Top 5 books I would have paid to edit
As both a reader and an editor, some books leave me imagining what they could have been with a little more polish. These are five novels I would have loved the chance to edit.
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…
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……
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…
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……
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……
January 2025 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my January 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. It’s a new year, and therefore a new me! Only joking. I will continue to be my usual mood reading pest. However, I would like to be *slightly* more accountable…
WWW Wednesday — 1 January 2025
Hello friends, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 1 January 2025!! Which kind of feels like a wrap of for 2024. 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,…
Top 5 books of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to the last Top 5 Tuesday of 2024!! This week’s topic is top 5 books of 2024!! Yup, we’ve hit the ultimate propmt for the year, and now we get to see what books everyone loved in 2024. And maybe add them all to our TBRs for 2025. This year I read a lot of books (for…
Top 5 old-to-me authors of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 old-to-me authors of 2024!! OK, so I am fully aware that ‘old authors’ sounds not so great. Mainly because no one wants to be thought of as OLD. However, we always do a top 5 new authors, and last year I thought “why aren’t we celebrating our…
Top 5 books I meant to read in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I meant to read in 2024!! Friends, we did it. It’s basically 2025. We have survived this madness. (Only joking, we’ve got like 5 more weeks of this.) BUT, we are definitely on the downhill slope for Top 5 Tuesday posts for 2025. I know this…
Top 5 books that made me sob in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is a freebie, and I am writing about the top 5 books that made me sob in 2024!! I don’t know about anyone else, but if a book makes me sob my eyes out, it’s automatically a favourite. Yes, if I am reaching for the tissues because I can barely…
Top 5 books with time travel
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with time travel!! To round us out for the month, I can really only think of one Discworld book that features time travel. And while it didn’t make the list, I was very close to putting it. Mostly because I wasn’t sure I’d have a top…
Top 5 books set in a big city
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in a big city!! After last week’s small town vibes, we’re now headed off to the big city. Ankh-Morpork straight ahead. Only joking. Although, again, I could have listed five Discworld books by Sir Terry Pratchett again this week. Where small towns are good for…
Top 5 books with small town vibes
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with small town vibes!! We’ve got a kind of travel-based theme this month. And small town vibes are sweet and lovely. Although as someone who has lived in a small town (and by small town I really mean village — about 250 people) there is a…
Top 5 books of 2024… so far
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books of 2024… so far!! It has arrived. The halfway point (almost) of 2024. I think the actual halfway point is closer to like 2 or 3 July (or something), but we’re doing a different topic that day. And as of like, maybe 2022 (I could check,…
Top 5 books on my 2024 wishlist
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books on my 2024 wishlist!! Yes, it is my birthday week (and also Sam @ Fictionally Sam‘s birthday week!! Go say hi!!), so it’s time to update the wishlist. You know, in case my mother reads this. (Note: she does not, thank goodness, and also she refuses…
2024 reading firsts book tag
Hello friends!! I should have posted this two months ago, but alas, here we are in April insted. Today’s post is a book tag that I’ve been seeing around the traps called the 2024 reading firsts book tag. The name of the game is to go through some prompts and list the first read or book of 2024 that fits.…
Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2024!! Ahh, the beginning of each quarter is almost like a fresh start. A fresh start where we get to look at shiny new books… Books that I will likely buy and then leave sitting on my bookshelf for anywhere from 1 week…
February 2024 book haul
Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. Ahh February… the shortest month of the year. Although this year it’s only the shortest by one day because it’s a leap year. Somehow I managed to purchase THREE TIMES the number of…
WWW Wednesday — 21 February 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 21 February 2024!! 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……
WWW Wednesday — 17 January 2024
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 17 January 2024!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words (I have now checked, and can confirm that Sam still hosts this — HUZZAH!), where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And,…
Top 5 books I meant to read in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I meant to read in 2023!! This is one of my favourite posts every year. Yes, even though it’s the first of the end of year posts where I kind of drag myself for not doing anything that I said I would for the year. It’s…
