I’ve really been enjoying series based on books – Big Little Lies, Small Island, Little Fires Everywhere – they’re great, even better if you’ve read the book. Sometimes when you’re reading you can almost see what the book you’re reading would look like on the screen, but rarely do the ones you most want to see READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS FAMILY AND FRIENDS RECOMMENDED
One of the best things about being a reader is when someone recommends a book to you and you end up loving it. Here are some of the books that were recommended to me by people in my life – important people and people I only knew briefly – but books that have stuck READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVE READING NIBBLES
I am not a huge reading snacker. I tend to stop and take a break to eat. But there are a few things that, if I am going to have something edible nearby, I’m most likely to reach for. First, a few rules. It can’t be anything that drips. Nothing worse than sauce on READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COVER RE-DESIGNS
I don’t have a ton of re-designs I loved or hated, but I do have a few special editions I like and wish were the only editions, and a few books I wish had better editions but I haven’t found any! Books I don’t love the covers of in any edition: I love READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | DEAR MRS. BIRD – A.J. PEARCE
This book intrigued me because it has a couple of the things I generally perk my ears up when I hear: WWII home front account of women’s lives during the war, and a young woman trying to carve out a career for herself as a journalist. Plus it’s set in London, so bonus! I READ MORE
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | APRIL-JUNE 2019
The last three months have just flown by, but there was some really good reading mixed in with all the whirlwind! Here’s a little bit about the books I read between April and June. April I didn’t expect that much from Daisy Jones and the Six beyond an entertaining and easy read. It READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BIRDS, BEASTS AND RELATIVES – GERALD DURRELL
Birds, Beasts and Relatives is the second book in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, a series of stories about the time his family upped sticks and moved from drizzy, depressing England to the Mediterranean island of Corfu. I read the first in the series, My Family and Other Animals, last summer (though I believe it READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVE BOOKS OF THE LAST DECADE
This week’s topic is favourite books of the past decade. I’m going through and choosing at least a couple for each year – not ones I necessarily read in that year, but my favourite of the books I’ve read that were released in that year. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE KISS QUOTIENT – HELEN HOANG
Who knows why, after the failure of One Day In December I chose to read another romance story, but I guess I don’t have to make sense. In my defense, I didn’t really realize this one was straight up romance when I got myself into it. I thought it was more like The Rosie Project – READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | CHARACTERS THAT REMIND ME OF MYSELF
This week’s topic is hard because most of the characters I identify with are probably more because I see things in them I aspire to more than things I actually am. Or I see something in how they deal with things or see the world. I haven’t met many characters that really remind me READ MORE
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | JANUARY-MARCH 2019
Those of you who have been around for a while might remember that I used to do monthly reading wrap-ups, but they fell by the way-side when I stopped reading (the last one I did was November 2015). I’ve decided that I’d like to bring the idea back, because it was a good way READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I MEANT TO READ IN 2018
I only read a small amount of books in 2018 – less than one full length book every two weeks. So let’s just say there are a lot of books I wanted to read and didn’t get to! Since there are so many, I’m just using cover images and only including the ones that stand READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COSY READS
There are a few categories of books I enjoy reading when it’s cold outside. Here they are, along with a few recommendations from those categories and some books I have on my TBR. Series Nothing makes me feel cosier than cuddling up and diving into a series I know will keep me completely READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKSHOPS I LOVE AND WANT TO VISIT
This week’s prompt is bookstores we most want to visit. Which is a really long list for me, because I basically want to visit ALL of them. There are a few that come to mind first, so I’m including those. But in usual fashion, I’m putting a twist on the topic by also including READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I LEARNED THE MOST FROM
This week’s topic was “Back to School/Learning Freebie.” I chose the latter option, and am going with books I personally learned something important from. Because, while I loved College and think it’s safe to say I wouldn’t be the same person without having had that experience (mainly due to some amazing teachers and fortuitous READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FUTURE RELEASES I WOULD KILL TO GET MY HANDS ON EARLY
I’m behind on… well, all my reading… but there are some upcoming releases I am really dying to get my hands on despite my already massive TBR. Some of them, thanks to The Book Depository being situated in the UK, I have or will soon have. But others just aren’t available to little old READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | HUNGER – ROXANE GAY
I’m a little ashamed to admit that this was my first foray into the work of Roxane Gay. I don’t know how, but I have somehow managed to miss her previously published works – though they all sound like they are exactly my kind of books. I was drawn to this because of the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVOURITE BOOKS READ IN 2017
I’m tweaking this topic a little (as I seem to pretty much every week these days) because as you guys know, I’ve been behind on my reading in the last couple of years, and have only really gotten back into reading at all in the second half of the year. And because of that, READ MORE