The prompt this week was “the best gift you’ve ever received,” but I really can’t choose one. So instead, I’m going to share a few great bookish gift ideas (some I have received) that most book-lovers would enjoy! A subscription to a literary magazine. My favourites are Bookmarks, which is great if you’re a READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WANTED MORE LIKE
We all have books like this. Books we read, and instantly want to forget so we can discover them again for the first time. Books we want to duplicate, or that we wish would inspire lots of copycats. Here are some of the books I instantly wanted more of! READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE BOOK AND MOVIE ADAPTATIONS
This is a great prompt, but not so much for me. I don’t watch many movies these days, and I can never remember actors or their names. The best I could come up with was this: I love The Uncommon Reader. But the only really important casting choice in it is who plays READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | #37 BOOKS I JUST HAD TO BUY… BUT ARE STILL ON MY TBR
I used to be terrible for doing this. I have so many unread books on my shelves – which is how I like it, better have shelves of books I haven’t read yet than only ones I have. It’s like being surrounded by all these worlds still waiting to be discovered. But it does READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FANTASY VACATION
I’m guessing this prompt was thought up either before we entered the pandemic, or in a wild fit of optimism. For me, quite frankly, the answer to this is: any vacation. ANYTHING. Anything that would mean time off from worrying, the ability to sleep for days, eat what I want and not have to READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BEST OSCAR WILDE QUOTES
I have to admit that I’ve never read an Oscar Wilde book. I know the story of The Picture of Dorian Gray and I’ve seen The Importance of Being Earnest, but I’ve never sat down and read his work. Despite that fact, I feel intimately familiar with his wit just through repeated and extensive READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I didn’t get as much reading done this week as I did last week, but I did manage to finish two books and make a bit of progress on a couple of others. Here’s my week in reading! Just shelved: I finished Consent as an audiobook from my library last week, READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT I’VE GOOGLED RECENTLY
I’m writing this in April because I know I won’t have time later, so I’m cheating a bit. But here are some things I recently Googled, though none of them are that interesting: How much protection from Covid-19 do you have one week after getting the Pfizer vaccine? I and a few people in READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COMPLETE SENTENCE TITLES
This week’s prompt is one that will either be very easy or surprisingly hard, I’m sure! I have never really paid much attention to how many of the books I read have titles that are complete sentences, so I will be discovering how common it is as I start looking through my shelves! Let’s READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
This has been quite a good reading week. I’m quite surprised to discover, at the end of it, that I managed to read three books this week – and that they were all excellent. I’d very much like to have more weeks like this! Here’s the breakdown. Just shelved: READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FAVOURITE INDULGENCE
I’m not sure about this one, because at what point does a thing become a treat? At what point an indulgence? And in times like this, isn’t anything that makes the day feel bearable a necessity? But here are some of the things that bring me the most physical enjoyment, and I guess none READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH NATURE COVERS
This week’s prompt is all about nature. Below I’ve compiled a list of books that either have some form of nature represented on their covers, or are about an element of the natural world, or both: READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
So how was your last few weeks? Mine were…. hmmm. Do you ever have a chunk of time that you immediately forget huge parts of because it was so stressful it causes your brain to short-circuit? That. That was my few weeks. Everything is fine, just a LOT going on. Hopefully things will be READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | CHARACTERS I WANT TO MEET
It took me a while to find people I connected with when I was a kid. Because I spent so much time alone and so much time reading, I have a very strong sense that some of the characters I read about in books were my friends. Some of the top characters I connected READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I RECENTLY READ
I’m writing this a bit ahead of time because I’m not going to have time to write it when it’s time to post it. So some of this is a bit of guess work based on what I’m reading now, and a few books I have already read that I think will count as READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE NATURE/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Me and the outdoors… it’s complicated. I love getting outside in Spring and early Summer. I love digging in the dirt, I love feeling the breeze on my face, smelling the plants, feeling sun on my face. But nature, it does not like me. I’ve developed increasingly bad allergies, and now those tie into READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | ANIMALS FROM BOOKS
I have to admit that I don’t often read books about animals. Mainly because authors are cruel, and they often end up getting hurt or killed. And when that happens it breaks me. I can handle pretty much anything gruesome happening to grown up people – my favourite show was Criminal Minds – but READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COLOURFUL BOOK COVERS
This ties in nicely with last week’s post about Crayola colours! I’ve used a couple of the same ones for this post as well, but hey, colour is colour, right? READ MORE