Top 10 Books of 2025

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top 10 books of 2025 this week. I have barely reviewed anything this year so Iโ€™m including brief thoughts on each one as well.Iโ€™m unreasonably stingy with my five-star ratings so only two made it through this year (most links go to GoodReads but […]

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Top Ten Books of 2024!

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten books of 2024 this week. As always, most of these were not published in 2024 but I did read them this year. Iโ€™ve organized them by my rating but theyโ€™re simply in alphabetical order beyond that. Iโ€™ve noted if links go to my review; if I […]

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Ten Fictional Story Collections

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten books involving food (that are not cookbooks). I started writing that list and realized that I was recreating a past Top Ten Tuesday, Books That Make Me Hungry. So Iโ€™m going to write about ten fictional story collections that I liked […]

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Posts about Me

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten posts about ourselves this week. I usually share some personal details in my Weekly Update posts so if you follow those, you know quite a bit about me. But here are some dedicated posts about me. Back to Bloggingโ€“I wrote this in 2020 after […]

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Ten Characters I’d Like to Befriend

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to โ€œPick a relationship type and choose characters who fit that relationship as it relates to you. So, characters youโ€™d like to date, be friends with, be enemies with, etc.โ€ As a shy introvert, big personalities attract me and repel me at the same time […]

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Ten Debut Novels I Enjoyed

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten travel books this week. I’ve written about Books That Awaken My Travel Bug in the past so I’m posting a topic I missed instead–ten debut novels I enjoyed. I’ve tried to mostly choose books that are older or a little off the radar. I rated all […]

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Top Ten Books of 2023!

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten books of 2023 this week. I got bogged down early on with a couple of long books that really did not catch my attention but I refused to give up on them. That put me in an odd sort of reading slump. I read a few standouts but […]

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13 Most Challenged Books in 2022

Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share reading goals we would like to accomplish before the end of the year this week. I have so many of those, I can’t possibly accomplish them all. But since this is Banned Book Week, I decided to share a list of the thirteen most frequently challenged […]

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