Top 5 books with a direction in the title
North, south, east, and west can mean much more than geography in fiction. These are five books whose titles point readers in an intriguing direction.
Top 5 series I wished didn’t end
Finishing a beloved series is always bittersweet. These are five worlds and characters I wasn't ready to say goodbye to when I turned the final page.
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 — 30 October 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 30 October 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 — 23 October 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 23 October 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 — 16 October 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 16 October 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 — 9 October 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 9 October 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……
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…
WWW Wednesday — 2 October 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 2 October 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……
October 2024 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my October 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. My September TBR was… a 50% completion rate. That’s a pass, right?! But, I also read the most amount of books I’ve ever read in a month, AND I hit…
May 2024 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to the May 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of May. Ok… so, I still haven’t posted my quarterly wrap up yet, which I was planning to do in April. Or, like, any of the other posts I was planning on doing. But it’s fine.…
Top 5 fairy tale retellings
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 fairy tale retellings!! Now, I know this topic is not for everyone. In fact, it’s pretty much designed purely for me. But, as host, that’s my prerogative every so often. And, I’m not sorry. Sorry. But, for not being sorry. Not for the topic. I’ll stop now.…
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,…
WWW Wednesday — 10 January 2024
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 10 January 2024!! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words (I am honestly just assuming that Sam still hosts this), where you answer the three following questions: What did you recently finish? What are you currently reading? And, what do you think…
WWW Wednesday — 3 January 2024
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 3 January 2024!! And also another type of post that I haven’t done since 2022. Look, 2023 was a whole time, ok? WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words (I am honestly just assuming that Sam still hosts this), where you answer…
January 2024 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to the first TBR that I have done in over a year, the January 2024 TBR. Yes, it’s finally happened. I have cracked under the weight of my extensive TBR (now sitting at a whopping 545 physical books) and will be putting actual TBRs into place each month. Until I either forget about them, or run off…
Top 5 anticipated reads of Jan-Mar 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads of Jan-Mar 2023!! YES!! I actually love doing these posts every quarter, because I get to look at all the shiny new books coming out ― and it’s literally the only time I let myself do this. Not because I’m punishing me, on a book…
Top 5 series that I *still* haven’t finished
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series that I *still* haven’t finished. I did technically change the name of this week’s topic for myself, as when I originally saved the draft, it came up with a “top-5-series-I-haven’t-finished-3”. Which means that I already have 2 versions of this from previous years… And I…
November 2021 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the November 2021 book haul!! A monthly post where I usually shame myself for never achieving my goal of buying less than I read, or sticking to my buying goal. November is definitely the worth month on record for 2021. I *may* have gone slightly overboard with black Friday sales. But honestly, I don’t regret it.…
Top 5 horror/thriller tropes that don’t scare you
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 horror/thriller tropes that don’t scare you. Which means, we are in the spooky month of October!! I actually don’t read a lot of thriller books (and no horror books), so… not exactly sure what I was thinking when I wrote these prompts. It’s entirely possible that I…
Top 5 books I wish had TV adaptations
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s Top 5 Tuesday is top 5 books I wish had TV adaptations. We finally finished watching the Netflix adaptation of Shadow and Bone on the weekend, and I loved it!! Seriously, I didn’t even mind the things that they changed – it only added to the story. Besides, don’t we all…
Top 5 books I wish had movie adaptations
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s Top 5 Tuesday is top 5 books I wish had movie adaptations. I’ve been so enamoured recently with all of the adaptations. Netflix in particular is killing it – and I am especially excited since Alice Oseman has announced how closely she has been involved with the Heartstopper adaptation (creator, screenwriter…
January 2021 wrap-up
Hello bookworms!! Yes, it’s the last day of February and here I am doing my January 2021 wrap-up… I swear I am trying to stay on top of blogging… it’s just so hard some weeks!! (Months? Years?) On the plus side, I am on top of blog-hopping, so yay me!! Umm… January was a time. I normally take time off…
WWW Wednesday – 20 January 2021
Hello book friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday – 20 January 2021!! 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? Have I read the books I…
