Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  I have had a hard time with this one. I’m sure I’ve read plenty of books with redemption as a theme, I’m sure there are lots of characters I started off disliking and ended up forgiving – or even supporting. But I can’t think of many right now. I’ve got a short list today: READ MORE

  There’s a special type of book that immerses you so completely that you feel as if you can escape from your own world, your worries, your responsibilities and just lose yourself in it for a while. These are often my favourite kinds of books. Here are a few that have been this for me, READ MORE

  It’s interesting, because I know I’ve read a lot of books in which food features prominently. Some were about food, others had it worked in as part of a cultural experience, and yet others used it as a crucial plot point. And yet, I had trouble remembering many of these at first. I did READ MORE

  When I started looking for posts for this prompt, I realized that while I feel like I share a lot about myself on this blog, I actually don’t often share other than in passing as it relates to things I’m reading. I’ve got some posts here that are more about myself (the one on READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is a relationship freebie. Though occasionally I enjoy romantic relationships in books, they’re rarely the relationships that affect me the most, nor the ones I find most touching. So for this week’s prompt I’m going to share my favourite books that feature other types of relationships.   Intergenerational Friendships     READ MORE

  I love books that are either about different places, or that are about people traveling in one way or another. I enjoy reading about the kinds of adventures I won’t ever do myself, and I enjoy the feeling of stepping into a culture and landscape I really like (Italy and France being two of READ MORE

  I don’t read very many series these days, and the ones I do are usually mysteries, and if I’m honest they tend to meld together in my memory a bit. So choosing a favourite book out of those series wouldn’t be possible. But there were series I read when I was younger, or series READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is supposed to be “Books I Wish Had More/Less [Thing] In Them.” I couldn’t think of a thing, and my brain hurt trying, so instead I’m doing my own thing this week. I missed doing my mid-year round up at the end of June, which I remembered when many other smarter READ MORE

  It’s funny, I very rarely pay attention to whether a book is a debut or not. Especially when I’m reading the backlist of an established and prolific author. I rarely know which of their books came first, and I rarely care. But for this post I had to actually do some research and find READ MORE

  This a tricky one… I don’t know if I can list ten things I love about one specific book! I’m going to try, but might have to hop between a few if I run out of ideas. Here goes!   Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby Obviously, the first one is going to READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a throwback freebie, so I combed the list of past topics on the original blog, The Broke and the Bookish, and found an intriguing option – Rebels in Literature. This seemed like a great post to write, so here I go!   Atticus Finch from To Kill a READ MORE

  I don’t have one particular favourite colour, I like lots that please me in some way or other – but even more than that, I appreciate colour combinations that work really well. So here are some books that, when I look at them, I just feel an appreciation for the way the colours are READ MORE

  This is always an exciting post – it’s great to look forward over the next six months and find out which new releases are just around the corner! I discovered a few I had no idea were coming out so soon (or at all) and I am now extremely impatient! So without any further READ MORE

  Yet another of the endless opportunities to make a TBR that I have like 0.1% chance of reading a single book from! But hey, that’s part of the fun right? The anticipation? Let’s see what I’m most anticipatory about today!                             READ MORE

  There are always so many books I want, that this kind of post is laughably easy. These days I’m trying not to buy many books – no more than one a month in physical format. But there are always some I’d love to have, and others I’d be fine with in any format. These READ MORE

  Oh, well this is going to be interesting. I am a very emotional reader. I have a hard time reading books that don’t have a strong emotional component. I’m going to look through and try to pick the ones I remember being some of the strongest, so we’ll see what I come up with! READ MORE

  This is a dangerous post for us bookworms. I’m sure every single one of you reading this is having a mild panic attack because a) you know you have waaaaaaaaay too many responses to this, and b) you do not want to admit to the whole world just how long that list is. But READ MORE

  There are so many authors whose books have given me a gift that only that one book could give me. That gift is a new perspective, a new experience, a new turn of phrase, a good laugh – sometimes all of those things. Those books leave me wanting more of that experience, so inevitably READ MORE