This week:
• I read a lot of self-published Romance
• Main characters can be diverse in a lot of different ways
• Everyone deserves a happily ever after
Tag Archives: Reading
Fantastic Regency Fantasy – Shades of Milk and Honey
This week, Shades of Milk and Honey is:
• A brilliant blend of subtle magic and historical fiction
• Exactly the kind of gentle romance I like
• Making me want some strawberries
Three Twins at the Crater School Review
This week:
• I love school stories
• How many twins are there, exactly?
• This book has weird, fascinating worldbuilding
Choosing your genre as a reader
This week, defining your genre as a reader:
• Means you know yourself well
• Can close you off from finding other things you love
• Will help you avoid things that annoy or trigger you
Legends & Lattes: what is cosy fantasy? Or, how to make yourself hungry by reading descriptions of cake
This week:
• I try to nail down what cosy fantasy is
• Travis Baldree becomes a one-click author for me
• The mouth-watering descriptions of pastries made me hungry
Rainbringer: passive heroine, active heroine
This week, Rainbringer:
• Has two strong heroines
• Subverted my expectations
• Totally blew me away
Secondary Characters, Narrative and Comedy – Review of Redshirts by John Scalzi
This week, Redshirts is:
• A fun romp through the Universal Union
• Sneakily asking ethical questions
• Much more meta than I anticipated
Stop Book-Shaming Children
This week:
• I define book-shaming and why adults do it
• Book-shamed children stop reading
• Top ways to get children to move on with reading
World Book Day 2020
In this blog, I will:
• Tell you why I love World Book Day
• Give you an inspired lesson idea (if I do say so myself)
• Start a radical movement to get World Book Day introduced to every working office environment
ALISON JANET BROWN 