UPDATE: CELEBRATING MY 50TH REVIEW

I've had a lot of fun since starting the blog. While I don't read as much as some, I've been pretty pleased with the number of books, stories, and graphic novels that I've read through since I began. As of today, I've written forty-nine reviews on this blog, accounting for over fifty different pieces of fiction (this includes my review roundup posts). As I approach the arrival of my fiftieth review, I wanted to look back on those that I have done so far and link to them here.
  1. An Unexpected Bonding
  2. The Stonegate Sword
  3. Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle
  4. Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma Book 1)
  5. Your First 1000 Copies
  6. Napism.info
  7. The Devil's Playthings
  8. Injustice Gods Among Us Vol. 1
  9. Hollow Towns
  10. Fade to Black
  11. Everyone Dies at the End
  12. The Devil's Child
  13. Injustice Gods Among Us Vol. 2
  14. Stormdancer (The Lotus War Book 1)
  15. Mini Review: Sinking
  16. Whispers of the World that Was
  17. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games Book 1)
  18. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2)
  19. Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery
  20. Brooding City
  21. The Strange Library
  22. Mini Review: The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye
  23. The Martian
  24. Unstable Prototypes (Big Sigma Book 2)
  25. Batman the Long Halloween
  26. Day of the Fish Zombies
  27. White Wind Rising (Gunpowder and Alchemy Book 1)
  28. Sixth of the Dusk
  29. Review Roundup: New 52 November!!!
  30. The Buried Giant
  31. Review Roundup: The Immortal Iron Fist
  32. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games Book 3)
  33. The Immortal Weapons
  34. Somewhere In Between
  35. Atomic Robo The Everything Explodes Collection
  36. Sung in Blood
  37. Dimorphic
  38. Atomic Robo The Crystals Are Integral Collection
  39. Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars
  40. Illuminae (Illuminae Files 01)
  41. Perfect State
  42. The Goblin Emperor
  43. Rat Queens Volume 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth 
  44. Review Roundup: Free Comic Book Day
  45. Stardust
  46. Review Roundup: Days of FCBD Past
  47. Rat Queens Volume 3: Demons
  48. Mini Review: Pandemonium
  49. Marvel 1602

Four the fiftieth post to be marked with the "REVIEW" tag, I'll be trying out a slightly different format which gives the reviews on my blog a little more pzazz than the versions I post on Goodreads. I'll also be trying to make the first couple of these reviews books that I either loved or really enjoyed in order to celebrate fully celebrate this shift.

To start things off, I'll be reviewing a beloved science fiction classic, ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card!

Review to be posted tomorrow!

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