B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsadvice / bisexual heroine / epistolary / friendship / hidden identity / high-school / LGBTQIA+ / love triangles / relationship in trouble / Relationships / Sophie Gonzales / YA6 Comments
Dear Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper was a finalist in the Goodreads Awards YA Fiction category and I thought it sounded interesting and different, so I picked it up. (A warning to readers: the blurb for this book contains spoilers and I recommend avoiding it if you don’t want to ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / First-Person / Halloween / holiday novella / novella / Relationships / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: Scary, Lovesick, Foolish: A Halloween Romance (Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish Book 2) by G.G. Andrew
It was a question he had to ask… Brendan Forrester loves his girlfriend, Nora. Like can’t-live-without-her, Gomez-to-her-Morticia-Addams loves her. But when he asks her for more, he can’t help but notice the look of fear in her eyes. Then a ghost from their past shows up at the horror festival ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbaby (non secret) / Contemporary / enemies to lovers / England / RelationshipsComments Off on REVIEW: His Best Mistake by Lucy King
Is it too much to ask for a relationship that works? When Stella Grant realises her perfect romance is a lie and that she’s the other woman, she flees to her remote cottage in the Highlands to lick her wounds. Billionaire currency trader Jack Maclean has nothing but contempt for ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsLiterary fiction / love story / Magical Realism / migration / Relationships / war8 Comments
Dear Mr. Hamid, Your acclaimed novel begins this way: IN A CITY SWOLLEN BY REFUGEES but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was ... more >
Publishing NewsBanned-Books / classic literature / Hong Kong / magazines / Netflix / publishing / reading habits / Relationships / third-party publishing services2 Comments
Hearst and Condé Nast Join Forces to Form PubWorx, a Shared Services Firm – So with magazine subscriptions going for alike $5 a pop, Condé Nast and Hearst are going into business together to create magazines on a contract basis for other companies. Because nothing says reinvention of the magazine business ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / algorithms / Facebook / film adaptation / Gamergate / reading / Relationships / timeline / Twitter39 Comments
If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with its anticipated move to algorithmically filtered timelines. Ironically, this change seems to privilege intermittent ... more >