Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

Well, there’s what I’d like to do in summer, and what I can do in summer. There is some overlap, but not as much as I’d like! What I’d like to do in summer is travel a little bit, spend time going to beaches or camping or swimming in lakes, having picnics and enjoy evenings READ MORE

I have so many book covers I love, that this is going to be nearly impossible to choose! I’m just going to take the lazy route and find a couple in my images that hop out and include them… but there are always more!               Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley Animal Farm READ MORE

There are lots of books that need a sequel because they left questions unanswered or because they dealt with a story that doesn’t have a neat end. But then there are the books I just enjoyed so much I’d love to read more. Not even necessarily a sequel, but something connected – the backstory of READ MORE

This is a tough one, because it’s hard to pick a specific character. I feel like reading in general has taught me so many important lessons, and most of those lessons were brought to me by several different characters from different books by different authors at different times. So I’ll list a few, but there READ MORE

There are several books that have become films or TV shows that I really enjoyed both as books and as on screen. I’ve picked eight that were made into movies. There are also several that were made into TV shows that I liked as well, but in the end they weren’t quite as high on READ MORE

You know, I’ve thought about this thanks to various different prompts and being a parent. I’ve made lists of books I was introduced to in school that I am glad to have read, and lists of books that have meant a lot to me in my own reading life that I’d want to share. I’ve READ MORE

There are so many things I could include in a prompt asking what I wish more books talked about. Everything from chronic illness to pain to neurodivergence to mental health. All of those are very much on my list. But I think, lately, the thing I feel is most noticeably thin on the ground is READ MORE

Well this is a tricky one, because it’s nearly all of them, especially if you’re including blogs and videos. I used to spend an inordinate amount of time watching BookTube, and my TBR is comprised mostly of books discovered via these readers and the blogging community I follow (i.e., all of you!). Some I found READ MORE

I have been putting this one off for so long that it’s now overdue! Unusual things about me? Ten?? I don’t think so. I’m a fairly ordinary person in my estimation! Hmmmm. Let’s see what I can come up with. I have ADHD, which is not at all uncommon, but does lead to some interesting READ MORE

Oh, man, there are so many answers to this question! The baddies in any book that has them – the murderers, psychopaths, abusers, con artists, manipulators, power-crazy narcissists… etc. None of whom I’d enjoy being in the vicinity of. But that’s sort of the obvious answer, and while true, there are others I’d prefer not READ MORE

I’m not much of a culinary wizard, so I’m not big on cooking. I occasionally dabble in baking, mostly cookies at Christmas time and occasionally something my kid wants to try. So my comfort foods are generally ones I can buy store-made, because that’s more enjoyable than trying (and usually failing) to make something delicious! READ MORE

I  have a list of some of the sites I have followed or enjoyed over the years here. Currently I don’t spent a lot of time online, because I just don’t have that time to spend. But I do occasionally listen to podcasts. Some I’ve enjoyed recently are:       Sue Perkins Dilemma: The READ MORE

There are so, so many characters I’ve met in books over the years that I’d want to meet – and many that I feel like I have met! Early examples were Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables, Matilda from Dahl’s book of the same name, Sara Crewe from A Little Princess, and Trixie Belden READ MORE

Oh man, there are so many books that fit this prompt. Any book longer than 500 pages. Any book with difficult language, including dialect (Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange) or just general impenetrable language like Ulysses. Most classics because I’m out of practice with the language of the period. Any book that I know is going READ MORE

Well the super obvious answer to this question would be reading, but fortunately I’ve got a lot of favourite hobbies! Through autumn and winter I enjoy crocheting, playing games with my family, baking occasionally and generally cosying up spending time in soft blankets and doing anything that’s possible from that vantage point. Through Spring and READ MORE

For this one I’d say pretty much any world from a sci-fi or post-apocalyptic novel. Even some fantasy worlds, like the various landscapes in The Lord of the Rings, are not ones I’d want to spend time in, fraught as they are with unexpected danger. I sometimes even have trouble reading about them because the READ MORE

There are tons of topics I love learning about via books – social issues, nature, crafts like crocheting, parenting, other cultures and countries. But I think the topic that most recently tops my list of topics I’m interested in learning about has to be ADHD since at least two members of my family (me being READ MORE

Hmmmmm, this is an tough one. Partly because I don’t really know where to go with it, but mostly because it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Like the people in my life are a collection of stories rather than people – also most of the stories I can think of that would fall in READ MORE