Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

I’m not much of a culinary wizard, so I’m not big on cooking. I occasionally dabble in baking, mostly cookies at Christmas time and occasionally something my kid wants to try. So my comfort foods are generally ones I can buy store-made, because that’s more enjoyable than trying (and usually failing) to make something delicious! READ MORE

I  have a list of some of the sites I have followed or enjoyed over the years here. Currently I don’t spent a lot of time online, because I just don’t have that time to spend. But I do occasionally listen to podcasts. Some I’ve enjoyed recently are:       Sue Perkins Dilemma: The READ MORE

There are so, so many characters I’ve met in books over the years that I’d want to meet – and many that I feel like I have met! Early examples were Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables, Matilda from Dahl’s book of the same name, Sara Crewe from A Little Princess, and Trixie Belden READ MORE

Oh man, there are so many books that fit this prompt. Any book longer than 500 pages. Any book with difficult language, including dialect (Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange) or just general impenetrable language like Ulysses. Most classics because I’m out of practice with the language of the period. Any book that I know is going READ MORE

Well the super obvious answer to this question would be reading, but fortunately I’ve got a lot of favourite hobbies! Through autumn and winter I enjoy crocheting, playing games with my family, baking occasionally and generally cosying up spending time in soft blankets and doing anything that’s possible from that vantage point. Through Spring and READ MORE

For this one I’d say pretty much any world from a sci-fi or post-apocalyptic novel. Even some fantasy worlds, like the various landscapes in The Lord of the Rings, are not ones I’d want to spend time in, fraught as they are with unexpected danger. I sometimes even have trouble reading about them because the READ MORE

There are tons of topics I love learning about via books – social issues, nature, crafts like crocheting, parenting, other cultures and countries. But I think the topic that most recently tops my list of topics I’m interested in learning about has to be ADHD since at least two members of my family (me being READ MORE

Hmmmmm, this is an tough one. Partly because I don’t really know where to go with it, but mostly because it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Like the people in my life are a collection of stories rather than people – also most of the stories I can think of that would fall in READ MORE

The prompt for this week was actually book quotes that make you think, but I’m not one for noting down quotes as a general rule and I don’t have time to look for them. So once again, I’m not going to look for quotes (I’ll throw one or two in if I come across them READ MORE

This week’s prompt was actually “book quotes that make me laugh,” but I can’t be assed rooting around to try and find specific quotes as I don’t mark or copy them down as I go. So instead, you’re going to get a selection of books that make me laugh:              READ MORE

Well this is an easy one – I like to curl up under a cosy blanket with a cup of tea (preferably made by my kid who is an excellent tea-maker) and some twinkle lights on and read a book. Of course. But if that’s not an option or if I need a break, I READ MORE

This seems to be a very hotly contested issue these days. But the dawn of AI becoming widespread coincided with my efforts to avoid reading stressful things in online news, so I haven’t read that much about it. But I would assume that, like with many technological advances, there is the potential for great benefits READ MORE

Happy New Year, everyone! Now the real challenge begins – not resolutions (for me, anyway, you do you), but attempting to write “2025” instead of “2024,” which I had only just got the hang of. I could have used an extra month to enjoy that! Anyway, I have a whole Top Ten Tuesday post coming READ MORE

I don’t know that many myths or legends from my area, but I do know there are a lot of them because we live on the unceded land of multiple first nations, including the Squamish (or Skwxwúʔmesh). One of their legends that I’ve heard about is of The Two Sisters  (or Twin Sisters) – a READ MORE

  I don’t care much for fashion. My own dress sense stalled out somewhere between the late 90s and early 2000s, arguably not so much because I liked the fashion particularly, but because there was more unisex and simple clothing, and in some cases more comfortable. I don’t like skirts much, or dresses. I hate READ MORE

  I used to like musicals when I was a kid, but that was partly because a neighbour had quite a few that I could borrow, and since we didn’t have TV anything I could watch on video was going to get me to watch it. Repeatedly. I watched some Barbara Streisand ones like Hello READ MORE

  It’s funny, since becoming a stay at home mom, which then transitioned into being someone who couldn’t handle a full time job, then one who wasn’t comfortable going to a public place every day and exposing myself to risk of illness, then kind of all of the above, my days aren’t really all that READ MORE

  I really enjoy a good mystery. But notice the word “good” in there – it has to be well plotted, have good twists, drop enough clues that I feel like I have a shot at solving it, but also be tough to crack and not feel too easy. And for it to really blow READ MORE