Category: Book Blogger Hop

Prompt: Would you rather read a book with terrible writing but a good story or a terrible story but good writing? You’d think this would be a hard one, but it’s actually fairly easy for me. Obviously good writing is very important to me. It can make a good book amazing. But there does need READ MORE

Prompt: How often do you enter Goodreads giveaways? And how many have you won over the years? I’ve entered a lot of Goodreads giveaways over the years, because it’s so simple to do, and why not? There are so many new and exciting books coming out every season, and Goodreads is the place to find READ MORE

Prompt: WOULD YOU RATHER DROP YOUR FAVOURITE BOOK IN THE OCEAN OR SET IT ON FIRE?   Um, NO. To both of them, obviously! What a horrible question to present to book lovers! That’s like asking which of my toes I’d rather live without, only worse because I’ve got ten of them and honestly I READ MORE

Prompt: DO YOU EVER GET STRANGE LOOKS FROM STRANGERS WHILE BROWSING BOOKSHELVES IN DEPARTMENT STORES? WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING THROUGH THEIR MINDS? Well, I don’t really go into department stores these days. I still don’t love public places since COVID, plus I now have allergic asthma so scents are hard – I’m terrified READ MORE

Oh man, I so wish I could say yes to this! I am not fluent in any languages other than English (unless you include sarcasm), so I don’t read books written in other languages in their original form, only in translation. I did do French immersion in high school and read a bit in French, READ MORE

Both, also I’ll read books by authors who are new to me but not debut. It very much depends on a few things. I’ll read a new book by an author I loved, of course – but if I read a couple and they don’t continue to impress me, I won’t keep coming back to READ MORE

Prompt: Do you believe the education system needs to change its approach to teaching reading and literature to students? This is a tricky one. I don’t remember being taught to read, really, because it was an unspecified amount of (a lot of) time ago. I do feel like reading was always a chore, always something READ MORE

I love little free libraries. I really want to get one myself, now that I live in a home that has a street-facing driveway I could put it at the end of! I am dropping hints and hoping that someone handy in my life might help me put one together at some point, but we READ MORE

To be perfectly honest, until I saw this prompt I had no idea it was National Book Lover’s Day tomorrow. Not being in the nation that celebrates it might have something to do with it. But now that I know, I suppose I’ll just try to find a little bit of time around family commitments READ MORE

I’m currently reading a few different books, so this is a tough one to answer! I’m between the fifth and sixth books in the Wings of Fire graphic novel series, thanks to my kid who has been reading and re-reading them for months. They’re favourites, and I was lent some to read – I’m actually READ MORE

This week’s prompt: What is your opinion on modern artists’ interpretations of deceased authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen? Do you think these interpretations represent the authors correctly, or do they disrespect the authors? This is an interesting prompt. It’s hard for me to give a definitive READ MORE

This week’s prompt: How many weekly bookish posts do you put on your blog and/or social media? This depends a lot on what’s happening in my  life. I’ve taken blogging breaks when I was pregnant and had a baby, I’ve also stopped doing particular features because I wasn’t able to keep up with them – READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Has your perspective on reading changed as you’ve grown older? If so, has it affected how you write your reviews? I love this prompt. What a great one. Of course a lot has changed about my reading as I’ve gotten older. Here are some: I’ve realized that I don’t have to finish READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Have you ever purchased the wrong book by accident? If so, what did you do next? Did you return the book, keep it, pass it on to another reader, or donate it? Hmmm. I don’t think I’ve ever bought the wrong book… or if I have I don’t remember it. I have, READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Have you ever ventured out of your preferred genres? If so, were you surprised you enjoyed the book?  I have been trying to do this more often, though I’m still avoiding genres like horror because I am too much of a marshmallow to be able to handle it! I have tried some READ MORE

This week’s prompt: Do you set a monthly budget for books? If yes, what amount? Have you ever exceeded your limit? I don’t have a monthly budget for books specifically, but I’m trying not to spend money that doesn’t need to be spent. So I have subscriptions for audiobooks, but other than that I try READ MORE

This week’s prompt: How do you strike a balance between providing enough information to pique readers’ interest without giving away too many spoilers in your reviews? This is an interesting prompt, because it’s the perennial problem when writing reviews. Here’s the issue. Without sharing all the information about the plot, you can’t really talk about READ MORE