-DISCUSSIONS-
Occasionally I post discussions. These vary in topics so I can’t really put them under one snazzy title. They are lots of fun though since they create fantastic platforms for discussion (hence the name)!
- Reading (and writing!) with aphantasia
- Special editions are out of control! Updated for 2021
- How has 2020 affected your blog?
- Guilty pleasure reads
- All this free time and nothing to do
- I tried ordering from used bookstores. Here’s how it went!
- Reading without a mind’s eye (aphantasia)
- The great audiobook debate – Do they count?
- 5 Goodreads recs I actually want to read
- How long is too long between books?
- Favorite movies based on books I haven’t read
- Best villains in TV (recent) history
- My top 3 favorite podcasts
- Why is the horror genre so hard to lock down?
- Let’s talk about the Grishaverse cast!
- What did I just watch? A Carnival Row discussion
- Why don’t people read indie?
- Special editions are out of control: Caraval and The Cruel Prince
- Grisha trilogy discussion
- How did (or do) you feel about required reading?
- Fantasy settings I really want more of
- Would you read that ugly book?
- How often do you read outside your comfort zone?
- ALA 2019 recap & haul
- Do you review every book you read?
- Game of Thrones is over and I have a lot of feelings
- Weird YA books for weirdos
- 5 Sub-genres I just can’t get into
- Reread discussion: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- A very spoilery King of Scars discussion
- I reread Caraval and Legendary and here’s how it went
- Who loves a sad ending?
- Book boyfriend face off
- Book trading: a guide
- How often do I read my TBR: 7 months later
- How out of control is your backlist?
- When books share the same name
- Do you age up YA characters?
- 7 YA books for people who don’t read YA
- How not to request reviews and six things you should be doing
- Four popular books that got huge makeovers
- TV and movie adaptations that need to be made ASAP
- Four reasons people aren’t commenting (and how to fix them)
- How have YA genre trends changed over the years?
- Eight worst blogging fails
- E-readers vs. physical copies
- The aftermath of a blogging slump
- How often do I actually read the books on my TBR list?
- Bookish things that make me mad
- Do you hoard special editions?
- ARCs and the pressure they come with
- Book blogging woes
- Book conventions and festivals: A how-to guide
- The best and worst love triangles in YA
- Fantastic ARCs and Where to Find Them
- My three favorite podcasts and why you should listen to them
- Retellings: The best and worst
- Three reasons I absolutely refuse to read A Song of Ice and Fire
- Series I loved, but randomly stopped reading
- When special editions are out of control
- When your favorite author disappoints
- Favorite mother/daughter pairs
- How to escape the dreaded blogging slump
- Book boyfriends & why they’re the best
- How Important are Character Names? (And Why do I Forget them so Often?)
- Why reading is basically the same as cardio
- Should fan fiction count ever towards reading goals?
- 5 Recommendations that really didn’t work out
- My absolute favorite movies based on books: adult edition
- My absolute favorite movies based on books: kids’ edition
- Ratings from before the blog (with no justification)
- The plight of book bloggers in 2016
- Women vs. men in YA fiction
- Goodreads and pre-publication reviews
- Bookish pet peeve: When characters make decisions for each other
- Commenting back and why you should do it
- #booksfortrade entitlement (and why it’s a problem)
- Five times I shouldn’t have judged by the cover
- When life gets in the way of bookish things
- Bookish pet peeve: Blurb comparisons
- The best & worst of audiobooks, revised
- Sarah J. Maas is writing all the books!
- In which I share my top 5 reader confessions
- How accurate do you like your fiction?
- Why people who don’t post spoiler warnings are the worst
- Thoughts on J.K. Rowling’s new Harry Potter “books”
- Do you finish series you don’t love?
- Do author interactions influence your reading habits?
- On review requests that ignore review policies
- Are YA characters actually young adults?
- So what is dystopia, really?
- When you get your books crossed
- Reading to stay relevant in the book blogging world
- Agree to disagree: voicing opinions without being rude
- On the issues: Mockingjay Part 2
- Authors who can’t let go
- Reading for your brain: an experiment
- Five types of Goodreads reviews that annoy me greatly
- Five female character types I hate
- The book buying conundrum
- Musings on book ratings
- 5 reasons I buy books online
- My bookshelf runneth over… with books I don’t read
- I don’t understand people who don’t read
- I don’t think I know what YA is
- Tips for mad commenting skills
- The curse of being a mood reader
- YA shaming: the lack of YA representation at my university
- Let’s talk “grown up” books
- The best & worst of audiobooks
- What the heck is a book buying ban?
- Bad boys in YA literature
- Musings on genres and second chances
-SATURDAY SCREEN TIME-
Saturday Screen Time is a feature for sharing and briefly discussing the films I’ve been watching recently. This feature is now posted on the first Saturday of every month.
- Spooky Season Part One | Butterfly Kisses, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Enola Holmes, Spiral, Love and Monsters, The Houses October Built, Mulan (2020), The Devil All the Time, The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions, The Vow, Love Island Season 2
- Too Many to Mention | Underwater, Time Trap, The Hunt, Sweetheart, Delirium, Spring, The Lodge, The Platform, Knock Knock, Vivarium, The Room (2019), First Reformed, American Horror Story 1984, Euphoria, The Great, Space Force, Solar Opposites
- Oops, I watched too much | I Am Dragon, Beast, In the Tall Grass, The Danish Girl, Ready Or Not, Parasite, Knives Out, Mandy, Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark, Rosemary’s Baby, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Color Out of Space, Girl On the Third Floor, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Backcountry, Beyond the Walls, Shameless Season 10, Love Is Blind
- January horror and reality TV | Ghostland, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, I Am Mother, The Circle, Channel Zero: The Dream Door, Supernatural Season 14
- Angels, gators, and sorcery | Charlie’s Angels, Frozen II, Happy Death Day 2U, Crawl, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, Survivor Season 39, You Season 2, The Witcher
- Nostalgia, evil(ish) queens, and the antichrist | The Blair Witch Project, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, El Camino, The King, AHS Apocalypse
- Spooky month is upon us! | It Chapter II, The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy, Would You Rather, As Above So Below, The Borderlands, Supernatural Season 13
- Mind-benders, nostalgia, and dramatic Poldarks | Dark Water, Coherence, The Innkeepers, Dogtooth, Timecrimes, Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3, Poldark Season 4, Big Brother Season 16, Chernobyl, The Haunting of Hill House
- Sci-fi, my kind of humor, and a prison sentence | Moon, Schitt’s Creek Seasons 4-5, Orange is the New Black Season 6
- Secrets, makeovers, and Schitt | Midsommar, Big Little Lies Season 2, Queer Eye Season 4, The Lion King (2019), Schitt’s Creek Seasons 1-3
- Sequels, remakes, and Babysitter Steve | How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, Black Mirror Season 5, Aladdin, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Stranger Things Season 3
- NOT horror! | The Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, The Originals Season 3, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Superheroes, vampires, and creeps | Channel Zero: No-End House, Captain Marvel, The Bay, Ceep, Us, The Originals Season 2, The First Purge
- Shockingly, more horror | Phoenix Forgotten, Resolution, Channel Zero: Candle Cove
- Thriller! | Gerald’s Game, A Simple Favor, Creep 2, The Endless, Triangle, Glass, Ghost Ship
- Unpopular opinions | Revenge, Aquaman, Eighth Grade, You
- Horror and cartoons | Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Ritual, Green Room, The Sixth Sense
- A little of this, a little of that | Apostle, Bad Ben, Paradise Lost, The Crimes of Grindelwald, Hereditary
- Found Footage | Hell House LLC, Leaving DC, Man Vs, Grave Encounters, Hell House LLC II
- Halloween Watchlist
- Spooky, Spooky | Beetlejuice, Castle Rock
- Superheroes and witches | Hellboy, Unbreakable, Split, Hocus Pocus, Thoroughbreds
- A mixed sci-fi bag | Tau, Annihilation
- Ant-Man, the Wasp, & Not-Black Widow | Ant-Man and the Wasp, Red Sparrow
- Why is everything bad? | Winchester, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- I am underwhelmed | Fight Club, Lady Bird, I Am Love, Insidious: The Last Key
- Mutants save the day! | The Florida Project, Deadpool 2
- Shhh | A Quite Place, Permission
- It’s been a few weeks | Girls, Mom & Dad, Harry Potter 2-8, Avatar, The Handmaid’s Tale, Survivor: The Amazon, Avengers: Infinity War
- That was weird | The Diaster Artist, The Room
- Why did I wait so long? | Call Me By Your Name, Whiplash, The Greatest Showman
- Not what I was expecting | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Going in blind | Mysterious Skin, Murder on the Orient Express
- Mostly mediocre | The Death Cure, Captain Fantastic, Jigsaw, Happy Death Day
- Horror, Sci-Fi, and King T’Challa | The Cloverfield Paradox, It Comes at Night, Coco, Don’t Breathe, The Mountain Between Us, Black Panther
- Magic and Sharks | The Dark Tower, 47 Meters Down
- Remakes all around! | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Mummy (2017)
- I loved everything | The Shape of Water, Pitch Perfect 3, Wuthering Heights (2009)
- Rewatches and Experiments | The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Cabin in the Woods, The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Powerful Women | Stoker, Lady Macbeth, The Beguiled, Tulip Fever
- The Great Marvel Rewatch of 2017: Phase One | Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, The Avengers
- Horror and Gods | Get Out, Thor Ragnarok
- Pumpkins and Sociopaths | Trick ‘r Treat, We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Goblins and Clowns | My Own Private Idaho, It, Labyrinth, The Circle, Everything Everything
-SPINE-TINGLING SATURDAYS-
Spine-tingling Saturday is a super spooky feature recently brought back from the grave! This feature was originally only focused on NoSleep stories creepypastas, but now includes all things horror related. This feature is currently being posted sporadically but will have a more regular schedule soon!
- Something Walks Whistling
- Correspondence (+ author interview)
- The Mold Series (+ author interview)
- The darker side of Disney
- The Weirdness (+ author interview)
- Spire in the Woods (+ author interview)
- Who Was In My Bed?
- Ghostly Messages
- Infected Town
- FB Messages From Beyond the Grave
- Life in the Machine
-DOWN THE TBR HOLE-
This is a fantastic meme created by Lost In a Story to help manage our ever-growing TBR lists. This is a random feature in which I’ll sporadically share 5-10 of my TBR list and decide whether or not they stay or go. You can find all of these posts here!
-WEEKLY RECAP-
Each Sunday I post a recap of the previous week. This includes a short recap of what has been going on in my (not very) super exciting life, the books I acquired throughout the week, posts from the week, what I read, and a list of upcoming reviews. Find past recaps here!
-DISNEY FOR THE WEEKEND-
//ON HIATUS//
This feature is all about Disney and it will be popping up on the blog on random Saturdays. Now that I live so close to Disney World and will be able to go often, I want to share the Disney magic with you, my lovely readers! I’ll be posting things from Disney movie reviews to reviews of Disney restaurants.
- Pandora Preview
- Reviewing all the gingerbread
- 5 sequels I will never, ever touch
- Top 5 best sequels ever
- Disney World dessert parties
- Top 5 Disney Channel movies
- Under-appreciated films, pt 2
- My Disney-themed home
- Stranded at Disney World
- Under-appreciated films
-PAPER TO POPCORN-
//ON HIATUS//
This is a feature in which I host book vs movie showdowns. I’m hoping to feature some unique combos that aren’t the typical inconsistencies-type post and I plan to focus mostly on retellings.
- The Phantom of Manhattan vs. Love Never Dies
- Hook & Jill vs. Pan (2015)
- Never Never vs. Peter Pan (2003)
- Princess of Thorns vs. Maleficent
- Crane vs. Sleepy Hollow
- Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets book vs. movie
- Of Metal and Wishes vs. The Phantom of the Opera
- Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone book vs. movie
