[Book Review] Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.

But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.

It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.

[Book Tag] Behind the Screen: A Book Blogger Tag

This book tag was created by Amber @ Du Livre. The purpose of this book tag is to get to know more about the bloggers we are following or to get to know some bloggers we are just discovering. This tag is a cute way to get to know the reading and writing habits of these bloggers and to make the community closer. I think this is awesome and I am completely here for it. If you end up doing (or have done it in the past) this tag please tell/link me so I can read your answers!

So if you're interested in getting to know more about me keep reading!

NaNoWrimo: Week One Updates!

The season of NaNoWriMo is upon us! Each week I plan on updating on how I have been doing, my story progress, and my experience as a whole. For anyone who is unsure what NaNoWriMo is, it's a yearly challenge where you're encouraged to write 50K words in a month because that evens out to a short novel length. So you're basically writing a book in a month. Each day the goal is to write 1,667 words a day till the end. I have been participating in NaNoWriMo for seven years now but I have only "won" (which meansI wrote 50K in the month, it's not an actual contest to win a prize. The prize is your novel.) three times. So it's challenging, but I am taking it more seriously. For more information I recommend checking out their website, www.nanowrimo.org.

 So, let's get into how this first week of 2017's NaNoWriMo was for me!

My Biggest Literary Crushes!

It's almost Valentine's Day! So I decided to showcase some of my favorite literary crushes that I have accumulated over the years.

Book-to-TV Adaptations in 2017

There are so many television shows based off books coming out in 2017 that I wanted to discuss some of the ones I am most excited about. I haven't read the source material for a good chunk of the list but either from the trailers, hype, or just the casting choices has gotten me really excited about these ones in particular.

[Book Review] The Keeper and the Rune Stone by Paige W. Pendleton

 

3 STARS 

It is always so exciting when Maine is the setting in a book that isn't Stephen King. No shade towards Stephen King! I love his books, but to see this fun middle grade fantasy novel be not only set in Maine but written by an author who has connections to the small island I have called my childhood home for over ten years. It's just really inspirational as a aspiring novelist. 

[Graphic Novel Review] Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery

Quick heads up that this graphic novel series is definitely geared for a more mature reader. (Gore, language, sex talk, etc). I like to try to have any warnings in the beginning with more mature content just in case that isn't something you're interested in!

5 STARS

Why did it take me so long to finally read this!? I am already in love with this universe and art style.

Rat Queens is a fantasy story about these four badass women who discover that there is an assassin attacking the five teams (Rat Queens, Peaches, Four Daves, Brother Ponies, and Obsidian Darkness) that are assigned quests by the captain of the guard. This volume is about them trying to find out who hired the assassin but also dealing with things in their personal life.