Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  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

  HAHAHAHA… this is a joke right? No? Oh, well in that case, ALL OF THEM. There, that was easy. Not good enough? Man, there are so many. Let’s see if I can pick a few at random.                                   READ MORE

  This is always a tricky post for me, because I don’t see reading as something that I need to set goals for. I do it because I love learning, I love stepping out of my own mind for a while, I love learning about other lives and cultures, and I love the chance to READ MORE

  If I’m honest, I haven’t got any idea about books coming out this year. So I’ve had to do some quick and dirty Googling to find some for this week’s prompt! Here’s what I came up with.   No date announced yet:       February                 March       READ MORE

  I’ve had a pretty darn good reading year this year. I’ve got lots of new favourites, but interestingly they’ve mostly been non-fiction. A good chunk were memoirs – ones about interactions with nature, others about special interests, others about mental health or neurodiversity, and some were about more than one of these. But each READ MORE

  I’m going to follow my lead last week and include audiobooks here, because I don’t buy that many physical books these days! Some of these I got with credits, others were included as part of my Audible subscription. But they’re ones I’ve added to my library recently and am looking forward to reading!   READ MORE

  This is always a hard one for me, because how am I supposed to narrow it down to just ten books???? I mean, really. It’s like whoever came up with this idea doesn’t know any readers. I’ll do my best, but I’m not making any promises! To make it a little easier, I’m going READ MORE

  Well, I have a lot. My TBR is basically… my whole house and most of my virtual space. I have not a chance of getting through even a fraction of my TBR, but on the plus side there’s a lot to choose from when I’m choosing what to read! There are some of the READ MORE

  Today I decided to share some of the books I’ve read or want to read on the topic of nature. This is being used very, very broadly, as I’m pretty much using it to denote any wholesome activity that takes place outside or involves interfacing with a part of the natural world (like The READ MORE

  Apparently it’s Thanksgiving in the US this week (a holiday I do not keep track of nor put much stock in, but that’s another discussion). This year’s topic is one I can certainly get behind, however – reasons to be thankful for books. Well, *cracks knuckles* let’s get started, shall we? They let me READ MORE

  Oh man. What a difficult post – to complete this we have to each look in the mirror, and confront our own failings. Not only that, but we must confront our very mortality. As upsetting as the thought may be, we will each die with books left unread, and I can guarantee that at READ MORE

  This is a very interesting topic! Hats off to the creator, Cathy (from What Cathy Read Next – I think that’s the right link, but correct me if I’m wrong)! I had so much fun scouring my shelves and TBR list to find some great titles that would stand out on the front page. READ MORE

  I’m not a fan of freebie weeks, generally. Especially when it comes to Halloween, because I’ve got nothing. I don’t do horror. I don’t do spooky. I don’t do ghost stories. So what exactly am I supposed to share? I guess I’ll go with any books I have read (or would read) that have READ MORE

  I love this prompt. There are so many books I’ve read that managed to create such a strong sense of setting that it seemed to lift off the page and envelope me – for better or worse. Here are some of the books that stand out when I think of this.       READ MORE

  This week’s topic is book titles with weather in them, or book covers that feature weather events. I’m going to go with the former, mostly because I think that’ll be some interesting searching to do!                                       That turned out READ MORE

  Well, this is an interesting one – as I sit here typing out a book blog for which I get absolutely zero monetary compensation! So I guess I’d say – this one! But as that’s one, and this is a list of ten, let’s see what else I can come up with.   Book READ MORE

  Hmm. I’m not really sure what to do with this post, because I don’t really set a whole lot of reading goals, other than participating in the Goodreads challenge each year. But even then, I generally set my goal to one book a week, which by this point I’ve likely passed already. So I READ MORE