Category: Weekly Memes

Top Ten Tuesdays #440: Love Freebie

Posted February 13, 2024 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 2 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #440: Love Freebie

Love Freebie: Books I Hope to Love 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 been slacking at blogging this year but I just haven’t had the creative energy for some reason. Hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of things soon! I haven’t done a Five Star Predictions on here in a while but I thought this would be a good opportunity to use a freebie to share some books I hope to love when I read them this year! These are listed in reverse pub date order – the first book comes out later this year.

Top Ten Tuesdays #439: Meant to Read in ’23

Posted January 23, 2024 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #439: Meant to Read in ’23

Books I Meant to Read in 2023 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 shared my 24 in 24 in last week’s TTT, which featured many books I said I was going to read in 2023, along with a few 2024 releases. I put all of the 2023-must-reads on my TBR cart and took a cute photo, so here’s my answer for this particular TTT!

Top Ten Tuesdays #438: Bookish Goals

Posted January 16, 2024 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment
Top Ten Tuesdays #438: Bookish Goals

Bookish Goals for 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. I wrote my usual bookish resolutions and goals post a few weeks ago but thought I’d highlight five major categories and two specific goals in each. Some may be repetitive from that post but I hope (for the most part) to share a few things I really hope to accomplish this year! General Reading Read 100 books // I had some down years from 2020-2022 and read less than I have in a long time. I finally felt rejuvenated in 2023 and managed to read 115 books (my goal was 80 books). I decided to challenge myself this year to reading 100 books, since I managed to exceed that last year, but also didn’t want to make it too much of a stretch. Focus on Netgalley books and get my ratio up to 75% // I’m currently at 69% and am being incredibly picky about what books I request on there. They really have to be top, highly anticipated reads! I want to, as always, try to read books in the same month they come out (or well before!). I know that there are a lot of backlist reads on there that […]

Reading Life Lately: Blog, Booktube, Spotify, and Genre Shifts

Posted January 15, 2024 / Reading Life Lately, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Reading Life Lately: Blog, Booktube, Spotify, and Genre Shifts

I thought I’d share some random book- and reading-related thoughts, since it’s been a while! Blog I miss when my blog was a place where I could or would chat about all the things… and I actually wanted to write posts! For me, it’s hard to imagine giving this spot on the internet up even if people don’t read blogs much anymore. I never did this for the comments (clearly because I’m terrible at replying to them!) but I just enjoy putting my thoughts out there. I’ve debating lately as I approach the 10 year anniversary if this is a space worth having, but like I said… I can’t imagine not sharing about books here. You may notice my reviews get shorter and the “extra” fun posts slowing down, but I’ll still be here <3 Booktube I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been wanting to start a booktube channel or another video medium for my book thoughts. At a bare minimum, I’d like to use my booktok more (and get used to showing my face on there?). I keep making excuses but the main reason is that we live in a dark little house (very cozy, but not amazing for filming content). We’ll be buying a house next year and I’ll have so many bookshelves and spots to film, so part of me is thinking that’s the right time. But is it ever the right time? Maybe I should just go for it… Spotify Audiobooks This feature has genuinely been a […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #437: Anticipated

Posted January 9, 2024 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #437: Anticipated

Most Anticipated Releases: First Half of 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. I love writing this post each year! I always get so rejuvenated reading-wise when the new year begins, which is so funny because I usually don’t care much about resolutions and NYE stuff. Nonetheless, here are the books I’m excited to read through June of 2024! January February March April May June  

Top Ten Tuesdays #436: Favorites

Posted January 2, 2024 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #436: Favorites

Favorites of 2023 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 made a couple of graphics for Instagram to highlight my favorites, so I thought I would share them here! I had a great reading year as you would have seen yesterday in my stats wrap-up. Of the 115 books I read, only 11 of them ended up with five stars. The first graphic has my five-star reads of the year. It absolutely pains me that I couldn’t add one more book on this one but I’ll take what I can get. This graphic was a little competition between favorites from each month this year. I knew which book was going to take the crown as my #1 favorite this year. I wanted to share this as well because it shows a few books I gave 4.5 stars and were therefore not on my five-star list above.

Top Ten Tuesdays #435: Recent Additions

Posted December 26, 2023 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment
Top Ten Tuesdays #435: Recent Additions

Recent Additions to my Bookshelf 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 shared the books I hope Santa brings last week and I’ve already gotten a couple of them! I know I may get one more from my dad (EMILY WILDE) but I’m going to write this post before Christmas 😉 I also decided to do both physical and digital bookshelves so I could show some of the egalleys I’ve received lately. Egalleys I’m really excited for these new egalleys! Two of these are longtime favorite authors (Kieran Scott – literally a preteen favorite of mine when she wrote as Kate Brian – and Emma Lord). Lauren Kung Jessen is a promising new favorite. I loved her debut and am even more excited for her sophomore novel. The premise is right up my alley! Purchased Books I did decide to buy the special FOURTH WING edition just for the hell of it because I preordered the IRON FLAME one lol. I bought THE TAKEDOWN and THE GRAHAM EFFECT on the same day at B&N because they were BOGO 50% off. I saw ZERO DAYS at my library book sale for $4 so I just grabbed it even though people haven’t really […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #434: Santa

Posted December 19, 2023 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 0 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #434: Santa

Books I Hope Santa Brings (and Post-Christmas Gift Card Purchase Ideas) 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 don’t usually put a lot of books on my Christmas wishlist because we’re an Amazon wishlist kind of family. I try to buy my books from pretty much anywhere other than Amazon. However, I did have a few for people to pick from. I also have ideas of what books to buy/preorder using the gift cards from Christmas. On My Wishlist I added EMILY WILDE to my wishlist for my dad because I loved it and really want to own a copy. I have a review copy for book two but definitely will need that hardcover as well (see below lol). I’m in a booktuber’s Patreon and she buys a book for her patrons at the end of the year so I added a few books to that wishlist for her to pick from to send me. Post-Holiday Gift Card Purchases / Preorders There are a handful of books I’m really excited to read in 2024 and all of these are coming out somewhere from January on. I love most of these authors and there’s one that I still haven’t read from yet […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #433: Winter TBR

Posted December 12, 2023 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 5 Comments
Top Ten Tuesdays #433: Winter TBR

Winter TBR (EOY – Feb) 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. We’re right around the middle of December and I know winter “starts” in a week or two, but I fully agree with anyone who thinks winter begins on December 1st. I’ve been working through holiday stories this month and will definitely bang out as many as possible before the end of the month! This TBR will feature some books I hope to get to for the rest of December as well as early next year (January and February). Already Released Publishing Soon Review Copies

Top Ten Tuesdays #432: Holiday Covers

Posted December 5, 2023 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 1 Comment
Top Ten Tuesdays #432: Holiday Covers

Freebie: Favorite Recent Holiday Book 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. A freebie usually means a cover-related post from Bookmark Lit! In the spirit of the holiday season (which I am doing a terrible job of keeping up with so far this year…), I thought I would share some of my favorite holiday book covers that have been released recently.