Top 5 anticipated reads for Q2 2026
My reading plans rarely survive contact with reality, but these are the books I'm most excited to pick up over the next few months. Let's see how many I actually manage to read.
Top 5 books that should be modern classics
It's impossible to know which books will stand the test of time, but some already feel destined to become classics. These are five contemporary books I believe readers will still be discussing for years.
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 that made me cry
Some books leave a lasting impression, while others leave me reaching for tissues. These are five stories that broke my heart, made me ugly cry, and stayed with me long after I finished reading.
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…
Top 5 books of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to the last Top 5 Tuesday of 2024!! This week’s topic is top 5 books of 2024!! Yup, we’ve hit the ultimate propmt for the year, and now we get to see what books everyone loved in 2024. And maybe add them all to our TBRs for 2025. This year I read a lot of books (for…
Top 5 new-to-me authors of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 new-to-me authors of 2024!! I do love doing this post every year. I love seeing how many new authors I pick up books from. It’s so nice to celebrate authors that you’ve found and love. Possibly even made auto-buy. I love adding auto-buy authors to my lists.…
Top 5 book covers of 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 book covers of 2024!! Friends, it’s December and we are well and trult on the downhill slope to the end of the year now. So close in fact, we only have wrap-up posts to go. However, this week is going to be a tough one for me.…
Top 5 books on my TBR that intimidate me
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books on my TBR that intimidate me!! When I wrote this topic list, I had an explainer for this week: Do you have a pile of books on your TBR that you were “going to read soon” but now it’s been like 5 years and you don’t…
Top 5 books that made me sob in 2024
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is a freebie, and I am writing about the top 5 books that made me sob in 2024!! I don’t know about anyone else, but if a book makes me sob my eyes out, it’s automatically a favourite. Yes, if I am reaching for the tissues because I can barely…
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……
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…
Top 5 anticipated 5 star reads
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated 5 star reads!! Sometimes in life you just know that you’re going to enjoy something. Maybe it’s dinner out a restaurant you’ve been dying to try, or a holiday destination. Maybe it’s a new movie you’ve been waiting for or that trip to Disneyland. Or maybe…
June 2024 TBR
Hello friends!! Welcome to the June 2024 TBR. A post where I will attempt to intuit what I feel like reading for the month of June. Or rather, ChatGPT will, because I decided to try something new and different. So, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT to do other things in my life, and today I was like “why don’t I…
Top 5 books with neurodiverse characters
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with neurodiverse characters!! April is Autism Awareness Month (somewhere) and to celebrate, we’re getting all up with our fave neurospicy book characters. Something I had completely forgotten though, was that two years ago I did a post on characters with Autism by own voices authors. Which…
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…
February 2024 book haul
Hello friends!! Welcome to the February 2024 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. Ahh February… the shortest month of the year. Although this year it’s only the shortest by one day because it’s a leap year. Somehow I managed to purchase THREE TIMES the number of…
Top 5 book covers of 2022
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 book covers of 2022!! YES ― we are in the last few weeks of 2022!! Honestly, as much as I have had some good things come to me this year, I am also very ready for it to be OVER. I just want a fresh slate to…
November 2022 book haul
Hello friends!! Welcome to the November 2022 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. You know, November was a pretty good month. I only got five physical books between book boxes and some light online shopping, and four ebooks. And I read all of the ebooks. 🤦♀️…
July 2022 book haul
Hello friends!! Welcome to the July 2022 book haul!! A post where I talk about all the books that I bought and received in the previous month. Where in June we had a delightfully low four books added to my TBR… July is essentially the opposite. July usually ends up being a high-intake month for books, as my birthday is…
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.…
