What a reading season! The summer started out slowly, but then picked up in July when I was lucky to find a few really great books that got my reading momentum going! I had a great mix of books I Ioved, liked and was mildly entertained by, and also had possibly my most prolific READ MORE
Month: September 2022
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | LIBRARY OR BUYING BOOKS?
Well, another easy answer: both. I used to enjoy going to the library with my kid to borrow books – it was fun to explore the shelves and see which the librarians would recommend. Since COVID though, we don’t go in person to indoor spaces that we don’t absolutely have to go to. So READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | TYPOGRAPHIC BOOK COVERS
This is an interesting prompt, because it seems so simple at first, but when you really start to look for books with typographic covers (meaning covers that are mostly words), there is actually so much variation, and so many interesting ways that the words can be placed and used. So here are some I READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Another week gone by just like that! It was a bit of a long one – second week of school for the little one, who managed to pick up some kind of bug that caused a horrendous 24 hours of vomiting and feeling generally horrid. So that was our weekend. Now I’m just waiting READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | STRANGERS TO OURSELVES – RACHEL AVIV
Unlike many early readers of this book, I hadn’t heard of Rachel Aviv, who is a writer for The New Yorker. This book is her first, and it traces her own experiences as, at that time, the youngest child to ever be diagnosed with anorexia (she was six). From this she moves on to READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY LEAST FAVOURITE CHORE
Oh man. I mean, there are so many! How do I narrow it down to just one? I hate all of them. Every single one. I particularly dislike scrubbing bathtubs, because I’ve got a bad back and that always hurts. I also hate changing laundry over for the same reason – lots of bending. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS (MAYBE) ON MY AUTUMN 2022 TBR
I’m not really one for TBRs, as you all know, so instead of an actual TBR with intent, I’m listing some books that are coming out soon, have come out recently or have been on or near the top of my list of books I really want to read for a while and aren’t READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It has been a week! My kid just started a new school last week and it’s very different for all of us (in no small part due to getting up earlier than we had to all summer!), so I haven’t gotten as much reading done as I have been. That said, the books I READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE READING LIST – SARA NISHA ADAMS
This book took me completely by surprise. I bought it as Audible’s deal of the day on a whim a while back, after quickly skimming the description. I like books about readers. That was pretty much all the thought I put into it. I think I decided to read it mainly because it was READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT MAKES ME PICK UP A BOOK
I kind of covered this a little bit last week – there are certain topics that will always attract me to a book. But there are other reasons I’ll pick one up and at least check it out: If it’s been recommended to me or I’ve seen a lot of bookish people talking about READ MORE
RELEASE DAY REVIEW | HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER – ANGIE CRUZ
If you enjoy books that draw you deeply into the mind of one character, this book is for you. If you enjoy books that show you both the attributes and flaws of a character in equal measure, again, this is a book for you. If you want to learn about the experiences of immigrants, READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS IN THE TITLE
This is such an interesting prompt! I’d never thought about geographical terms in book titles before, but now that I have I’m seeing them everywhere! Here are some of the books I was able to find fairly easily that have geographical terms in them – I think city was really interesting in the variety READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I totally forgot to do a post last week – I only noticed when I went looking for my post to see what I’d finished since then! So this week will be a two-fer as I’ll be covering both. Let’s get started! Shelved Last Week I’ve READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | STILL LIFE – SARAH WINMAN
This was yet another of the books I read for the quarterfinals of the BookTube Prize. I had been meaning to read Sarah Winman’s work for ages – I have at least two of her books on my shelves, unread, but this one was quite long and therefore languished on my “maybe, someday” pile. READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A PLOTLINE I LOVE TO READ
This week’s prompt is the opposite of last week’s but just as difficult. Maybe even harder. Plotlines I always want to read? Well, I do like novels about people who learn about themselves. Especially if they’re people who live alone and kind of like it that way and read a lot. I enjoy a READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I LOVED SO MUCH I HAD TO BUY THEM
I mean, I am usually pretty good at figuring out which books I won’t want to keep and borrowing those ones from the library. So this might be a bit of a challenging prompt for me, but I’ll do my best to come up with some! I can think of one, at least…. READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | RECKLESS GIRLS – RACHEL HAWKINS
You know when things are going on in life that feel like a LOT and you really just want a book that will sweep you up, grab your full attention, and transport you away from everything that’s stressing you out for a while? This book was exactly that. What attracted me to this book READ MORE