All the books Isaac bought in Paris
Hello friends!! This post has taken me months in making… I’d like to talk about all the books Isaac bought in Paris, in Heartstopper season two. I almost did this post in 2023, but life was a whole thing and I really fell out of blogging. 2024 was a bit better, but I was really just focussed on stabilising me.…
Top 5 books set in Europe
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in Europe!! Thankfully my geographical reading is a bit more spread out this week. In fact, we travel to some of my favourite places in Europe! (Although I need to find a book set in Iceland that isn’t a children’s picture book. And a book…
Top 5 books set in America
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in America!! Or, more accurately, top 5 books set in the Americas. Because we really do mean the northern and southern continent. From Alaska to Chile and everything in between. Sadly, while I’ve read MANY books set in North America, I can only find one…
Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2025!! Friends, IT IS TIME!! I know I’ve been talking about this book since January 2022, including making my anticipated reads list for Q2 and Q3 in 2024, but it’s FINALLY here!! Silverborn, by Jessica Townsend is finally arriving. And I am SO…
Top 5 Tuesday topics: April-June 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: April-June 2025!! Friends, this post is later than I planned, and I apologise. However, the last couple of weeks I’ve added a link to my top 5 Tuesday posts that takes you to my google docs spreadsheet which has the topics for the rest of the 2025 calendar year. You…
April 2025 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my April 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Wow, ok. March was an interersting reading month. I did complete my Nevermoor reread and it was SO GOOD! I also read the new Ali Hazelwood book, Deep End, and…
Top 5 books with royalty in the title
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with royalty in the title!! Friends, readers, bloggers, lend me your eyes. Ok, so not an actual royalty quote, but I think Shakespeare should have been knighted at the very least. And Julius Caesar wasn’t quite royalty, but dictator is up there. I think I’d prefer…
Top 5 books with an emotion in the title
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with an emotion in the title!! Before we get started today, can I just say a HUGE thanks to everyone who reached out here or on Insta last week. Husband is now home and on the mend. This community of book nerds who show up every…
Top 5 books with a place in the title
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with a place in the title!! Hi T5T team — apologies for the delay posting this week. My husband has been in hospital most of the weekend and I am struggling. I wanted to write something fun and witty about making a list of fantasy places…
Top 5 books with a pronoun in the title
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with a pronoun in the title!! I think two years ago (coming out of the pandemic) every month I was all “how are we already in MARCH*?” *insert new month title here. Whereas this year my questions are more along the lines of “how is it…
March 2025 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my March 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. So… can I just say, I was doing SO WELL in my February reading!! Like, I hadn’t strayed from the TBR once, and I was smashing through books!! It looked…
Top 5 books I want to buy in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I want to buy in 2025!! AHHHHH!! Sorry for being late friends!! It’s somewhat chaotic over in this hemisphere this week. My mum goes into hospital tomorrow for surgery and the last week of work has been insane late nights and I am pooped. I need…
Top 5 books I want to reread in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I want to reread in 2025!! I have to admit, we are sliding backwards somewhat from the “yes I WILL do this!!” rhetoric of the last two weeks. More into a calm “yeah, I’d like to do this if I can fit it in” stance. I’m…
Top 5 series I will finish in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will finish in 2025!! Yes, you heard it here first! 2025 is going to be the year that I close out a bunch of series that I’m currently in the middle of! Or, one book away from the end of. Either way, they won’t be…
WWW Wednesday — 5 February 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 5 February 2025!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words, where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And, what do you think you’ll read next? Let’s see what I have been reading……
Top 5 series I will start in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will start in 2025!! Look at me rolling in here with my new found bad-bitch confidence that I’m going to smash all my reading goals in 2025!! Not the series I want to start, but the series I WILL start. *mic drop* LOL, again, this…
February 2025 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my February 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Uhh, ok. “New year, new me” didn’t quite go as planned. In fact, it was more like “Old me, still me… maybe worse?!” I read a grand total of TWO…
Top 5 authors I want to try in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 authors I want to try in 2025!! Ahh, our new entry for the resolutions month(s) of posts! How exciting! Every year we do a post on new-to-me authors, and now we do an old-to-me authors (which I still need to find a better name for…) However, I’ve…
Top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2025!! Friends, I don’t know why, but this is one of my favourite posts to do EVERY YEAR. As you can see from my prolific attendance every year (2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021). And, as time shows, I very rarely read the books.…
WWW Wednesday — 15 January 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 15 January 2025!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words, where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And, what do you think you’ll read next? Let’s see what I have been reading……
Top 5 bookish resolutions for 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish resolutions for 2025!! Gosh, how time flies!! I can’t believe that we’re already two weeks into 2025. And we’re only just doing bookish resolutions now. Maybe some times it’s better to move the quarterly anticipated reads to a bit further into the quarter. But that’s something…
2025 reading challenges I will complete
Hello friends!! Welcome to me rambling a post about which 2025 reading challenges I will participate in. I mean, I will complete!! Ok, so like, 2024 was not the raging success that I thought it would be. But I’m going to put it down to the very non-confident way that I phrased the post. Let’s be honest, “2024 reading challenges…
WWW Wednesday — 8 January 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 8 January 2025!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words, where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And, what do you think you’ll read next? Let’s see what I have been reading……
Top 5 anticipated books of Q1 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to the first Top 5 Tuesday of 2025!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated books of Q1 2025!! Q1 being January to March 2025. Friends, it’s a new year, which means a new list of promises for me to break later in 2025. How exciting!! I will try not to break TOO many though… Well, I…
