I’m so excited that this topic has come up now, because I just started listening to audiobooks regularly at the end of last year and I’m thrilled to have finally discovered them. I used to have so much trouble focusing – my mind would keep wandering, then I’d miss stuff, and it’s hard to READ MORE
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE – TAYARI JONES
I’m not sure what made me choose this book when I did. I had just started using Audible, and I hadn’t yet built a library of books to choose from. This one wasn’t too expensive, and I remembered hearing good things, so I downloaded it. I was out walking to an appointment one day, READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY SPRING 2019 TBR
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know my abysmal track record with setting and completing TBRs. It just doesn’t happen. But I can never resist making them! So here are the books that, at this current moment (and probably only for this one specific moment in time) are READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | NORMAL PEOPLE – SALLY ROONEY
It has been a long time since I read this book, and in the intervening months, an odd thing has happened. When I read this book, I loved it and thought it was wonderfully written. I still think this, but the down time has put some distance between me and the reading experience has READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | STAND-ALONE NOVELS THAT NEED A SEQUEL
This week’s prompt is stand-alone books that need a sequel. I’m going to attack this from a couple of sides. A few will be books that I felt needed more information or that the story didn’t quite feel finished to me. The other is books that I just loved so much that I would READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I MIGHT ADD TO MY 2019 TBR
This week’s prompt is books that I’m on the fence about – books that are coming out soon, but that I’m not sure if I want to read. There are always a lot of these, since there are far more books coming out than one person could ever read. Here are a few I’m READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO MY TBR
I haven’t been doing a very good job of updating my online TBR, so these aren’t necessarily the most recent books I’ve added to it, but rather the ones I can remember at the moment! Some of these I’m eagerly anticipating, others I have more of a passing interest in. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I MEANT TO READ IN 2018
I only read a small amount of books in 2018 – less than one full length book every two weeks. So let’s just say there are a lot of books I wanted to read and didn’t get to! Since there are so many, I’m just using cover images and only including the ones that stand READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BACKLIST TBR
I have so many backlist titles on my TBR that a list could literally run into the thousands. So the list below is a combination of some of the classics on my list and some of the books I’m most frustrated with myself for not having read yet. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKSHOPS I LOVE AND WANT TO VISIT
This week’s prompt is bookstores we most want to visit. Which is a really long list for me, because I basically want to visit ALL of them. There are a few that come to mind first, so I’m including those. But in usual fashion, I’m putting a twist on the topic by also including READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | LONGEST BOOKS ON MY “READ” SHELF
Short and sweet this week – in contrast to the topic! Here are the longest books on my Goodreads “read” shelf: I Know This Much Is True – 897 pages The Mists of Avalon – 884 pages Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 870 pages READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS BY FAVE AUTHORS I HAVEN’T READ + 5-STAR PREDICTIONS
This week’s prompt is books by favourite authors you still haven’t read. So I’m dividing this post into sections and, as usual, putting my own spin on it. The first half is true to the prompt, but the second half is tying in with a booktube trend of predicting books on your TBR you READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA – DONAL RYAN
Donal Ryan’s novel All We Shall Know got a lot of attention a couple of years ago – for its beautiful writing style more than anything. I tried to read it and found it just wasn’t the right book at the right time for me, but I figured From a Low and Quiet Sea READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY FALL TBR
I have a few posts I’m working on at the moment, so I’m going to keep this one simple and just share the covers of some of the books I’m interested in reading without providing much in the way of explanation. If you want to know more about any of the books – or READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | HIDDEN GEMS
Every once in a while an avid reader is lucky enough to pick up a lesser-known book and be completely blown away. When that happens there’s always one question that we mull over at great length: why isn’t anyone talking about this brilliant book? Here are a few of the ones I’ve come across READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I LEARNED THE MOST FROM
This week’s topic was “Back to School/Learning Freebie.” I chose the latter option, and am going with books I personally learned something important from. Because, while I loved College and think it’s safe to say I wouldn’t be the same person without having had that experience (mainly due to some amazing teachers and fortuitous READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | SOME BOOKTUBERS YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING
I’m planning to start a series on this very topic in the near future, because it’s just such a good one. There are some wonderful bookish online destinations – from BookTubers to Bloggers to bona fide books in the news – and I’m always looking to collect more. I don’t have as much time READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK COMBOS
This week’s prompt is to put together a list of book pairings – two books I’d combine together into one. This is going to be hard, because I don’t really think of books that way. I’ve done my best, but I have to admit that a lot of them are pairings where one book READ MORE