Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, This week I took an afternoon off and went to the beach with my kindle. I had a lot of fun just lying in the shade and reading while the waves rolled in and people buzzed around. Getting out of my comfort zone and typical routines of where and when I read was good for my soul. Yes the beach is nice but going the the park or...
3 days ago • 5 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, There are so many books jammed into this email that I am just going to quickly say, thank you for reading. You make the world a better place because when you read you learn skills like empathy. So, give yourself a high five for being a cool person who reads. Enjoy all the new books this week and have a beautiful Sunday, Sheena...
10 days ago • 5 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, Last week I talked a little about the masc/butch rep in sapphic fiction and got some interesting responses which I have included at the end of this email in the Community section. Make sure to check those out. This week I was pondering bookish activities that are not reading. I can think of a handful of them such as, sorting...
17 days ago • 4 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, There is a joke that book clubs are more about drinking wine and chatting than about reading the book. And, while I have no doubt that is often true, it’s not always true. Although the social element is undeniable because being part of a book club can offer a social connection to folks who enjoy similar types of books. Being...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, I am so susceptible to a good tag line and this week we have a number of really fun tag lines on the new releases. I was uploading them and going - oooh I should add that to my reading list and ahh that looks so good. Tag lines are essentially the elevator pitch of a book. That one line of text that describes the reading...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, My wife started Game of Thrones years ago. She loved the books and was eagerly awaiting the next one in the series. I may be incorrect but I don’t think there were a ton of books left in the series when George R.R. Martin stopped writing. My poor wife was hopeful for years that the ending would be published. When the TV series...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, I have been reading a couple of really good books recently. Ones that make me unbelievably happy and that got me to thinking about books that make me unhappy and so I do not finish (DNF) them. What Makes you DNF? I started a book once that I enjoyed the premise of, the setting was cool and the side characters were awesome. But...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, This week I am feeling the book vibes. This year has seen some truly remarkable books being published and that makes me a happy human. That got me thinking - Are you a curator or do you do vibes? There are readers who carefully curate their reading experience so that one type of experience follows another and then there are...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Download the images in this email to ensure the best reading experience. Make sure to whitelist our email address so we don't end up in your spam folder. Hello Reader, Last week I wrote a little description of what I love about books. It was this: The swoosh of the page as it turns. The faint crack of a new spine opening for the first time. The muted thunk of a book landing on a table. The feel of smooth or rough pages as you move your fingers over the page. The slide of a dust jacket. The...
2 months ago • 4 min read