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Continue reading →: Werewolves Hate Clogs (Mini Review)Genre: paranormal romance Tropes: mafia, fake relationship, mates Spice Level: moderate+ TW/CW: death and violence Recommend: yes This one was absurd and funny and full of magic and mafia and demons and monsters. There were sentient houses, and a reliquary bracelet full of helpful (if not odd, ferocious, and surprisingly…
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Continue reading →: What I Read in SeptemberThe first full month of classes did slow me down a bit. But, a solid 15 books this month, with a mix of novellas, audiobooks, ARCs, and others. Everything other than the audiobooks were read as an eBook. Honestly, that’s how I read most books these days. Absolutely loved The…
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Continue reading →: RebrandHi! A quick update, I have decided to “rebrand” the blog here to match my Instagram handle, since they are linked and I do a lot of similar posting between the two. It just keeps things more streamlined for me to not have different names/handles for everything. No changes to…
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Continue reading →: Published?So, I sorta made a book? I think. It very much needs to be read in a questioning manner. I decided to take all of my poems from college, like those that I have been posting as individual entries, and combine them all into a single document. I used Google…
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Continue reading →: More Than a Thief“Neither here nor there, but long ago…” The Stardust Thief wraps you up in a fantastical story about jinn and magical relics, thieves and storytelling, princes that want freedom, and princes that want revenge. It layers secrets and half-remembered histories upon vivid descriptions of a desert kingdom that was built…
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Continue reading →: Morbidly Yours (Mini-Review)Genre: contemporary romance Tropes: friends to lovers, friends with benefits Spice Level: moderate TW/CW: death of a loved one, death in general (mortuary), workplace harassment Recommend: yes Mortality, guilt, demisexuality, family, toxic people… this little book (Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks) had it all. Cal and Lark, complete opposites, do…
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Continue reading →: Dishonorable knightsWith this poem, I was playing around a bit with mixing metaphors, sort of. I liked the idea of a lady waiting for her beloved knight to come home from war. But I also wanted to explore a bit how this could be perverted in cases of misogyny or domestic…
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Continue reading →: Feeling the Semester StruggleFall 2023 is shaping up to be a semester where I will be happy if I manage not to collapse in exhaustion. Nothing is really going wrong, there is just A LOT to deal with that has nothing to do with my actual teaching responsibilities. Or at least, not directly.…
Hello,
I’m Jess
Scientist and educator by day. Bookworm and wannabe writer by night (and weekend). Forever a fan of fluffy blankets, mugs of coffee, candles, and living a cozy life.
