Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Here are my top five books (or series) with magical systems that will surely captivate any reader and make you wish you’re living in a magical realm!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – Set in Hailsham which is some sort of a boarding house where students are supported and trained mainly in arts and are exposed very mildly to the outside world and are protected by the “guardians.”
Wonder by R.J. Palacio – This is Auggie’s story starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep and wants nothing but to be treated as an ordinary boy despite his extraordinary face.
Looking for Alaska by John Greene – Pudge heads off to Culver Creek Boarding School where he meets Alaska who steals his heart and launches him to the Great Perhaps.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher – High School is not always easy and here Hannah committed suicide leaving her schoolmates a trail of thirteen reasons why.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – High school is pretty much spending time with friends. And it’s during this time that we spend with our friends that we start to build connections/relationships that matter and hope to last.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (August 2)
Ithaca by Claire North (September 6)
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye (September 6)
The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman (September 20)
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
As of today, I’ve rated seven books as 5-star reads. So it’s not really Top 5 Tuesday today. 🙂 It’s Top 7 Tuesday! 🙂 These seven books are wonderful, fascinating and very interesting in different ways. Highly recommended!
Additionally, these three books below are also worth mentioning. I’ve rated these books 4.5 stars and are also highly recommended.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
It’s always a treat to cozy up with a good book on rainy days. Rainy day reading is one of the best feelings ever! Don’t you think so, too? Here are five of my top rainy day reads…
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe would always remind me of winter. As the youngest sibling discovers the door and the world behind the wardrobe and the curse over the land that it will always be winter but no Christmas.
Beach and sharks. Well, wouldn’t that remind you of summer? And what good book could that be other than Peter Benchley’s Jaws, right?
A Christmas Carol is another book that would surely remind everyone of the winter season.
Sweet Bean Paste is set during the cherry blossom season in Tokyo with a doroyaki shop under the tree that blossoms the most.
In The Great Gatsby, summer and fall were used in the plot to symbolize the characters’ situations.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Arthur Less will take you on a trip to several places like India, Berlin and Morocco as he struggles to accept that he is turning 50 while going through a very painful breakup. His adventures and misadventures will let him discover more and more about himself.
The Beach centers on the backpackers and their quest to do something different. An American travels to Southeast Asia when a fellow backpacker commits suicide and leaves him with a map to an ideal destination. I haven’t seen the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio but I’m considering.
The Vacationers is a book that reminds us that it takes more than an trip to escape our worries and problems.
Nine strangers travels to a wellness retreat for various reasons set in a boutique Australian health spa. They are faced with suspicious methods practiced by the staffs on how to “reset” their lives. Nine Perfect Strangers is dark, sometimes funny, suspenseful and mysterious.
Wayward Son is the sequel to Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On. It was a fun book about friendships and relationships and their exciting journeys with stolen vehicles. Truly an adventure as Simon and Baz’s relationship strengthened though no closure or anything decisive happened… yet.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
This week’s a freebie, a chance to come up with our own topic, so I decided to do top five of my non-fiction reads so far this year.
Growing Up Bin Laden – This is a very interesting view of Osama bin Laden having a very good life until giving it all up for his undying love for jihad. Told by his first wife, Najwa, and one of his many sons, Omar, this is a fascinating read.
The Ride of a Lifetime – Fascinating, candid and inspiring memoir.
Fear – Much of what we read in this book were already seen or heard in the news and the public is already very aware of Mr. Trump’s bullying, lies, etc. So unsurprisingly, it’s not a charming read.
Walking with Ghosts – Well, who would’ve thought that apart from being a great actor, Gabriel Byrne is also a great writer? Beautifully written.
The Copenhagen Trilogy – The first part (Childhood) of the book came strong and I was totally hooked but the second (Youth) and third (Dependency) parts didn’t come as strong and the writing became dry and impersonal. I’ll consider a second reading after a few years.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Bookmarks
Book weight
Book light
Lap pillow
Kindle case
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Parks
Porch
In front of the fireplace
Cozy bar or lounge
Hammock
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Coffee serves its own purpose while reading so this definitely is my top choice while reading. And I want my coffee black, no sugar (with the exception of Vietnamese egg coffee). Hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows is my preferred drink while reading before going to sleep. A cold can or bottle beer is my choice of drink when I read the works of Milan Kundera, Jose Saramago or Sam Harris and the like. Thai iced tea is another choice whenever available. And lastly, human blood. Oh no, wait! I was just kidding. Ha! I mean, bubble tea.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I usually don’t eat while reading because it gets messy, whether I’m using my Kindle or reading paperbacks, I know you know what I mean. Haha! Plus I really get easily distracted with food regardless of what I’m doing. So, yeah! However, I usually snack while reading when I travel. Why? No particular reason, I just do. So today, let me share with you five of my favorite snacks while reading.
I love pumpkin pie and the best I’ve tasted was from a small, cozy cafe in Tbilisi. I also enjoy salty popcorn sometimes and cookies whenever available. When I’m really hungry but I want to read, I opt for pizza, the lesser toppings, the better. And lastly, french fries!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The Graveyard Book is the delightful and scary story of Bod Owens who was adopted by the occupants of a graveyard after his family was murdered by a mysterious assassin.
The Book Thief is a beautiful and heartbreaking novel narrated by Death itself.
In Tuesday with Morrie, Mitch Albom’s professor, Morrie Schwartz, had been his guardian angel. However, they drifted apart as they lived their lives. Before Morrie’s death, this relationship gets rekindled.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella about the terror of death and Ivan’s fear of dying.
Looking for Alaska is a book about death and how people live their last days.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic is not very easy for me so I had to ask my bookish friends again to help me out. 🙂 And here are the five books they’ve recommended to me…
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – A feminist dystopia that objectifies women as nothing more than reproductive systems.
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell – Two alternating stories, one in the 1950s, the other 50 years later. An excellent portrayal of motherhood and a mother’s love (according to my friend who shared this to me and I hope to reading soon).
The Birth House by Ami McKay – Set in the 1900s in Canada, the main character is an apprentice midwife caught in the middle between old ways of doing things vs the new ways in terms of child birth.
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman – This is the story of a girl without a name, without parents and without a home until the village midwife found her and made her her apprentice. Eventually, she was challenged to deliver a baby in the midwife’s absence.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue – Ireland, 1918. The world is ravaged by the Spanish flu. Nurse Julia is in charge of a small room for expectant mothers.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Well, well… there are a lot of books I anticipate reading this second quarter of the year but the first five titles that come to mind are these:
Expected publication: 12-April
Expected publication: 05-April (Today!)
Expected publication: 3-May
Expected publication: 7-June
Expected publication: 3-May
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
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The Book Thief – Living with foster parents, Liesel tried to learn how to read from stolen books.
The History of Love – A long-lost book reappears and affects the lives of a young woman and an old man.
The Shadow of the Wind – Set in 1945 Barcelona, the discovery of a forgotten book that lead to a thrilling adventure.
The Thirteenth Tale – Eerie, unsettling and a clever mystery with unforgettable characters.
The Book of Lost Names – Eva Troube, now in her 80s, was shocked to find an article about how the Nazis stole or destroyed invaluable books during the WWII. In the article was a book Eva thought she’d never see again.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The Thirteen Clocks
The Cuckoo Clock
The Secret of the Old Clock
The Clock Winder
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
With this week’s topic, books with jewels, the only book that came to mind was The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Ha! So I decided to ask some friends for titles. Luckily enough, I was able to complete five. I haven’t read any of these books yet but I’m adding all these on my TBR…
The Lost Jewels
All by Myself, Alone
The Secret of the Ruby Ring
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Black Opal
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice & Fire,#1) – Seven hells! The hype was real! The never-ending war for the iron throne.
The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms, #1) – The first book in the trilogy that I hope to read this year.
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) – Reviews about this book are very mixed so I can’t really make up my mind to read this.
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne – This has been on my TBR for like forever so I hope to read this soon.
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages – I’ve heard very good things and praises for Mr. Jones’ works so I’m very eager to get my hands on this and because it is always very interesting to read about the Middle Ages.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
As a reader, magical doorways is one of my favorite tropes. When a character finds a magical door and a different world on the other side very much intrigues me and sets my imagination at work. Here are the five books I’ve read with magical doorways:
As a child, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a top favorite. Alice passed through several doorways starting with that rabbit hole!
The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a book shared to me by my elder brother when we were children. “Open Sesame” and the door will open to a cave full of treasures!
Remember the doors of Durin? Now I’m not quite sure if it was first mentioned in The Fellowship of the Ring (forgive me!) but as Gandalf translated it to the others, “The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak “friend” and enter.” This is one of my favorite doors!
One of the most well-known magical doorways — the wardrobe door to Narnia!
Coraline and her family moved to a new house where she discovered a key to a locked door in their living room. Spooky story but makes us realize that an imperfect world is a fine thing.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday! My first in a very long time…
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I don’t often reread books but I absolutely love it when I do. If it weren’t for my ever growing TBR pile, I’d gladly go back to many books I either loved or didn’t quite like. It’s always fun and nice to experience the same story again. Rereading always offer me something new and more often rereading makes me understand and appreciate the book more. This year, I hope to reread these 5 books:
All these books were 5-star reads for me. They all belong to my favorites list. I love them for different reasons and for their different effects on me as a reader. Hopefully, I’d really get my hands on them again this year.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Personally, I always find the books far, far better than their movie or TV adaptations. There are only a very few adaptations that turned out better than the books, very few, like what I’ve included in last week’s Top 5 Tuesday post. Today, let me share with you the top 5 books (among the very many!) that I find far better than their adaptations.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
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Now this isn’t an easy topic today… hmmm… adaptations are mostly a no-no for me but let’s try it, shall we?
Now don’t get me wrong here… I loved the books so much, I really do. But the movies justified the books farther than I expected to be quite honest, with all the special effects, soundtracks, cast and all. I enjoyed and loved the movies a lot. So the books will remain to be my favorites and the movie adaptations, too, but a little bit more!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Hmmm… well, yeah, I guess there are some books which I think can be very good TV adaptations. It can give more details compared to movies so I think I’d prefer it more. Let’s get started, shall we?
I’ve read Pachinko in 2019 and it easily became one of my favorites that year. When I finished reading the book, I really wished someone will adapt it into a TV series. And just a few days ago, I found out that there is indeed an upcoming TV series for it starring Lee Min-Ho!
The Mountains Sing is a bittersweet family saga of the Tran family in North Vietnam. This book is filled with heartbreak and tragedy. But it is also full of hope and love. I think this story will truly capture hearts even as a TV adaptation.
A Little Life is one of the longest novels I’ve read. I loved it and I really think it could be a great TV series.
I think The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is currently in the early stages of its TV adaptation so I’m really looking forward to it!
If I can remember correctly, I think Netflix signed a deal with an African producer for the TV adaptation of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. I’m truly excited for this one so I hope it comes out soon.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to this month’s first Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
My friends and those who have been following my blog for some time now are well aware that I love reading and that I’m not a big fan of watching flicks and how I almost always deride movie adaptations. However, there are a few good books I somehow wish had movie adaptations. (Or maybe they do have but I just didn’t know?) Anyway, here they are…
The plot of Kafka on the Shore is weird and well, it gets even weirder. I don’t think there’s any point making a movie out of it but I’m curious how anyone would do it.
I’ve read somewhere that an Australian film producer will make a movie adaptation of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. I loved this book so I hope they can turn it into a great movie.
I don’t think there would be any movie adaptations for The Shadow of the Wind and all of Zafon’s books as he already refused all proposals. I’m still somehow curious how they’d create the magic Zafon’s books give us and The Shadow of the Wind would prove to be a challenging one.
I’m not very sure but I think I’ve read somewhere that the adaptation for The Night Circus is still at the early stages and is making slow progress but I am looking forward to the movie.
Jodi Picoult have several adaptations on her sleeves already though I haven’t watched any… yet… but I’m sure interested to watch The Storyteller if they’d turn it into a movie.
There goes my list! How about you? What books do you wish had movie adaptations? Feel free to share!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I have just recently started reading graphic novels so I don’t really have much to share. So I’m sharing the three I’ve recently read and two others that I am really looking forward to reading.
Maus I by Art Spiegelman is my first ever graphic novel and I loved it!
So of course, I had to read Maus II.
My third graphic novel read is Will Eisner’s A Contract with God.
I am inclined to read Blankets and Palestine next. Both of these graphic novels were recommendations and I’d be happy to oblige.
What graphic novels have you read and which ones are your favorites? Feel free to share!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
The Kite Runner is Khaled Hosseini’s marvelous first novel. The story of friendship between two boys in Afghanistan. This definitely swept me away!
The Sympathizer is a powerful novel from Viet Thanh Nguyen about the Vietnam War and its aftermath. The author definitely has a way with words!
A Man Called Ove is a charming novel about a grumpy old man named Ove. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry as the story unfolds. A Very memorable read from Fredrik Backman.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong is a devastatingly beautiful debut novel. It was written in a form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. This is the kind of book that feels like a heart bleeding in pages.
The Silent Patient is an outstanding, shocking and unforgettable psychological thriller debut novel from Alex Michaelides. Total page-turner!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I rated The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 4-stars but I think I can easily give it 5-stars if I get to reread it.
My Cousin Rachel is one of the many books I want to reread. I first rated this as 3-stars but I think a reread will give it a higher rating from me.
I rated The Dutch House 3-stars on my first reading. I remember loving the book when I began reading it and somewhere through the story it just went downhill. I might have missed something or whatever but I would love to reread this and I think the chances are high for it to be rated higher than 3-stars.
Demian is the book that made me decide that Hermann Hesse’s works aren’t my cup of tea. Some of my seniors though regard Demian very highly and they encourage me to reread it and then decide. So this could either rate higher or lower than my previous rating of 2-stars if ever I decide a reread.
Half of a Yellow Sun was a very educational and informative read for me and also my first experience of Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi. I’ve rated this 4-stars because it left me wondering where Kainene is and what happened to her. Until now, I am still wondering of the same thing. When I get to reread this, I probably will rate it 5 perfect stars because I know I loved this book but I still hope to find clues or probably figure out or give my own ending of what happened to Kainene.
How about you? What books do you consider to re-rate?
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I still remember the very first time I’ve read The Kite Runner, the tear-jerking moments, the eagerness to know what is going to happen next and Hassan! Oh, my dear Hassan!
A Man Called Ove is a casual mix of tragedy and comedy. I loved the rawness of Ove’s character and the story altogether.
A Game of Thrones is a book where I stopped liking the characters because if I do, they’d get killed next! Haha! I loved the book so much and the characters, too!
Gone Girl is just the perfect example of a deliciously twisted thriller!
Norwegian Wood introduced me to Murakami who is now one of my favorite authors. This book also started my love affair with Japanese literature.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
These are the top five middle grade books for me. Not sure if they count as middle grade, haha, but I believe they’re very suitable for children aged 8-12 years old.
What are your top middle grade reads? Do we have a book in common? Feel free to share. 🙂
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I was exposed to reading at a very early age but as far as I can remember, one of the books that really got me into reading as a child was Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland.
It was my older brother who introduced these two books to me when I was maybe 12 or 13 years old. And I just love both of these! These made me seek for more adventures and books that I can relate to.
Norwegian Wood started my love affair with Japanese literature.
The Kite Runner touched me to the core unlike any other and so this book got me into reading all the more.
How about you? What books got you into reading? I’d be delighted to know!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
How about you? What books did you wish you’ve read sooner or when you were younger? Feel free to share!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! It’s March and here’s my first Top 5 Tuesday of the month!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Today I’m sharing five of my favorite reads during my childhood. There were a lot of books I enjoyed reading as a child but these five books are some that I can turn back to again and again and again.
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! It’s time for the last Top 5 Tuesday of February!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
Have you read any from these authors books? Which ones did you like? Any recommendations? And how about you? Who are some authors you haven’t read any book from yet? I’d be delightful to know so feel free to share.
Happy Tuesday!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! It’s time for another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I’m not very fond of series. I’m a bit dismissive about it. Why? First and foremost, I’m impatient. Second, I hate too much or too little backstories. Third, I, well, forget several details from the previous books. This is why I have only read a very few series like A Song of Ice & Fire and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (does that count?).
However, this year, I hope to at least start with one of the the following series:
2. Time Quintet by Madeleine L’engle
3. War of the Roses by Conn Iggulden
4. The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Have you read any of these series? What do you think about them? Or any recommendations? What series do you want to start this year? I’d be glad to know.
Happy reading!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! It’s time for another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I’ve had several books I meant to read in 2020 but somehow didn’t get the chance to get to them yet. Hopefully, I can read them all this year. In the meantime, here are five of them:
How about you? What books did you mean to read in 2020 but still hadn’t gotten into? Feel free to share in the comments section or drop a link of your post so I can read them all!
Happy reading!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! It’s time for another Top 5 Tuesday!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
How about you? What books do you surely intend to read this year? Feel free to share in the comments section or drop a link of your post so I can read them all!
Happy reading!
Happy Tuesday, Homo sapiens! Today is the first Top 5 Tuesday of 2021 and I’m excited to do this again after a very long while!
Top 5 Tuesday was originally hosted by Shanah at Bionic Bookworm and now found its home with Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
I hope to read more outside my comfort zone and discover something new as much as I can. I intend to read more non-fiction and maybe poetry.
I have this (really bad, well that depends on your point of view) habit of buying several books at once and not read them right away so it all piles up. So I hope to focus on these books I already own this year.
Now I have a lot on my list of books I’ve been wanting to read for a long, long time. I should get started soon!
I don’t really write the grandest of book reviews but writing a little something as soon as I finish a book and not wait for weeks or days is something I want to focus on.
I wasn’t able to read as much classics as I intended to last year so maybe this year would be a good chance.
How about you? What are your bookish resolutions this year? Feel free to share in the comments section or drop a link of your post so I can read them all!
Happy reading!
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
This tag is hosted by Shannah over at Bionic Book Worm.
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
This tag is hosted by Shannah over at Bionic Book Worm.
To be honest, I’m not very fond of series. I’m a bit dismissive about it. Why? First and foremost, I’m impatient. Second, I hate too much or too little backstories. Third, I, well, forget several details from the previous books. This is why I have only read very few series like A Song of Ice & Fire and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I hope to start with a new one this year and hopefully finish the entire series, too, and here are my choices:
Have you read any of these series? What did you think of them? Do you think these are great choices? What’s on your list? Feel free to leave a link or share in the comments sections. I’d be glad to read them.
Happy Tuesday and keep safe, Homo sapiens!
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
This tag is hosted by Shannah over at Bionic Book Worm.
Today’s topic is:
Now this would be a really long list but I’m choosing the first five that comes to mind while writing this.
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
1. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
This is my first experience of Jonas Jonasson’s works and I smiled and laughed most of the way through this book. If absurd adventures with some dark humor is okay with you, then you’ll enjoy this.
2. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
This book really touched my heart and also also made me laugh a lot of times throughout. One of my best reads so far this year.
3. The Princess and the Penis by R.J. Silver
This was a cute and silly read that made me giggle and smile like an idiot for a good half an hour! A story with a naughty twist of your childhood fairy tale.
4. Cain by Jose Saramago
Cain is a laugh out loud funny little read but at the same time makes us chew on several profound moral questions about the nature of God and events in the Old Testament.
5. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Carry On is a cute and funny read with a really cool plot. Even though I’m not a big fan of fantasy and chosen one stories, I was amazed by this one! It’s super gay and I think that is why I enjoyed it so much. The cute, silly banters were a lot of fun, Rainbow Rowell really struck me with her sarcastic wit.
Have you read any of these books? Which books gave you a good laugh? Please feel free to share a link of your Top 5 Tuesdays or share which books made you laugh in the comments section.
Keep safe, Homo sapiens!
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
It’s April and Shannah has prepared some positive and motivating topics for us this month, perfect for the current situation the world is in at the moment. Thanks, Shannah. Now let’s get started. 🙂
The thing is, it’s work and business as usual for me even after the lockdown and partial curfew were announced. There were no changes in my work schedule.
However, if I were to be in that situation, here are my sanity saver ideas:
This would be a good chance to catch up on my reading. I would really love to spend my time reading for long hours and finish more books than usual.
I would love to try cooking some new dishes and food I miss eating in my favorite restaurants.
I don’t really watch that much series or movies but it would be an option as I’ve heard many great stuff to watch these days.
I’ve tried learning how to play the guitar early last year but I wasn’t able to continue with it because of work and life. So a time in isolation is a great chance to get back to it as I’ve already forgotten the few things I’ve learned last year.
It’s the best time to think and reflect about my life. In a way, I’d have more time to think about things and wouldn’t have to rush on making decisions and at the same time reflect on my actions and think about what changes are necessary or what steps I should take next.
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
March is a themed month and this month’s theme is Authors from A-Z. Last week. we had authors with names starting with the letters P, Q, R, S & T. Today we’ll be having authors whose names start with U, V, W, X, Y & Z. Again, I opted for family names.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet and short-story writer. He is one of the three other writers who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Apart from his novels and short-story collections, many of his works were published in The New Yorker.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. He’s best known for his satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five. It is in fact the only work of his that I’ve read so far. It is the story of Billy Pilgrim who was born in 1922 like Vonnegut himself who survived the bombing of Dresden.
John Edward Williams author, editor and professor. He is the author of Stoner, a tragic fictional tale of a university professor — one of my top all-time favorite novels. His novel Augustus won a US national book award.
Xue Xinran is a British-Chinese journalist and author. She is also a known advocate for women’s issues. Her book The Good Women of China is on my TBR so I hope to get to it soon.
Hanya Yanagihara is a novelist, editor and travel writer. She is the author of A Little Life, winner of the 2015 Kirkus prize for fiction. She also was a National Book Award and Man Booker Prize finalist in 2015.
Markus Zusak is an Australian writer of German origin and is best known for his books The Book Thief and The Messenger. Bridge of Clay is on my TBR and I hope it to be as his other works.
Have you heard of these authors before? (I doubt you haven’t!) Have you read any of their works? Any recommendations? I look forward to reading your Top 5 Tuesdays so drop a link on the comments section so I can check them all out.
Happy Tuesday and keep safe, homo sapiens!
All photos downloaded from Google. Credit to the owners.
Hello there, homo sapiens! It’s time for Top 5 Tuesday.
March is a themed month and this month’s theme is Authors from A-Z. Last week. we had authors with names starting with the letters F, G, H, I & J. Today we’ll be having authors whose names start with K, L, M, N, & O. Again, I opted for family names.
Ken Elton Kesey is an American writer and a hero in countercultural reveolution and the hippie movement in the 1960s. He was a paid volunteer experiment subject in a veterans hospital and this experience served as background for his most popular novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Nelle Harper Lee is an American writer most popularly known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.
Haruki Murakami is my number one favorite author. He is a Japanese novelist and a short story writer. He is well-known for his deep imaginative novels and often ambiguous. Some of his well-known books include Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist. His debut novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016.
Yoko Ogawa is a Japanese writer and well-known for her book The Housekeeper and the Professor. She has been awarded several prizes for her literary career such as The Kaien Prize in 1988 and The Yomiuri Prize in 2004.
Have you heard of these authors before? (I doubt you haven’t!) Have you read any of their works? Any recommendations? I look forward to reading your Top 5 Tuesdays so drop a link on the comments section so I can check them all out.
Happy Tuesday, homo sapiens!
All photos downloaded from Google. Credit to the owners.
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