There are lots that I think would be beneficial – bringing back handicrafts like knitting and crocheting (though I know they’re gaining popularity); learning to cook nutritious, healthy food; gardening and growing food. All would be great and edifying. But honestly? My first thought when I saw this was: common sense. I know, I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS COMING OUT IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2024
This is always an exciting post – it’s great to look forward over the next six months and find out which new releases are just around the corner! I discovered a few I had no idea were coming out so soon (or at all) and I am now extremely impatient! So without any further READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It seems that I’m sort of back into reading, though slowly and mostly jumping from one book to another without settling firmly on most of them! I’m including the ones that did stick or that I think will be most likely to hold my attention. In other news I’ve planted my beans in the READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | PAGEBOY – ELLIOT PAGE
I, like many people, have been following Elliot Page’s career for years. He has a wonderful ability as an actor to evoke emotion in the viewer. I’ve loved films from Juno to Whip It to Hard Candy, but I’ve always felt an edge to his work. Not quite cynicism, but definitely a feeling of READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | THINGS I MISUNDERSTOOD AS A KID
I don’t have a single proper example for this – I have a lot of very vivid memories from my childhood, but they are completely random. I don’t remember any major misunderstandings that I was then shocked to find out the truth about. But I do suspect that I tended to misunderstand a lot. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY SUMMER 2024 TBR
Yet another of the endless opportunities to make a TBR that I have like 0.1% chance of reading a single book from! But hey, that’s part of the fun right? The anticipation? Let’s see what I’m most anticipatory about today! READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I haven’t finished any books this week, but I didn’t do a post last week so I do have one from last week to include! I’m still working on a few books, not sure which will actually get finished. My garden is starting to grow, though, so I think the lack of reading time READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE GREAT UNEXPECTED – DAN MOONEY
Why had I not heard of this book before? I wouldn’t have ever discovered it if it hadn’t been on sale through one of my audiobook sites, and I’m so grateful it was. This is the story of Joel, an elderly man who lives in a nursing home. He has lost his wife, his READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | CHARACTERS I SEE DIFFERENTLY NOW THAN I USED TO
This is a really interesting question. It’s hard, because I don’t think there have been that many in the books I’ve re-read in the past few years, mostly I have the same view on the characters as I always have. I think the only shift I have noticed is which characters I identify with. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH WISHES
There are always so many books I want, that this kind of post is laughably easy. These days I’m trying not to buy many books – no more than one a month in physical format. But there are always some I’d love to have, and others I’d be fine with in any format. These READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY – MATT HAIG
TW: depression, suicide, death, self-harm Man, this book is a trip. Literally. It’s the story of Nora, whose life is not going well. In 24 hours her cat has died, she has lost her job, her piano student’s mother has fired her, her neighbour has told her he doesn’t need her to help him READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS THAT ARE TEARJERKERS
This is not a very difficult prompt, because I have read some books in the past few years that hit my tear glands hard. Three of them are non-fiction, but there’s one lone novel in the mix as well: I feel like most of you have READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HAD VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT
Oh, well this is going to be interesting. I am a very emotional reader. I have a hard time reading books that don’t have a strong emotional component. I’m going to look through and try to pick the ones I remember being some of the strongest, so we’ll see what I come up with! READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I finally have that feeling back. You know the one, when you’re reading a book and it takes over a part of your brain such that when you’re not reading, part of you remains in the world of it, with its characters, and anxious to return to the story. It’s a relief when this READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BEYOND THE WAND – TOM FELTON
It’s impossible to be alive in the 21st century and not have experienced some part of Potter-mania, or at least to have been aware of it going on as a buzz in the air around you. The Harry Potter books and films have become probably the most influential and widely-read children’s books ever. The READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES I’VE VISITED
I’m not a huge art gallery and museum person, so most of the ones I’ve visited I’ve either been dragged to by my parents or I’ve visited because of a particular artist, or I like the building. The best building I’ve been to is the British Museum – I love the curved glass roof READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WAS SUPER EXCITED TO GET MY HANDS ON… BUT STILL HAVEN’T READ
This is a dangerous post for us bookworms. I’m sure every single one of you reading this is having a mild panic attack because a) you know you have waaaaaaaaay too many responses to this, and b) you do not want to admit to the whole world just how long that list is. But READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Well, I did finish a book last week, but I’m back to only a little bit of reading this week. But I’ve had a great week of gardening, watching things grow, seeing new seeds sprout and enjoying the bees busily collecting nectar from our rhododendrons and the kale I let flower so they’d have READ MORE