Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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