Maroc: Living in Days of Blood and Starlight

Maroc: Living in Days of Blood and Starlight

I will unabashedly admit that my entire Moroccan experience last June was most definitely inspired by Laini Taylor. Largely, by her Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. Much like Prague had been (which I talked about extensively some years ago!). Once I read about Arabian sunsets and camel-rides in deserts, once I got a taste of what [...]

TTT: Book Places to Go

TTT: Book Places to Go

I haven't done more travel-heavy posts lately, and honestly, had Chokshi's The Gilded Wolves come out before I went to Paris, I totally would have done something like my Prague and Daughter of Smoke and Bone spiel. That being said, I love traveling. When I can--and I've been trying to do so every year--I tend to jet-set it [...]

TTT: Time Periods

TTT: Time Periods

I was sitting here contemplating on whether I should write a formal blog review of the last book I read, but then it hit me that I'm mostly on a time crunch, and I was better off looking at a Top Ten Tuesday topic. Now, it took a while to figure out what I wanted [...]

Wrap Up: April 2017

Wrap Up: April 2017

This is probably not the last thing you'll hear from me with regards to what I did in April, but I figure I might as well try to put this monthly wrap-up together anyway. Which was hard, by the way. I had way too many pictures to filter through, and it was crazily tempting to [...]