Category: Features

  So here’s the deal. Today marks about a week of a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, and right now the temperature is about 30 degrees. Yes, I know, that’s not really that hot, people live in warmer climates all over the world. But I’m not accustomed to it, and it has rendered me completely READ MORE

  This week’s post topic is books that have a strong sensory experience associated with them –  books that have strong association to a time or place or activity in your life. I’ve got a few of these, plus two books that were more evocative than associative – in other words, rather than remembering where READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is “Favourite Novellas/Short Stories.” I don’t read that much short fiction, so my list of faves is short. It also includes a couple of non-fiction picks, sorry. So my tweak this week is to also feature some short works I’ve heard good things about or that have piqued my interest. Favourite READ MORE

  Well, I’ve only read 17 books so far this year, so I don’t have enough to pick ten top books. So instead, I’m giving you the top books I’ve read, and a few I’ve started but not yet finished that I think are going to qualify! Top books read so far this year:     READ MORE

  This week’s prompt was to pick ten books with red, white and blue covers for Independence Day in the US. As I’m neither American nor in much of a mood to celebrate America at the moment (no shade to my American readers or friends – this is more of an overall grumpiness regarding the READ MORE

  I’ve decided to split this post into a few parts, because I don’t generally read a lot of series. There was a brief period when I read more because I was reading a lot of YA, but that time seems to have (mostly) passed, so now I tend to read stand-alone novels more often READ MORE

  My reading at the moment is an abysmal failure, so it’s hard for me to seriously consider what I’m going to read this summer. My TBR is overflowing (literally, it has exceeded the bedside table and is now growing on the floor) and I don’t know where to start. So in this post I’m READ MORE

  Well let’s face it, it’s never taken much to get me dreaming of hopping on a plane to jet off to somewhere new and exciting. So there are plenty of books that have made me either really want to visit somewhere, or really want to go back there. There have also been several books READ MORE

  I’m back with yet another of my not-quite-the-prompt Top Ten Tuesday posts! This week the prompt was “Bookish Worlds I’d Want to/Never Want to Live In.” I don’t read much that takes place in a whole other world than the one we live in – except, of course, at Hogwarts. (Which, in case you’re READ MORE

  As usual, I’m putting my own spin on this week’s topic – originally “Books I Disliked/Hated but Am Really Glad I Read (maybe just for bragging rights)” – because I don’t often finish books I dislike, even for bragging rights. And if I do (usually because I’ve been sent it for review), I usually develop READ MORE

  This week’s topic for TTT was “Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles.” There’s nothing wrong with this prompt except that it works better for genre fiction or YA genred fiction, neither of which I’m really that into at the moment. My reading tastes are pretty varied, but the majority of what I’m READ MORE

  The past year of reading has been really, really frustrating for me. Part of being a reader is the ever-growing TBR full of amazing books that you either feel like you should have read but haven’t or really want to read but haven’t gotten to yet. There’s no way around it, there are just READ MORE