Hi everyone, and… …well, you’ve probably noticed by now that I haven’t been around for a long time. And I loved blogging, and I still miss blogging, but for a while there, life became A Lot, and now I’m moving into a permanent job in publishing. Which is amazing, but basically makes reviewing anything an enormously weird conflict of interest! I wanted to stop by and write to you to let you know that if you’ve been a reader here for any amount of time at all, I truly appreciate you coming by, and I hope I was able to make you smile and to help you choose a great book or two. (Or avoid a couple ..read more

Hello everyone, and…well, hi. As you’ve probably noticed, my hiatus has…continued. I’ve recovered decently and my bad start to the year is (probably) getting better, but to be honest, I haven’t finished a book for not-work in quite a while. I’ve started, but…it has been feeling like work, and while it feels that way, I know blogging isn’t going to make me happy the way it was before. It’s probably just a case of the extreme burnouts (and life-stuff-related stress), and I’d like to leave the door open to come back, but I can’t promise when that will be yet. What I can say is this: thanks to al ..read more