Category: Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Recommend the Most

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Recommend the Most

Posted May 9, 2023 / 25 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is all about the books I recommend the most. As I was trying desperately to narrow this down, I realized that I tend to recommend by author more than I do by specific book. Because, generally, if I love one book by […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Shelf Awareness

Top Ten Tuesday: Shelf Awareness

Posted May 2, 2023 / 21 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is “The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf”. Always good to have a little shelf awareness, right? I knew I couldn’t be random, though – I would overthink it for sure – so I enlisted my husband to grab […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers With Less Common Animals

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers With Less Common Animals

Posted April 11, 2023 / 14 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is all about animals in the book or on the cover, and to be honest it took me a bit to figure out what direction I wanted to go with today’s post. I almost did recent cute dog covers but that quickly […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Self-Published Books I’ve Reviewed & Loved

Top Ten Tuesday: Self-Published Books I’ve Reviewed & Loved

Posted April 4, 2023 / 28 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is all about self-published books (note: the term ‘indie’ is also used interchangeably in the book world), and I confess that I wanted to curl in on myself at the thought of narrowing down my fave indie authors or books. So…. I […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Love – Bookish Places

Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Love – Bookish Places

Posted March 20, 2023 / 15 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a ‘Top Ten Tuesday rewind’ post where we can go back and do a topic we missed or revisit a topic we’ve already done. I decided to go with an update of sorts to my Bookish Edition Cover Love post from […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Picture Books on my Spring 2023 TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday: Picture Books on my Spring 2023 TBR List

Posted March 13, 2023 / 15 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is books on our Spring 2023 TBR lists but since I’ve already talked about that in a broad overview, I’m going to narrow it down to a specific type of book releasing in Spring 2023. As the self-proclaimed ‘cool aunt’ of several […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Some of my Recent Faves in Romantic Suspense

Top Ten Tuesday: Some of my Recent Faves in Romantic Suspense

Posted February 27, 2023 / 33 Comments

Happy Tuesday! And happy last day of February – can you believe how quickly 2023 is going by already?? Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a Genre Freebie, and I decided to talk about some recent faves I’ve read in the romantic suspense genre – my ‘comfort read’ genre, […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Some of My Favorite Heroines

Top Ten Tuesday: Some of My Favorite Heroines

Posted February 20, 2023 / 10 Comments

Happy Tuesday, dear readers! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is some of our favorite heroines, and at first I was going to skip this week because I’m super busy. But then 10 heroines popped immediately to mind and I thought, well…. I guess they want me to talk about […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Make Me a Match (Book Titles)

Top Ten Tuesday: Make Me a Match (Book Titles)

Posted February 13, 2023 / 17 Comments

Happy Tuesday and Happy Valentine’s Day!! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a Valentine’s Day freebie so I’m looking at some of my fave ‘make me a match’ book titles. Having ‘match’ in the title always implies a fun & swoony read to me, and these 10 titles certainly […]


Top Ten Tuesday: 2023 Debuts I Can’t Wait to Read

Top Ten Tuesday: 2023 Debuts I Can’t Wait to Read

Posted February 6, 2023 / 21 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is the 2023 debuts I can’t wait to read. To be fair, there are more than the 10 i’ve listed here today but some of the ones I’m excited about don’t have covers yet 🙂 I also went strictly with debut novels, […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Once Upon a Book Title

Top Ten Tuesday: Once Upon a Book Title

Posted January 30, 2023 / 14 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today is a freebie for Top Ten Tuesday, so I decided to see what books on my TBR list have titles that begin with the classic ‘Once Upon A Time’. Only, instead of ‘time’ these titles have substituted a multitude of word possibilities. Nothing makes me settle into […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Read for the First Time in 2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Read for the First Time in 2022

Posted January 23, 2023 / 43 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is authors I read for the first time in 2022. Some of these were debut authors but others were authors whose books I just sadly hadn’t had time to read yet. I definitely enjoyed my first experience with each of these author’s […]



Top Ten Tuesday: 2022 Reads That I’m Still Thinking About

Top Ten Tuesday: 2022 Reads That I’m Still Thinking About

Posted January 2, 2023 / 21 Comments

Happy Tuesday! I took a little break from Top Ten Tuesday during December but I’m delighted to back at it today with a look at some 2022 reads that I’m still thinking about. This of course isn’t a complete list but these are the first 10 that came to mind. […]


Top Ten Tuesday: A Bunch of Books With Thanksgiving Scenes

Top Ten Tuesday: A Bunch of Books With Thanksgiving Scenes

Posted November 22, 2022 / 18 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today the theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a ‘thankful freebie’ so I decided to look at a bunch of books from the last five years with Thanksgiving scenes in them. For some of these titles, it’s a major part of the story. For others, a more minor […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Past Halloween Freebie Posts

Top Ten Tuesday: Past Halloween Freebie Posts

Posted October 25, 2022 / 17 Comments

Happy Tuesday! This week’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is a Halloween freebie and, to be honest, I didn’t have any new ideas to use for it. So I decided to do a round-up of my past Halloween freebie posts, with a few updates along the way! Even though Halloween […]


Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Words to See in Book Titles

Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Words to See in Book Titles

Posted October 18, 2022 / 11 Comments

Happy Tuesday! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is ‘favorite words’, so I decided to add an element and talk about my favorite words to see in book titles. These are the words that will snag my attention on first sight and have me adding the book to my wishlist […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Fictional Bookstores I Want to Visit

Top Ten Tuesday: Fictional Bookstores I Want to Visit

Posted October 4, 2022 / 13 Comments

Happy Tuesday, dear readers! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is all about bookstores, so I decided to look at fictional bookstores that I want to visit – if only they actually existed! What is something about a bookstore that makes you want to check it out? For me, it’s […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Love – All About the Words

Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Love – All About the Words

Posted September 27, 2022 / 27 Comments

Happy Tuesday, my friends! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is typographic book covers – covers where the design is all, or mostly, words. Or, to say it another way, the cover is all about the words. This was a more difficult topic to narrow down than I anticipated so […]


Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles that Take Us Over The River

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles that Take Us Over The River

Posted September 13, 2022 / 15 Comments

Happy Tuesday, reading friends! Today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is “Books with Geographical Terms in the Title”, submitted by Lisa over at Hopewell. I decided to look at titles that take us over the river, so to speak. Do you like to go canoeing or swimming in a river? […]