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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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 books I want for Jolabokaflod in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I want for Jolabokaflod in 2024!! In Iceland they have the greatest Christmas tradition ever for a booklover. On Christmas Eve, you exchange gifts of BOOKS and then spend the evening reading and drinking hot chocolate. Maybe eating gingerbread. And because the sun sets there at…
Top 5 Tuesday topics: January-March 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: January-March 2025!! It is 2025!! Which means the year of Futuresport is finally upon us!! If this makes no sense to you, you may either stay for my rambles or skip below to the top 5 Tuesday topics for January-March 2025. A millionty years ago when I was a small…
Top 5 new-to-me authors of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 new-to-me authors of 2024!! I do love doing this post every year. I love seeing how many new authors I pick up books from. It’s so nice to celebrate authors that you’ve found and love. Possibly even made auto-buy. I love adding auto-buy authors to my lists.…
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 book covers of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 book covers of 2024!! Friends, it’s December and we are well and trult on the downhill slope to the end of the year now. So close in fact, we only have wrap-up posts to go. However, this week is going to be a tough one for me.…
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 I’m thankful for in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I’m thankful for in 2024!! This is the week that we hit our annual wrap up posts. It starts with Thanksgiving. Which is slightly ironic because we don’t celebrate it. At all. However, I do like the sentiment of being thankful for things. Which is why,…
Top 5 books on my TBR that intimidate me
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books on my TBR that intimidate me!! When I wrote this topic list, I had an explainer for this week: Do you have a pile of books on your TBR that you were “going to read soon” but now it’s been like 5 years and you don’t…
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 to recommend for Halloween
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books to recommend for Halloween!! I can’t believe we’re two days out from Halloween!! I haven’t watched any scary movies or bought anything Halloween related this year. We don’t always decorate because we live in an apartment and you need to be buzzed up to our floor,…
Top 5 orange books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 orange books!! Now, we’ve actually done a bunch of orange book related posts across T5T before. We did top 5 black and orange books back in October 202o, and red, orange and yellow books in June 2018. So it’s fitting that colours are back in for 2024.…
Top 5 non-human characters
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 non-human characters!! Umm, about five years ago, when Shanah was taking a hiatus and just before T5T found its home here, I decided to just do my own T5T posts. And one week I did a top 5 non-cat cats post. Now, you might be saying “wtf…
Top 5 award winning books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 award winning books!! Now, by no means am I a literary snob (I don’t think any of us are). And sure, winning an award is nice — validating even. But it also doesn’t increase my enjoyment of a book. In fact, as many award winning books are…
Top 5 anticipated reads for Q4 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q4 2024!! It is the LAST QUARTER for 2024!! ARGHHHH!! Which means it’s our final chance to scream about new books coming out this year. LOL, only joking. We should always scream about new books. Because books. Also, I only got through October releases……
Top 5 genre mash-ups
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 genre mash-ups!! So, I completely forgot that I made this topic… Which is really only a shame when you think about my last top 5 freebie topic: top 5 historical fantasy rom-coms. Because you know what? Those are pretty classic genre mash-up books!! Anyway, today I’m going…
Top 5 bookish villains
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish villains!! Villains can be such complex characters. And they contribute SO MUCH to the storyline. They’re often a mirrored image of the main character — a reflection that shows them what they could be. Or they’re there to antagonise… which, also, fun!! Now, I know I…
Emma adaptations
If you’ve ever tried to find the best adaptations of Emma, you’ll know there’s no single “correct” answer… only different interpretations of the same story. Because Emma isn’t just about matchmaking and miscommunication. At its core, it’s a redemption story… just not in the way we usually think about them. There’s no singular turning point. No dramatic fall followed by…
