Well, we made it through Christmas week (if you celebrate it too), so congratulations to all of us, particularly the parents who had so much organizing and preparing to do that you feel like someone gave you a lobotomy when you weren’t looking. New year’s doesn’t mean much to me now that I’m ancient, but READ MORE
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BOOK BLOGGER HOP | READING GOALS FOR 2025
This week’s prompt: Do you have any reading goals for the new year? I’ll be doing a whole Top Ten Tuesday post about this very topic on January 14th that I’ve already written, so I’m not going to get too detailed here. Suffice it to say that I’m not doing any hard and fast reading READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HOPE SANTA BRINGS
I’ve been trying very hard over the past couple of years not to spend as much time with my ear to the ground listening out for new books to add to my TBR. It’s hard for me to resist something new and shiny, so the best way to manage my book spending (which needs to READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I didn’t manage to write a post last week but! I finished a thing! And I finished another thing this week! So that’s TWO THINGS! *pats self on back firmly* Hopefully this means I’m getting back on track, but as it’s still hols and Christmas is in a few days (!) I’m not going to READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | MY FAVOURITE WINTER READING VIBE
This week’s prompt: In December, many people like snuggling up with a nice book and a warm beverage. What kind of reading environment do you prefer during the winter? These days most of my reading is done in the format of audiobooks. I read while I’m cleaning, while I’m tidying, while I’m preparing meals or READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY WINTER 2024-25 TBR
As usual, I don’t have a proper TBR set for my winter reading. I’ll either be too busy to read much, or I’ll breeze through a whole bunch of random books that strike my fancy at the particular moment I’m looking for something to read for no specific reason. You know how I do. But READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MYTHS OR LEGENDS FROM WHERE I LIVE
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS TO READ DURING A STORM
Oooh this is a fascinating prompt! I love it! Of course, now I have to actually find books that match the emotions I’m pairing with it, which may be little more challenging! Let’s see how I do. Books that feel as stormy as the weather: The Witching Hour by Anne READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | SEASONAL READING RECOMMENDATION
This week’s prompt: Can you recommend a book that catches the spirit of year-end thoughts or generates a sense of nostalgia in you? This is an interesting thing to consider, because I don’t really have any books that specifically deal with Christmas or the changing over of the year that I come back to each READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | SOMETHING I WISH WOULD COME BACK INTO FASHION
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WANT TO RE-READ
This week’s topic is a freebie, so I’m looking back at books I’ve read, and either I read them long enough ago that I only have a vague recollection of them that I’d like to update, or I loved them so much I want to experience them again (or, possibly, both). Others I want READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been another busy week and, as usual, I’ve not had much time for reading. But my mum was here to visit, and we went to the library with my kid and they each found something to read, came home, and instantly curled up on the sofa to start reading. They’ve pretty much kept READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | READING SLUMPS
This week’s prompt: How do you deal with reading slumps or moments when you can’t get into a book? This is always a conundrum. I suppose there are a couple of options when you’re in a reading slump. Either shrug and give up, or push yourself through to keep reading. I’ve tried both, and READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A MUSICAL I LIKED
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THANKFUL
I think it must be Thanksgiving for our Southern neighbours around now, so this week’s prompt is “thankful.” I’m not big on Thanksgiving in general because the whole history thing, plus it wasn’t ever much of a thing in my family. But the concept of being thankful in general is something I try to READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Another busy week and I’ve been picking up books and even reading them in dribs and drabs, but have completely failed to actually finish a single one. But I’m hoping this is the beginning of an upward swing in my reading efforts and that it’ll lead to actually finishing a book one of these READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | HOW I SPEND MY WEEKENDS
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | OLDEST BOOKS ON MY TBR
At first I thought this was asking for the books that have been on my TBR the longest. But in fact, it’s asking for the books on my TBR that were published earliest. Which I find much more interesting – mainly because I have no idea in which order I added most books to READ MORE