Category: Top 10 Tuesday

My Summer 2020 TBR

Posted June 16, 2020
Books, Memes, TBR Lists, Top 10 Tuesday

This Friday marks the real first day of summer, and I am not that thrilled about it, in all honesty. I’ve always hated summer and hot weather and if I could afford it (and there wasn’t a global pandemic) I would hop over to the southern hemisphere during their winter just so I could avoid the heat. I live in a house that is over a hundred years old, has a ton of insulation and no air conditioning, so summer is just awful for me. But anyway, since my hobbies involve staying at home and reading, summer is a great time to switch up what I read because I am totally a seasonal reader. I did actually have this list completely primed and ready to go, but then some things happened involving She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named and I did some retuning. jsyk, i won’t be talking about jkr or any of her books on this blog ever again because her “opinions” are vile. Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert – What’s better than a queer book? A queer book that features a black protagonist from a blended family and also talks about mental health. I mentioned this book in my Books by Black Authors I Want […]

Posted May 19, 2020
Books, Discussions, Memes, Top 10 Tuesday

If you haven’t already guessed by now, I really love monsters. I love monsters so much that I named this book after a monster blog that I haven’t even read. Yet. I’m planning on getting to it soon! I have a box set of the entire Monstrumologist series so I have no excuse. The prompt or this week’s Top 10 Tuesday is “reasons why I love”, and originally I’d planned to talk about something else, but I decided to do a sort of intro to why my blog is themed the way that it is, and talk about my love of monsters. And this is a love so huge that I’ve studied monsters three times and hope to be an author who writes about monsters. I’m linking up to Top 10 Tuesday today! Be sure to swing by That Artsy Reader Girl if you want to join in! monsters are versatile A monster can be anything that their creator wants it to be. You may not want to make up an easily identifiable creature like a vampire or a werewolf and make up something completely original. But even if you do want to creature your own established creature, you can still do whatever […]

Posted May 12, 2020
Books, Memes, Top 10 Tuesday

Happy Tuesday, friends! 👋🏻 One of my goals for this year is to really make the effort to clean up my bookshelves. I have so many books that I have either lost interest in and will never read, or have read and didn’t like. I only want to keep books that I do have an interest in or will likely read again so that I can keep my shelves looking nice and neat. Because right now, my poor shelves are suffering with how cluttered they are. I tend to have two reasons as to why I remove a book from my TBR without reading it: I’m just not interested in the book anymore, or the author and their book are irredeemably problematic. I know that everyone talks about “separating the art from the artist” but if the author integrates their awful views into their book, I’m not going to give them my money or my support. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee – I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain why I’ve removed this book from my TBR if you’re up to date on the situation surrounding Mackenzi Lee signing books by POC authors. This would […]

Posted April 28, 2020
Books, Lists, Memes, Top 10 Tuesday

Even though I did do a fair bit of reading when I was little, there are a lot of children’s “classics” that I haven’t read. That might be because I wasn’t that interested in them, they weren’t widely available in the UK, or I just didn’t know that they existed. It happens sometimes. I could go ahead and seek out those books I missed out on and read them as an adult, but there is a big problem in that: I’m an adult who doesn’t have children and doesn’t plan to have children. There are children’s books out there that are still enjoyable to adults but I prefer to read things that are more suited to my reading age. Mostly. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis – I have actually read about 3/4 of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe at school. The movie came out when I was 10 so the teachers at my primary school decided that we would read it as a class before we all went to see it as part of a school trip. Unfortunately, the teacher I had decided to stop reading it because, according to her, the book is “supposed to last forever”. It’s 208 […]

Category: Top 10 Tuesday

My Summer 2020 TBR

Why I Love Monsters

Last 10 Books I Removed from My TBR