This week’s prompt is “books with an adjective in the title.” I feel like this is a fairly broad category, so I’m going to look through my shelves and recent books on my Goodreads lists, and see which pop out first! READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | YOU ARE YOUR BEST THING – TARANA BURKE & BRENÉ BROWN, EDS.
Ever since May 2020, when George Floyd, a Black man, was suffocated – murdered – by a White police officer, race has become both a suddenly trendy and deeply divisive issue. It’s always been simmering under the surface of any interaction across racial lines, but one side of that equation was often oblivious to READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | SOMETHING LUCKY
Man, this is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. I think the basic things – being born in a peaceful country in a family who had secure housing and food and access to medical care (that one has really turned out to be important for me). Those READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS [PROBABLY NOT] ON MY SPRING 2022 TBR
Any of you who have been around for a while will be fully expecting what I’m about to say: I never, ever stick to a TBR that doesn’t have an outside component to it. If I’m reading books for something like a book club or prize, I’ll read them because I said I would READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | I’M STILL HERE – AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN
This is yet another of those books that languished on my shelves for absolutely ages before I finally came across the audiobook from my library and decided to give it a try. I’m really glad that I finally got to it, because it was excellent. This book is part personal memoir, but also largely READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | BOOK SETTING I’D LIKE TO VISIT
I made the above image for a question similar to this sometime last year. It’s a view of the Italian countryside, one of the places I most want to visit. So basically the setting of Under the Tuscan Sun. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go there now, though, because of various READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH MY FAVOURITE THEMES
There are several book themes that will usually draw me in. A lot of my favourite books of all time are about one of these themes, and a lot of the books I’m most looking forward to reading are as well. I couldn’t pick just one, so I’ve separated this post into a few READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | CARE OF – IVAN COYOTE
I’ve known of Ivan Coyote for years now. I saw them speak when I was in college, an experience that was deeply impactful and that created in me a lifelong fan. But, much to my shame, this is the first book of theirs that I’ve actually finished reading – and I finished it in READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FACTS ABOUT MY PETS
I’ve had a fair number of pets over the years and they’ve all been pretty awesome. I had a goldfish who used to enjoy it if I propped picture books up against his tank for him to “read” (I was 4 at the time, so he probably didn’t actually even notice). I had a READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HAVEN’T REVIEWED
This week’s prompt is a hard one, because mostly I have mentioned books by this point. But there are several that, while I may have mentioned them, I didn’t actually write reviews. So here are a selection of them. Some of these I haven’t reviewed yet. READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE BEST, MOST AWFUL JOB – KATHERINE MAY (ED.)
There are as many ways to experience motherhood as there are mothers. Motherhood encompasses everything from pregnancy to miscarriage to abortion to birth to adoption to caring for grandchildren. And yet, there are elements to it that are universal. I’ve yet to meet a mother who doesn’t feel judged for her choices, like she’s READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT I LEARNED LAST YEAR
So my first response to this is probably fairly obvious. Because it’s the same for all of us. We are all so consumed by COVID-19, that it feels like there’s little space for anything else. What did I learn last year? I learned that the vaccines we waited so long for wane significantly after READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | DYNAMIC DUOS
This is one of those prompts I expect to have a really hard time with. I’m sure there are tons of books with amazing dynamic duos. But I can’t think of any right now. So this is one of those posts that I’ll be slowly (hopefully) adding to as new books pop into my READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND – RUMAAN ALAM
This has probably been one of the more divisive books of the past year. It seems that some people love it, others really don’t. It’s an odd story. Amanda and Clay take their two kids for a vacation in a rental home on Long Island. The house they rented is idyllic and offers an READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | FAVE GENRE(S)
Most of the books I’ve read fall into literary fiction, which is kind of a genre, but also not as it encompasses SO MUCH. I guess if I had to pick one to read for the rest of my life, it would be that, precisely because it has such range. However, especially in recent READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS TOO GOOD TO REVIEW PROPERLY
This is SUCH a good prompt. There are so many books I didn’t review yet because I just can’t figure out how to do them justice, and others that I reviewed, but felt really nervous about posting! Here are some of them. A few I haven’t reviewed yet (or haven’t published reviews of): READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE – TIA WILLIAMS
Romance is not my jam, as anyone who’s been around here for a while knows. If I’m honest, I didn’t know this was a romance when I went into it. I had seen the cover around and it was available from my library, and I decided to give it a try. So it was READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WAYS TO SHOW YOU LOVE SOMEONE
I like this prompt, but it’s a bit of a tough one to actually write. I think that feeling loved is such an important part of establishing value as a person, and it is one of the best ways to help those around you, especially kids, feel secure. I’m a big fan of both READ MORE