Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s theme is: Top Ten Tuesday REWIND! Pick from previous topics that you want to do again or may have missed. My choice is: Top Ten Book to Movie Adaptations Not all book to movie adaptations are good (some are downright terrible in fact!) but there are some really great adaptations that break the mold. […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s theme is: Top Ten Reasons I Love Being A Blogger/Reader To make this week’s topic a little easier to answer, I am going to give 5 reasons why I love being a blogger and 5 reasons why I love being a reader. 5 reasons why I love being a blogger: personal accomplishment The sense […]
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached […]
Just for Fun: which magical Tolkien creature are you? Following on from my last blog post, My Top 10 Childhood Reads, I thought in honour of my number 1 book, I would partake in another small quiz to find out which Tolkien race I would be. And…I got an Elf! Definitely did not see that one coming (thought I would be more of a Hobbit!). Click HERE to take the […]
The Books that had the Biggest Influence on Me as a Child I read a lot as a child – books were a huge part of my early life and I can credit both of my parents for getting me into reading at a very young age. Reading is still one of my biggest passions – due in large part to the many wonderful books I read in my youth. […]