Thus far, I’ve been reading whatever interests me.  I get my books from friends, the library, the used bookstore, and of course, my favourite Canadian bookstore chain, Chapters. I’m on a paranormal fiction/YA kick right now but I like to read a variety of things including mystery (think Patricia Cornwell, Johnathan Kellerman), horror (Stephen King, Dean Koontz), fantasy (George R.R. Martin), sci-fi (Orson Scott Card) and the occasional autobiography (Howie Mandel was the latest). What I’m not into is erotica or a lot of non-fiction or how-to books.

If you feel like sending something my way, I prefer to read on my touchpad and I use calibre to convert books to be read on there. I’m always open to trading books with another author, as long as they’re okay with me giving my honest opinion. I hold myself to the same standard that I hold the bloggers who review my book, I’m honest, but will recommend the book to another type of reader if I didn’t like it.

I will always be honest about my reviews and, if the worst case should occur and I’m unable to finish a book because I really hated it, I won’t review it at all. Frankly, if you haven’t read the whole book you can hardly review it, plus I’d probably be hard-pressed to recommend it to anyone. If you’re an author and I have such an issue with one of your books, I promise to be as honest, yet tactful as humanly possible.

Right now I’m using a rating system out of 5, but frankly I don’t really like it. I know it gives an author a quantitative result, but it’s so hard  to explain why two books have different ratings if I loved them both. I’m going to wait it out and see if the rating grows on me, but if not, I reserve the right to ditch a rating system altogether and just give a free-for-all what I thought review.

If, after all this, you still want to send me something, click on the email icon in the Follow Me section to the right and drop me a line.