Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  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

  This week’s topic is “Books That Take Place In Another Country.” I haven’t historically done the best job of reading my way around the world, and it’s something I know I need to work on (I also need to read more from my own country). But over the years I have read a selection READ MORE

  Right now I’m still trying to read as many of the Canada Reads 2018 contenders as I can before the debates that start March 26th (for more info on the 2018 picks, go here, for more info on Canada Reads, go here), so those are top of my list. Swiftly followed by the books READ MORE

  I’m tired and very behind this week, so without any further preamble, I’m going to jump right into it. Here are the books that surprised me (for better or for worst) the most:   Another Brooklyn was far more poetic and deeply emotionally affecting than I had expected it to be. Though it deals READ MORE

  This week’s topic is books I’ll never get sick of re-reading, and in order to really consider this prompt, I imagined a situation where these are the only books I have, possibly for the rest of my life. Would I still feel that they stood up to that kind of deep reading? Would they READ MORE

  There are so many books out there waiting to be read. SO MANY. And they all have devoted fans, many of whom share that fandom in public forums – like book blogs and BookTube. And the problem with that is that if I hear one person enthuse about a book that just isn’t really READ MORE

  As you know if you’ve been around this neck of the woods for any length of time, I’m not really much for romance. So asking me to share my favourite romantic books is an exercise in futility. So instead, I’m going to do a few different riffs on the general theme and see where READ MORE

  Well this week’s topic should be easy, considering the massive TBR I amassed in the past 6 months! Catch me another day and this list might be totally different, but these are the ones that stand out from a quick glance at my shelves tonight!                         READ MORE

  I didn’t have a very impressive reading year, in no small part because I didn’t start reading again until halfway through. This TTT is a slightly harder topic since this asking me to pick a third of the authors I read. So I’m going to start with the ones I would have still picked READ MORE

  I’m not super in tune with which boooks are going to be coming out in 2018 yet, but I have stumbled across a few I’m looking forward to! Here are the ones I can’t wait to get my hands on, as well as a few books I didn’t get to this year that I’d READ MORE

  There are so many books I’d be absolutely THRILLED to find under the tree, but here are the ones I’m coveting the most at this particular moment (it will probably have changed by the time you’re reading this!). Non-fiction             Graphic Novels and Picture-Based Books            READ MORE

  Oh man. This one is hard. I’m so tempted to just make this a list of travel memoirs and call it a day, but I want to try a little harder than that! (Though there will be some. I just have to.) First, a few fictional books based on real places I’d like to READ MORE

  I don’t really read seasonally in the sense of reading dark-themed or scary books in the fall, books set in the northern hemisphere and about Christmas in the winter, hopeful books about romance and new beginnings in spring and books set on sandy beaches or about escape and self-discovery in summer. Sometimes I pick READ MORE

  Of course, the correct response to this prompt is a firm “anything she wants to read.” Because at the end of the day, I just want her to find what in this world inspires her – hopefully books will factor in, in some capacity, but I’m fine with whatever she is passionate about. But READ MORE