Month: July 2016

The Bookish Time Travel Tag

Just to clear up any possible uncertainty regarding The Bookish Time Travel Tag: It is NOT a tag that you can put on your bag to ensure that your luggage will be safely returned in what ever dimension you happen to find yourself during your time travels. (Yes, I also agree that a tag like that will be a marvelous invention. Seeing that we are all such jet-setters in the Time Travelling realm) The Bookish Time Travelling Tag is originally created by The Library Lizard who claims that this is her first book tag. But really – how can we believe that? How must we know if she hasn’t tagged a hatbox containing only books in the Victorian era? But let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and play by her rules. Answer as many questions as you can/want. Tag other people – as many as you like. Please leave a link to The Library Lizard containing your post Explore! Go travelling in other people’s Bookish Time Travels and remember to comment. I was tagged along by AJ from Rather Quite Lovely who claims that she is working on a project at the university and won’t be “around” until the end of the […]

Posted July 21, 2016
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Cover Characteristics – Eggs

Today’s theme: Have all your eggs in one basket Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate: Pick your covers Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) The first books that popped in my head when I saw this week’s theme, were children’s books! The goose that laid the golden eggs I used to love this tale as a child. In fact, it is one of the stories that I use in my extra classes for early readers. I find it amazing how many students hear and read this story for the first time in my class. Shouldn’t kids know all the fairy tales and all the fables long before school? Ah well, never to late to learn a lesson or two from tales old as time. Green eggs and ham I still want to put green coloring in the eggs one morning. Serve it with ham […]

Posted July 20, 2016
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Ten books set in South Africa

This week’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is ten books set outside the US (Nope, it’s not us (aka earthlings: human; vampire; zombie etc) it is US -United States) Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly link-up/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where they provide a prompt and other lovers of list-making (me! me! me!) join in with their own top ten list. Feel free to have less than 10 or more if you need to at times and put a spin on the topic if you need to. Just please link back to The Broke and the Bookish if you are participating. Link up with your BLOG POST (not your blog) in the linky provided and remember to pay it forward! Seeing that I was born in the RSA (YES! You can actually sing it to the tune of the iconic Bruce Springsteen song -just do it in the right voice and facial expression as well) – I am proudly waving my flag. Today I will give you ten books set in South Africa. But wait, there’s more! Not only will I present you with ten wonderful books set in SA, I will also list them according to genre. Just to make it […]

Posted July 19, 2016
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What turns you into " The Girl on the Train "

Ever wondered what turned Rachel into The Girl on the Train with a serious drinking problem? Or what drove The Widow‘s husband to steal a child? Or why Miss Marple had to investigate The mirror cracked from side to side? Or why did Mabel and Jack build The Snow Child? (No, they did not name her Elsa and it was very hard to let it go) What forced Griet to find solace and company in Entertaining Angels? And exactly what was it What Alice forgot? All these ladies started off as rather normal (a state that most bloggers are not familiar with, but please google “Normality” for a better definition). They were averagely happy: They all had an average career They all had an average family They all had an average boyfriend/husband They were all well on their way to the average 2.5 family Bam! You fall off the wagon. Bam! Your husband turns into a monster. Bam! You finally get to commit the murder you’ve been planning for 20 years. Bam! You “live” in a fairy tale. Bam! You have sex with a Greek god. Bam! You get estranged from a loving sister. Just like that. Just one word and they are not the average 2.5 anymore. And their lives […]

Posted July 18, 2016
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Cover Characteristics – Balconies

It’s been a hectic week. I’ve been away from my computer and I am only online for an hour or so. Mainly just to catch up on all the posts AND to quickly do Cover Characteristics!Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate: Pick your covers Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) This week’s theme is balconies. I could think of a couple of books where balconies played a big part, but alas – all the action doesn’t happen on the covers you know. So you might have to use your imagination for a few… The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith She fell from the balcony. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The most famous balcony scene in forever. And then there were none and The Mousetrap both by the Queen of books with houses-that-should-all-have-balconies, Agatha Christie. (A balcony is always a good murder setting. Therefore, all […]

Posted July 15, 2016
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The Ten Wonders of Me

Top Ten Tuesday – Ten things you probably did not know about me Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly link-up/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where they provide a prompt and other lovers of list-making (me! me! me!) join in with their own top ten list. Feel free to have less than 10 or more if you need to at times and put a spin on the topic if you need to. Just please link back to The Broke and the Bookish if you are participating. Link up with your BLOG POST (not your blog) in the linky provided and remember to pay it forward! It’s Thursday already, but there is no way that I am missing out on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. I mean honestly, who doesn’t like to talk about me? 1. I can stand upright in the entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza. I can also walk upright in most of the passages and chambers. Measurements of the Great Pyramid 2. I’ve been a rather successful extra Maths instructor for 4 years. I can’t do maths. (Apparently that is exactly why I’m a good instructor. I feel their pain and know that the struggle is real) 3. I’ve got two dogs and two […]

Posted July 14, 2016
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The Sunday Post – CAUTION: Serious condition of Nose-stuck-in-a-book

I really love my Sunday visits with you guys, but today I have a serious case of a dreamy far off look with my nose stuck in a book Seeing that this is a very serious condition, I am just quickly stopping by to give a quick recap of the past week. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a post to recap the past week on your blog, tell everyone about books and things you can showcase and share news for the upcoming week. Remember to link your post and to visit others who have linked up.HighlightThe highlight of my week was definitely receiving my firs ARC from Forest Avenue Press. I honestly thought it was going to take ages, dark ones and wintery ones, for me to receive an ARC. I was so excited, I even wrote a post on it. My First………Can you still remember what was the first ARC your received?Weekly features/Memes Top Ten Tuesday – Top ten underrated books on Goodreads For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, you had to pick ten books that you really loved, but had a rating of less than 2000 on Goodreads. I was amazed how many books […]

Posted July 10, 2016
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Friday Meets – 08 July 2016

Exciting weekend ahead! My bestest friend in forever is coming to visit me. So I am quickly drafting all my weekend posts and will have them all posted right on schedule (hopefully). I don’t know how much reading will be done as my friend is not a reader (unbelievable – I know!), but luckily one needs to go to the bathroom ever so often and who needs sleep? Meet me on Friday @ Friday 56 for a bit of Book Blogger Hop to kick-start the weekend with Book Beginnings. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice. For this date, you will need the following: Grab a book (Yes, any book. But it might get you to your other Friday activities a bit quicker if you just grab the book you are currently reading) Turn to page 56 or 56% on your e-reader Find a sentence or two (your other Friday activities might determine this) Post it! Remember to post your link on Freda’s Voice and to visit the other guys in the linky. And don’t forget to list the title of the book and the author as well. I’ve used The love song of Miss Queenie Hennesy by Rachel Joyce a couple of weeks ago for Book Beginnings. Very shamefully I have to admit […]

Posted July 8, 2016
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Cover Characteristics – Feathers

Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 (or more – whatever ruffle your feathers) covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate: Pick your covers Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) As you know by now, I tend to list the book that pops in my mind first as my favourite pick. Every now and again (like last week) there is no popping and I have to rely on other, secondary resources. Like Google. Luckily there were a few pops this week: The Four Feathers by Anthony Hope The first pop was this classic novel. Although I’ve never read it, I did watch the movie. If you’ve read it, let me know. When the wind blows and The Lake House by James Patterson. I’m not really into genetic modification fiction, but I enjoyed both these books quite a lot. Nightbird and The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. I know that there isn’t an actual feather on the cover of The […]

Posted July 6, 2016
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Top Ten Tuesday – Top Ten underrated books on Goodreads

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly link-up/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where they provide a prompt and other lovers of list-making (me! me! me!) join in with their own top ten list. Feel free to have less than 10 or more if you need to at times and put a spin on the topic if you need to. Just please link back to The Broke and the Bookish if you are participating. Link up with your BLOG POST (not your blog) in the linky provided and remember to pay it forward! When I first saw the theme of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, I thought: Huh?? Scratch-scratch, tap-tap finger or pencil – now how must I know that? Luckily as you know: Readers are achievers If you can read, you will succeedIf all else fails, read the instructions The instructions were nicely included with the theme, accompanied with step by step instructions for dummies. Or the technologically impaired. Or infants. Like me. An easy way to find this — go to Goodreads, your read list, at the top of your read list where it says settings you can add a column for # of ratings, then you can sort by that. If you aren’t a Goodreads […]

Posted July 5, 2016
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Month: July 2016

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