When I added the "school drama" tag, I realized people might want to know what that means. So, since it would be dumb to make a page that's just "what does the school drama tag mean", I decided to make one that explains all of them.
a kissing book: Books that involve romance that would definitely make the kid in The Princess Bride go, "Is this a kissing book?"
adventure: Pretty much what it says it is; books about people going on adventures. This is a somewhat deprecated tag because it applies to like half the books I read.
airplanes: Books that have airplanes as their focus.
alternate-base fantasy: Fantasy books whose world, instead of being based vaguely on medieval Eurasia, is based in some other pre-modern time period or location. So, Regency fantasy or something like that. If it has gunpowder weapons, it's often this.
American Civil War: Stuff set in the American Civil War, or nonfiction about the same.
anthology: A collection of different stories by different authors in one volume. Mutually exclusive with "short stories".
archaeology: Books somehow involving archaeology.
Artemis Fowl: Books in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.
audiobook: Reviews of audiobooks.
biography: Biographies of people.
blog tag: Blog tags I've been tagged with and have filled out.
book awards: Me giving books awards, mostly as a joke.
Boss Design Studio: A series of essays wherein I review and overanalyze videogame bosses.
Christian fiction: Books written (almost invariably) by Christians, (always) about Christians.
Christian nonfiction: Books about Christianity.
City Spies series: Books in the City Spies series by James Ponti. (I got Book 4 out of the library and read the entire extant series in reverse order.)
classics: Books that would be considered Literature, with a capital L, and probably read in a class on such.
cool magic: Books whose magic system I particularly like, usually because said magic system is particularly imaginative.
courtroom drama: Books where at least part of it revolves around courts and lawyers and suchlike.
Diana Wynne Jones: Books by Diana Wynne Jones.
Discworld: Books in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
DNF'd: Things I didn't finish, usually because they were lame.
dragons: Books primarily about dragons or people interacting with dragons.
DRAMA!: Things whose primary focus revolves around serious drama. I mean serious drama, here, dealing with serious things, not just random "I saw what you posted on social media yesterday!" drama.
dystopian: Dystopian fiction. I don't read much of it.
epistolary: Books that are written as a series of letters.
essay: For posts that aren't a book or movie review, but are instead an essay on something I think merits one. Also for reviews that are actually essays written for some school thing or other.
fairy tale: Things written as though they're a fairy tale. (They have to have the general mood of a fairy tale, not just straight-up fantasy, for this tag to apply.)
fairy tale retelling: Books whose plot is broadly the same as that of a fairy tale, and who intended to do that.
fantasy: Books set in a fantasy setting. Usually contain at least a bit of magic.
fiction but historical: Fiction written sufficiently far in the past that it could be considered "history".
game: Reviews of games or TTRPG rulebooks.
heist: Books prominently involving stealing a MacGuffin.
historical fiction: Fiction set sufficiently far in the past that it could be considered "historical". Also, must have been written so that it was "historical" at the time of writing.
history: Nonfiction books of history.
horror: Books that would conceivably go in the horror genre.
junior fiction: Junior fiction books.
lame: Books I consider to be lame, books I consider to be super lame, and books to which I sing "You're So Lame" at length.
Legos: Stuff revolving around Legos.
Louis L'Amour: Anything written by Louis L'Amour.
magical realism: To be distinguished from the "urban fantasy" tag; magical realism books are things that are mostly realistic, but with hints of magic here and there, whereas urban fantasy is full-blown fantasy set in the modern day. (Also, urban fantasy has to be set in an urban area.)
manga/graphic novel: Manga or graphic novels. Pretty self-explanatory.
military: Things to do with the military.
Minecraft: Stuff set in Minecraft.
mini-reviews: Collections of three short reviews that aren't long enough to be fully fledged posts.
modern setting: Books set in the modern day.
movie: Reviews that are of movies, not books.
mr. terupt: Anything in Rob Buyea's Mr. Terupt series.
mystery: Reviews of things in the mystery genre.
nonfiction: The new tag; its old counterpart is "non-fiction", above. It's for non-fictional book reviews published after the 2021 revamp.
pirates: Books involving pirates.
portal fantasy: Books where normal people are suddenly transported to a different world. Formerly the "isekai" tag, but that term refers specifically to the Japanese ones, so I changed it.
post-apocalyptic: Books set after some catastrophe (apocalypse) has drastically changed the world.
rated E: Books I've rated E (Everyone) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
rated E10: Books I've rated E10+ (Everyone 10+) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
rated EC: Books I've rated EC (Early Childhood) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
rated M: Books I've rated M (Mature) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
rated T: Books I've rated T (Teen) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
rated T15: Books I've rated T15+ (Teens 15+) with the ESRB videogame ratings.
romance: Books that are specifically romance in genre.
school drama: Books that are set mostly in a school of some sort, or have school as their main focus, with much of the book comprising the kind of drama-for-the-sake-of-drama that often occurs in those books. This tag does not usually connote my goodwill.
science fiction: Books in the sci-fi genre.
sequel: This tag means a book is a sequel to another book.
series: A review of an entire series all at once (like I did with York, Five Worlds, and C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy).
series component: A review of a book in a series. Does not apply to the Discworld books because there are too many of them.
short stories: A volume of different short stories by one author. Mutually exclusive with "anthology".
slice-of-life: Books in the slice-of-life genre.
space: Books that directly involve space. This is distinct from general sci-fi, as you can do that without ever leaving Earth.
steampunk: Books in a world where steam engines are still used for most things. Also encompasses "clockpunk" (clockwork everything) and a whole host of other stuff. This is more a vibe than a genre, honestly.
superheroes: Books about superheroes.
survival: "You're alone in [environment] now, trying to survive" books.
talking animals: Books about sentient animals.
Terry Pratchett: Books written by Terry Pratchett.
thriller: Thrillers. To be distinguished from the Michael Jackson song.
time travel: Time travel, books involving.
trope: Reviews that are of a trope, not a book.
urban fantasy: To be distinguished from the "magical realism" tag; urban fantasy books are books set in the modern day but which are heavy on the fantasy, whereas magical realism is mostly realistic but with bits of magic popping up here and there. (If it's set in an urban area, it's usually urban fantasy.)
verse: As opposed to normal writing (prose), books written in verse have more of a poem structure to them. It's easy to tell when a book is in verse, mostly because it's obviously not prose.
villain protagonist: Things with, you guessed it, the villain as the protagonist.
weapons: Any non-fiction book focused at least partly on weapons. Surprisingly, it's not one of the tags with one review from 2014.
Western: Historical fiction set in the Wild West.
WWI: Anything dealing with the First World War.
WWII: Anything dealing with the Second World War.
YA: Young adult fiction.
Yellings: Originally conceived for a series called Sam's Yellings on [x book]. That series never happened (obviously, otherwise you'd know about it). This tag really just means I've been ranting.
(Endnote: A small note, usually a joke, at the end of each of my blog posts. Also helps make the formatting less weird. Not a post tag.)
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