Month: June 2023

My Summer 2023 TBR

My Summer 2023 TBR
Posted June 17, 2023
Books, TBR Lists, Top 10 Tuesday

Hi friends! đŸ‘‹đŸ» We’re now into summer in the Northern Hemisphere and I am not looking forward to it. I don’t need to explain how much I hate summer and hot weather in general but my hatred for it just intensifies as I get older (thanks to global warming). Usually, I centre my seasonal TBRs around specific genres and contemporary has been my summer genre for a long time now, but I’ve been reading so much horror and thriller recently that it’s all I want to read really. And that doesn’t bother me one bit because whoever said that horror is only for Halloween? The Texas Chain Saw Massacre took place in the summer, after all. House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson – Normally I wouldn’t pick a book about vampires for the summertime, but I’ve ended up picking five. Whoops. I’ve had a copy of House of Hunger on my shelves for a little while and since we’re nearing the end of Pride Month, I figured there’s no better time to read it. Because I am a vampire in real life. The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave – Another sapphic vampire book, but a YA one this time. I’ve never read […]

Dead Book Genres

Dead Book Genres
Posted June 10, 2023
Books, Discussions, Ramblings

Hi friends! đŸ‘‹đŸ» Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about genre trends and whether certain tropes or whole genres will make a comeback in the future. A lot of people claim that “elevated horror” is the current big thing thanks to directors like Ari Aster (Hereditery, Midsommar) and some horror movies becoming more cinematic and focusing on psychological elements instead of physical horror, but I don’t really think that’s true. The genres that are popular often reflect the world around us, with some genres being more trendy than others at certain times. Publishing and movie studios like money more than anything so they’ll pump out more and more of the current popular thing until general audiences get sick of it and want to see something else. Think the recent claims of “superhero burnout” or the resurgance in cosy crime books in the UK. There are also genres that die off because of sociopolitical reasons; the messages and tropes that they promote just aren’t considered acceptable to modern audiences and the genre looks stuck in the past. I wouldn’t say that there are a lot of dead genres since genres as a whole tend to be evergreen, but tropes and subgenres are […]

Book Things I’m Sick Of

Book Things I’m Sick Of
Posted June 3, 2023
Books, Discussions

Hello again! đŸ‘‹đŸ» It’s been a while since I made a post, but I’ve missed blogging regularly so now is as good a time as ever to make a comeback! I have never really considered myself to be a very active participant in online book spaces, but I do consider myself to be someone who is very easily annoyed. Almost 13 years of book blogging has made me into a bit of a grouch because I’ve seen so much crap that gets on my nerves. Is a vent post a good post to make for a first post back? Probably not, but this is my grump space and I will grump if I want to. Edit 13/06/23: Better late than never to throw my hat into the ring for 2023’s Book Blog Discussion Challenge! song title titles Usually, I would call this a fanfiction thing, and it’s something that I’ve been guilty of too, but there are so many books now that share their names with songs that I’m bored of them. Off the top of my head I can name You’re the One that I Want (Simon James Green), both Carry On and Wayward Son (Rainbow Rowell), Owner of a Lonely Heart (Eva Carter), Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), You Should […]