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Author Archives: Kris
The final countdown begins…
YAY!!! Happy TEA Week! The only thing that can possibly annoy me this week – well, besides work, kittens who wake me up too early, two evening functions for work, mornings, work, etc, etc – is the fact that I … Continue reading
Posted in J L Langley, Thought for the Week, time zone suck
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Reading in context
When I was in my last year of high school we read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. I reacted violently to this book. I didn’t hate the way it was written, the plot, character development, setting or anything like … Continue reading
Posted in Suzanne Collins, William Golding, ya
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Why I hate/love the blogs of other book addicts!
Two words… ‘book pimpage’. I said early on that I have recently discovered the blog sites of other reading addicts and how my curiosity (translation from Australian colloquialism = total lack of will power and any self control at all!) … Continue reading
Posted in book pimpage, dik, Meljean Brook, pet peeve/fave rant
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Mornings suck!
I LOATHE mornings with an absolute passion. It kills me that at the moment I am having a whole lot of them because my adorable *through clenched teeth* kittens like to sit on my pillow/ bed/ me patting or licking … Continue reading
Posted in Lora Leigh, pet peeve/fave rant
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Love has no boundaries – a postscript*
Okay, given the fact that I am a self-proclaimed reader of romance, perhaps it was a tad hypocritical of me yesterday to diss the whole ‘love has no boundaries’ thing. *g* So let’s explore examples of when this concept works … Continue reading
Posted in tropes, twu luv
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When is it okay to be 19?
##inspired by Lisabea – see previous post##So when is it okay for a young man – and, yes, I am talking about m/m fiction – to become involved in a serious relationship in a story? Is it okay when he … Continue reading
Posted in J L Langley, K B Forrest, Lisabea, m/m, Thought for the Week, Z A Maxfield
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Judging a book
No, this isn’t a continuation of my last blog or even a review. I have no real intention of beginning to do ‘proper’ reviews of books, although the reviewing of reviews is very tempting indeed! (What a minefield that would … Continue reading
Posted in book covers, pet peeve/fave rant, WTF
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What is a good book or makes a book good?
I have been thinking about the answer to this question for about a week or so now ever since I thought that I would like to discuss it in a blog.In that week, I have read the results of the … Continue reading
Posted in Jessewave, Lisabea, what makes a good book
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What the hell am I doing…
A couple of things occurred to me after posting my blog yesterday: the first is that I have no idea where I am going with this; and, the second, that if I don’t start getting strict with myself, I will … Continue reading
Posted in Thought for the Week
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Book pimpage & the pitfalls of living in the lonely city
Although I have only recently become a die-hard fan of the blogs of my fave authors as well as other readers, I can already tell that book pimpage is going to be a serious problem for me. I had successfully … Continue reading
Kris + Books = Good. *Sometimes*. 