Top 5 book boyfriends I could fix
Are they emotionally unavailable? Making terrible decisions? Carrying enough trauma to fill several novels? Excellent. Here are five fictional men I am absolutely (not) convinced I could fix.
Top 5 surprising book recommendations
These books weren't on my radar, didn't sound like my usual thing, or completely exceeded my expectations. Sometimes the best reading experiences are the ones you never see coming.
Top 5 books with times of day in the title
Morning, noon, evening, and midnight all bring their own atmosphere to a story. These are five books that make excellent use of time right from the title.
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 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 spicy reads
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is a freebie… And I am doing top 5 spicy reads!! Why?? Well, because this is a topic that I wouldn’t inflict on anyone else. Fairytale retellings? Absolutely. Spicy reads? Not on your life. Not that I think anyone else wouldn’t be interested in this as a topic, but romance…
WWW Wednesday — 7 February 2024
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 7 February 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……
January 2024 book haul
Hello friends!! Welcome to the January 2024 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. Now, it has been a hot minute since we’ve been doing these… A whole year in fact. And while I could have bunched a few of these together while we catch up, I’ve…
WWW Wednesday — 31 January 2024
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 31 January 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……
February 2024 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the next… 29 days. Because it’s a leap year! Surprisingly, I actually read quite a few books in my January 2024 TBR. Which I may or may not recount in a monthly wrap up… Another type of post…
Top 5 anticipated reads for Q1 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Q1 2024!! Yes, now if the time to find all those shiny news books arriving in January, February and March 2024. Delightful!! So, I am completely aware of how wildly contradictory this post is from the one I did yesterday. Yesterday’s post was all…
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 thicc books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 thicc books!! This week we’re celebrating the big books that (maybe) took an age to read. They strengthened our arm muscles from holding them. They weighed our shoulders down while carrying them. And if you’re anything like me, they may also be the cause of a face…
2022 mid year book tag
Hello friends!! Welcome to the 2022 edition of the mid year book tag. We sometimes call it the mid-year freak out… but that implies I only freak out at mid-year. Which is categorically untrue. So, I’m now calling it a book tag. The mid year book (freak out) tag was created by Ellie (EarlGreyBooks) and Chami (formerly at ReadLikeWildfire). The…
Top 5 books of 2022… so far
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books of 2022… so far! I don’t know about you all, but I am having a HARD TIME wrapping my brain around the fact that we are halfway through the year already. Like, how is it the end of June 2022?! My tiny little brain cannot fathom…
Top 5 books that remind you of a season
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books that remind you of a season. The season here is freaking cold. Hence my desire to run away for a tropical island holiday last week. But, instead of making the getaway plans that I so desperately want to plan, let’s talk about all the books that…
Top 5 books about a death
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books about a death. Thankfully this topic is easier again than last week. Death is one of those BIG topics that authors tend to write about, and I understand why. Grief is such a powerful emotion. The need to talk about it to work through feelings can…
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…
March 2022 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the March 2022 book haul!! A monthly post where I talk about all the books that I hauled in the previous month. This year there won’t be any shaming for buying excess than my haul goals. In saying that, my haul goals this year are to only buy books I will read immediately, so that’s a…
WWW Wednesday – 23 March 2022
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 23 March 2022!! 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 read!
WWW Wednesday – 16 March 2022
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday — 16 March 2022!! 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 read!
Top 5 books that changed my life
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books that changed my life. Now that we’ve been looking at our new beginnings all month, it’s time to see what inspired us!! Honestly, why do I come up with these topics? I’m sure this sounded like a wonderful idea two months ago when I was…
Top 5 bad tropes done well
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bad tropes done well. Which means, we are in November, and we’re ALLLL about the tropes!! And after last week’s ‘tropes I dislike‘, it’s time to put my money where my mouth is (but not literally, because gross — there are so many germs on money) and…
Top 5 tropes I dislike
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 tropes I dislike. Which means, we are in November, and we’re ALLLL about the tropes!! And after last week’s ‘tropes we love’, it’s only fitting we now look at the other end of the scale. *cough* Also, I’m apologising in advance, because there are some on here…
