Tag: City of Stairs

The Friday Face-Off – Cities

The Friday Face-Off – Cities
Posted September 8, 2017 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 12 Comments

The Friday Face-Off is hosted by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. “That great condenser of moral chaos, The City.” [A cover which features a city.] Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve participated in this, but because book covers with cities on them […]

Tough Travelling – Dead Gods

Tough Travelling – Dead Gods
Posted May 21, 2015 by Tammy in Tough Traveling / 20 Comments

Tough Traveling is a weekly feature, created and hosted by Nathan at the Fantasy Review Barn, in which participants come up with a list of books that follow the fantasy tropes that can be found in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. Each week, Nathan picks a new subject. This week the top is: Dead […]

Tough Traveling: Awesome Displays of Magic

Tough Traveling: Awesome Displays of Magic
Posted April 16, 2015 by Tammy in Tough Traveling / 20 Comments

Tough Traveling is a weekly feature, created and hosted by Nathan at the Fantasy Review Barn, in which participants come up with a list of books that follow the fantasy tropes that can be found in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. Each week, Nathan picks a new subject. This week’s topic was a little […]

Tammy’s Top Ten Adult Books of 2014

Tammy’s Top Ten Adult Books of 2014
Posted December 16, 2014 by Tammy in Top Ten Tuesday / 24 Comments

It’s that time of year, time to make all sorts of “best of” lists! I love making lists anyway, but when I get to look back over a year’s worth of reading and rave about the books that really stood out for me, that’s got to be my favorite sort of list-making. This week I’m […]

Giveaway Winners – November!

Posted December 7, 2014 by Tammy in Giveaway Winners / 4 Comments

Since I had so many giveaways last month, I thought I’d post a list of the winners! Thank you to everyone who entered. All entries were randomly selected, by either Rafflecopter or Random.org. Winner of an ARC of Endsinger by Jay Kristoff:  Wayne C. Winner of a hardcover copy of The Boy Who Drew Monsters […]

Interview & Giveaway: CITY OF STAIRS Author Robert Jackson Bennett Speaks

Interview & Giveaway: CITY OF STAIRS Author Robert Jackson Bennett Speaks
Posted November 20, 2014 by Tammy in Author Interviews, Giveaways, Sci-Fi November / 21 Comments

This post is part of the Sci-Fi November event, which celebrates all things sci-fi, hosted by Rinn Reads and Oh, The Books! I’m thrilled to have Robert Jackson Bennett here today to answer some questions. You may know him as the author of American Elsewhere and the recent City of Stairs. I recently reviewed City […]

What’s On My Plate – November 2014

What’s On My Plate – November 2014
Posted November 1, 2014 by Tammy in What's On My Plate / 15 Comments

Is anyone else surprised that it’s already November? This year is flying by, and with only two more months to fit in books for 2014, I’m going to be reading faster than ever! October was a very dismal reading month for me, not because I didn’t enjoy the books I read, but because I read […]

Tough Traveling: MONSTERS

Tough Traveling: MONSTERS
Posted October 30, 2014 by Tammy in Tough Traveling / 18 Comments

Hey, this is my first time participating in Tough Traveling, a weekly event created and hosted by Nathan from the Fantasy Review Barn! I’m finally joining the party this week, because the theme is “Monsters,” and I tend to read lots of books with monsters in them. Nathan’s idea for Tough Traveling is to follow […]