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SERIESous Tips: Picking the Perfect Travel Reads

For me, deciding what books to bring on a trip is just as important as figuring out what clothes I’m going to pack. While packing for my big international trip back in September (and with the holidays right around the corner), I thought it would be a great idea to share some of my strategies …

Monthly Inventory: November 2017

November 2017 As I created this post, I struggled with how to describe the month of November. It seems like just yesterday I was plotting out my NaNoWriMo story and writing the first chapter. Overall, I think the best way to describe it all is panicked. Just before my big trip in September, I noticed …

Top Ten Tuesdays: Books I Want my Kids to Read

Top Ten Tuesdays: Is a weekly meme feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where bloggers post their Top 10 List for an assigned topic! I will not be participating every week, but I will occasionally take a shot at it! You can always find these lists (past, present and original) on my Riffle …

Monthly Inventory: October 2017

October 2017 I can’t believe October has come and gone! This month just flew by! It definitely helped that I spent a majority of it on vacation. I managed to get more books in than I expected–and in particular sequels for novels I’ve been putting off for awhile–so I always consider that a positive! My …

SERIESous Tips: My Favourite WordPress Plugins

One of the biggest draws to being a self-hosted blog (besides the graphics freedom) was the ability to add plugins. Plugins are these great little add-ins or apps you can use to make your site easier to run and/or have really cool features. While a lot of the plugins I use are the basic foundations …

Monthly Inventory: September 2017

September 2017 This was a weird month. In terms of reading: This wasn’t a very good month, but I always knew that would be the case. I spent half of the month on a much deserved vacation that had me reading only a couple pages every few days. I made up for some of that …

SERIESous Tips: How to Start Scheduling Your Posts

Last year, I posted a Tips Post about Scheduling Posts. I’ll admit, it wasn’t the most helpful post ever: I mostly focused on why scheduling works for me and how I keep track of my schedule. Not a lot of sage advice. I schedule everything well in advance–months usually–and I love it! It makes everything …

SERIESous Discussion: Not Reporting Assaults in Novels

SERIESous Discussions: Every once and awhile I will post my random ramblings about a bookish or blogging topic. Feel free to join in by making a comment below or linking back! I’m getting real tired of heroines not reporting assaults in novels… It feels like it’s normalizing the situation to me — Lauren (@SERIESousBooks) April …

Monthly Inventory: August 2017

August 2017 Where has the summer gone? Normally at this time of year I’d be preparing to head back to school for the umpteenth time like many of you probably are. However, I’ve finally finished school (!) and am a productive member of society and it feels great. Well, most of the time. This August …