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 …

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. …

Fill Your Library #2

What is Fill your library?  It's when I share with you my library's decision on the books I recently requested. They are pretty good at getting popular new releases, but they have a few blind spots I want to help them with. For this batch of requests I went for variety: new releases and back list …

WWW Wednesday #9: April 10, 2019 & Tidyathon

I'm back this week with my answers to Taking On A World Of Words's three W questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? CURRENTLY READING Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean  —  39% I was really excite about this one, but right now …

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 …

WWW #8: April 3, 2019 & AdventureAThon Wrapup

I'm back this week with my answers to Taking On A World Of Words's three W questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? CURRENTLY READING Yesterday by Felicia Yap  —  77% As a thriller this book is straightforward, but set in a world where …

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 …

Book Review: Bloom

Bloom by Kevin Panette, illustrated by Savanna Ganucheau Published in February 2019 Rep: Greek, Samoan, queer           Goodread's synopsis Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at …

WWW Wednesday #7: March 27, 2019 and Fantasy AdventureAThon Update

I'm back this week with my answers to Taking On A World Of Words's three W questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? CURRENTLY READING A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin — 42% I read this back in 2014 so before …