You say obsessed, I say super fan

Geekerella by Ashley Posten The Skinny: Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball, and a meet-and-greet with the…

Featured Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty

  Featured Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty (this is quite long; thanks ahead for reading it all!) Once upon a time there was a king and queen who longed for a child. Okay, I'm going to stop right here. Is it just me or does EVERY fairy tale start out with someone longing for a child?…

Featured Fairy Tales: The Little Mermaid

Featured Fairy Tale: Once upon a time, deep under the sea, a little mermaid lived in an underwater kingdom with her father, who was the sea king, her grandmother, and her five older sisters, who were born one year apart. When mermaids turned 15 they were allowed to visit the surface. Every year the little…

Featured Fairy Tales: Bluebeard

Featured Fairy Tale: Once upon a time there was a very wealthy nobleman who was shunned because of his blue beard. He had been married several times, but each of his wives had mysteriously disappeared. Because of this, all the young girls in town avoided him. Bluebeard wished to remarry and visited one of his…

Moviebooks – Cinderella

Last night I went to see the new live-action Cinderella and it was beautiful. The whole way home I just KNEW I needed to write a blog post on it. I also have some left over movie popcorn which makes writing this even better! I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting from the movie,…

Cruel to be kind

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge The Skinny: Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her…