Romantasy: is it new or not?

While the rise of Romantasy as a genre is awesome, its been around a lot longer than you would think.

Revisit Wonderland anew.

Hello booknerds! I am so sorry for not being more present but there are some things in the works that I hope to bring to you soon. I think you guys will like it. But now back to the post. Recently, I have read Splintered by A.G. Howard. And absolutely loved it. So much so…

Hades and Persephone Retellings

I don't know about you guys but I love retellings. And Hades and Persephone retellings have been on the rise lately. Have y'all read Lore Olympus?!?!?! That webtoon has me wrapped around it's little finger. Legitimately, I only know what day it is when Lore Olympus updates, Punderworld updates and Midnight Poppyland updates. Like I…

Reading with kids: Quarantine Edition 2020

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. I know people with small kids are kind of scratching their brain and going just a little bit crazy trying to entertain them. My aunt, a daycare owner, was being driven crazy from my cousin asking which books she could read now. She called me…

Bookish Journals-Yay or Nay?

Hello booknerds! This year, I've endeavored to become more organized and better at keeping track of my books than I was last year. (never mind that I've already failed) In 2019, I had, towards the end of the year, started a bookish journal. I was at Barnes and Nobel one day and saw a really…

Top 10 Tame(ish) YA Romance

I love romance but my sister and a friend of mine don't really like to read it. They like more action and adventure and not so much romance. There is little romance in the books they read. But they do occasionally like the smut. But like the glossed over smut. Not the in your face…

How to write Gothic romance

Hey booknerds! So I'm busy writing the story of NANOWRIMO. But Emma Welsh of Invaluable was kind enough to send this infographic on writing a Gothic Romance. Check it out: Gothic literature appeared in the 18th-century as a subsection of Romanticism and has enchanted readers with spooky tales of romance and death since then. Gothic…

Top 10 tips for Shelf Organization

This post is all at once a cry for help, a discussion post, and a top 10 post. So..... yeah. Goodreads or Real? How do you guys organize your shelves? I'm talking about everything. Real bookshelves and Goodreads shelves. I've got to organize my goodreads shelves again, mainly because I've never organized them and I…

Books to Buy (10/4/2019)

Hello my booknerds and welcome to the first Books to Buy post on Bookishly Nerdy! This post will mainly be about those books that we need to have in our hands and we will be willing to go to Black Friday armed with a taser if it calls for it. (Not that that's what I…

Re-reads or nah?

What are your thoughts on re-reads? I have to admit, I love a good re-read. Especially when the last of a series is coming out and it's been a minute since you've read the previous book. I'm asking only because, as you might have known, I have been re-reading the Stalking Jack The Ripper series…