Kate Spofford, author

Tag: books

  • February reading round-up

    # of books read: 17 audiobooks listened to: 3 ebooks read: 6 ARCs read: 2 books from the Throne of Glass series: 2 graphic novels: 4 total page count: 3,877 year total page count: 8,253 Well, not so many books read as last month, but a lot of that has to do with February being 3 days shorter…

  • my top 10 werewolf books*

    *that I didn’t write Books about werewolves have a huge advantage over werewolf movies: they don’t have to deal with special effects, which means they can be great without needing a big budget.  That being said, there are a lot of cheesy werewolf books out there (and many of them are in the romance genre…).…

  • January reading round-up

    # of books read: 20 audiobooks listened to: 5 ebooks read: 6 nonfiction read: 2 ARCs read: 1 books from the Experiment in Terror series: 4 books from the White Cat series: 3 vintage YA: 3 total page count: 4,376 I did a ton of reading this month. In newer releases, I finished up Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at…

  • 3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    3 on a theme: brotherly (and sisterly) love

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. I’ve become accustomed to YA books that heavily rely on romance.  So YA books that do not have…

  • stealing time to read

    I read a lot.  Every year for the last ten years I have read over 100 books. During two of those years, I read over 170 books.  As you can see from the little Goodreads widget on my blog, I’m usually in the middle of reading 3-5 books. When people say they don’t have time…

  • 3 books on a theme: brothers who died in the war

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters included among its characters a set of brothers, one of whom…