Top 5 standalone books I wished were series
Some stories end exactly where they should. Others leave me desperately wishing for another book. These are five standalones I would happily spend more time with.
June 2025 TBR
My reading plans for June included a mix of anticipated releases, backlist titles, and a healthy dose of optimism. Here's what I hoped to read during the month.
Top 5 books with ballgowns on the cover
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with ballgowns on the cover!! š It is mini scavenger hunt week 3, and we are all glitzed up to the nines!! Or rather, the characters on our book covers are. But, you know, a girl can dream. This week I went hard on the historical…
Top 5 books with no pictures on the cover
Character illustrations seem to be everywhere these days, but plenty of books still rely on other design choices. These are five covers that prove pictures of people aren't always necessary.
Top 5 books with stars on the cover
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with stars on the cover!! āØ It is mini scavenger hunt week 2, and we are all dazzled by the stars in our eyes!! Or on our book covers!! Hopefully the brightness is not too blinding, and we have all found some great books to share.…
Top 5 books with a heart on the cover
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with a heart on the cover!! š I am so happy that we’re back with our mini scavenger hunt topics!! I really love them, even though sometimes they are crazy hard. Like, so much harder than I expect when I set the topics. Thankfully, this week…
May 2025 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to my May 2025 TBR. A post where I will attempt to take my best guess at what I will feel like reading for the upcoming month. Except we are having a different plan for my May 2025 TBR. A very different plan. So, please bare with me while I explain. April was rough. A month of…
Top 5 books set in Australia
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in Australia!! Ok, I know, the whole topic is top 5 books set in Africa, Australia and New Zealand, but, this is my home country. And while I wouldn’t necessarily call myself patriotic (too many US connotations and I’m much more on the British end…
Top 5 books set in Asia
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in Asia!! Oh my gosh. Friends! I am so sorry! My scheduled post didn’t post and so this is so VERY late!! Apparently I hit my maximum storage on my self-hosted blog package, which apparently means everything just… stops. So, I’ve spent the last three…
All the books Isaac bought in Paris
Hello friends!! This post has taken me months in making… I’d like to talk about all the books Isaac bought in Paris, in Heartstopper season two. I almost did this post in 2023, but life was a whole thing and I really fell out of blogging. 2024 was a bit better, but I was really just focussed on stabilising me.…
Top 5 books set in Europe
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in Europe!! Thankfully my geographical reading is a bit more spread out this week. In fact, we travel to some of my favourite places in Europe! (Although I need to find a book set in Iceland that isn’t a children’s picture book. And a book…
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…
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…
Top 5 books with royalty in the title
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with royalty in the title!! Friends, readers, bloggers, lend me your eyes. Ok, so not an actual royalty quote, but I think Shakespeare should have been knighted at the very least. And Julius Caesar wasn’t quite royalty, but dictator is up there. I think I’d prefer…
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 ā 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…
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 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 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 ā 5 February 2025
Hello friends!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday ā 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……
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…
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…
