The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

Top Ten Tuesday – Under the Christmas Tree

Happy Tuesday, reading friends, and merry Christmas! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl, and this week’s topic is Books I Hope Santa Brings. I’ve put a slight twist on the topic this week because it just so happens that my five children will each have two books under the Christmas tree from me this year—the perfect number for a Top Ten Tuesday post! So here’s a quick peek at ten books I KNOW will be under the Christmas tree this year.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Summer TBR 2020/2021

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week we’re sharing our winter (or in my case, summer) TBRs, and I’ve loved looking through my book lists to see what’s coming up in the next few months. It looks like I’ll be enjoying quite a few historicals, but I’ve managed to get a few contemporaries in there as well, including the first book in an exciting new thriller series! Can’t wait to dive into these.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Christmas Romances

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week is a Christmas/Holiday freebie, so I’m listing ten Christmas romances I’ve got my eye on. All these romances (with the exception of Mimi Matthews’ A Holiday by Gaslight) are 2020 releases, and I’ve already read three of them (Christmas in Three Quarter Time, The Holiday Husband, and A Holiday by Gaslight), but I’m hoping to make my way through a few more before we reach Christmas!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Books I Want to Reread

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Books I Want to Read Again, which is right up my alley. I know there are plenty of readers who don’t understand rereading—what’s the point if you know what’s going to happen? But for me, rereading a favourite book is like listening to a favourite piece of music. Knowing how it goes in your head isn’t anywhere near as satisfying as actually hearing it—or reading it, in the case of a book.

Mind you, when there are so many great books releasing all the time, the pressure is on to work out how to allocate your time, and sadly, rereading often gets pushed aside in favour of new reads, but sometimes the anticipation makes the reread just that little bit sweeter.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Nine People Who Have Inspired Me as a Reader

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. As it’s Thanksgiving this week for all my US friends, this week’s topic is a Thanksgiving freebie, so I thought I’d say thanks to the people who have inspired me most as a reader, both in my love for reading and in my reading choices. I’ve even organised the list somewhat chronologically!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles That Would Make Great Song Titles

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Book Titles That Would Make Great Song Titles, and I found it surprisingly easy to come up with this list (thanks to my Kindle 😊). In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of these ARE already song titles. I’d love to know if you know any that are!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Non-Bookish Hobbies

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week we’re talking about non-bookish hobbies, and I have to say, this list has made me realise just how much of my life revolves around books! Nevertheless, here goes:

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Top Ten Tuesday – Reformation Fiction

Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is a Hallowe’en Freebie, but 31 October also happens to be Reformation Day, when Martin Luther is purported to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, protesting against the Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences. And since I don’t generally celebrate Hallowe’en (or read books that are likely to qualify for a Hallowe’en Freebie list), I’ve come up with a list of ten books that in some way feature the religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants.

It’s actually quite a difficult topic to find fictional novels on, and I didn’t want to double up on novels that I featured in a Reformation Reads post from a few years ago, so I had to do a bit of searching to round out my numbers to ten. …

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