Tag: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

My “Crossing” Booklist: Ten Favorite Books I Would Take To The New World (2020 Edition)

Posted February 27, 2020 in Bookish Things // 2 Comments

You know that old question: “If you were stuck on a desert island and could only have 10 books, which 10 would you pick”? It’s an old question, and one that pops up on Top Ten lists all the time. In fact, I’ve already done a post like this, back in 2018! At the time, the Top Ten Tuesday meme had a lot of great answers I’d ever thought of… including books that would actually be useful on a desert island. Honestly, I always interpreted that questions as “you’re stuck on an island, what books would you read over and over […]

The June Wrap Up: With Movies, MasterClass, & SO MANY BOOKS

Posted July 1, 2019 in Checking In // 5 Comments

Happy July everyone! This month reminds me of picnics and spending summers at the lake by my family. We didn’t have a lake house or anything, but there was a really nice beach in bicycling distance and there were some summers when we were there every day. Ah, life was so much simpler when I was twelve. Intense haul this month, mostly due to BookCon on June 1st, and a whole lot of ARCs? Seriously, y’all are going to be drowning in book reviews in September because most of these books are published in September/October. I’m both sorry for the […]

10 Book to Movie Adaptations I Actually LOVED

Posted May 14, 2019 in Memes // 22 Comments

Most of us bookish sorts talk about film adaptations with contempt. We see the stories we know and love adapted into monstrosities that make our hearts ache and misrepresent everything we love to the non-reading public. Believe me, I can relate. I watched this happen with particular favorites, like Ready Player One and The Dark Tower. All that said, I’ve also come across several book-related films that I have particularly enjoyed. Some of these weren’t even particularly faithful adaptations… but they managed to retain (for me) the spirit of the book and brought to life characters I adored. In the bookish community, […]

My OTP Narrator/Book Matches

Posted March 26, 2019 in Memes // 24 Comments

I am a HUGE audiobook listener – more than 2/3 of my reading the last two years has been via audiobooks. So color me surprised when I went to review my “read by” section of my review archive, only to discover that I’ve only listened to a handful of narrators a couple times. This post was supposed to be about ten amazing narrators, but instead, I’m giving you something else. One of the audiobook pain points that came up for the post a couple weeks ago was that a bad narrator ruins a book. I am 100% on board with this […]

The Sunshine Blogger Award #2

Posted January 14, 2019 in Blogging Awards // 0 Comments

Last July, I was nominated by Amanda @ Literary Weaponry for the Sunshine Blogger Award! For those of you who haven’t visited Amanda’s blog yet – please do! She’s a lovely lady and one of my favorites. 🙂 The Sunshine Blogger Award is all about being creative, positive, and… well… sunshiny! 🙂 This is the second time I’ve received this award, so thank you to Amanda and everyone else who thinks my blog is a happy place. 🙂 The Rules Thank the blogger who nominated you by linking their blog Answer the questions Nominate 11 5 blogs (because I’m a […]