This week’s prompt: Have you ever wondered why a passionate book blogger might suddenly stop posting or delete their blog without notice? I have wondered this, I’ve also mourned this, repeatedly. I don’t deal well with change, and I don’t like when I get used to something existing that helps me feel calm and safe READ MORE
Month: May 2025
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS THAT NEED A SEQUEL
There are lots of books that need a sequel because they left questions unanswered or because they dealt with a story that doesn’t have a neat end. But then there are the books I just enjoyed so much I’d love to read more. Not even necessarily a sequel, but something connected – the backstory of READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | ANIMAL COMPANIONS IN BOOKS
I love this prompt! I love animals, and they can be such wonderful companions. They ask so little of us, and yet they offer us so much. Love, companionship, comfort, joy, loyalty. So when there’s a book that includes one of these wonderful relationships between an animal and a person, it always feels very special. READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Another busy week! But in a good way – we had another birthday, my kid had a couple of fun field trips, and we had a bit of unscheduled time off home school because by the end of the week, we were quite frankly knackered. So my kid got to spend a lot of time READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT – ELLA BERMAN
I borrowed this from the library on another of my whims, mostly because I’ve had some good luck with Reese’s Book Club picks in the past, and this was another one. It’s a combo of psychological thriller/mystery and friendship drama. It straddles two time periods, both including two of the main characters – Joni and READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | IF MY BOOK MANIA WERE A SONG…
This week’s prompt: A songwriter composes a song about your love for books. What would the song’s title be? I don’t have a title, but I do know that it would be a long song. All about undying devotion, gratitude, loyalty and something to do with knowing when you know. Maybe there’d be a bit READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | LESSONS I LEARNED FROM A BOOK CHARACTER
This is a tough one, because it’s hard to pick a specific character. I feel like reading in general has taught me so many important lessons, and most of those lessons were brought to me by several different characters from different books by different authors at different times. So I’ll list a few, but there READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS THAT INVOLVE TRAVEL
There are two obvious directions I could go with this. One is fictional books in which the characters travel. Another is non-fiction books about people traveling. But there’s also some others I thought about. There’s travel that is forced upon people. There’s immigration. There’s Sci-Fi travel – space or time or metaphysical. There’s movement that’s READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Though it’s mid-May, and we’ve got lush foliage on the trees, beautiful flowers in bloom, berries forming on branches and birds and bees zooming around, this last week felt like the very early days of Spring again. It’s been grey and rainy, with only a few breaks of sunshine which was accompanied by a strong READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE PARIS APARTMENT – LUCY FOLEY
Not your typical mystery book – this one has lots of layers, several overlapping plots, and plenty of intrigue and misdirection. It’s the story of a young man, Ben, who is staying in a rather fancy apartment building in Paris. When we meet him, we know next to nothing about his life or why he’s READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | MY FAVE RE-READS
This week’s prompt: What are some of your favorite books to re-read? I didn’t used to re-read books very often, because there are so many new ones I want to get to. But in the past couple of years I did start allowing myself the opportunity to re-visit some of my favourites, and it has READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS I LOVE THAT BECAME FILMS OR TV SHOWS
There are several books that have become films or TV shows that I really enjoyed both as books and as on screen. I’ve picked eight that were made into movies. There are also several that were made into TV shows that I liked as well, but in the end they weren’t quite as high on READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | HOW MY BLOGGING STYLE HAS CHANGED
This feels more like a Wednesday Blogging Challenge prompt than a Top Ten Tuesday post because I don’t really see how this is a top ten list? Maybe that’s just me! So I’m just going to answer this like a flat prompt rather than a ten-point answer. When I started blogging I was in university, READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Another busy week this week – birthday parties and family stuff all weekend – so not much time to read this week! I didn’t finish anything, but did listen to a bit of a couple of audiobooks while doing mindless tasks. Just Shelved Nothing this week! Currently Reading READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FRIENDS OF DOROTHY – SANDI TOKSVIG
I adored this book. Let me just start with that. I didn’t have any idea what I’d find when I started it, but it turned out to be a complete delight. It’s the story of a young couple, Amber and Stevie, who have just bought their own house. It’s not new, it’s definitely seen better READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | YA BOOKS AS AN ADULT?
This week’s prompt: Have you ever looked at the young adult book section in a modern bookstore and felt out of touch or old? Hmmm. Yes and no, I suppose. There are usually some books that seem really immature and silly that make me realize that actually I’m probably no longer able to appreciate them READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS BY CANADIAN AUTHORS
This week’s prompt is supposed to be “authors who live in my state/country,” but I decided to broaden it slightly to just Canadian authors, not specifically those who live here – that way it includes authors with Canadian parents, who grew up here but left, or who are from somewhere else but moved here. If READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Wow it’s been a busy week, and we’re only just getting started! May seems to be birthday month around here – so many birthdays happening, it seems, back to back with one another. We’re already feeling overwhelmed and exhausted – and there are plenty more still to come next week! But it has been beautiful READ MORE