Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  As always, it’s hard to choose a TBR that I think there’s any chance of me sticking with. Even more so when the world is in such chaos (and, because of it, I have toddler to entertain at home, with no playdates or trips to the park, potentially for weeks). But there are several READ MORE

  I have to admit that one of the things that fell off my radar with becoming a mom was the time I spent on social media. Instead of scrolling Twitter, any time I have on my phone I use to read ebooks. Sometimes that’s all the time I have to read. So I’m going READ MORE

  This was a fun one! I spent longer than I likely should have combing my shelves and TBR lists to find one-word titles, particularly ones that are interesting on-word titles.                                                  READ MORE

  In looking back over the books I’ve read in the past couple of years, I was surprised by how few immersed me enough to leave me with that book hangover feeling when I finished them. Perhaps it’s partly reading more non-fiction – it doesn’t feel quite the same as reading a fictional plot and READ MORE

  I’m doing a bit of a twist on love. I’ve never been hugely into Valentine’s Day, and I don’t read books about romance very often. But that doesn’t mean I don’t value a story that has love at its heart. I just value all different kinds of love. So here are a few kinds READ MORE

  This is an exciting post, because I’ve been meaning to write one on this very topic for a while! I feel like most of the books on my TBR shelves (hundreds at this point) are ones that I at least feel have the potential to be 5-star reads, and a lot of them I READ MORE

  I’m a sucker for book covers that appeal to me. I don’t know if it’s because my dad is a designer and my mom is an art lover, so I’ve always been surrounded by beautiful art, or if it’s just a peculiarity of mine. Whatever the reason, I have a lot of trouble bringing READ MORE

  I’m writing this in advance, so this is more the books I added to my shelves before the second week of January. And they’re ones I’m very excited about!   These two were presents from my wonderful husband for Christmas. I have yet to get into Elena Ferrante’s work, though I’ve read small bits READ MORE

  This is a tough prompt, mostly because I can’t really remember which I came across this year, last year or the year before! Time tends to meld into one continuous blur these days. So some of these might not be accurate on the timeline, but still are awesome nonetheless! Musicians Can Be Awesome Writers READ MORE

  There are only a few books that have been announced for release in the first half of 2020 that I’m over-the-moon excited to get my hands on. But there are several others that look interesting and that I wouldn’t mind checking out. Here are a mixture of the two:            READ MORE

  I had some very high highs (and some pretty low lows, but fortunately that’s not what we’re here to discuss!) in my 2019 reading. There are several books that have been added to my all-time faves, and a lot I highly recommend that you check out! Here are the top ten: Non-Fiction:     READ MORE

   I rarely find books under my tree. Mostly because no one (even me) can keep track of which I already have, let alone which I most want. So I don’t realistically expect to see any there this year – though if I’m very lucky there might be a gift card I can put towards READ MORE

  It’s no secret that the past few years have been slow reading years for me. But even when I was reading between 50 and 100 books a year, there were always books I felt like everyone and their lazy dog had managed to read except me. It stands to reason, then, that my sense READ MORE

  There’s something about the lead-up to Christmas that makes cosy something that comes from the inside and makes magic feel real. So I generally love to read anything that has one or both of those elements around Christmas.   The Harry Potter Series. Because of course. I don’t even care that it’s a cliché, READ MORE

  Breaking down what exactly makes me so grateful for books is something I’ve always struggled with. Reading is just awesome. End of story. But I think part of the reason why it is so awesome is because there are so many ways in which it has improved my life. So I’m trying to tease READ MORE

  This week’s topic is an interesting one, but also a difficult one. Most aspects of my reading life have remained relatively constant, with minor situational changes. But here are a few things that are different now than they were about three years ago, whether the changes will persist or whether some of them will READ MORE

  I have to admit that, despite a large collection of beautiful made-to-purpose bookmarks, I often use whatever I have to hand as a bookmark. I have been known to use bus passes, random scraps of paper, flowers and leaves (hence today’s image), ticket stubs, granola bar wrappers and, on one memorable and short-lived occasion, READ MORE