Update: Life and Books (Mar 2026)

Update: Life and Books (Mar 2026)

I know it's Easter, but I'm not doing anything to celebrate, so here I am with a blog post! (Well, blog posts are written before they're posted anyway, it's not like I'm typing this as you're reading it, but. You get it.) My big news this month is that I watched Heated Rivalry Season 1! I subscribed to HBO Max for a month with the plan to watch Heated Rivalry one time and Our Flag Means Death...
 
Bookish News: 10 Queer SFF Books I’m Excited For in 2026 (Part 1)

Bookish News: 10 Queer SFF Books I’m Excited For in 2026 (Part 1)

I am aware that it's mid March and like half of these books are out already. And to that I say... Who cares? I haven't read them yet, so I'm still excited for them! Really I'm doing you a favor, because this just means you don't have to wait to read some of these. You're welcome. 😊 As always, I'm focusing on books for the first half of the year and books that are either standalones or the...
 
Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2025 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Books/Series I Read in 2025 + Some Non-Bookish Things!

I read fewer books this year than I have probably since I started blogging ten years ago, so there's actually not ten books here. That felt like too many, and there were only six books that I rated 4.5 or 5 stars. Two of which are a duology and three of which were rereads (though I do still count rereads because if a book was that great more than once, it deserves recognition more than once). I...
 
Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Bookish Musings: Top Ten Characters from Books I Read & Games I Played in 2025

Next up on my end of the year lists: characters from the books I've read and games I've played! I also sneaked one podcast in here, but the title stays because it's not worth the work of changing the graphic. I also sneaked more than ten characters in here, technically, but that's ok. And I may have talked too much about some of them when these are supposed to be quick descriptions, but I...
 
Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

Book Recs: 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books with Nonbinary Characters

I promised this post a few months ago, and here I am, finally delivering! Honestly, it's just a list of books I've enjoyed that happen to have nonbinary characters. In some of these, it's really discussed and a big part of things, in others it's very casual and maybe just mentioned offhandedly or implied. (In real life, they/them pronouns do not automatically mean someone is nonbinary, but for...
 
Cover Love: Book Covers with Summer Vibes

Cover Love: Book Covers with Summer Vibes

Blogging has been difficult for me lately, I haven't done much more than reviews and monthly updates, so here I am to humbly present to you all a cover love post! It's summer now, so let's all enjoy some summery book covers. I feel like there are a ton of books out there with very tropical, poolside, summery covers, but those are usually not sci-fi/fantasy, which is what I focus on here. You...
 
Update: Life and Books (Apr 2025)

Update: Life and Books (Apr 2025)

I'm a little late getting this posted because I kept putting it off and off and then got distracted today. But it's here now! No improvements to my personal life, but I have a few other things I can talk about. I've tried listening to numerous fantasy RPG podcasts but, aside from Dungeons & Daddies, they never end up keeping my attention. I think I finally found another one though! It's...
 
Bookish News: 10 Queer SFF Books I’m Excited For in 2025 (Part 1)

Bookish News: 10 Queer SFF Books I’m Excited For in 2025 (Part 1)

This post is a bit late, so some of these books are already out, but that just means you can immediately start reading them if they sound good to you! I haven't been on bookish social media much lately, so I had to do some searching to find these, and I was worried I'd have a hard time finding ten books to use. Instead I had a hard time narrowing the list down! Almost all of these are...