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…
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……
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……
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,…
WWW Wednesday — 25 December 2024
Hello friends, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 25 December 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…
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…
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.…
Books that look like other books
Hello friends!! The other week I commented that the only reason I picked up a book on my Kindle was because I thought it was part of a series I had started. Because the covers looked the same to me. So, today I’m going to be talking about books that look like other books. Now, this is absolutely NOT me…
Top 5 green books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 green books!! Why are we randomly doing a colour? It’s St Patrick’s Day!! Or, it was last Sunday. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 Personally, I’m not really on board with the hype of this holiday. It could be that I’m not Catholic. Or Irish. Or that I expended any potential f***s…
Top 5 books with baked goods
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with baked goods!! This Thursday, 14 March is International Pi Day. Something about 3.14… maths, circles, other math/sciency things. Look, I read a lot of fantasy and romance. I don’t need to understand how to calculate a circumference. So, instead of picking 5 books that have…
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 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.…
Top 5 libraries
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 libraries!! February is Library Lovers Month somewhere in the world (according to a random website I found back in December), and who am I to argue about such a wondrous theme for a month. So I’m not arguing. I’m making a whole T5T topic about it. In…
Top 5 books about music
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books about music!! According to the British Indian Ocean Territory’s National Holidays Calendar (I had no idea it was a BIO calendar when I did the prompts), 2 February is National Ukulele Day. So, because my brain melted when I did the prompts for this quarter and…
Top 5 books by Black authors
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books by Black authors!! February is Black History Month. And we are celebrating with a T5T post dedicated to amazing Black authors and our fave books by them. However, I am doing a slight twist to my post. I’m writing about 5 books by Black authors on…
Top 5 series I will finish in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will finish in 2024!! Because I just need to tick some series off my TBR… Please. In case you’re new around here, this is another post we now do every year (noting that the topic has changed slightly over the past few years, but here…
Top 5 series I will start in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will start in 2024!! Because what I really need in the world is to start more series that I don’t have time (or capacity) to finish. *Geez… who picks these bloody titles?? Oh right, it’s me…* In case you’re new around here, this is another…
Top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2024!! Because this is a post I definitely* keep every year… *cough* In case you’re new around here, this is a post I seem to do most years (2023, 2022, and 2021), and there are still books from each year that…
Top 5 bookish resolutions for 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish resolutions for 2024!! Yes, we are starting the new year off with some promises… Likely ones that I won’t keep. But it’s a new year, and a new me (allegedly), and now is the time to be all bright and shiny about things!! I know we’re…
The reality cooking show trope
Hello bookworms!! Today I wanted to talk about an oddly specific trope I’ve been reading lately. Namely, the reality cooking show trope. Maybe ‘tropes’ is the wrong word, but it feels like I’ve been adding new favourites to a list that already includes “enemies to lovers” and “there’s only one bed”. So, tropes is the word we’re going with.…
January 2022 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the January 2022 book haul!! A monthly post where I talk about all the books that I hauled in the previous month. This year, we’re doing things slightly differently. The post itself won’t change a great deal (at this point in time) — but, by ‘differently’ I mean there won’t be any shaming for buying excess…
