This is, as you all know by now, a ridiculous prompt for me. I do not stick to TBRs. Like, ever. With one exception: judging The BookTube Prize. So these are the books I still need to read for this round that I absolutely will finish by the end of July: READ MORE
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MATILDA – ROALD DAHL
I’ve read this book before, many times – of course I have. But not since I’ve had this blog, and so there has been this glaring gap in my reviewing that was the size of a tiny young girl named Matilda. My own kid is old enough now for Dahl’s less dark books, and READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | DO YOU PREFER FICTION OR NON-FICTION?
This is one of those questions that’s phrased as an either/or, but in reality has a huge middle ground. As any of you who have been around here for a while know, I read both, usually in pretty equal measure I think. I’m reading more fiction this year as I’ve been assigned two fiction READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | AUTO-BUY AUTHORS
These days I don’t have that many auto-buy authors. But there are a couple. The first is Isabel Allende. I haven’t read the last few books of hers, but I have them on my shelf anyway and definitely want to get to them. She’s a favourite author of mine, and someone I admire. Last READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | TOP TEN BOOKS I’D LIKE TO OWN
This prompt is a hard one, because I’ve really been trying to spend less time on BookTube, and to add less books to my TBR lists or my shelves due to seeing them reviewed on BookTube unless they look like books that will 100% be ones I’ll want to read, and want to read READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | WHEN DO YOU PUBLISH REVIEWS?
Like last week’s prompt, I feel like this is more aimed at reviewers who publish reviews in exchange for copies of books. I don’t now, but I used to, and when I did I tried to publish on or shortly after publication date. Sometimes this was requested by the publisher, so I adopted it READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BEST DADS IN BOOKS
I’m only going to pick a couple here. I don’t remember book characters all that well, particularly when I’m asked to. So I have a hard time coming up with good answers for these kind of questions! I think both Sirius Black (as a surrogate dad) and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WISH HAD AN EPILOGUE (OR A SEQUEL)
I don’t really dwell that much on what happens after books end, because rarely do the ones I wonder about get any kind of sequel. So I had to really think about this one. There are definitely some books that, if I had any say, would have sequels (or even just a quick resolution READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I’ve only finished one book in the past week, so I don’t have much new to report! Much of this week’s post will be the same as last week, as the book I finished I added in on spec and the books I was reading before it I’m still reading. It was a corker READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN TO POST A REVIEW?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yes. Definitely. I don’t really have a schedule for reviewing books – back when I reviewed for publishers I don’t think I ever missed a review that needed to be posted by a particular date. But now that I am reviewing just out of interest, I will often put aside a review and READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOW DO YOU WRITE REVIEWS?
Well, the weekly link-up I used to participate in on Wednesdays seems to have disappeared (I’d link you, but it’s a blank page now, so there’s really no point!). On the plus side, it gave me a reason to look around for a new link-up or two to try. I’ll be giving Book Blogger READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | DESIGN YOUR PERFECT WEDDING
Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m not a wedding person. I didn’t dream of white dresses and veils when I was a kid. I didn’t plan the ceremony and reception down to the last detail. I don’t really like romance novels (I just don’t buy them most of the time) and, quite frankly, I’m READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH A UNIT OF TIME IN THE TITLE
This one threw me at first. I’ve got to be honest, I’ve never actually noticed how many books do have a unit of time (minute, hour, day, year) in the title. There are surprisingly quite a few just in the images saved to my blog! So here are the ones I could (lazily find) READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a little while since I’ve done a Monday post, so I’m going to include everything I’ve read since the last one! I haven’t finished any books in this past week, so these are all historic. Just Shelved: Both of these were for the last round of the BookTube Prize, READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UNSETTLED GROUND – CLAIRE FULLER
This is the third book I read for the BookTube Prize‘s Quarterfinals. It’s a fairly simple story, that of a brother and sister who have been sheltered and kept largely separate from the world around them by their mother. They grow most of what they need, and scrounge enough money to pay bills by READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK SET IN MY TOWN
If this prompt had been a movie or TV show filmed in my town, it would have been so, so easy. I live in Vancouver, better known as Hollywood North. I’m used to picking out familiar streets and landmarks while watching (some shows and movies that were easy to spot as Vancouver or the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COMFORT READS
This is a great prompt. I love reading for comfort, and I have so many books that are like old friends I can return to anytime I want, particularly when life is feeling dreary, doom-laden or just plan boring. Here are some of my favourite comfort reads! READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | (ONE) FAVOURITE BOOK QUOTE
I don’t usually write down quotes from books. I notice them, sometimes I add a page marker that will inevitably get stuck on another book when I put the one I’ve just read back on the shelf and end up marking a random page of a book I haven’t even read yet, but I READ MORE