T5W: Worst Synopses

Getting back into the swing of things with another Top 5 Wednesday, a weekly book meme set up by Gingerreadslainey and hosted by Sam@thoughtsontomes, you can find the Goodreads group here. This week we’re picking the back cover summaries that totally misrepresent a book’s contents.

Personally, I’ve always hated the phrase ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’, I mean, I know it’s a metaphor but there are people who spend a lot of time and effort designing them! The whole point of the cover is to allow you to quickly gauge the genre, topic or themes of a book. The synopsis should be an addendum to that, the second step, a brief, spoiler-free explanation of the story found inside.

Unfortunately of course it doesn’t always quite work out like that. That said, I actually had some trouble with this one! So here are my top 5 misleading, overzealous or downright spoilery synopses:

T5W: Most Recent Additions to My Wishlist

Back with another Top 5 Wednesday, a quick one this week but first as always; Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly book meme set up by Gingerreadslainey and hosted by Sam@thoughtsontomes, you can find the Goodreads group here.

This week it’s the most recent additions to your wishlist. A nice one for me as a lot of what I read is from ‘The Classics‘ but I still love the YA, Sci-Fi & Fantasy genres. This is a great opportunity to highlight some of my favourites in those categories and as I don’t have much (any) self control when it comes to book buying, all that follow are yet to be released:

T5W: Books I Wish Had Sequels

Back for another Top 5 Wednesday! As always you can find the Goodreads group here, as set up by Gingerreadslainey and hosted by Sam@thoughtsontomes.

Quite a tricky one this week, books I wish had sequels:

T5W: Favourite Books Outside Your Comfort Zone

OK so I missed last week. Work got in the way but the good news is, this week I had the whole day off! For those who are celebrating, I wish you a very happy Eid!

Back to business, Top 5 Wednesday was created by Gingerreadslainey and is hosted by Sam@thoughtsontomes, you can join the Goodreads group here. Every week a new topic is chosen and we pick the 5 best / worst / favourite etc.

This week it’s favourite books from genres you wouldn’t normally choose, so without further ado, here are my top 5:

T5W: Favourite Posts

I joined Top 5 Wednesday! As set up by Gingerreadslainey and hosted by Sam@thoughtsontomes. Now that I’m learning my way around this book-sphere and getting to follow some great blogs I see these T5Ws popping up each week and I’m super excited to get involved.

One minor issue, the idea this week is to pick your 5 favourite posts. From your own blog that is. I’m new here and well, I have 5 posts total.

I was going to give up (boo!) and wait for next week’s topic when I noticed this could include “… your favorite photo you’ve posted on Instagram“. I have Instagram, I even have more than 5 posts on Instagram! So here are my picks: