Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  This is a dangerous post for us bookworms. I’m sure every single one of you reading this is having a mild panic attack because a) you know you have waaaaaaaaay too many responses to this, and b) you do not want to admit to the whole world just how long that list is. But READ MORE

  There are so many authors whose books have given me a gift that only that one book could give me. That gift is a new perspective, a new experience, a new turn of phrase, a good laugh – sometimes all of those things. Those books leave me wanting more of that experience, so inevitably READ MORE

  I’m doing an odd mix of quotes on a couple of topics this week. No rhyme or reason, no real point, just a meander through some that I liked or that I felt I could connect to. So here they are, in no particular order:   Book quotes “My alma mater was books, a READ MORE

  I had so much fun with this prompt. I decided to go with books that have flowers on the cover, and I have to tell you, there are a LOT. There seems to have been a trend a few years back of making dramatic, flower-based cover art, which is both serving me well right READ MORE

  Hmm. This is an interesting prompt, but I honestly don’t remember many of the reasons I’ve purposely DNFed a book. Most of the time when I don’t finish reading a book it’s either because it just didn’t grip me, or because I got distracted and forgot to come back to it. Honestly. I’m not READ MORE

  There are always a thousand books that I absolutely, definitely want to read next. The problem is that I can’t read them all at once, so I have to choose one and then the rest just sort of form an endless queue. I’m writing this a bit ahead of time, so I’m looking on READ MORE

  I’m going to cheat a bit this week because I had a hard time coming up with enough characters to fill a top ten list. But also I kept coming back to wishing I could include some of the writers whose work or interviews have left me feeling like they’d be interesting to have READ MORE

  I’ve been thinking about LGBTQ+ stories lately, as by chance I’ve been reading a lot of books that are either written by LGBTQ+ authors, feature these characters, or both. I’ve found these voices to be not only important representation of this group of people, but also of the human condition in general. People’s reactions READ MORE

  I’m doing a bit of a twist on this week’s April Showers theme and selecting some of my favourite books to read on a rainy day. The prerequisites are that it must be easy to read (no dense historical non-fiction or philosophical leanings here), it must feel at least a bit cosy, and it READ MORE

  This is a tricky one. I know I’ve seen prompts like this before, but they’re usually going in the other way – books that would make good movies or TV shows. I’ve never considered going from screen to book!   13th As Time Goes By The Gilmore Girls Luther Skins Misfits Sons of Anarchy READ MORE

  Well, you all know me and TBRs. But I enjoy putting together lists, not so much of books I’m going to read, as books that glimmer in my mind at this moment. There are some upcoming and new releases I’m really interested in. I don’t know if I’ll get to any of them in READ MORE

  This is one of those fears that always lurks in the back of my mind when I stand contemplating my shelves of read books. There are so many dearly loved volumes there, but many I love based on how I felt reading them years – or even decades – ago. I’m an entirely different READ MORE

  This is an interesting prompt, but man this is not an easy one. I can’t remember what I was thinking 5 seconds ago, so remembering ten things I Googled because of books is just… well, this will be tough. So instead I think I’m going to include some things I’ve actually Googled, and some READ MORE

  I absolutely adore this prompt. I’m a huge fan of gardening, and though I don’t go out walking as much as I should, whenever I do spend time in nature I always feel better. I have grown up in a part of the world that’s a temperate rainforest, which means I’ve got green around READ MORE

  Bookish superpowers? Hmmm. This is an interesting post, but also feels a bit odd because I’ve always felt like reading is a superpower. I’m excited to see what everyone comes up with this week – I think it’s going to be a prompt that brings out the creativity! Let’s see what I can come READ MORE

  I’m not much of a romance person, so this is one of the harder posts of the year for me (followed closely by Halloween, as I don’t do scary either!). So rather than looking at romantic themes, I’m going to find some books that made me feel love. Books that showed how beautiful relationships READ MORE

  It’s funny, unless a book is reeeeeally long, I don’t really notice the length that much. So I had to think a bit about which ones would actually qualify as being short reads. I decided that I’d include both short books and books that read very quickly, since the two feel so similar to READ MORE

  I had a great reading year in 2023. I didn’t read a huge number of books, but I read a bunch that were really enjoyable, that made me think, that taught me something (or something about myself) or that hit upon some universal truth that the author put into words brilliantly. There were a READ MORE