This week’s prompt: What fantasy or Sci-fi should be part of the literary canon? I have no idea what this prompt is asking me. What’s the literary cannon? Also what are people who don’t really read sci-fi or fantasy supposed to write? Okay, let’s take this one step at a time. I’m going to guess READ MORE
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WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK I’M NERVOUS TO READ AND WHY
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | THINGS CHARACTERS HAVE SAID
Oh man, quote prompts are always so hard! I don’t make notes of them, and my memory is pretty much useless these days. So there’s zero chance I’m going to remember any, and I don’t have a way of looking them up at will! So I’m turning to Google for help on this one. I’m READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a week. Not terrible, but a little full on. I spent an extra few hours driving to prepare for an unfamiliar and busy route to a field trip my kid was going on, which was super stressful as it involved bumper-to-bumper traffic as 5 lanes merged into 2…. on a bridge. Not my READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOW MUCH TIME DOES BLOGGING TAKE?
This week’s prompt: How much time does blogging take out of your life weekly? Hmmm, this is a difficult question for me. Partly because I have ADHD, so time is a bit slippy and hard for me to quantify. But also because this question makes quite a big assumption – that I work on my READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE HOBBY AND WHY
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS SET IN ANOTHER TIME
I’m not a huge historical fiction reader, nor do I read a lot of Sci-Fi that would take me far into the future, but nonetheless I think I’ve got quite a few to choose from for this prompt! I’m including a few set in the future, as well as several set in the past (spoiler READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Not the best reading week this week – it was a bit of an emotional one. We had a family member in surgery (went well and all is fine) which was a bit preoccupying. We also had an earthquake on Friday not too far from us, and we felt it. There was a loud bang READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | BOOK CLUBS
This week’s prompt: Do you belong to a book club? If so, how many members do you have? How long has it been going on? Unfortunately I don’t belong to any book clubs, as much as I’d like to. I tried to find some in my area, but there aren’t many, and most of the READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FICTIONAL WORLDS I’D RATHER NOT VISIT
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I NEVER REVIEWED
There are lots of books I’ve read but not reviewed – some because I read them before I started blogging, some because they were part of a large series and didn’t stand out individually, and some because I didn’t get to the review fast enough and forgot too many details to be able to write READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
I’ve had a decent week, not as much reading, but enough that I finished a book or two. I (as usual) left my Valentine’s Day preparations for my kiddo until the last minute, so I had a couple of late nights trying to finish some crochet and sewing stuff! I finished 3 out of 4 READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HAVE I READ NICHOLAS SPARKS’ BOOKS?
This week’s prompt: Have you ever read a Nicholas Sparks romance novel? If so, what is your opinion on his endings? The tricky thing about this question is what if your answer to the question is no? Then what are you supposed to write about this week? So I’m adding my own follow-up question: If READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT TO READ IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT ADHD
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
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK COVERS THE COLOUR OF LOVE
It’s that time of year again – the arbitrary day on which Hallmark decided we should spend a ridiculous amount of money on cards that will be read once and thrown in the bin, chocolates that lead to inordinate guilt and/or tummy aches, and flowers that’ll be dead in a week. Valentine’s Day! Can you READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a busy week, mostly because my kid has been home from school all week since it’s been snowing a lot! School was canceled for a couple of days, then I wasn’t comfortable driving (still a new driver). We did have a wonderful dragon day inspired by Erin and Wyatt at Still Life, With READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOW TO READ A SERIES WHEN YOU’RE IN YOUR FORTIES
This week’s prompt: Do you prefer to read series one book after another, or can you read other books in between? I used to read more series, and I used to be able to hold the plot and characters in my head from one until the next was published. But as I’ve gotten older I READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A STORY ABOUT A MEMORABLE ACQUAINTANCE
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