Category: Weekly Memes

Top Ten Tuesdays #472: Anticipated Reads

Posted June 24, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 3 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #472: Anticipated Reads

Anticipated Reads for EOY (Jul-Dec) 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 love posts like this to see what is going on for the remainder of the year. I’m surprised to see I currently have no books planned for December but I’m sure they’ll pop up as the year progresses! I usually don’t include my egalleys on here because they’re not “anticipated” when I have them on my ereader, right? But I like advertising all the goods! Note: I already read DEAD OF SUMMER by Jessa Maxwell – that would be featured in my July section otherwise. I drafted this in early July so there’s a chance more books get read before this goes live too 😉 July   August   September   October   November

Top Ten Tuesdays #471: Summer TBR

Posted June 17, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 4 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #471: Summer TBR

Summer TBR 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’ve posted a number of summery things lately (summer reading challenges, summery books on my general reading list, and summer TBR/bucket list) but thought I would use this TTT to share the summer TBR graphic I shared on Instagram.

Top Ten Tuesdays #470: Summer Freebie

Posted June 3, 2025 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #470: Summer Freebie

Summery Books on my List 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. My friend reached out to me the other day and was looking for recommendations on a classic summer read – boardwalks, small town vibes, beaches, cottages, ice cream, etc. – all of the books I used to love reading within the YA age target. Think Carley Fortune and Emily Henry for adult books and Jenny Han for young adult. There are still a number of YA books on my list that I should read for the nostalgia and all the feels. I thought I’d share some new and old summery reads that are on my list that I may dive into.  

Sunday Post #5 – She’s Back?

Posted April 13, 2025 / Sunday Post, Weekly Memes / 2 Comments
Sunday Post #5 – She’s Back?

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
Top Ten Tuesdays #469: Springy Covers

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
Top Ten Tuesdays #468: Spring TBR

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
Top Ten Tuesdays #467: Timey Wimey Stuff

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
Top Ten Tuesdays #466: Love Freebie

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
Top Ten Tuesdays #465: 2024 Remaining TBR

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

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