Just a quick question. What does this mean? Does it want me to comment on how I feel about seeing my favourite things criticized (generally I’d say my reaction is on a spectrum of “okay that’s a good point,” to “don’t really care,” to vaguely annoyed, depending on the thing and the critique)? Does READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | POPULAR AUTHORS I STILL HAVEN’T READ
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | SOMETHING I BELIEVED THAT WASN’T TRUE
I don’t really know where to go with this one – I never even remember believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny or anything – so I’m going to go with the first thing that pops into my head. For a long time I thought the words to Rudolph READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK TITLES THAT WOULD MAKE GREAT HEADLINES
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
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Oh wow, it’s been nearly a month since I’ve done one of these posts! Probably in part because I’ve taken up a new hyperfocus (crochet) and (re)discovered some fantastic British comedy shows (Very British Problems, Travel Man, QI and The Big Fat Quiz of Everything/The Year/The Decade etc) and have been doing nothing but READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A CELEBRITY PEOPLE SAY I LOOK LIKE
I don’t get this a lot. I’m not really one of those people who is the spitting image of any famous person, and I don’t even evoke them with how I dress or act. I’m pretty much just boring old me. I guess I’ve seen pictures of a young Katherine Hepburn that look a READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | HALLOWEEN FREEBIE
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A HOLIDAY I’D CREATE
This is such an easy one. Because obviously I’d create a day in which everyone got a paid day off work in which to do nothing but read. This may be a think in another culture out there (if so, please share in the comments!) because I’m sure there are some out there with READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | ATMOSPHERIC BOOKS
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVOURITE SCARY MONSTER
Nope. Nooooooope. I do not do horror movies, I do not like scary. I am a firm wimp, and that will never change. Monsters? Not for me! I did go through a Walking Dead phase, but I liked it in spite of the zombies, not because of them. I’ve never read Frankenstein, or I’d READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH WEATHER IN THE TITLE
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | THE MOST CREATIVE HALLOWEEN COSTUME I’VE WORN
So here’s the thing. I like Halloween well enough, aside from the fact that I can’t do scary or horror, like, at all. But I don’t do costumes. I hate them. They’re fine on other people, but I am not a fan of wearing them. I did a few when I was a kid READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH JOBS I’D DO FOR FREE
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | DO I BELIEVE IN KARMA? WHY?
Hmm. I guess the answer to this is yes… and no. I first have to acknowledge that the concept of karma I hold may not even be accurate, as it’s appropriated from another culture that I don’t have any knowledge of and am not part of. So my idea of karma is the westernized READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | READING GOALS BEFORE YEAR-END
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
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | HOW I SHAKE OFF A BAD MOOD
For a long time in my life the answer to this would have been simple: I don’t. But over the past several years, with some hard work and (a lot of) therapy, I’ve made a lot of progress in feeling ownership and some modicum of control over my emotions. I can’t will myself out READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MINOR CHARACTERS WHO DESERVE THEIR OWN BOOK
This is an interesting prompt. Because of my poor memory, however, I’m left wishing I’d known this was coming up while I’d been reading over the past decade or so, so I’d be able to make a list as I read. Now I have a hard time thinking of them, and I know I’ll READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I haven’t been reading as much lately, so I didn’t have anything to share last week. This week I was able to read a bit, but it’s still not very much to discuss! Here it is anyway. Just Shelved Both of these books are knitters (or knitting admirers) talking READ MORE