Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

  I kind of covered this a little bit last week – there are certain topics that will always attract me  to a book. But there are other reasons I’ll pick one up and at least check it out: If it’s been recommended to me or I’ve seen a lot of bookish people talking about READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is the opposite of last week’s but just as difficult. Maybe even harder. Plotlines I always want to read? Well, I do like novels about people who learn about themselves. Especially if they’re people who live alone and kind of like it that way and read a lot. I enjoy a READ MORE

  Hmmmm. I mean, I don’t think there are any I absolutely refuse to read. There are always exceptions. But there’s one I do tend to avoid: romance stories where one character is in a relationship and you’re supposed to root for them to fall in love with someone else and either cheat or break READ MORE

  Oh, this one is easy: All of the above and then some. I’ve been known to dog ear pages when it’s a book I don’t care so much about or when I need to mark a particular poignant passage and don’t have any page markers. I’ve got a huge collection of bookmarks, recently added READ MORE

  Hmm. This is a tough one. I don’t go in for the past, generally. I don’t even read much historical fiction. I’m not thrilled with the way things are going in the world right now, but I do tend to feel like in a lot of ways most points in the past were as READ MORE

  You know, I’ve never really read any fan-fic. So I haven’t really thought much about it. I guess I feel like if it is a positive outlet, a way for someone to join into a world they want to be part of (especially if it’s to help them deal with a real world that READ MORE

  I am NOT an adventurous eater. I don’t eat meat or seafood because I don’t like the strong flavours, I don’t like squishy textures like okra or eggplant, I don’t like strong cheeses and there are several vegetables I don’t like the flavour of. So when it comes to weird food… well, pretty much READ MORE

  I laughed when I saw this prompt. That would be a huge post, and that’s not even accounting for the fact that most of my bookcases are double stacked. That is so not happening. So I’ve taken a photo of one, the one that my Dad and I made together when I was in READ MORE

  I don’t really do weekend getaways since the kid arrived. But if I did, it would be simple. I’d find a nice little AirBNB where I’d have quiet and privacy. I’d find some great take out in the area. I’d carefully select my reading material. If possible I’d also locate a nearby bookshop to READ MORE

  I totally missed this week’s Wednesday post – oops – so here it is a day late! This is a hard one, because I feel like most of my best friends are in books, and there are so many I’d love to meet. Anne from Anne of Green Gables, Helene and the crew from READ MORE

  This week’s prompt was actually if I’ve met anyone famous. I’m not crazy about that prompt. For one thing it feels a bit icky to list out famous people I’ve met and when or how I’ve met them. I’ve met a few, but they were just being normal people at the time, not in READ MORE

Today’s prompt is “a real-life event no one would believe.” So no pressure or anything. I have had a really hard time thinking of something for this prompt. I’m not one who’s had a particularly eventful life. I mean I’ve done stuff, but I haven’t apprehended a ring of cat burglars while they were attempting READ MORE

  These days I don’t have that many auto-buy authors. But there are a couple. The first is Isabel Allende. I haven’t read the last few books of hers, but I have them on my shelf anyway and definitely want to get to them. She’s a favourite author of mine, and someone I admire. Last READ MORE

  I’m only going to pick a couple here. I don’t remember book characters all that well, particularly when I’m asked to. So I have a hard time coming up with good answers for these kind of questions!                   I think both Sirius Black (as a surrogate dad) and READ MORE

  Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m not a wedding person. I didn’t dream of white dresses and veils when I was a kid. I didn’t plan the ceremony and reception down to the last detail. I don’t really like romance novels (I just don’t buy them most of the time) and, quite frankly, I’m READ MORE

  If this prompt had been a movie or TV show filmed in my town, it would have been so, so easy. I live in Vancouver, better known as Hollywood North. I’m used to picking out familiar streets and landmarks while watching (some shows and movies that were easy to spot as Vancouver or the READ MORE

  I don’t usually write down quotes from books. I notice them, sometimes I add a page marker that will inevitably get stuck on another book when I put the one I’ve just read back on the shelf and end up marking a random page of a book I haven’t even read yet, but I READ MORE

  Anyone who’s been here a while knows that I live with more than one chronic illness. This makes pretty much everything complicated, but particularly illness. So I guess the short answer to the question of what I do when I’m not feeling well is simple: panic. This effect has only intensified with the arrival READ MORE