Top Ten Tuesday: Terrible French covers

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl All of you anglophone readers don't understand how good you have it with book covers. Sure, once in a while you'll see books that could look better, but it doesn't come close to the tragedy of the French edition of translated books.   How can …

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Top Ten Tuesday: My first five reviews

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl You already know that I love reading, but you might not know that I was homeschooled. There are a lot of myths and generalisations about homeschoolers, but one that was true in my family was that a lot of our school projects were based on …

Top Ten Tuesday: One sitting reads on my TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl The original topic for today was rainy days reads, but for me a rainy day is a day where I can only little chunks of reading time in between cooking, cleaning, and playing board games. So here are 10 short books I'm excited to get to. …

Top Ten Tuesday: Outrageous things I’ve done for the love of books

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My outrageous scale might not be calibrated correctly because as a kid my life revolved around books. I used to sleep with library books in my bed (and woke up with bruises) On top of being unhygienic, this would lead to many frantic searches before …

Top Ten Tuesday: Things that make me pick up a book

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Maybe one day I'll bring you into my TBR system, but for know all you need to know is that it involves three websites and three dozen Goodreads shelves. Since I use my library a lot my TBR is split into a long list that …

Top Ten Tuesday: My first audiobooks

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My second audiobook anniversary was at the beginning of February so for this week's audio freebie I'm sharing with you the first 10 audiobooks I listened to. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard, narrated by Jaycee Dugard My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler, narrated by Cassandra …

Top Ten Tuesday: Library holds

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl This year I'm making an effort to read more of the books I own, but I love my library too much to stop using it. Here are the 10 books I currently have on hold: Available Soon  Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag …

Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d like to intern with

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Compared to what I read, I have a pretty nice life. Technology, medicine, all these books I can read... I wouldn't want to live in a high fantasy world, but sometimes I wish I could learn with the characters. So here is my list of …

Top Ten Tuesday: Book settings I’d like to visit

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl What I like about this topic is that it doesn't say I have to be able to visit 😉 Once again I'll divide my list into two sections: places I could visit and those I'll just have to imagine myself going to 1. PEI When I was …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I LOVED with less than 2000 ratings on Goodreads

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I have marked as read over 300 books with less than 2000 ratings. Most of them are French books so for this list I chose mostly books that are available in English. Honorable Mention: Coffee Boy by Austin Chant (1180 ratings) 10. The Mermaid's Daughter …