger sister, losing both parents,...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Songs for the Nonexistent
This is going to be one weird instance of I’ve posted songs for an unpublished book before, but this time I bring you tunes for a book that does not yet exist in its entirety! Untitled Valkyrie Project...
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Weekend Update
This was the original e-mail from the publisher (names removed): Dear ArmchairAuthor, Thank you for recently submitting your sample of VALKYRIE. We’ve enjoyed what we’ve read so far, and would like...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: The Commonality of Man
Sporadically back to bring you another classic for this go-round on This book, originally published in Japanese and translated for audiences around the world, gets to the crux of an issue that every...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: All That Glitters
Things were pretty hairy there for awhile in Florida, in fact they basically went straight to hell, but now I’m home on a brief break before Germany and ready to bring you another round of In the...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Now With Draggy Elbows
Blasting from the 1920s straight into the future, it’s bringing you the dystopian playlist of your dreams inspired by Feed by M.T. Anderson Unfortunately, there will be no YouTube version of the...
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Random Review: The Raven Boys
A mix of A Separate Peace and The Goonies, with a few ancient supernatural forces thrown in for good measure. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Blue Sargent is a signal booster for the supernatural,...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: I Can’t Drive 55
It was my original intent to post the playlist first and the review second, but it just didn’t work out that way. 1. Spooky – Lydia Lunch Blue’s a bit of a spooky-ooky girl: a clairvoyant family,...
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Random Review: Before I Fall
I know a lot of people loved this book, found it deep and profound and moving. Or whatever. So I’ll be brief. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver Sam Kingston is a former-inviso-girl turned...
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The Wee Hours of the Morning
I’m back and hopeful that this means a return to form here on Ink! Working forty-five hours a week as head teacher in a preschool classroom in Germany while living dorm-style with six other women and...
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Random Review: The Pleasure of My Company
This book is weird. The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin Daniel Pecan Cambridge has a lot of rules for his life. Many of them, added together, mean it’s not really worth his while to leave the...
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Moving Targets
Much like a shark, if I don’t keep moving in my life I sink to the bottom. And maybe die, I dunno, I’ve never let it go that long. It is for this reason that not only will I be participating in...
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Mix-Tape Mondays: Playing With Matches
I’m 10% of the way to my fundraising goal of $250. If you’ve enjoyed this feature on my blog, perhaps you’d donate a dollar here? * * * Back in action and ready to go with somethin’...
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Random Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Well, she’s no Amy Tan. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See In turn-of-the-20th-Century rural China, two young girls become bonded for life by the laotong contract. Whatever friends, spouses,...
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