Category: Top Ten Tuesday

My TBR is always full to bursting, mostly with books I’ll either forget I ever added or books I’ll keep remembering and wanting to read, but never actually get around to. I’ve stopped watching much BookTube content and don’t really spend a lot of time looking for new release book lists online – partly because READ MORE

So as every year, I’m here to say I don’t do resolutions. I don’t like starting off the year with the pressure of a bunch of pie-in-the-sky goals I know I’m not going to be able to complete. Basically if I set resolutions I’m planning to fail. I know they work for some people, and READ MORE

I  haven’t really been paying that much attention to anything that’s supposed to be happening in 2025. Quite frankly, I’ve only just recently mastered writing 2024 instead of 2023 at the end of the date. I’m not ready for another new year yet, guys! But no one seems to be listening to my complaints, and READ MORE

I’ve been lucky this year and I’ve read a lot of really fantastic books. The hardest part of this post will be picking which ones to include! Here are some of them:                  Rescuing Ruby by Nicola Baker Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune Frank & Red by READ MORE

I’ve been trying very hard over the past couple of years not to spend as much time with my ear to the ground listening out for new books to add to my TBR. It’s hard for me to resist something new and shiny, so the best way to manage my book spending (which needs to READ MORE

As usual, I don’t have a proper TBR set for my winter reading. I’ll either be too busy to read much, or I’ll breeze through a whole bunch of random books that strike my fancy at the particular moment I’m looking for something to read for no specific reason. You know how I do. But READ MORE

   Oooh this is a fascinating prompt! I love it! Of course, now I have to actually find books that match the emotions I’m pairing with it, which may be  little more challenging! Let’s see how I do.   Books that feel as stormy as the weather:        The Witching Hour by Anne READ MORE

  This week’s topic is a freebie, so I’m looking back at books I’ve read, and either I read them long enough ago that I only have a vague recollection of them that I’d like to update, or I loved them so much I want to experience them again (or, possibly, both). Others I want READ MORE

  I think it must be Thanksgiving for our Southern neighbours around now, so this week’s prompt is “thankful.” I’m not big on Thanksgiving in general because the whole history thing, plus it wasn’t ever much of a thing in my family. But the concept of being thankful in general is something I try to READ MORE

  At first I thought this was asking for the books that have been on my TBR the longest. But in fact, it’s asking for the books on my TBR that were published earliest. Which I find much more interesting – mainly because I have no idea in which order I added most books to READ MORE

  I love armchair and literary travel. I love exploring different parts of our world – and entirely new ones. It’s one of my favourite parts of reading, along with experiencing part of someone else’s life, which is the best part of reading. So there are a lot of books that have a strong sense READ MORE

  I had never really thought about this prompt, but once I started looking, I realized how many books do have animals on them – and also that animals on covers tend to make me feel attracted to a book. Once I started looking, I was blown away by the variety of different animals that READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is a Halloween freebie, of course. As anyone who’s been around here for a while knows, I don’t do scary, I don’t do creepy, I definitely don’t do horror because it’s both. So Halloween prompts are always a bit of a challenge because what can I really add to the conversation? READ MORE

  This is an interesting prompt. Because I have definitely found that my reading has changed many times and in many different ways. When I was in college and university, I was so burned out with all the course reading that I rarely read anything for pleasure during term. Sometimes I’d pick up the trashiest, READ MORE

  I went to three different high schools. Each one seemed to have a very different approach to English Literature, and some were better than others. Because of this, I missed out on a lot of the quintessential classic books people read in school. I don’t think I really mind that much. I was reading READ MORE

  I’m not finding this week’s prompt very easy, partly because I don’t really think about bragging about anything to do with my reading, and likewise I don’t really feel shame about anything I read or don’t either. If I like a book that’s a “guilty pleasure,” I’m happy to openly praise it. If I READ MORE

  The prompt for this week was “Books I Read/Avoided Because of the Hype” and I was planning to cover both. But first it was much harder to think of ones I’ve avoided as they aren’t in my list of read books nor my TBR, and second, there were quite enough books I read because READ MORE

  Well, as usual I’ve absolutely no idea. I might read the books I just borrowed from my library, or I might return them in a few days without even trying them. I might read one of the books I’ve had on my TBR for ages, or I might find something new when I’m browsing READ MORE