This week’s topic is books that give off summer vibes — and given that this is a pretty weird summer, these books are likely to be more important than ever.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Give off Summer Vibes
June TBR and May Wrap-up
This was a pretty great month of reading for the both of us. For once, neither of us had any unfinished books on our list! Let’s hope the same is true for June.
Top Ten Tuesday: Best Opening Lines
This week’s topic is best opening lines, which led us to flip through a couple dozen of our favorite books. It’s surprising how many first lines are a bit flat or don’t make sense without context—but we managed to find some gems.
Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons We Love Secondary World Fantasy
This week’s topic was a bit of a freebie: Reasons Why We Love [Blank]. We went with secondary world fantasy—fiction focusing on a non-Earth setting—because it is one of our most beloved genres.
Review: Anna K
Anna K asks similar questions to Tolstoy's classic novel but gives very different answers.
Top Ten Tuesday: The Last Ten Books We Abandoned
This one was tricky for us! In the last few years our views on sticking with books have changed often. Sometimes we’ve felt like it’s always best to stick it out and see if a book gets better by the end. Other times we’ve felt the opposite.
Top Ten Tuesday: Things We’d Have at Our Bookish Party
We’ve tried to throw bookish parties a few times, but the plans always fell through. Fortunately, this week’s topic is things we’d have at our bookish party, so we can revisit our literary party plans.
May TBR and April Wrap-up
With our state essentially being in shut down-mode, we managed to get a lot of reading done. Let’s hope the same will hold true for May!
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Had Read as a Child
This one was a fun topic to ruminate on. It brought back some fond memories along with a few (minor) regrets.
