by Nicole | Mar 16, 2021 | Book Reviews, Genre, Space Opera, Urban Fantasy
Have I gone mad? Escape the beach in a book? Who would even?! I know. I know. Call me crazy, but reading and the beach go together like tequila, triple sec, and lime juice (and salt, for sassy people, like me!). So if you’re going to do it, do it with the right...
by Nicole | Mar 10, 2021 | Book Reviews, Good reads, Space Opera, Urban Fantasy
I’ve been reading a lot lately–almost as much as I did in college as a literature major!–and have developed many, many, many opinions. And what do we do with opinions? Share them! Right? I agree. So basically, I’m throwing out four great reads...
by Nicole | Nov 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Before he died, Calvin—my dad—made these two…vases, I guess you’d call them. I have three, and there are more scattered among my sisters and maybe among people I don’t know—I didn’t really move in his circles, or know if he even had circles. Looking at them,...
by Nicole | Jul 28, 2020 | Life Story
My parents reading together. Totally posed. But reading was one of the things that brought them together and kept them together. They often fought over new books--who got to read, say, the newest Terry Brooks book first. Grief is weird. I don’t even know how to...
by Nicole | Jun 13, 2020 | Life Story
Unless, of course, what the author meant with that song is: life doesn’t get easier. You just get better at handling the absolute hell of it. That’s TOTALLY what they meant. It has to be, right? I can’t figure out why, but I feel less prepared now to...