Megan Mabee

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Megan Mabee

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As a library worker, I’ve developed a system for deciding which books I buy and which I only check out from the library. I start by borrowing the book from the library. If I do like it, I don’t buy my own copy right away. Instead, I think about it for a while.

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Megan Mabee

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When the animated How to Train Your Dragon movie first came out in 2010, I leaned right into the dragon joy. I grew up as a dragon book kid, after all.

Jan 22, 2025 | bookriot.com | Kozue Amano |Megan Mabee

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been a space nerd. For starters, I often checked out nonfiction space books from the library as a kid. This would’ve been back in the good old days, when Pluto was still a planet.

Jan 13, 2025 | bookriot.com | Megan Mabee

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Let me set the scene by sharing that I am not a horror person by nature. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a chicken, and I avoid horror books like the plague.

Nov 26, 2024 | bookriot.com | Megan Mabee

While I read for many different reasons, one of my favorite things about reading is falling in love with fictional characters. If they’re not real, they can’t hurt you, right? I kid (sort of). In all seriousness though, there are so many endearing book characters out there, and reading gives us an opportunity to really understand them. Authors place us into the heads of their characters, so we grow to know them well over the course of the book.