Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Here are the top then things that will make me instantly not want to read a book (in no particular order): A BAD COVER - This includes boring covers, covers that depict half naked men, most with any type of floral arrangement, too-perfect pool or beach scenes, and mythological creatures. Finally, if the cover looks like ...
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Throwback Thursday: The Crimson Petal and the White
Throwback Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Renee at It’s Book Talk. Throwback Thursday is an awesome opportunity to share old favorites as well as older books in our TBR. I love this idea as I only started blogging about a year and a half ago. Therefore, I have lots of old favorites to talk about. While I may not remember all of the details needed to write a complete review, I’m happy to share ...
Top Ten Tuesday – 2016 Releases I Meant to Read (but didn’t. but will.)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Whittling this list down to just ten was difficult. There were a lot of great books published in 2016. I had hoped to read more but, well, life... Here are ten books I didn't get to but totally plan to. The first three are books I requested on NetGalley but the publishers declined my request. That rarely happens these days and I ...
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books Read in 2016
I Can Explain. It's true. Today is Thursday (but I did start this post on Wednesday)... I could blame it on Wordpress; something about a glitch in their post scheduling system. But that would be fiction. Here's the truth: I'd gone to the dogs. Literally. I left Connecticut at 10:40pm Monday evening to meet a transport containing a litter of puppies coming up from Alabama. They had been living ...
Weekly Wrap-up 12/18/2017
On the Blog Reviews This week was light (too light considering my backlog) on reviews. I posted only one. I really enjoyed this book and gave it 4 1/2 stars. Review of Unspeakable by Chris Hedges Other Bookish Posts Top Ten Tuesday This week's Top Ten Tuesday was all about the Top Ten Books I'm looking forward to in 2017. There are so many amazing books coming out this year! It was ...
Top Ten Tuesday – The First Half of 2017
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is... Top Ten Books I'm Looking Forward To For The First Half Of 2017 This week's top ten is an easy one as there are so many awesome book in my TBR. You'll also find a few of these in my 2017 Mount TBR Challenge Post. Here they are, in no particular order: The Bear and the Nightingale by ...
December Giveaway – $100 Amazon Gift Card
December Giveaway It's been just over a month since Lit.Wit.Wine.Dine debuted its new design! I'm celebrating by thanking one lucky subscriber with a $100 Amazon gift card. (I'm also celebrating the fact that I think I have figured out how to use Rafflecopter. You all know how technical I am...) Because this giveaway is a bit of a biggie, I'm requiring that the winner be a subscriber. If you ...
2017 Mount TBR Challenge
Like many book bloggers, I have a love-hate relationship with my TBR pile. When I hear about a book I want to read, I get all excited and immediately add at it to the TBR. It doesn't really matter if it's an ARC or a back-listed title. It could be a debut or the latest release of a beloved author. It could be a novella or contain over 1000 pages. If I even think I might want to read it, into the ...
Weekly Wrap-up 11/20/2016
This has been a fairly non-productive week. I had plans two evenings this week and my daughters first sleepover birthday party last night. Needless to say, these events severely limited the amount of time I was able to devote to reading and blogging. Book Club One of those evenings out, however, was for my book club. I suppose I can count that toward "bookish" time. We read My Father Before ...
Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Movies
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This is my first week participating in the TTT meme and I must admit, I'm a little out of my comfort zone. I enjoy going to the movies but I'm not what you'd call a movie buff. I've never seen most of the classics on all "Best Movies of All Time" lists. While most of the movies are on my top ten list are ...