Category: Top Ten Tuesday

There’s always a long list of books I want… and it’s constantly being added to! Because it’s a little overwhelming to just try to figure out which books from the never-ending TBR to include, I’m going to narrow it down to my current top area of interest – books on gardening, nature, animals and how READ MORE

This week’s prompt is “Summer Freebie,” so I have decided to write about gardening, nature and animal-related media I’ve been enjoying – books, podcasts, and TV shows – as well as some books I’d like to read soon. I have cycles of interest throughout the year. In the autumn and winter I enjoy crocheting, baking READ MORE

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

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

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

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

This week’s prompt is “Books with the Word [Insert Word Here] in the Title” and I spent some time thinking about which word to choose. There were lots of options I considered – flower, girl, rain, mountain, body, quiet…. But in the end, I settled on “Life.” I liked the variety of different types of READ MORE

I originally planned to split this post and do some that surprised me in a good way, followed by some that surprised me in a bad way. But once I got started on the good surprises, it was difficult to switch gears, so the closest I got to one that went wrong was a book READ MORE

Hmmm. This is always a tough one for me for a couple of reasons. The first is that I am probably fairly boring in terms of my bookish opinions. I don’t really have many that are controversial, at least not that I find so. But the main one is that I think having strong opinions READ MORE

I love this time of year. Well, to be more accurate, I would love it unreservedly if it weren’t for pollen and allergic asthma. But as it is, if my meds are working it’s a wonderful time of the year because it is the beginning of things growing and life coming out of nothing. It READ MORE

This is a tricky one. Not because I don’t have an endless list of books I wholeheartedly recommend, but the phrasing…. I don’t think there are really any books someone would be a “fool” not to read – what each reader should pick up depends on their interests, the writing styles they like, even things READ MORE

It’s hard for me to answer this prompt, because I almost never officially DNF a book. Let me explain. As anyone who knows me is aware, I’m very easily distracted. It’s very common for me to be reading three or four books at the same time, and I’m constantly finding new ones I want to READ MORE

As usual, I’ll remind everyone reading this that I cannot, to save my life, ever stick to a TBR. The very act of making a TBR virtually guarantees that I’m highly unlikely to read a single one of them. Nonetheless, I feel obligated to at least attempt to join in a few times a year, READ MORE

I had trouble choosing just one thing for this week’s prompt, so I’ve selected a few different themes or features and am sharing a few (or more) books for each! Most I’ve read, but there are a couple in here that are still on my TBR waiting for me to get to them!   A READ MORE

Oh man, quote prompts are always so hard! I don’t make notes of them, and my memory is pretty much useless these days. So there’s zero chance I’m going to remember any, and I don’t have a way of looking them up at will! So I’m turning to Google for help on this one. I’m READ MORE

I’m not a huge historical fiction reader, nor do I read a lot of Sci-Fi that would take me far into the future, but nonetheless I think I’ve got quite a few to choose from for this prompt! I’m including a few set in the future, as well as several set in the past (spoiler READ MORE

There are lots of books I’ve read but not reviewed – some because I read them before I started blogging, some because they were part of a large series and didn’t stand out individually, and some because I didn’t get to the review fast enough and forgot too many details to be able to write READ MORE

It’s that time of year again – the arbitrary day on which Hallmark decided we should spend a ridiculous amount of money on cards that will be read once and thrown in the bin, chocolates that lead to inordinate guilt and/or tummy aches, and flowers that’ll be dead in a week. Valentine’s Day! Can you READ MORE