Top 5 book with mysterious houses
From sprawling manors to impossible buildings with secrets hidden behind every door, these are five books where the house is just as important as the characters who live inside it.
Top 5 comfort books
When life gets stressful, these are the books I return to again and again. They're familiar, comforting, and guaranteed to remind me why I love reading.
Top 5 books I meant to read in 2025
My reading plans and my actual reading habits rarely agree with each other. These are five books I fully intended to read in 2025 but somehow never got around to picking up.
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…
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…
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 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 Q3 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q3 2024!! Or, books that I can’t wait to buy that come out in July, August and September 2024. Which is too long of a title, hence the shortened version. Am I already drowning in books? Yes. Does that affect me wanting to buy…
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…
Top 5 red books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 red books!! The month of June seems to be all about things with the colour red in common: roses, pomegranates… Ok, so two red things. But June is also Pride month (and the top of the pride flag is red), and my birthday month (and I like…
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…
Top 5 female authors
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 female authors!! You know, with all of the posts we’ve written for Top 5 Tuesday, I was really surprise we hadn’t done a specific top 5 female authors. Like, we do a top 5 new (to me) authors every year, last year we did an old (to…
Top 5 illustrated books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 illustrated books!! The proviso being that ‘illustrations’ can include fancy chapter dividers, beautiful drop caps, multimedia written books, or pretty end pages. There is no need to limit yourself to picture books on this one. Like most kids, picture books played a huge part of my childhood.…
Top 5 books about a birth
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books about a birth. Well… I gave us a reprieve last week. And now all of a sudden we’re back at hard topics. I’m not sure why I thought this would be easy. I was clearly out of my mind when I wrote them. Oh yes, Easter…
Top 5 books with thrones
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with thrones. Yes, we are in March and doing another scavenger hunt!! Yay!! Except, I have no idea why I thought thrones would be a good prompt. I have been wracking my brain for a week trying to come up with 5, and it was HARD.…
Top 5 books with doorways
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with doorways. Which means… we are in March!! Doing… another scavenger hunt!! Which I hope you are pleased about. Personally, I’m wrecked from being back in the office. It’s 11:30 pm and I’m just starting this post. (Oops?!) Also, I’ve been reading House of Earth and…
Top 5 books I want to reread in 2022
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I want to reread in 2022. Thank goodness we’re past the mean topics of February. I’m telling you, I cannot wait for the March topics. But I do need to sort out the April-June topics as well. I promise they will all be nice though!!…
The Wanderlust Book tag
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to today’s post: the The Wanderlust Book tag. Yes, I am still attempting to chase down and tick off my 50+* outstanding tags. Advice: don’t ever let it get this bad!! Almost exactly two years ago (I am 14 days short), our favourite Discworld Librarian, The Orangutan Librarian, tagged me to do The Wanderlust Book tag. And…
September 2021 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the September 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. Or at least I did in July and August anyway. I was clearly feeling so confident and pleased with my last two hauls that I decided to…
Top 5 books with creatures on the cover
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with creatures on the cover. Yes, In August we are doing a ‘scavenger hunt’ type of month, where each week there is a different theme for you to pick covers by. I wanted to pick some topics that everyone can participate in this month, as I’ve…
June 2021 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the June 2021 book haul!! A monthly post where I shame myself for never achieving my goal of buying less than I read… June is my birthday month, so I always feel that it and December kind of get an exemption from my goal… Unless of course the number of books is ridiculous. And this year…
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…
