Time: Tuesday, 9:16 pm It was almost time to leave. All of the customers were already gone--a small miracle, given that there was a strong tendency to hang around well past closing time--so we were getting a little extra cleaning done in our "free time." I was over cleaning the wood portion of our floors, … Continue reading Tales from the Café: Amazing the Things You Find
Tag: Writing
So after checking out the Unseen trilogy by Ms. Erickson, I was eager to see what the rest of her writing looked like. I've purchased at least one other book of hers, but haven't started reading it yet. (Like about three-quarters of the books I own.) I was planning on reading it next...at least, until … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: THE FATE by Stephanie Erickson
I've been thinking about this ever since the actual conversation that spurred this most recent Friday's Tales from the Café. It was a bit of a throw-away line from me at the time, but it's stuck with me in the back of my head for probably a few months now. We don't see the same … Continue reading Don’t Trust What You See
Time: Saturday, 8:35 pm It was a quiet night, and a welcome one at that. Friday night had been an absolute nightmare; it had been me, a returning college student, and three new hires working, and I'm fairly certain everyone in a thirty mile radius had decided to come out. So a quiet night shift … Continue reading Tales from the Café: Man in the Mirror
I thought about reviewing these books separately, but I read them in such quick order one after the other, I think it's fair to put America's whole story into one review. I came across THE SELECTION, book one in this trilogy, in a Barnes & Noble several months ago when I was on a bit … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: THE SELECTION TRILOGY by Kiera Cass
I've been following along with some of the snafus that have occurred in and around the #WeNeedDiverseBooks hashtag, though haven't ever really delved deeply into them. I have several friends who write stories dealing with people of various diversities (racial, people with disabilities, LGBT+, etc) and I know it's an important part of our world … Continue reading The Trouble with Diversity
"Admit it, didn't you always think the zombie apocalypse would begin in New Jersey?" Okay, if that wasn't going to catch my attention, I don't know what would. I went to an event locally where I got a chance to hear several local-ish authors talk about the craft and their books. I've reviewed one of … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: EXIT ZERO by Neil A. Cohen
Time: Every day I come into work Every job has its own set of phrases that make you feel like you're a broken record. Mocha Time has quite a few. Between what I hear the customers say, and what I say on a regular basis... "Thank you for calling Mocha Time City Center, this is … Continue reading Tales from the Café: Commonly Heard Phrases
CAM GIRL probably isn't a book which would have naturally shown up on my radar. Granted, my radar is pretty shabby and doesn't pick up a lot of stuff, but it's still outside what most websites would recommend to me. Which is unfortunate, since this is exactly the kind of thing I find fascinating. The … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: CAM GIRL by Leah Raeder
As I've probably mentioned before, I started out my writing life as a fanfiction author. One of the foremost glories a fic author can receive are reviews. Comments, kudos, reviews...these are what keep a fic author breathing. We can't do it for money, more often than not we don't even have our "real" name attached … Continue reading Talk Bookish to Me
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