Book Glomming

I’m a glom reader at heart and have been for many years. If there’s a new series that I really like the look of you won’t see me buying the first book. You also won’t see me buying the 2nd or even 3rd book. I won’t buy the series until it’s complete. It may sound [...]

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When Being Nice Becomes Mean

This year has opened up to some major drama and fallout which is mostly linked to the YA blogging world. It’s no secret this week’s huge blowout, concerning The Story Siren’s issue of plagiarism, has been a real doozy in epic proportions. The Smart Bitches, The Book Lantern, and The Book Binge offer a great [...]

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Fantasy Celebration: Introduction

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Over here at The Book Pushers, we’re huge fans of the fantasy genre. I’ve always thought that it’s been under-rated and doesn’t get as much exposure compared to Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy in the blogosphere. So we’re having a Fantasy Celebration of sorts where we want to have everything Fantasy related because this genre [...]

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RWI and RWA Discrimination

I was debating whether to post this or not because when it comes down to author and writer organisations, I don’t know enough about the rules, what they are about, and I don’t have enough knowledge about them. But I quickly realised that no matter the rules, regulations and laws of author organisations, wrong is [...]

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Opinion – Where I Rant about Erotic Romance

Even though I haven’t reviewed many erotic romances here on the blog, I do read and enjoy them. But I have a problem: Finding erotic romances that doesn’t feature double peens has become quite difficult. It seems these days, most erotic romance automatically means menage scenes. Variety is always good, but when you have a [...]

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Opinion – Expanding My Reading Horizons

Dirty Kiss

I had always considered myself a pretty well-rounded reader when it came to genre fiction, but with my involvement in the on-line reading and writing community I became aware of several subjects that I had never discovered. I happily started digging into most of those but there were still a few niches moving towards mainstream [...]

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Close Encounters of the Peen et al Kind

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Dear Readers, I have a confession to make: I am sometimes drawn to the unusual, the strange and the crazy – although not too cray cray (because there is some out there where not even I could get myself to read) – romance books. You know the ones with the extra appendages or the strange [...]

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Authors in the Red Corner, and Reviewers in the Blue Corner

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz! So for those of you that don’t follow the YA genre, twitter, and Goodreads, this week you have missed a lot of drama. Some of you will be happy about that, and others will be asking, point me to the drama [...]

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Team Outcast FTW!

Truckers vs Outcasts

While we, The Book Pushers, might appear mild-mannered unless we are engaged in the business of pushing books but when it comes down to picking sides well lets just say the more badass the better! We introduced Moira Rogers’ Children of the Undying in our New Series Spotlight and we also reviewed Demon Bait the [...]

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E’s Top Comfort Re(Reads) of 2011 Part 1

Magic Bites

As I am sure you have noticed the end of the year tends to bring a bunch of lists. Usually these lists involve the Top 10 or so of something. Well I decided I was going to join in that trend but I am doing it with a twist. I have had a rather interesting [...]

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When is PC Being Not Too PC?

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Last night I heard that author P.C Cast incorporated some real life criticism she faced in her latest book, Destined. In this installment of her popular YA House of Night series, she focused an entire conversation about defending the use of the term ‘Retard’ because the author faced criticism from a parent who disagreed with [...]

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