Category: Weekly Memes

Sunday Post #5 – She’s Back?

Posted April 13, 2025 / Sunday Post, Weekly Memes / 2 Comments

The Sunday Post is hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, where you share news about your blog on a weekly basis. It can include what you’ve been reading, what you’ve posted, what’s coming up next, and any books you added to your shelves! I did four of these back in 2015 and clearly fell off. They’re meant to be a weekly link-up but I know I’d never keep up with that at this point in my life! I thought it would be fun to occasionally highlight some things I’ve been up to since I rarely – if ever – share about my life on here anymore? I used to do monthly personal life recaps but they just haven’t happened in years. Without further ado, let’s give this a go again! It’s hard to know where to even begin since I haven’t talked about my life in ages on here. My last Lauren Lately was in March 2020… a literal lifetime ago for so many reasons. I did some DITL posts and a big life recap post in 2021 as well as a Currently installment in 2023, but that’s it! Without getting into the million little things and very few big things since 2023, let’s just go with the last few weeks or 2025 in general. (UConn) Basketball UCONN WOMENS BASKETBALL WON THE NATTY AGAIN! We got so into basketball this season and I became way too invested in Paige Bueckers winning her national championship before graduating. All of the girls […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #469: Springy Covers

Posted April 8, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment

Springy Covers Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I’m a huge sucker for a book with flowers and cute springy vibes! These are some of my favorites from the last couple of years, including books releasing soon.

Top Ten Tuesdays #468: Spring TBR

Posted April 1, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment

Spring TBR (Late Post) Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I never miss a TBR post, except apparently this month. I haven’t been keeping up with blogging too much lately. In any case, I can’t actually skip a seasonal TBR! Here’s my late Spring TBR Upcoming Releases: April Upcoming Releases: May Released & to Read in Spring

Top Ten Tuesdays #467: Timey Wimey Stuff

Posted March 11, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment

Books that Feature… Time Travel / Parallel Universes / Time Loops Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I’m a huge fan of books that feature time travel, parallel universes, alternate realities, etc. – the list goes on. I have a shelf on Goodreads for tracking “parallel timey stuff” for this reason, and have written countless blog posts about it: here and here to start. I thought this post could be fun since I haven’t written one in a while! I’ll feature books on my TBR that fall into these categories as well as some tried-and-true favorites for recommendations. Timey TBR Books I did my best to categorize these but obviously there’s some overlap for certain books. I consider there to be 4-5 main categories of timey-wimey books and will explain them in each section below! Time Loops / Groundhog Day This one involves someone repeating the same day or week etc. over and over again, like the movie Groundhog Day. I’ve read quite a few of these books but none SUPER nail it for me. There are a lot of directions the author can go with the ending but usually there’s something the person needs to learn before resuming life again. […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #466: Love Freebie

Posted February 11, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments

Love Freebie: Fave Recent & Upcoming Covers Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. As always, you can count on me doing a book cover-related post when there’s a freebie! This “love freebie” will include book covers I love (recent releases and upcoming books).

Top Ten Tuesdays #465: 2024 Remaining TBR

Posted February 4, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment

2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I’m slowly moving my stuff over to Storygraph to avoid using Goodreads but I haven’t turned all of my “extra” shelves into “tags” yet on there. So, I went over to my “jazzed up for this” shelf on Goodreads to see what 2024 releases were on there that I’m shocked I haven’t read yet. Without further ado, here they are!

Top Ten Tuesdays #464: New-to-Me Authors

Posted January 28, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments

Favorite New-to-Me Authors from 2024 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Catherine Mack // Joseph Knox // Steve Cavanagh Amy Tintera // Jessica Knoll // Kristy Greenwood // Stacy Willingham Mallory Marlowe // Liz Moore // Heather Gudenkauf

Top Ten Tuesdays #463: TBR Additions

Posted January 21, 2025 / Goals & Planning, Personal / Information / Etc., Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 3 Comments

10 Recent Books Added to My TBR: Physical and Digital Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This prompt is to share the 10 most recent additions to your TBR. I decided to split this out and share the five books I most recently added to my physical TBR, then the five books I added to read on Goodreads/Storygraph. Here we go! 5 New Physical Books Acquired I preordered BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL by buying tickets to the Sarah Adams discussion and book signing up in Portland, ME. I knew my sister would want to go since she lives in Maine and I try to go up there as often as humanly possible haha. It was a fun event! While at the Books-a-Million store, I decided to pick up a copy of HEARTLESS HUNTER kind of randomly. Everyone is reading this and loving it. I also realized that it’s on Kindle Unlimited, so I’m a little annoyed I bought it lol. I’m trying to be in my fantasy era this year so hopefully I’ll just read it using both formats. My January BOTM arrived recently so those are the other two books I recently acquired. I picked THE FAVORITES because everyone keeps […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #462: Goals

Posted January 14, 2025 / Goals & Planning, Personal / Information / Etc., Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 5 Comments

Bookish Goals for 2025 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I usually write a bookish goals and resolutions post but I didn’t this year. I feel like I never actually pay attention to these things throughout the year! I thought I would keep it simple and go over my basic goals and thoughts for my reading in 2025. Reading Goal = 75 Books Last year I squeaked out the 100 books I had set for my Goodreads goal. I ended up reading a lot of books under/around 200 pages like graphic novels and novellas in order to stay on pace. It was kind of a weird reading year where I didn’t love a lot of books and everything felt very mid. Knowing that I could easily read 6 books a month instead of 8-9, I decided to set my goal at 75 books. My secret back-of-mind goal is to actually read 100 books but we’ll see. Challenges Simplified I have historically signed up for a number of challenges and even tried to do the same thing again for 2025. Right before my challenge post went live, I decided to bow out of one and keep it even simpler. I’m doing the […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #461: Most Anticipated

Posted January 7, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 6 Comments

Most Anticipated Books of 2025 – First Half Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I really love the start of a new year to look at things like this and feel refreshed. I’ll try to not go crazy here but I like to track what’s coming so I can reflect on it later and see what I actually read. Based on the books below, May is my most anticipated reading month – there are so many good ones scheduled! January February March April May June