Top Ten Series Allison Really Should Be Reading The A Song of Ice and Fire Series — George R.R. Martin The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Series— J.R.R. Tolkien The Wicked Years Series — Gregory Maguire The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series – Rick Riordan The For Darkness Shows the Stars Series — […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Auto-buy Authors
February 26, 2013
My money is very, very precious to me. I work hard and so I don’t just make it rain carelessly. I also don’t just automatically purchase books by ANY author. Instead, there are certain factors or qualifications that matter to me when  putting an author on my PURCHASE WITHOUT QUESTION list. They may seem arbitrary, […]
Allison's Top Ten Bookish Romances
February 12, 2013
Top Ten Bookish Romances 1. India and Sid The Winter Rose – Jennifer Donnelly “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.” These two kill me. Their relationship is far from perfect, and it has plenty of ups and downs but it is so well crafted (thanks Jennifer […]
Allison’s Top Ten Bookish Romances
February 12, 2013
Top Ten Bookish Romances 1. India and Sid The Winter Rose – Jennifer Donnelly “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.†These two kill me. Their relationship is far from perfect, and it has plenty of ups and downs but it is so well crafted (thanks Jennifer […]
Allison’s Top Ten Bookish Moments
February 5, 2013
Top Ten Bookish Moments 1. Meeting Jennifer Donnelly at Oblong Books I still have the message from the g-chat conversation that I had with April when she was like “So, Jennifer Donnelly is having a launch party at a bookstore in Rhineback. Will you be busy with school?†and I was like “I can make […]
Top Ten Settings Allison Would Like To See More Of (Or At All)
January 22, 2013
Top Ten Settings Allison Would Like To See More Of (Or At All) “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.†– Dr. Seuss ♥ 1. Upstate New York Do you know how exciting it is to be reading a book and […]