Online Book Clubs and some other things

I've never been part of a 'real life' book club or group before, but I've learned I really kind of enjoy the two online ones I've kind of been taking part in. I joined them both a couple months ago, but I haven't really gotten into reading the books until this month (time always seems to be an issue). Now, the two groups I'm part of are Sword and Laser and Vaginal Fantasy (I'll explain that name in a paragraph). Also, any links to anything will be at the bottom and if I miss something just tell me in comments.

First, Sword and Laser. This is a SciFi and Fantasy group that has been going now for quite a long time, I'm a bit late to the game, so to speak. But I really like the two people who run it, Veronica and Tom, and they're just so intelligent in talking about the books and it's just a really awesome group. And who doesn't love some SciFi and Fantasy, right?

Now, Vaginal Fantasy. This is a group recently started by Felicia Day and it's basically reading romance, or books with romance (and smut) but with plot. And I've surprisingly liked quite a few of the books they've done. They did, for example, Soulless by Gail Carriger which I read late last year and loved. This group, obviously, gets quite a lot of backlash for the name, but I find it fitting and a bit hilarious. (If you want to know why she picked it, you can check out the first G+ hangout, she talks about it in the beginning. Basically, she's been using the phrase for years).

Now, to the blog. I feel like I write a lot of posts about this blog, but I just haven't found my rhythm yet. Or I do and then it gets all jumbled from some time away at conventions, the only real time I travel. Now, this week, to get me back into thing, I'm going to be posting at least 1 post everyday this week, Monday to Sunday, and they won't all be reviews, but I love to write those other posts just as much, so I hope you like them to. (Tell me below what you'd like to see more of, less of, see at all. Go for it).

And then, after this week of crazy, I will hopefully go to the normal schedule I had, which was a little lenient to begin with. Reviews on Monday, maybe nothing Tuesday, every other Wednesday a WWW Wednesday post, probably nothing thursday, review Friday, nothing Saturday, and a book haul or something Sunday. I might end up posting on the 'nothing' days if I there are a lot of books coming out I read and want to tell you about so you can check them out, too. For instance, this week I was playing catch-up with my 100 book challenge and I've read a lot of books this past week or so.

Now I'm going to end this fairly long post with a goodbye and best wishes. And that I hope you will enjoy my week of posts and my plans for the future. Any comments, suggestions, random facts, please leave in the comment sections.


Link:
Sword and Laser
Goodreads
Website
First video episode (I think this is the first one, at least).

Vaginal Fantasy
Goodreads
Website 
Felicia's YouTube (where the G+ hangouts are posted)

This Blog

I know that there haven't been many posts here since the beginning of the New Year and I truly apologize. I've been playing catch-up with school, I'm almost there, and Haley has been doing school things, too, but of a different nature. I don't know when Haley will be returning to the book reviewing world, but I'm going to try and post one or two posts a week here. Not just book reviews, but also IMMs(or just book hauls) and all other kinds of things. I have a couple of posts in the works already, I've been keeping a list of posts I want to do.

For example, I want to do some recommendations, but I don't know how I'll do it yet. Maybe one post with just 3-4 books, or a post about a certain book I really liked and want people to know about. What do you thinks? I also have some books that I want to post reviews for. I was in a huge reading slump and I've finally broken it recently, such a relief.

Also, our rating system has been letters, but I'm going to change how I rate things. Mostly because I feel like letters aren't really very precise. So we're going to go with good old fashion stars. (Or books, 5 our of 5 books, or ballons or whatever you wish to think of it as) And it's going to work with 5 bring that I loved it, 3 being it was okay- not great or amazing - and 1 being I didn't like it. 4 and 2 will be used as in betweens. 'I liked it but it didn't have anything to make me love it.' Or 'I didn't really like it, as a whole, but it did have redeeming qualities that made it a bit better.


Casey, who hopes that you're still around.