Month: February 2025

Dipping My Toes Back into Paranormal Romance

Dipping My Toes Back into Paranormal Romance
Posted February 8, 2025
Books, TBR Lists

Hi friends! 👋🏻 When I first started blogging (which was a very long time ago now, yes I’m old), my favourite genres were YA dystopian and YA paranormal romance. And there were a lot of books in those genres. So many that I eventually got burnt out on them and almost swore them off forever. Until recently that is. I’m still not the biggest lover of romance books because I am very picky with what I want to see in a romance story. I don’t like enemies-to-lovers stories, miscommunication bugs the hell out of me, I need the book to explicitly tell me that it has BDSM or other kinks in it, dark romance isn’t for me, and I hate bully romances. Very picky indeed. I’m not that observant of trends, but I’ve noticed a little trend in fluffy paranormal romances for adults recently, and that is something that I want to try. I don’t want every paranormal romance to be pure fluff or else my teeth would fall out, but that is what I’m in the mood for these days. Especially when they’ve got vampires in them. my vampire plus-one by jenna levine Ah, yes, the book that started the idea […]

5 Things to Know if You Want to Work in a Public Library

5 Things to Know if You Want to Work in a Public Library
Posted February 1, 2025
Books, Libraries

Hello again! 👋🏻 I haven’t been around the blogosphere for a while, and I felt like getting back into things at my own pace while also giving the blog a makeover. Parts of my previous theme were broken and I just didn’t want to use it anymore so I got a new one that works fantastically! I’m still in the process of updating some older posts to show my current social media links since there is one platform that I do not use anymore. Something that I (and I imagine a lot of other people who work in libraries) hear when I tell someone that I’m a library assistant is how much they would love to have my job, or how ‘lovely’ they think it is. And while I agree with them to a certain extent, it never fails to surprise me that so many people don’t really know what library work entails, especially public library work. This is not an easy job, nor is any library job. In fact, when I was a teenager, my dream job was to be a school librarian because I was so close to the librarian who worked in my school, but once I […]