This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is:
Things Getting in the Way of Reading
Crocheting!
TV shows
I’ve been more into Kdramas this year. I’ve learnt to look for those that are more “slice of life” type. Some great ones include Reply 1988, Hospital Playlist, Hometown Cha Cha Cha.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is:
Titles with Animals In Them and/or Covers with Animals On Them
The Fox & Little Tanuki – Mi Tagawa
The Cat Who Saved Books – Sosuke Matsukawa
Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung
If Cats Disappeared From The World – Genki Kawamura
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is:
TTT Rewind (Pick a previous topic that you missed or would like to re-do/update).
So I picked this previous topic:
The Last Books I Abandoned
But I’m going to tone that down and instead of the word “abandoned”, I’m using “Not Right Now“. So it’s not completely a DNF (did not finish) read, but something that I may pick up eventually, because I might not have been in the right mood for that book at that time.
If you enjoyed any of these, let me know, I’ll bump it up my list!
Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
I do like the sound of this quirky book, but February was just not a good reading month for me, and this was just one of the books that was a NRN read.
Mercury Pictures Presents – Anthony Marra
I do want to pick this book up again. It sounds like a great epic and Anthony Marra did write a beautiful book in A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
I did actually read quite a bit of this book but then the library ebook auto-returned, and I haven’t borrowed it again as yet. Maybe later!
Haven – Emma Donoghue
This one I’m a bit conflicted by. I’ve enjoyed Donoghue’s work, but this book set in seventh-century Ireland with two monks and a priest looking for a place that one of them has seen in a dream, well it’s not really a book I want to read. It was a book I picked to fulfil a reading challenge
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018.
Happy Wednesday! What did you get from your library this week?
The Dead Romantics – Ashley Poston
It’s on the NY Times Notable Books of 2022 so I was curious.
One Italian Summer – Rebecca Serle
Well, possibly because I saw this in quite a few places.
Saha – Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang
Cho wrote Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 which I really liked. This book is about people living in a neglected housing estate.
Joan is Okay – Week Wang
Wang previously wrote Chemistry, and I like how this book sounds:
“Joan Is Okay touches on matters that feel deeply resonant: being Chinese-American right now; working in medicine at a high-stakes time; finding one’s voice within a dominant culture; being a woman in a male-dominated workplace; and staying independent within a tight-knit family.”
Happy Wednesday! What did you get from your library this week?
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects – Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Well, it’s Nonfiction November after all, so why not another nonfiction audiobook.
Food IQ – Daniel Holzman, Matt Rodbard
I just liked the cover, which made me think of the Netflix food series, The Chef Show, starring Roy Choi and Jon Favreau.
Dopesick – Beth Macy
I started reading a sample of the book and was drawn into the first chapter, which talks about a dealer in Virginia.
The Smell of Other People’s Houses – Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
I came across this on a list on Libby, and was attracted to its setting – Alaska.
Hello, Monday!
Some things last week:
The Golden Enclaves – Naomi Novik
Made in China – Anna Qu
Coffee and toast for breakfast. The clocks changed on Sunday but alas my body clock hasn’t so I was up at 515am.
Chicken rice – at least I plan to cook the rice, I may just serve it with a roast chicken from Costco.
Back to the Garden – Laurie R King
Black Forest Birthday Cake #WeekendCooking
Library Loot (November 2 to 8)
Happy Wednesday! What did you get from your library this week?
Claire has the link-up this week.
The Golden Enclaves – Naomi Novik
After devouring the first two books of this series recently, I was glad to learn that I wouldn’t have to wait long for the third book. And finally got my hold in!
The Book Eaters – Sunyi Dean
Another hold came in! This one’s as it’s title goes – about a clan of people who eat books.
Messy Roots – Laura Gao
A graphic memoir about a Chinese -American immigrant
Happy Halloween!
It’s also my husband’s birthday today. So we went out for lunch yesterday, and I made his favourite Black Forest cake.
Later today, we will go out for trick or treating around the neighbourhood.
But last Friday, the school held a Trunk or Treat in the parking lot, where families decorated their car trunks, some with little games and everyone with candy to give away.
The kids wanted these Halloween costume hoodies – one is a Minecraft creeper and the other, a velociraptor. But today, the velociraptor decided to be a velociraptor Hogwarts student, so he wore his Ravenclaw cape and tie with his dinosaur hoodie.
The K-drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix
I’m about to have some coffee.
Tonight, I was thinking of cooking either risotto or linguine with scallops.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism – Amanda Montell
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Library Loot (October 26 to November 1)
Happy Wednesday! What did you get from your library this week?
I picked up e-comics – volumes 1 to 5 of The Mighty Thor
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Oseman
Four retired friends meet up to solve mysteries. Sounds fun.
Leech – Hiron Ennes
I’m not sure what to call this, medical horror? Medical sci-fi horror? Whatever it is, it sounds delightfully weird.
The Eagle with no Claws – Christian Lax
A comic about a man and his passion for Tour de France.
Happy Wednesday! What did you get from your library this week?
Claire has the link-up this week.
If You Could See the Sun – Ann Liang
A story set in a Beijing boarding school. Alice Sun is the only scholarship student in this elite school and she somehow can turn invisible.
I Want to Die but I want to Eat Tteokbokki – Baek Sehee (translated from the Korean by Anton Hur)
I saw this book at different bookstores in Singapore when I was back in the summer, and it was a rather curious title, so I wanted to borrow it. It’s not exactly my typical read, especially as the description includes this “part memoir, part self-help book”. And I steer far away from anything that resembles self-help, but we will see…
Back to the Garden – Laurie R King
This is a standalone book from King, about a mansion and its secrets after a skull is found during restoration work.
Real Life Reading 