Hey all, Sam here. Last year I wanted to participate in the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour, but we just ended up not really having the time to plan out visits to bookstores because of our schedules. But this year, I told David that I wanted to try and visit at least a handful of the… Continue reading A Day on the Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour
Hey all, Sam here. It has been quite a while since I last had a manga review post. Honestly it's been a bit since I've read a volume of manga. I probably need to catch up on some of my series at this point, which is at least something nice to look forward to. So… Continue reading Manga Review: Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama
Hey all, Sam here. Okay, this is a little overdue, but it took me a little longer to recover from Gen Con than I expected. We had a couple of very long days at the convention, and then the two days after we got back, I had to go in to work, so there wasn't… Continue reading July 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. It's somehow the end of July already, and Gen Con is just a couple of days away. Oh, I should go ahead and say that my July wrap-up post won't be up until I've had a couple of days to recover from the con. I know most of the time I… Continue reading August 2026 TBR
Hey all, Sam here. All right, here we go....July is already off to a better start than June (because this is my second blog post of the month, and I only had two posts in all of last month). It was a wild and packed month, though, and there is a lot to cover in… Continue reading June 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. After the amazing reading month I had in June, I'm ready to keep on reading, BUT I also want to give a little more priority to writing time as well. I basically neglected my writing all of June to indulge in a reading competition with a friend. That being said, I… Continue reading July 2026 TBR
Hey all, Sam here. So....my May wrap-up is coming up so late because I've been deep in the trenches of binge-reading. That is absolutely because of the Pride Month reading challenge issued by my co-worker, and I'm not at all complaining about how much I'm reading. It has felt incredible. But it has meant that… Continue reading May 2026 Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. So, of course, the same day as my June TBR post goes live, I have a co-worker who has decided that it would be fun for us to having a reading contest. Now, I should say that I love this co-worker, and it's overall a low stakes contest...but it does mean… Continue reading A Bonus Pride June TBR
Hey all, Sam here. So May has been a pretty decent month for reading, and I'm honestly hoping to keep that reading momentum going in June. What's also really fun is that June is my last month of reading before I compile my Top Ten Reads of 2026 (January-June Edition) post. There's already a pretty… Continue reading What’s On My June TBR?
Hey all, Sam here. Today I wanted to try and do a little something different. We'll see how this goes and I might explore some other fun sub-genres moving forward. There has been a massive rise in popularity for the LitRPG genre of books the past couple of years, although the format first achieved popularity… Continue reading Genre Exploration: LitRGP
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