top 5 wednesday
Top 5 Wednesday: Favourite Required Reading
I don’t know about you, but the moment reading is no longer a thing for pleasure and something that I have to do, I lose all interest in it. Well, most of the time. This week on Top Five Wednesday, Ch...
Top 5 Wednesday: Favourite Character Tropes
There are certain reoccurring characteristics that we love coming across in fiction. This week on Top Five Wednesday, Chelsey and I talk about our top five favourite character tropes. Whether these tr...
Top 5 Wednesday: Characters That Deserve Their Own Series
Sometimes when you’re reading a novel, a side character steals the show. Whether it be that they have an interesting backstory or it just doesn’t feel like they get the time they deserve, you find you...
Top 5 Wednesday: Debut Novels
When you finish a novel you don’t exactly wonder if this was THE VERY FIRST thing they have ever written. If I like an author, I will look into other things that they have written, but their debut bo...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Contain Travelling
Sometimes I get the overwhelming urge to give up on my life, throw in the towel and just go backpacking. See the world one day at a time. Sadly, my good sense and my knowledge that I would wander into...
Top 5 Wednesday: Worst Series Enders
There is nothing as heartbreaking as a bad ending to a good series. You’ve spent so much time with the characters and you love the world, but then the ending happens. This week on Top Five Wednesday, ...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books You Would Save in a Fire
We like to talk about our favourite books ad nauseam to the point where you’re probably sick of hearing us mention Johannes Cabal, Passage Home, Lady of Horses and Lord of the Rings. We’re not going t...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Made Us Think
These are the books that stuck with us and made us question our beliefs, our faith or even just our day to day lives. Whether these books were written with this in mind or it was just a happy accident...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Take Place in TORONTO
This week’s Top Five Wednesday question asked you to choose five books that take place in your country, state or city. After much discussion, Chelsey and I decided to focus on our hometown of Toronto....
Top 5 Wednesday: Futuristic Books
When we were originally coming up with this list we decided to give ourselves one more limitation. There would be no post apocalyptic fiction on this list. Both Chelsey and I have gotten a little over...
Top 5 Wednesday: Antiheroes
Are you sick and tired of a squeaky clean hero saving the day? Do you want a little moral ambiguity in your reading list? Well do we have the thing for you: antiheroes! All the joy of a villain but wi...
Top 5 Wednesday: Favourite Reads of 2014
Welcome back to Top Five Wednesday! This week Chelsey and I talk about our favourite reads of 2014. Yes, I know we’re pretty late to the ballgame and we’re pretty much one month into the new year alre...
Top 5 Wednesday: Wintry Reads
Welcome back to Top Five Wednesday! We’re now smack in the heart of the winter months and to distract us from our ongoing battles with those pesky white walkers, Chelsey and Alexandra are here to talk...
Top 5 Wednesday: Re-Reads
Everyone has a few books that they find themselves always coming back too. Whether because these books are amazing or just give them a sense of nostalgia, these are your favourite re-reads. This we...
Top 5 Wednesday: Books over 500 Pages
You can blame Harry Potter but now if you want to be taken seriously as an author 9specifically a fantasy author your book has to be big enough that you could kill a man with it. Just because it’s lon...