Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads 2024

It’s time to reveal my fifteen favorite fantasy reads of the past year!

This is always one of my favorite blog posts of the year… even though it’s usually the toughest one to write.

How does one really “rank” favorite reads? So many of these books were my all-time favorite as I was reading them. And that’s such a wonderful feeling. Like that moment when you realize you’ve just met a kindred spirit. Or when you quote a movie and someone replies with the next line from that same movie.

That’s what reading a new favorite book is.

And that’s what each of these books was like for me.

Reviews, Book ReviewsJenelle SchmidtDecember 31, 2024 Comments

The Boys in the Boat: Movie Review

Two movie recommendations in one month?

What is this world coming to?

But it’s true! I actually saw two movies in the theater in December that I highly enjoyed, so I’m letting you know about them.

Movie Reviews, ReviewsJenelle SchmidtJanuary 1, 2024 Comments

Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads 2023

It’s time for me to reveal my Fifteen Favorite Fantasy reads of the past year!

How is it the end of the year already? How is 2023 already over? I’m not ready!

But I’m also excited, because this is honestly one of my favorite posts to write every year.

It’s so fun to take a minute at the end of the year and peruse over what books I read, reminiscing about which ones I really enjoyed. It’s also always highly entertaining to me to see which books I meant to read versus which books I actually read.

Book Reviews, Fantasy and Sci-Fi, ReviewsJenelle SchmidtDecember 27, 2023 Comments

The Shift: Movie Review

Coming out of hiatus briefly because Derek and I went to see The Shift the other night and I feel like I need to talk about it!

It’s been a while since I did a movie review.

Honestly, it’s been a while since I saw anything worth reviewing. Partially because I haven’t been watching much worth talking about, partially because I haven’t been watching much in general, and partially just because the movie industry doesn’t seem capable of making much in the way of “good” lately.

However, The Shift was a notable exception to all of the above.

Movie Reviews, ReviewsJenelle SchmidtDecember 13, 2023 Comment