I’m committing the deadliest of sins and double-posting today… I had a burst of inspiration earlier to post about #booksfortradeUK, and now I’ve just decided to join Armchair BEA. So I have no choice. Double posting it is! Today’s topic is Social Media. I won’t lie – a big part of my day job is […]
#booksfortradeUK
Hey, Book Geeks! I wanted to do a quick post today to talk about a new hashtag that has been sweeping across Twitter, and that is #booksfortrade. I’m not sure how this started, but it seems to have taken off and is doing really well, especially among Book Bloggers who are always coming down with […]
I’m Late, But I’m Here! #ABEA
I was hoping to schedule some posts over the weekend, to get back into blogging with a BANG in June, but I’ve been spotting Armchair BEA posts all over the place, and as I’m suitably raging that I can’t attend the real thing, I thought I would join in with Armchair BEA this year instead 🙂 […]
A Great Reader Is…
I wanted to put together a discussion on what makes a “great reader” – is it someone who is well read (whatever definition you place on that), is it someone who is well versed in classics, or is it someone who reads 100 books a year? When trying to piece together my thoughts I ended up […]
You Want Me To DEFACE My Books?!
So, here’s my history with annotating books. I don’t do it. I’ve never had the urge to do it, I’ve never really understood why someone would want to do it. It just feels… wrong. That being said, I do enjoy making notes in and highlighting sections of eBooks, but that’s not the same thing is it? It […]
Confession: I’m Being A Bad Blogger
I knew it was too good to last. I just knew it.
Author Guest Post – Animal Stories: Not Just For Kiddies
What do you first think of when someone says “talking animals”? I’ll bet you have images of fuzzy huggables like Peter Rabbit, The Jungle Book — or, if you’re thinking about more recent examples, maybe Phillip Pullman’s drunk bear Iorik Byrnison.
All these examples have one thing in common – they’re mostly for kids. None of them are characters you’d think of as catering to adults, right? Somehow talking animals easily sound like a childish device, as something we grow out of. But should we?
Confessions of a Book Geek turns 1!
Guys and gals, I can’t believe I’m writing this post… but Confessions of a Book Geek has turned 1! Where has the year gone?! When I first started blogging, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing (sometimes I feel like I still don’t) but I went with it, and I’m so glad I did. […]
My “Celeb” Personality Counterparts
Way back when Cait @ Paper Fury was still blogging as The Notebook Sisters she did a post about her Myers Briggs personality type. Being an avid psychology fan, and working in the corporate field for a good few years now, I’ve come across this before, and I’ve always found it to be ridiculously accurate. For anyone […]
What is the POINT of pre-ordering?!?
Here’s the backstory – I hadn’t pre-ordered a book for years until I got back into reading again in 2012. I read and loved Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth, and was lucky to have found the series just before the release of the third and final book, Allegiant. I was so excited that books […]
New Feature: Babes and Books!
Recently on the blog I’ve been getting into doing quite a few joint-reads and conversational reviews. These used to be one-offs I’d do with other bloggers when we had a book on our TBRs we were both excited about, but with two bloggers in particular, regular joint reviews and shared fan-girling started to sound like […]
(S)he Said Discussion – Sex In Erotic Fiction
HE SAID, SHE SAID is a brand-spanking-new feature created and hosted by Rachel (at) Confessions of a Book Geek and Joey (at) Thoughts and Afterthoughts, where formality is thrown out of the window in no-holds-barred discussions on all things bookish.
To-date we have discussed Sex in Adult/NA Fiction and Sex in YA Fiction, and with the release of the much-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie, we thought it was about time we tackled the third and final He Said, She Said post on sex in books, with Erotic Fiction.
2015 Discussion Challenge
2015 marked the first time I would be blogging at the turn of a new year, which meant New Year resolutions, blog housekeeping and challenge sign-ups. I decided early-on that I wasn’t going to sign-up to too many challenges because I didn’t want to overstretch myself, but I’m adding just one more to the list. The […]
How Much Do You Spend On Books?
As book bloggers, we’re obsessed with many bookish things, the most obvious being books. Some of us loan from libraries, some of us receive ARCs, and some of us just like to buy and own them. This results in all sorts of justifications for our hobby, and some interesting side-effects – book buying bans when […]
Poll: Do You Review Your Reviews?
I’ve been blogging and reviewing for slightly less than a year, so this has never been something I’ve given much thought to, but while tidying up my review archives recently I was struck by how many of the books, plots and characters have stayed with me, and how many of them… Well, they just haven’t. […]
The First Week Back Is Nearly Over!
I don’t usually do overly personal/life-related posts on this blog unless they somehow fit in with a bookish theme, but I’ve decided to change it up in 2015 and try to incorporate a few more personal posts and discussions along with my bookish addiction. I’m not tying myself down to a scheduled update, because honestly? […]
Confessions of a Book Geek 