10 Bookish resolutions
7 January 2014
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Tags: 10 bookish resolutions, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesdays
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday over at the Broke and the Bookish is:
top ten bookish resolutions
(Although they don’t have to necessarily be bookish!). I’ve decided to stay bookish and given that I’m a fairly self critical person I have 10 things I think I need to work on:
- Need to properly organise books into some sort of order and put together a schedule, especially of books given to review and in order to get ahead of myself a little bit! Although that does sound like hard work doesn’t it. I basically just want to read the next book that I want to read!!!
- Want to expand reading genres – actually, I’ll be more to the point – trying to incorporate more sci fi as although I read primarily fantasy I also read historical, mystery and horror so sci fi is getting left out in the cold a bit – I’m working on this – see Stainless Steel Droppings Sci fi Experience and Little Red Reviewer’s Vintage Sci Fi event.
- Want to read ten of my classics this year – only read 4 so far = massive fail! Still, I have got time to catch up.
- Want to seriously tackle tbr – it’s out of control and needs addressing – maybe limit the number of books I buy this year (ahem!)
- Want to finish some of my unread series – also getting out of control – will go and actually figure out how many unfinished series I have one day (see No.1 above)
- Need to be more on the ball about updating my blog, behind with challenges pages, A-Z, etc. Basically I write my review and run for cover!
- Hoping to take part in some challenges again like the Women of Genre Fiction by Worlds Without End – really great for introducing new authors and making you step out of your comfort zone (see No.2 above). Actually a great site – go check it out. You won’t be sorry.
- Thinking to change my reviewing style – needs to be more clear whether I don’t like a book as well as if I love it!
- Incorporate some different discussion posts – I enjoy doing something different, fun or just silly on occasion.
- Enjoy reading – I always do – doesn’t really need a resolution but thought I’d stick it in there anyways!
Now, just need to make a start on those lists. Maybe I could make a list of what lists I actually want to make before I start the actual lists themselves. Categories, this is what I chiefly need… Or maybe I could stop prevaricating.
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the preciousss…
5 November 2013
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Tags: Ten most have sequels, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesdays
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish is all about sequels that you can’t wait to get your mits upon. I’ve decided to put up 5 books that I’m actually waiting for the next or final book in the series and then I’ve altered it slightly so that the last 5 books are books that I wish could/would be written!
5 books I’m awaiting – or waiting to read:
- Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick, No.2 in the Tale of the Kin series (No.1 Among Thieves).
- Daylighters by Rachel Caine – No.15 and the finale in the Morganville Vampire Series (who knew this would be 15 books at the start!)
- Icefall by Gillian Philip – (No.4 in the Rebel Angel series) – me wants it.
- Dr Sleep by Stephen King (follow up to The Shining)- I actually do own this and can’t wait to read it!
- The Descent by Alma Katsu (book 3 of the immortal Trilogy) due in 2014, which, as it happens, is AGES AWAY.
5 books that I wish had sequels, in an alternate universe or something like that:
- The Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman – more adventures from Bod (The Teenage Years).
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
- The Lord of the Rings – The Return of Sauron – come on – it would be awesome, return to middle world, Aragorn, the hobbits – all on a new adventure. Yes, I know it’s not going to happen, but…
- More from the Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence- ‘Jorg – the lost diaries’ (haha, imagine that Jorg kept a diary!! if you’ve read these you’ll understand). Okay anything with Jorg will be okay. The Return of Jorg?? (let me have my dreams)
- Moxyland – Lauren Beukes – I could definitely return for more adventures in this world.
Now, if you could have any book. ANY. BOOK. Imaginary or in the process – what would it be???
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
29 October 2013
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Tags: Halloween reads, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesdays
This week’s Top Ten from the Broke and the Bookish is your top ten books to read during Halloween?
Well, I’m not sure I have ten so I thought I’d break this down into five reads that I’ve actually read and five I would like to read:
Okay, from the title you may have guessed (No.1):
Read:
- Dracula by Bram Stoker – I love this book. Good old fashioned gothic horror
- The Shining by Stephen King – just read this and frankly it gave me the heebie jeebies
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury – such a great, creepy, spooky, compelling story
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson with the ever so strange and maybe a little bit sinister Merricat
Want to read:
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis – I think I might be too scared to read this one
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk – I really want to read this but think it could be one of those books that takes quite a while! It’s huge!
- At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
Do you like things that go bump in the night?




