For the first time in my life, I've had zero desire to read this year — and this reader's block is really bothering me. But a dogeared used copy of my favorite YA novel is helping me, ahem, tur...
I read a total of 27 books during my #21in21 reading challenge, but sadly there can be only one Book of the Year — and it was a beautiful, immersive doorstop. Continue reading →
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/bookworm-my-best-books-of-2021/
You feel at first like you’re walking into a room mid-conversation the minute you crack open Jane Harper’s “The Survivors,” 4/21 in my #21in21 reading challenge. You don’t know what hap...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/bookworm-the-survivors/
At 400-plus pages, Chloe Gong’s debut novel “These Violent Delights” is a massive and engrossing take on “Romeo and Juliet” — and 3/21 in my #21in21 reading challenge. I’ve long bee...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/bookworm-these-violent-delights/
As soon as I saw “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires” by Grady Hendrix all over the feeds of the readers/reviewers I follow on Instagram last year, I was intrigued. The eye-...
I always turn to Anaïs Nin when I need a reset, so choosing “A Woman Speaks,” a collection of her lectures, seminars and interviews from 1966 to 1973 edited by Evelyn J. Hinz, was the perfec...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/bookworm-a-woman-speaks-by-anais-nin/
2021 is here, and I’m looking forward to turning the page — by starting a brand-new annual reading challenge. (Of course, like most of us on Earth, I loved watching 2020 finally come to an en...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/bookworm-my-best-books-of-2020/
It may have been just under five years since I last wrote a Bookworm post, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t reading. That, for me, would be like not breathing. Ever since I learned to read than...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2020/12/18/bookworm-book-of-the-month-changed-my-reading-life/
Hello there, and welcome to Ink for Blood, a blog I started in 2010 — and am returning to in late 2020 after a nearly five-year hiatus. I stopped blogging not just because of time and life, but...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/allow-myself-to-reintroduce-myself/
While I very much agree with the first half of this week’s wisdom, I can’t say the same for the rest of the R/GA COO’s statement. But as a whole, it works, so here it is. Yes, creativity is...
https://nikkimmascali.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/writers-wisdom-127/