Greetings you all! We didn’t do a Top Ten Tuesday in a couple of weeks. Work work work…. But when my Mommy saw this week’s prompt from Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl she had a brainwave. The prompt for today is Book Titles that are complete sentences.  When my Mommy grew up, Mary Higgins Clark was the ultimate queen of crime and to this day, she will still pick up a MHC novel and enjoy it. My aunt Hannelize, has just about all the Mary Higgins Clark books printed. But have you ever noticed how many of her book titles are complete sentences? You can write a novel only with the book titles! Let me proof it: It was Christmas Eve and the De Winters family had a fun-filled, dashing through the snow, day. All three De Winters children went to bed early to make sure Santa Claus don’t pass them by. We all know that he sees you when you’re sleeping and won’t leave any presents if you are still awake. Just before midnight, there was a cry in the night. Mrs. De Winters jumped out of bed and ran to the nursery. It was empty. “Where are the children?“, she screamed in […]

What a beautiful Crayola Crayon day it is here in South Africa. It’s a beautiful, sunny autumn day and I sommer feel like like taking out my coloring book and get coloring. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday post is a perfect fit for such a bright and burst of colors day: Ten Book Titles that sound like Crayola Crayon Colors.  Let’s see what colors we would like to color in with today: 1. Guardian Red, Guardian Blue, Guardian Yellow – Inspired by The Guardians by John Grisham 2. Fable (a mossy brown color) – Inspired by Fable by Adrienne Young 3. Night Tiger (a dark burned orange color) – Inspired by The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo 4. Faithful (a heavenly blue) – Inspired by Faithful by Alice Hoffman 5. Holidate Green, Holidate Red, Holidate Silver – Inspired by Holidate by Monica Murphy 6. Hallowe’en Party (a pumpkin orange) – Inspired by Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie 7. Olive Kitteridge (an olive green) – Inspired by Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 8. Miss Benson’s Beetle (gold) – Inspired by Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce 9. BearTown (grisly bear brown) – Inspired by Beartown by Fredrik Backman 10. City of Girls (the pinkest pink you can get) – Inspired by City of Girls by Elizabeth […]

 Greetings all you beautiful mermaids, mermen and and mercats! It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday and today’s prompt from the lovely Jana over @ That Artsy Reader Girl, is Ten Books I’d gladly throw into the Ocean. As you know me by now, I’m a puppies and rainbows or kittens and unicorns kind of cat. Most dark clouds have a pink lining and a fluffy white kitten can cure just about all ailments in life. We love to be of assistance to you as mere humans, but every now and then we can broaden our paws to also accommodate a few mythical creatures. Like Mermaids. Therefore, we are more than willing to throw a couple of books into the ocean for the mermaids to read. The question is just, what on the bottom of the ocean, would they like to read? Maybe to see how the human authors perceive them? Great idea. Second question – did you know there are so many books about mermaids?? Good grief. And we haven’t read any of them. Except for The Little Mermaid of course. It took my Mommy hours to go through a list of almost 500 books. Here’s our pick of the ten […]

Greetings all you wonderful Humans! How many of you have had the privilege to go travelling over the passed year? Or even better, moved to your dream destination? Life really wasn’t all that much fun the last year, but at least we can still travel and move to our favorite destinations in books. Books never fail on us.  Todays prompt for Top Ten Tuesday, is Places in Books we’d love to live in. But before you can decide where you really want to live, you first need to travel there. And if you are 100% sure that you found your dream destination to live in, you can find your dream destination to die in. We are going to cheat a bit, or not really cheating, rather just save time and take care o the earth and recycle a post. A couple of weeks ago, I used a similar idea for Friday Fives and listed 5 places we’d love to visit, because of books. We will use them again, because we would still love to travel there. And then we’ll add 5 new ones.  1. Guernsey from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 2. Rio de Janeiro from The […]

Greetings all you beautiful humans! It’s Tuesday and once again, I am hijacking my Mommy’s Top Ten Tuesday post. Today’s prompt from the lovely Jana over @ That Artsy Reader Girl, is Ten Characters whose job I wish I had. It’s obvious that my Mommy already has her dream job (teacher/librarian), otherwise she would have been at home more. So I will entertain you today with my very own selection of the jobs I would have loved to have. If I were a human. And a fictional character. Of course I would have loved to be the Queen of England with a whole string of kittens ladies in waiting, but what would I do all day? Smile and wave is much more appealing to a penguin than to a fluffy white kitten. There are also way to many books to choose from, so I’ll leave that title to someone else.  1. Obsessive Cleaner and Critique of everyone around me I do believe that job title will suit me very well. The closest character from a book I could think of who will fit the bill as well, is Britt-Marie from Britt-Marie was here by Fredrik Backman 2. A Feather Duster with some va-va-va-voom […]