Another busy week during which reading wasn’t at the top of my list! I did a little bit, but mostly I’ve been trying to get on top of things around the house, keep up with homeschool and crocheting bookmarks for my kid who has become a constant and voracious reader! (I might share some photos READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES – SANGU MANDANNA
Mika Moon is a witch, and a member of a group of witches who meet up regularly – but not too regularly. As Mika and her fellow witches all know, the rules of their group mean they’re supposed to keep their magic a secret, only see each other at these meetings, and avoid spending time READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | LITERARY SCI-FI/FANTASY
This week’s prompt: What fantasy or Sci-fi should be part of the literary canon? I have no idea what this prompt is asking me. What’s the literary cannon? Also what are people who don’t really read sci-fi or fantasy supposed to write? Okay, let’s take this one step at a time. I’m going to guess READ MORE
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | WINTER 2024/25
It’s amazing to think that we might be on our way out of winter! We only just got past our snow, and it’s still a little chilly out there. But the sun is starting to come out, even feel a bit warm, and it just feels like it’s turning. We’re even getting new shoots springing READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK I’M NERVOUS TO READ AND WHY
Oh man, there are so many books that fit this prompt. Any book longer than 500 pages. Any book with difficult language, including dialect (Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange) or just general impenetrable language like Ulysses. Most classics because I’m out of practice with the language of the period. Any book that I know is going READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS CHARACTERS HAVE SAID
Oh man, quote prompts are always so hard! I don’t make notes of them, and my memory is pretty much useless these days. So there’s zero chance I’m going to remember any, and I don’t have a way of looking them up at will! So I’m turning to Google for help on this one. I’m READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a week. Not terrible, but a little full on. I spent an extra few hours driving to prepare for an unfamiliar and busy route to a field trip my kid was going on, which was super stressful as it involved bumper-to-bumper traffic as 5 lanes merged into 2…. on a bridge. Not my READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | ONE LAST STOP – CASEY MCQUISTON
Similar to Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, this book has been zooming around the internet (and being discussed very positively) since shortly after it came out. This is also a romance, which isn’t my usual genre, but as you guys know I do make exceptions for books that are, you know, just good books. As usual READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOW MUCH TIME DOES BLOGGING TAKE?
This week’s prompt: How much time does blogging take out of your life weekly? Hmmm, this is a difficult question for me. Partly because I have ADHD, so time is a bit slippy and hard for me to quantify. But also because this question makes quite a big assumption – that I work on my READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE HOBBY AND WHY
Well the super obvious answer to this question would be reading, but fortunately I’ve got a lot of favourite hobbies! Through autumn and winter I enjoy crocheting, playing games with my family, baking occasionally and generally cosying up spending time in soft blankets and doing anything that’s possible from that vantage point. Through Spring and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS SET IN ANOTHER TIME
I’m not a huge historical fiction reader, nor do I read a lot of Sci-Fi that would take me far into the future, but nonetheless I think I’ve got quite a few to choose from for this prompt! I’m including a few set in the future, as well as several set in the past (spoiler READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Not the best reading week this week – it was a bit of an emotional one. We had a family member in surgery (went well and all is fine) which was a bit preoccupying. We also had an earthquake on Friday not too far from us, and we felt it. There was a loud bang READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE POSTCARD – ANNE BEREST
I borrowed this book from the library without having heard any reviews of it, or really knowing what it was about. Something in the blurb caught my attention, and I paused my scrolling through available audiobooks for long enough to borrow it. I then promptly forgot about it for a few days until I was READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | BOOK CLUBS
This week’s prompt: Do you belong to a book club? If so, how many members do you have? How long has it been going on? Unfortunately I don’t belong to any book clubs, as much as I’d like to. I tried to find some in my area, but there aren’t many, and most of the READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FICTIONAL WORLDS I’D RATHER NOT VISIT
For this one I’d say pretty much any world from a sci-fi or post-apocalyptic novel. Even some fantasy worlds, like the various landscapes in The Lord of the Rings, are not ones I’d want to spend time in, fraught as they are with unexpected danger. I sometimes even have trouble reading about them because the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I NEVER REVIEWED
There are lots of books I’ve read but not reviewed – some because I read them before I started blogging, some because they were part of a large series and didn’t stand out individually, and some because I didn’t get to the review fast enough and forgot too many details to be able to write READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I’ve had a decent week, not as much reading, but enough that I finished a book or two. I (as usual) left my Valentine’s Day preparations for my kiddo until the last minute, so I had a couple of late nights trying to finish some crochet and sewing stuff! I finished 3 out of 4 READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE – DEANNA RABOURN
Well, I messed up on reviewing this one. I thought I’d already written the review and have since moved on to other things… so now my memory of the details is a little fuzzy! My apologies that things like names and places are going to be vague. I was attracted to this because I love READ MORE