This week's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted as usual by The Broke and the Bookish is 'Books I would Recommend to X', where bloggers can decide what the X is. And I think I will go with the Top Ten Books I would Recommend to My 18 Year Old Self. Why, you ask. Well, the 18... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on My TBR List
I'm back in time for another Top Ten Tuesday, a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! Woohoo! Well, I'm kind of running out of excuses on why I have been MIA for so many days without notice. The only reason is that I have been trying really hard to get back to reading... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a Fantasy Setting
It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. And this week’s theme is Books with X Setting, and I have decided to replace the X with “Fantasy”. This comes hot on the heels of the Game of Thrones marathon that I... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books Set Outside the USA
Top Ten Tuesday is a book-related feature hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and this week’s topic is “Ten Books Set Outside the US”. This title got me thinking, hard. How often do you pick up a book thinking about where it is set? Most often I end up reading a book based on... Continue Reading →
Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
Surreal. It’s the one word that I can use to describe The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. But somehow that falls short of conveying all that this book is. It is dreamy, captivating, fascinating and mysterious. It’s everything I want from a novel. And it delivered so well on each point. No wonder then that... Continue Reading →
When Game of Thrones Happens
Not really sure how many of you noticed, but I’ve been quite irregular these past two weeks with my blogging. And I really don’t know how to say this, but… I’ve become quite (surprisingly) addicted to the Game of Thrones (GoT) TV show – though I haven’t gotten around to binge watching as much as... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – Freebie Week – The Top Ten Books I Can’t Believe I’ve never Read
Another post that's late! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, is a freebie – so I can choose any topic that has been done and I haven’t attempted before. Woohoo! After spending a few minutes with the list on The Broke and the Bookish blog, I chose “The Top... Continue Reading →
Books with a Purpose Tag
This post should have gone up 24 hours ago, but it didn't - looks like it made its way to 'drafts' instead of 'scheduled posts'. A big oops. But I hope you enjoy it, nevertheless! A big thank you to Kenyan Library for this tag - it’s always exciting to do a book tag! This... Continue Reading →
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline
Follow my blog with Bloglovin In the introduction to Coraline, Neil Gaiman states that he started writing the book for his then five year old daughter, who loved scary stories, but finished it six years later, just in time for his younger daughter to read. But I just cannot imagine how a four or five... Continue Reading →
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
A mysterious disappearance in the family, a younger brother with a peculiar personality, and twin siblings who are as different from her as chalk and cheese, force Meg Murry to be defensive with everyone she comes across. She can't help it. She's obstinate, angry and impatient, and underestimates her strengths. And it's all of this... Continue Reading →
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