Now that I’ve started the Renée Ballard series, it feels easy to continue. This is the second book in the series, and also crosses over into the Harry Bosch series as well. In this one, though, Bosch actually appears. One highlight is that Titus Welliver – the actor who plays Bosch – narrates the READ MORE
Year: 2023
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVOURITE HISTORICAL FIGURE TO READ ABOUT
I don’t read about historical figures that much. Let’s face it, most of the historical figures you can read about are white men, often the type I wouldn’t want much to do with. I do enjoy reading about women who bucked societal pressures (Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Almost Famous Women was a fascinating read), and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY SPRING 2023 TBR
Well, here we are again. Time for another seasonal TBR that I will in no way, shape or form actually follow through on. Ah, the joys of futility, my friends! Well, for the sake of a post, let’s look at the books that would be on my TBR if I had any chance at READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | SOMETHING FUNNY THAT HAPPENED TO ME
Something funny that happened to me. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the past, or because things have felt a bit dismal for a few years now or what. But I have spent weeks now trying to think of a funny thing that happened to READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO MEET
There are so many bookish folks I’d love to meet, have a coffee with, or befriend. People who are wise, interesting, funny or have great taste in books. So I’ve got a bit of a varied list here, everyone from smaller BookTubers to authors. I don’t think about this much, so there are probably READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | A MAN CALLED OVE – FREDRIK BACKMAN
I love simple stories about normal people doing normal things that somehow capture an essential element of what it means to be human. Books like this. This is such a quiet book about a quiet man called Ove just trying to be left alone. Ove is an older gentleman. He has recently lost his READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL & WHY
Now the answer to this one will depend on when in my school career you’re talking about. Because most of elementary school I liked anything that allowed me not to have to pay attention to a teacher talking at me and let me work on things myself, but they had to be things I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | GENRE FREEBIE – BEST MEMOIRS I READ IN THE LAST TWO YEARS
This week’s prompt is a genre freebie, so I’ve decided to focus on memoirs. Partly because there are lots of good ones, partly because I’ve read so many good ones in the past couple of years, and partly because there’s so much variability in formats, themes and styles within that genre. Here are my READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LONG WAY DOWN – JASON REYNOLDS & DANICA NOVGORODOFF
I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to pick up several graphic novels (after not having read any for years) that were just so impressive, poignant and important. This was, obviously, one of those books. This is the graphic novel version of a novel by the same name written by Jason Reynolds. It’s READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FIRST WEBSITE I REMEMBER VISITING
Well this one should be easy – I don’t. I have zero recollection of the first time I sat down at a computer to logon to the internet, and no clue at all whatsoever what I was doing on it when I did. Now, in my defense, I’m not exactly a kid. We’re talking READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVOURITE HEROINES
I love books with strong female characters. I love it even more when they push boundaries are live in their weirdness or kick some ass. I like when characters in general surprise me, and that goes double for heroines (self-identified included). Molly Weasley, because she’s a complete badass and a great mum The READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW – A.J. FINN
Have you ever heard so much about a book, for so long, seen it get turned into a movie, and then finally gotten around to reading it and had your main reaction to be, “…..huh?” Of course you have. You’re all book people here. So yeah, that was my experience with this book. I READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | MY FAVOURITE FOOD
I feel like I did this topic last year. And I don’t think I had a great answer then either. I don’t have a specific favourite food, but I do like Christmas dinner as my family did it. Mostly for the roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings because yum. But I also like it because READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | CHARACTERS I LOVE
Any of you who have been around here for a while know I’m not a fan of romance, I don’t often get book crushes, and I am not often overly impressed by bookish matches. I don’t hate them, they just aren’t generally the highlight of the book for me. So rather than focusing on READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BOMBS ON AUNT DAINTY – JUDITH KERR
The second book in the Out of the Hitler Time series, this book jumps forward in time from where When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit left off. In this book the family are now living in a boarding house in London during the early days of the Blitz. Things are tough – not just because READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS THAT PLEASANTLY SURPRISED ME
I actually wrote a whole post about this last year, because there were several books I read in 2022 that really did surprise me. I’ll share a couple of my top picks below, though, in case you don’t want to click over: Both of these had difficult main characters, but READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | INTERESTING 2023 DEBUT BOOKS
Some research was required to put together a list of debut books that are coming out in 2023, but once I embarked on said research, I discovered that I had actually already heard of several – I just didn’t know they were debuts at the time! Here are some I’m either interested in reading READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BORDERS – THOMAS KING & NATASHA DONOVAN
I adored this book. It was one of my top reads of last year, and also one of my favourite graphic novels (probably either #1 or #2). This is the story of a young boy and his mother who are Blackfoot and live on a reservation in what we think of as Canada. Our READ MORE