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Top 5 books with pumpkins
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books with pumpkins!! We are in the midst of our October/Halloween topics!! And honestly, even though I hate the taste of pumpkin (yes, I’m one of those), and it’s actually spring here in Australia and therefore not pumpkin season at all — I love the idea of…
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Top 5 Tuesday topics: October-December 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: October-December 2023!! Look, can I just say there seems to be some sort of wizardry happening this year. Probably last year too. Possibly even since the start of 2020. Some kind of time magic where the year(s) are absolutely just flying by, and I have run out of hours in…
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Top 5 Tuesday topics: August-September 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: August-September 2023!! August-September, you ask? Yes. I didn’t realise that it was July until the start of this week, which was the end of the month. Like, I knew it was July, but my poor, melted brain didn’t actually compute that it was July, and therefore we needed new topics.…
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Top 5 books of 2023… so far!
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books of 2023… so far!! Yes, we are at the mid-way point of 2023. How? I’m not entirely sure. What I DO know is that new job I got last September, followed by the big project in January, after which came my amazing holiday in the US,…
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Top 5 anticipated reads for Apr-Jun 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Apr-Jun 2023!! Well, technically this was the topic a couple of weeks ago, and I know I’m like FOREVER going to be in catch up mode, but this is life. In the first week of April I was wrapping up my big project, then…
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Top 5 Tuesday topics: April-June 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: April-June 2023!! Friends ― I’m so sorry for the delay in this post (and a bunch of others). I’m just in the finishing stages of the big project that I’ve been doing for work this year. It’s so close I can taste it!! And then I’m going on holidays for…
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Top 5 smol books
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 smol books!! Yes, last week we did the huge books, and this week we are celebrating the teeny books. You know, the ones that make it easy to pack 17 of in your handbag (or large pockets). Just in case you get some time. At that social…
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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…
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Top 5 standalone books I will read in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 standalone books I will read in 2023!! This week was a FREEBIE!! The last two weeks we’ve been doing the ‘series I’ll start‘ and ‘series I’ll finish‘. So this week I wanted to give some love to some standalone books that I want to read this year.…
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Top 5 series I will finish* in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will finish* in 2023!! * And by “finish”, I mean “at least get caught up on”. You get a pass if the author releases more books. Because last week we did books series we are going to START. And if you want to start new…
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Top 5 series I will start in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday*!! This week’s topic is top 5 series I will start in 2023!! Umm, not sure about you all, but there are a few series on my shelves that I haven’t even started yet. And by ‘a few’… I mean lots. It’s quite embarrassing really. Why do I keep buying books in a series…
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Top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday#!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I will definitely* read in 2023!! * As per every year, by “definitely” we mean “maybe”. Because I never actually hold myself to account with these (and nor should you if you don’t want to). No promises made are a contractual obligation. The TBR police won’t…
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Top 5 bookish resolutions for 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 bookish resolutions for 2023!! You know how last week I said I really love doing the anticipated reads post because it shows me all the shiny new books that I want to buy?? Well I’ve decided that I hate the bookish resolutions post for the exact same…
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Top 5 anticipated reads of Jan-Mar 2023
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads of Jan-Mar 2023!! YES!! I actually love doing these posts every quarter, because I get to look at all the shiny new books coming out ― and it’s literally the only time I let myself do this. Not because I’m punishing me, on a book…
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Top 5 Tuesday topics: Jan-Mar 2023
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: Jan-Mar 2023!! Annoyingly, I wrote this post in mid-December for 2022, but then just got completely distracted by life. So let’s pretend this was still two weeks ago: On one hand I cannot wait for 2022 to be over. On the other hand, HOW is it 2023 already? It still…
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Top 5 new authors of 2022
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! One of the topics from last year that I am catching up on is top 5 new (to me) authors of 2022!! Yes, catching up on all of my posts from 2022 that I just… completely missed because of work and life and everything else that was happening. BUT, I am here now.…
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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…
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Top 5 books I meant to read in 2022
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I meant to read in 2022!! Let’s be honest, this is a LOOOOOONG list, not just 5 books. I meant to read a lot of my backlist this year. But… it didn’t happen. In fact, it’s likely I won’t even make my 2022 Goodreads goal for…
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Top 5 books with AU royals
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is a FREEBIE, and I decided to do top 5 books with AU royals!! Yes, last week we did ‘books set in an alternate universe’, and while I was trying to tackle HOW exactly I would answer that, I considered doing books that are similar to our world, but have…
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Top 5 books set in an alternate universe
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! Last week’s topic was top 5 books set in an alternate universe!! I was having a hard time picking whether I do books that are similar to our world, but have 1 key difference, or books about actual alternate universes OR do I just do straight up fantasy?! DECISIONS, DECISIONS… However, I decided…
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Top 5 books set in the future
Friends!! HELLO!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books set in the future!! Speaking of things set in the future (but not really), I need to explain my completely unintentional absence hiatus from all things books. Including this amazing T5T community. Remember how I got that amazing promotion / job opportunity back in September? WELL……
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Top 5 anticipated reads for Oct-Dec 2022
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 anticipated reads for Oct-Dec 2022! Not sure about you all, but I am moderately terrified that we’re in the last quarter of 2022. I’m pretty sure I say something similar every time we start a new month… but also, where did 2022 go?! Because I’m pretty sure…
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Top 5 things a bookworm would NEVER do
Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 things a bookworm would NEVER do!! This month has been all light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek topics (inspired by my TikTok doom-scrolling), and I hope everyone has been enjoying it as the small break I intended it for. Speaking of smol breaks, I inadvertently had one this month. I was…
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Top 5 Tuesday topics: Oct-Dec 2022
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the Top 5 Tuesday topics post: Oct-Dec 2022!! I know what you’re thinking… these are so VERY late. I really should have put them up a month ago. But life has been weird. And it wasn’t until I went to check (on my own blog no less) what was coming up in July that I realised:…
