— This post was expanded in March 2020. Please pardon the construction dust with image sizes. Happy reading! — Welcome to our list of recommended comics for older kids, teens, and young adults! All of the books below have young protagonists we think would be especially engaging to older kids and young adults. (But actually, the grownups in this house… Read more »
— Hello, I’ve merged 2 posts into one and done a little freshening up. Happy reading! — I got kicked out of art school myself, but I love a good romance novel about creative people falling in love while making awesome art. So here’s a list of my fave romance novels about various kinds of creators: artists, dancers, actors, musicians,… Read more »
— HELLO AGAIN! This post is being updated in March 2020 with even MORE books. Happy reading! — Do you like your romance mixed with monsters or magic? This is the list for you. Witches, ghosts, vampires, fae, and even a cat that controls minds (really!) If any of this is your jam, read on, because I enjoyed all of… Read more »
I grew up watching Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Blake’s 7. Spaceships, epic battles, robots, time travel, the stars! Exciting people doing exciting things on exciting other planets! What’s not to love? So here’s a list of all the wonderful sci-fi graphic novels I’ve stumbled across in my comics reading journey. I hope you’ll find something to enjoy here! —… Read more »
Yep, it’s a post full of romance novels about the geeky and nerdy among us. Video games, programming, hacking, collectible card games, epidemiology, climate change science, neurosurgery, archaeology, the college newspaper, comics, fandom, Victorian fashion, theater… it’s all here. “Geek” pretty much describes everyone who lives in my house, so this roundup is close to my heart. I hope you… Read more »
I went through a heavy sci-fi reading phase as a young person… then kinda got lost? With movies, tv, anime, and comics, I was getting my science fiction fix elsewhere. In the last few years, though, I’m back in the game. So here are my fave recently read science fiction books – novels and novellas – from my personal sci-fi… Read more »
I grew up on reruns of Star Trek, and my resulting love for the genre has never let go. So crossing sci-fi with romance? Perfect for me. Here’s a list of my fave science fiction romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Superheroes, robots, machine-human hybrids, alien linguistics, immersive virtual reality, secret agents planning an interstellar heist, you can find all… Read more »
Like YA? Like fantasy and/or science fiction? This is a list for you. These books totally swept me away while reading. I may also have stayed up late to finish a chapter. Or two. Or, um, the book. (What, you’ve never done that?) Hope you find something new and wonderful to read here! The way my life is organized these… Read more »
Romance is an amazing genre. You can find everything from the fluffiest, cutest, most adorable stories with zero angst to the opposite. The books here are some of my favorite that deal with dark places, tough topics, and bad situations – all with an HEA (happily ever after) or HFN (happy for now). Not all of them are drenched in… Read more »
I’m trying to do a better job lately reading non-genre fiction, especially by diverse voices. Here’s a roundup of some of the queer-authored fiction about queer people that I’ve been super-impressed by in the last few years. The way my life is organized these days, it’s tough for me to write longer reviews now. So for some of these books,… Read more »