Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  I have a hard time trusting books about animals. I can handle a lot of difficult stuff in books, but not bad things happening to animals, and I feel like a lot of books with animals in them don’t end well for said animals. I’ve spent my entire life avoiding reading Charlotte’s Web, for READ MORE

  I have to admit that I needed to do some research for this one! And I learned a lot. There are actually a few books that I had no idea were self-published originally that came as a huge surprise. So here are some I’ve enjoyed (though I probably won’t make it to ten this READ MORE

  This week is an interesting prompt – books for people who liked author x. I couldn’t think of enough books to do just one author, so I’ve picked a few different ones. I’m not sure if they’re all that on point, but they connected in my brain at any rate!   Isabel Allende: Aimee READ MORE

  I love the bookish internet. Of all the online communities I’ve discovered, it’s the one that is the most interesting, diverse, welcoming and intelligent. I’ve not only found fantastic books through mentions and recommendations from online book sources, but I’ve also found readers I can follow who read similar types of books to me, READ MORE

  Well, here we are again. Time for another seasonal TBR that I will in no way, shape or form actually follow through on. Ah, the joys of futility, my friends! Well, for the sake of a post, let’s look at the books that would be on my TBR if I had any chance at READ MORE

  There are so many bookish folks I’d love to meet, have a coffee with, or befriend. People who are wise, interesting, funny or have great taste in books. So I’ve got a bit of a varied list here, everyone from smaller BookTubers to authors. I don’t think about this much, so there are probably READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is a genre freebie, so I’ve decided to focus on memoirs. Partly because there are lots of good ones, partly because I’ve read so many good ones in the past couple of years, and partly because there’s so much variability in formats, themes and styles within that genre. Here are my READ MORE

  I love books with strong female characters. I love it even more when they push boundaries are live in their weirdness or kick some ass. I like when characters in general surprise me, and that goes double for heroines (self-identified included).   Molly Weasley, because she’s a complete badass and a great mum The READ MORE

  Any of you who have been around here for a while know I’m not a fan of romance, I don’t often get book crushes, and I am not often overly impressed by bookish matches. I don’t hate them, they just aren’t generally the highlight of the book for me. So rather than focusing on READ MORE

  Some research was required to put together a list of debut books that are coming out in 2023, but once I embarked on said research, I discovered that I had actually already heard of several – I just didn’t know they were debuts at the time! Here are some I’m either interested in reading READ MORE

  Today I’m going to look at some of the books that intimidated me too much to actually read (yet, if ever), as well as some of the books I have actually read that really intimidated me before I tackled them.   Too scary to read yet:                    READ MORE

  Last year turned out to be a pretty great reading year for me. I read a lot of books, and I read a lot of new authors as well. Some I discovered thanks to the BookTube Prize, others through starting to review for Netgalley again, others just because they were hanging around on my READ MORE

  I haven’t really been paying attention to upcoming releases, so I only knew about a couple of these from BookTube videos. The rest I just found via the wonders of Google, but a couple I’m very excited about!!!   JANUARY .    .    .      FEBRUARY .  **This Heartstopper image is a READ MORE

  I had the best reading year I’ve had since 2015 in terms of amount read (I finished 80 books, which is a fair amount for me). But I also read a lot of books I really enjoyed. Some were re-reads, others were random picks from my ancient TBR shelves and digital shelves, others were READ MORE

    As any book lover knows, there’s really nothing better than finding book-shaped packages under the tree on Christmas morning*. I remember when I was a kid, I loved opening my presents, and I was thrilled by the clothes and jewelry and art supplies and other random thoughtful gifts – but the books would READ MORE

  Well, this should be easy as long as no one checks up on my progress. I have a list of books I want to read next sitting on my bedside table right now, but I also know the chances of me reading them in the near future are very slim! But, as of today, READ MORE

  This week’s prompt was a freebie, so I thought I’d share some books that surprised me. Either because they had great plot twists or character reveals, or because they didn’t go where I expected, or because I ended up having a totally different reaction to them than I expected to have.        READ MORE