Hello September + A Blog Makeover

Lots of things are happening over here in my little blogging universe, the first and most obvious is that I have changed the name and URL of my blog! say goodbye to tired, plain, boring old YA Book Reviews and say hello to The Painted Moon!

This little revamp has been a long time coming. I started YA Book Reviews when I was almost strictly reading YA, and only doing reviews, almost ten years ago. Now that I am older, I have interest in books that are outside the realm of YA, so the title of my blog has been feeling a little misleading for the passed few years. I really wanted to fix that so my blog can reflect more of my interests now, and I can feel less boxed in to who I was a decade ago.

Feeling boxed in has been a major problem for me as I've grown. I love to talk about books. I will always use this blog to talk regularly about books. I just want to talk about books that belong to any genre, whenever I feel like reading them. I want readers to be able to find thoughts on all types of books that they might be interested in reading themselves, without attracting a solely YA audience. (although YA content is still on the way!) 

I also want to review things that aren't books. I love books and I always will, but I also love all other media, and I want to be able to talk about that as well. With this revamped blog, it feels like I can create a space to do that. So going forward, I'll also be posting reviews of movies and podcasts. So if you love books, movies, and podcasts, The Painted Moon is for you.

All that being said, I do have few things planned for this month so far. I've got a Top Ten Tuesday planned for tomorrow. (It might even be a full list, which is practically unheard of for me.) I have a couple Waiting on Wednesdays scheduled to be posted, and a review of All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology also waiting in the drafts. I am also in the middle of working through my thoughts on Murderabelia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects by Harold Schechter, so that should be posted most likely sometime this week.

I'm also currently typing out my first movie review! Scream (1996) is the movie review that'll be making its grand entrance on here on The Painted Moon, and I couldn't be more excited about it.

Overall, I have grown and changed, so it's high time that my blog does some growing and changing too. As always, I'm looking forward to talking bookish things with everybody, and hopefully talking movies too!

I hope this month treats everybody well :) 

Hello September

September is here! September always feels just like a doorway to October. It starts cooling down outside, it starts getting darker and spookier with every passing day and I couldn't be happier about it. I can't wait to see what this month brings, because I am wide open for plans. Not so much in my actual life, because I have to work and do other boring responsibilities, but on my blog I am so wide open, I have almost nothing to talk about in terms of up and coming posts this month. If I have time to type them up, I should have a couple Top Ten Tuesdays. I will definitely have one review coming this month, of Bleed More, Bodymore by Ian Kirkpatrick, and I have one Waiting On Wednesday coming this month (today, actually) But other than that, I have nothing planned. But there is something nice about being wide open. Lots of time for inspiration to come through.

I hope September treats me and all my readers nicely. :)

Hello September!

       Well autumn is soon to fall upon us, and I'm excited! It's absolutely my favourite season, the one I wait all year for, and it is always a particularly productive time for me.

       In August, I wasn't very active with posts, and I know that. I have been reading though! The reviews are just yet to be published. I'm happy to say that there are going to be some very good reviews coming in the months ahead, which is nice, because I feel like for a long time, the books I've been reading have been spurring only negative reviews. I'm always happy when I get to publish some positive ones!

       Apart from the blog, I've had a busy summer, but it's been fun! My most favourite part was probably when I got a tattoo. My first one! I was really nervous to do it but I'm so glad I did, because I love it!

       This summer treated me pretty well, and I hope September has nice things in store for me, and this blog.