This week’s prompt: What books do you look to for inspiration at the start of the year or to motivate you to make positive changes in your life? I don’t have any specific books I look to for inspiration, rather I look for any book that feels bright and pulls me in. Usually if I’m READ MORE
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WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOKS THAT MAKE ME LAUGH
This week’s prompt was actually “book quotes that make me laugh,” but I can’t be assed rooting around to try and find specific quotes as I don’t mark or copy them down as I go. So instead, you’re going to get a selection of books that make me laugh: READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO MY TBR
My TBR is always full to bursting, mostly with books I’ll either forget I ever added or books I’ll keep remembering and wanting to read, but never actually get around to. I’ve stopped watching much BookTube content and don’t really spend a lot of time looking for new release book lists online – partly because READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Another week where I actually did get some reading done! And I enjoyed all three of the books I finished. Not feeling fully immersed in anything currently, but hoping I’ll find something tomorrow that’ll get its hooks in! Most of the weekend was spend on school work, so didn’t get much done over the weekend. READ MORE
LINK-UP | MY YEAR IN BOOKS
Anne from My Head Is Full of Books has revived the “My Year In Books” Meme and invited other book bloggers to take part (if you are one, this means you!). It’s a fun little post where you use titles of books you’ve read over the past year to respond to prompts – sometimes seriously, READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE THINGS TO DO IN WINTER
Well this is an easy one – I like to curl up under a cosy blanket with a cup of tea (preferably made by my kid who is an excellent tea-maker) and some twinkle lights on and read a book. Of course. But if that’s not an option or if I need a break, I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH GOALS FOR 2025
So as every year, I’m here to say I don’t do resolutions. I don’t like starting off the year with the pressure of a bunch of pie-in-the-sky goals I know I’m not going to be able to complete. Basically if I set resolutions I’m planning to fail. I know they work for some people, and READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Surprisingly, it’s been a very good reading week! I thought I’d be too busy/tired to read much, but I was lucky in picking a couple of books that immediately hooked me, so I was reading in any spare moment before I even noticed it! And I’ve found some great books that I’m super excited to READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOBBIES THAT GO WELL WITH READING
This week’s prompt: January is National Hobby Month. Do you have any pastimes or interests other than reading that go well with your love of books and literature? Hmmm. I do have various hobbies that I cycle through as the year passes. In spring and summer I garden, in fall and winter I do crafts READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT DO I THINK OF AI?
This seems to be a very hotly contested issue these days. But the dawn of AI becoming widespread coincided with my efforts to avoid reading stressful things in online news, so I haven’t read that much about it. But I would assume that, like with many technological advances, there is the potential for great benefits READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST EXCITING BOOKS COMING OUT JAN-JUNE 2025
I haven’t really been paying that much attention to anything that’s supposed to be happening in 2025. Quite frankly, I’ve only just recently mastered writing 2024 instead of 2023 at the end of the date. I’m not ready for another new year yet, guys! But no one seems to be listening to my complaints, and READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been quite the week! We had new year’s, which the adults in the house don’t give a f*** about, but the tiny one wanted to try and stay up for, which very nearly happened! Ask me how that felt the next day. Then we had some fun playdates and catch ups, visited family, ran READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | BOOKISH ANTICIPATION FOR 2025
This week’s prompt: It’s 2025; are you looking forward to any highly anticipated book releases or reading events in January or the following months? I’ll have a full list of upcoming releases I’m excited about for January-June 2025 coming out on Tuesday and Wednesday Blogging Challenge post that went up a couple of days ago READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | NEW BOOKS I WANT TO READ
Happy New Year, everyone! Now the real challenge begins – not resolutions (for me, anyway, you do you), but attempting to write “2025” instead of “2024,” which I had only just got the hang of. I could have used an extra month to enjoy that! Anyway, I have a whole Top Ten Tuesday post coming READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2024
I’ve been lucky this year and I’ve read a lot of really fantastic books. The hardest part of this post will be picking which ones to include! Here are some of them: Rescuing Ruby by Nicola Baker Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune Frank & Red by READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Well, we made it through Christmas week (if you celebrate it too), so congratulations to all of us, particularly the parents who had so much organizing and preparing to do that you feel like someone gave you a lobotomy when you weren’t looking. New year’s doesn’t mean much to me now that I’m ancient, but READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | READING GOALS FOR 2025
This week’s prompt: Do you have any reading goals for the new year? I’ll be doing a whole Top Ten Tuesday post about this very topic on January 14th that I’ve already written, so I’m not going to get too detailed here. Suffice it to say that I’m not doing any hard and fast reading READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HOPE SANTA BRINGS
I’ve been trying very hard over the past couple of years not to spend as much time with my ear to the ground listening out for new books to add to my TBR. It’s hard for me to resist something new and shiny, so the best way to manage my book spending (which needs to READ MORE