I’m a book person at heart, and there are a couple of novels that never fail to get my wanderlust going. Because I like these books too much to just list them, I’ll do a …
Author: kathrynthies
Writer, reader, student, chocolate eater, etc...
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Books to Travel By
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Editing
First of all, I think it’s important to distinguish between the types. There are a lot of different kinds of editing out there, and it can be tricky to figure out which one you need. …
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Book Review: Obsidio, by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Spoilers will be present in this review. You have been forewarned. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to review this coherently. You thought that Illuminae and Gemina were wild rides? You know nothing. …
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Night of Cake and Puppets, by Laini Taylor: Sachertorte
It’s no secret that I adore anything Laini Taylor has written. It’s also no secret that chocolate and I are very much friends. You probably know this about me, but I’ve been learning German for …
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The Upside of Unrequited: A Kindred Pinterest Fiend
Granted, Molly is often more in the stereotypical side of Pinterest actually uses Pinterest the way Pinterest was intended to be used, a la recipes and crafts- which I only do on rare occasions- but …
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The Dress, part 1 of Quite a Few.
This. You’ve probably heard me talking about this on Twitter already, but there’s no point in hiding what has sort of become my keynote project of BookMade. I’m attempting to make Scarlett’s dress (or, at …
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A Darker Shade of Magic- but they’re actually cookies | book made
Avan, friends, and happy 2018! As you may recall, a few months ago I got impatient and went ahead and announced a new series titled Book Made. Since I came up with it, I’ve been …
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: Or, You Can Now Call Me Janus
Wasn’t Janus the Greek/Roman, two-headed god of crossroads? Let’s say he is. I don’t want to take the time to fact-check myself, now. Anyway, in case you didn’t notice (and I totally don’t blame you …
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Busy-ness and a General Reflection Upon Life
You may have noticed I haven’t posted for a while. Indeed, it’s been almost three weeks since my Scorpio Races review went up. I’ve wanted to post- I have nine, ten half-finished drafts of reviews and …
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Book Review: The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater
This is a beautiful book. I don’t normally read books about horses- I’m just not particularily a horse person. The last ‘horse book’ I read was The Shepherdess of Siena back in… oh gosh, 2015- …
