Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

  Well, the easy answer to this is, what’s not to love about being a reader and a blogger? Being a reader is one of the best gifts I’ve received in my life (after my kid, of course – though sharing a love of reading has been magical so far). I think it has irrevocably READ MORE

  Older books more people should read. Hmm. Well, the obvious choice for this is less popular classics, but I’m not really one for classics. I’ve loved a few, but I’ve also given up on many more. So I’m going to try to select a few books that have been around for a while, but READ MORE

  So I know I’m supposed to come up with something exciting for this prompt. The picture above is Italy, and I’d definitely love to go there someday. There’s also Iceland, which fascinates me. I’m sure there are lots more. But if I could choose one place to visit (or even better, live), it would READ MORE

  I don’t really have a favourite YouTube video. I like some music videos, I have a few channels I really enjoy watching – mostly BookTube. So I had to put some thought into this one. But I think, if I had to choose one, it would be this:     There’s a whole channel READ MORE

  Oh, I have a bunch of these! I don’t do them all very often, but I have lots of things I either still love to do, or used to do when I was younger and wouldn’t mind trying again sometime (some with my kid). I’ll list a few of them: Gardening. This is one READ MORE

  Wow, okay, so we’re getting personal this week, huh? I’m sorry to be a disappointment, but I actually can’t remember. I had “crushes” on boys in my classes from when I was in grade one, and I have vague memories of nice hair or great taste in shoes or something equally unimportant as being READ MORE

  Well, this one’s easy. NO. That’s my thought on small talk. But, to give a more fleshed out answer so this post isn’t just one word, I understand why it’s a thing. I get the social niceties that are required to interact with people when you don’t know them that well, haven’t seen them READ MORE

  Okay, so this is definitely an area where I’ve got a lot of experience. Historically, between mental health, physical illness/pain and just, you know, life, I’ve had a fair few of them. And dealing with them by watching films is definitely a thing I have been known to do. So here are some that READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is a piece of advice you’ll always remember. I’ve received a lot of advice in my life, but if I’m honest, a fair amount of it has come from books or articles or even TV shows. Not so much that has really stuck with me has come from real people. So READ MORE

  So I grew up on a hippie island. We were taking kyolic garlic and echinacea (gross in liquid form, btw) before it was cool. And I have to say I never really noticed any of those alternative remedies making a noticeable difference to the tragectory of any cold. I then gathered info from all READ MORE

  I really enjoy reading non-fiction, so there are quite a few I could choose for this prompt. So, in typical form, I’m not going to limit myself to just one. Hope you’re okay with that! Here are a random assortment of the non-fiction books that have had the biggest impact on me.     READ MORE

  Well, let’s face it, there are TONS of famous books I’ve never read. Most I don’t ever plan to read. So this post could have gone in all kinds of different directions. But I decided to pick one that I feel like most people did, in fact, read in high school. Even people who READ MORE

  I don’t read about historical figures that much. Let’s face it, most of the historical figures you can read about are white men, often the type I wouldn’t want much to do with. I do enjoy reading about women who bucked societal pressures (Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Almost Famous Women was a fascinating read), and READ MORE

  Something funny that happened to me. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the past, or because things have felt a bit dismal for a few years now or what. But I have spent weeks now trying to think of a funny thing that happened to READ MORE

  Now the answer to this one will depend on when in my school career you’re talking about. Because most of elementary school I liked anything that allowed me not to have to pay attention to a teacher talking at me and let me work on things myself, but they had to be things I READ MORE

  Well this one should be easy – I don’t. I have zero recollection of the first time I sat down at a computer to logon to the internet, and no clue at all whatsoever what I was doing on it when I did. Now, in my defense, I’m not exactly a kid. We’re talking READ MORE

  I actually wrote a whole post about this last year,  because there were several books I read in 2022 that really did surprise me. I’ll share a couple of my top picks below, though, in case you don’t want to click over:         Both of these had difficult main characters, but READ MORE

  Okay, so I know this is just a random idea for a post, and a lot of people really like talking about what they eat, especially if they’re creative with food or like to eat adventurously. But I do have bit of a cringe response to it, I have to admit. It can be READ MORE