Greetings you guys! Good grief, you honestly only just about see me for Top Ten Tuesday this year. At least we haven’t disappeared completely – it has to count for something. Agh, we just love Top Ten Tuesday and we can see that Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl, is also quite busy with life outside of blogging. So we are ever so grateful to her for still hosting TTT! Today’s prompt is Ten most recent books I did not finish. I’m  not really good with this DNF thing. I normally prefer to finish what I start. That’s a cat-thing. If you chase the mouse, you don’t give up until you’ve made the kill. Mommy on the other hand, quite easily puts a book down. The problem is that she normally don’t even keep it on her Goodreads page and it gets lost in oblivion. What she does do, however, is place a book in her abandoned shelf. That is almost like taking a pet to a shelter if you can’t take care of it anymore or lo and behold – don’t want it anymore.  Taking a pet to the shelter is way better than just dropping it at the side of the […]

Greetings you guys! Welcome to this week’s edition to Top Ten Tuesday. As you all know by now, TTT is proudly hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Top Ten Tuesday is a fun way to connect with your fellow bloggers and to just have some fun with books. Or that is our interpretation at least! Today’s prompt is Book Covers In the Colors of My Country’s Flag (It’s the 4th of July in the USA today, so tell us what country you live in and share book covers that match the colors of your country’s flag!) Both me and my Mommy are born and bred in South Africa. We are mostly proud of that (as you can see on our brand new graphic in the sidebar). For today’s prompt, we are going to have a bit of fun with our current loadshedding debacle here in SA. If you don’t know what “Loadshedding” means, you can read our Wondrous Words Wednesday post with a full description here South Africa has a very bright and colorful flag. We can’t say the same of our night skies at the moment. It’s mostly very dull and dark. I’ll quickly go through the first […]

Greetings you guys! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday. As always, hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is one of those that we get every season and it is usually a wonderful way to sort your reading list for the next couple of months. Books on my Summer Reading list.  It’s anything but summery weather across South Africa this week. It’s dreadfully cold with wind and rain here in our little coastal town. Mommy was fortunate enough to catch a cold, but school only closes on Friday. So she just has to push through. Luckily she has a few really great books waiting at the moment. That always helps! Most excitedly at the moment, however, is Mommy and Daddy’s upcoming trip to Turkey! Yes, it’s still 5 months to go, but she is already very excited and of course she has to prepare as well as possible. What better way to prepare than by reading a whole selection of books! We spend the whole of Saturday searching for books set in Turkey, or with a Turkish setting in some or other way. So this is our upcoming reading list for this season. At once a fiendishly devious mystery, […]

Greetings you guys! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. We’ve skipped a couple of weeks, but today we just feel like having some fun. Every week Jana will give us a prompt and then you just go along with it, or tweak it as you see fit (not sure if that’s in the fine print, I just made that part up). Today’s prompt is Books I recommend to others the most. Our rendition: Books I recommend to THE OTHERS. Yes, I am aware there are thousands of books out there dealing with the others, but these are just a few that we’ve read and we’ve tried to cover a broad variety of readers. A ghost for every reader, you may say. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James – he story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories ’round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she […]

Greetings you guys! Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday. As always, TTT is hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is Books with Animals in the title or Books with Animals on the covers.  Those of you who know our blog, will know that we’ve done over and over again. Of course I always try to fit TTT to fit me and therefore animals in titles or animals on the covers, have been covered excessively. So for today, I will once again take the prompt and tweak it slightly. Let’s talk about books with animals in the title, but it has nothing to do with said animal. “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.” They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can […]

Greetings you guys! Good grief! It’s just about the end of March and only the second Top Ten Tuesday post I am doing this year. Yes, that is horrible. I know. Believe you me, I am way more devastated than you are. Life really has been crazy busy and every Tuesday, TTT just fly by our window like a bird in fright of my presence. Luckily for all of us, today is a public holiday here in good old SA, so Mommy does have some time for TTT. Thank heavens! As you all know, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week , Jana will give us a prompt and then you go and play with it until it’s as dead as last night’s mouse that tried to sneak over the lawn (true story). This week’s prompt is rewind TTT. That means you can choose any of the over 600 prompts that were already given on TTT and make your own post. We chose this one: Frequently used words in titles. Oh I am quite sure that our chosen word has been used before, because let’s face it – everyone wants to know Who’s that GIRL?? […]

Greetings you guys! Welcome to the first Top Ten Tuesday for 2023. Everyone’s favorite weekly meme is still hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Remember to add your linkup to the link provided on Jana’s page. How was your 2022 reading year? Reading is always good, but for today’s prompt we get to share our ultimate favorites for 2022. Mommy and Daddy is still on their island holiday, so I will take full responsibility for our post today. If Mommy don’t agree with my choices, that’s her problem and she should have thought about that before she left me alone for 3 whole weeks. I did try to break it into sections and of course I’m going to start with my two favorites for the year. No secret that it will involve cats. The rest are also self explanatory I’d say. Which of these made your list as well? And which ones did we miss that we simply have to add to our reading list for 2022? Happy New Year Guys! Make it a good one.  

 Greetings you guys!  It’s Tuesday and time for Top Ten Tuesday – the one stability we currently have. Thank you Jana! Today’s prompt is all about cozy reads. If we see the word cozy, we immediately think –murder mystery! My Mommy only started reading cozy mysteries about a year ago and she’s as hooked as a well crocheted blanked. For today, we will tweak the prompt a bit and instead of talking about cozy mysteries, we are going to show you how you can build your very own Cozy Murder Mystery kit. We’ve used a few of these in a Friday Fives post in September last year, so we are just going to add a few more essentials. If you can combine these ten elements and have a good murder in mind, you can write the next best seller! 1. The Female of the species takes center stage Your leading character should most probably be a woman. A retired school teacher, a librarian, the town’s beloved spinster, a receptionist at the doctor’s office. These days women can be whatever they want to be, so figure out that murder and place your female sleuth right in the center. Bonus points if she […]

Greetings dear Humans! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is all about Thanksgiving. That time of year where you should give thanks for everything you have in abundance, or even just a bit of. Here in South Africa, we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. This year, however, from a feline’s point of view, I do believe that all of humankind should celebrate Thanksgiving. If you are safe and healthy and all your loved ones too, you should celebrate it. It doesn’t matter what country you are from, or what your religion is. It’s not too difficult to find things to be thankful for. Just think of all your favorite things! Like: 1. Raindrops on roses – We should always be thankful for the rain. No matter where it falls. But it sure does look pretty on roses. 2. Whiskers on kittens – Let’s just be thankful for kittens in general. How dull the world would have been without us. 3. Bright copper kettles – If you have a bright copper kettle, it means you are able to feed yourself, your family and of course all your fury friends. Not everyone is as fortunate. 4. Warm woolen mittens – If you are fortunate enough […]