Category: Bookish
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4 [More] Weird Ways the World Ends in Books That are #WickedGoodReads
Apparently we have a thing for reading books with weird apocalyptic events because we’ve read about the World ending by killer plants, slow rotation of the Earth, common drugs and hurricanes in 4 Books With Crazy Weird Apocalyptic Events and ending by animals, hair loss, an unknown entity and an unknown illness in 4 More…
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5 More Snowbound Thrillers That Will Chill You to the Bones
Clear back in 2016 I highlight 4 Chilling Snowbound Thrillers and I thought it was about time I told you about some more of my favorite thrillers with wintery settings. I don’t know what it is about thriller set in the winter time but they just seem so much more dangerous! I absolutely love them…
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3 Award Winning Horror Books We Love #WickedGoodReads Bingo
One of my favorite prompts on the #WickedGoodReads Bingo Card is “Award Winner.” these books are voted on as the best of the year, and I like to read a few of them and see if that’s my experience as well. Some of the major literary awards with a “horror” specific category are The Bram…
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Books with BLOOD on the Cover or in the Title #WickedGoodReads Bingo
This year we’ve put out a fun Bingo card to complete along with our annual #WickedGoodReads blogging event. Tanya and I have been working our way to completing one of the vertical columns for a bingo and you can too this month! Here are some recs for the “BLOOD” prompt… Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare…
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2022 Monthly Book Award Reading Challenge [October Check-In]
Welcome to the check-in for the 2022 Book Awards Reading Challenge. Every month, our task is to read a book (or books) that WON an award in that month. Check in here or with our Goodreads group, or on Instagram with the hashtag #AwardReadingChallenge. HOW IT WORKS Your task is to read at least 1 book…
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2022 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge [October Check-In]
Welcome to the monthly check-in for the 2022 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge! This month’s task is to read a book (or books) that fits the theme/motif for this month. Check in here (in the comments), in our Goodreads group, on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #MonthlyMotifGXO. The October Motif is… “MURDER OR MAGIC” Read a…
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2022 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge [October Check-In]
Welcome to the October check-in for the 2022 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge! This month’s task is to read a book (or books) that include one or more of the October key words. Check in here (in the comments), in our Goodreads group, on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #MonthlyKeyWordGXO. The October Key Words are……
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October is #WickedGoodReads Month [The 2022 Edition]
Heads up! It’s #WickedGoodReads Month in just a few short weeks. Every October, we talk about books with Wicked People & Creatures, Dangerous Places & Things. We shared our #WickedGoodReads Bingo Card earlier this year, so we’ll update you on our progress – if either of us made “Bingo”. Our theme as mentioned before –…
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#SummerAtoZ 2022 Blog Event Wrap-Up
Every year on the blog, we do a #SummerAtoZ blog challenge. We challenge ourselves to write one post for every letter of the alphabet. Some of them are bookish but we also cover a bunch of other topics too. It’s always fun for us to look back and see how many letters we managed to hit.…
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4 Books to (Z)ap that Reading Slump [Vol. 2]
Reading slumps are the worst, aren’t they? Once you get out of the habit of reading regularly it can be hard to get back in to it. Luckily we’ve found a few books that have worked great for zapping those reading slumps and reigniting that excitement for page turning! – KIM – Thrillers One thing…