Fantasy with Friends: Witches and Sorceresses

Happy Monday, book pandas! 🐼 I’m excited to be back with another Fantasy with Friends post today.

What is Fantasy with Friends?

Fantasy with Friends is a discussion meme hosted by Briana and Krysta on Pages Unbound. Questions are posed every Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. The yearly schedule is available on Pages Unbound so you can prepare way in advance! Don’t forget to leave a comment and link on the scheduled day so your post can be linked up. You can also tag @pagesunbound on Twitter and/or Bluesky!

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Fantasy with Friends: Children’s Fantasy Concepts in Adult Fantasy

Happy Monday, book pandas! 🐼 I’m excited to be back with another Fantasy with Friends post today.

What is Fantasy with Friends?

Fantasy with Friends is a discussion meme hosted by Briana and Krysta on Pages Unbound. Questions are posed every Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. The yearly schedule is available on Pages Unbound so you can prepare way in advance! Don’t forget to leave a comment and link on the scheduled day so your post can be linked up. You can also tag @pagesunbound on Twitter and/or Bluesky!

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Fantasy with Friends: Fast Food Brando Sando?

Happy Monday, book pandas! 🐼 I’ve been eyeing the Fantasy with Friends discussion meme for a while now—it looked like so much fun and I’ve enjoyed reading many blogger posts since Briana and Krysta started up the meme earlier this year. I’ve always wanted to join but wasn’t sure if I’d really have much to say, but today I’ve finally decided to participate after seeing the topic was about Brando Sando. I don’t know if I’ll have much of substance to say (even though I’ll probably ramble on, lol), but the topic also didn’t feel so intimidating to my brain! 🤭

But first, what is Fantasy with Friends?

Fantasy with Friends: A Discussion Meme Hosted by Pages Unbound

Fantasy with Friends poses questions each Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. The schedule for the year is posted on the Pages Unbound page, so feel free to get a head start!

How can you participate?

  • Check the schedule on Pages Unbound for upcoming prompts, and write a post on your own blog answering the question!
  • Come back to Pages Unbound on the scheduled day and leave the link to your post in the comments of our post. You can also tag us on Twitter or Bluesky (@pagesunbound). We just need to know about the post in order to link back to you!
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Let’s Talk Bookish: Am I a Mood Reader?

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out all the past topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

Since October does not yet have topics, I’m going back to an LTB topic from August:

Prompts: Do you consider yourself a mood reader? Are you constantly switching books and genres depending on your mood? Or do you always stick to a very specific TBR? If you’re a mood reader, do you ever wish you could better stick to TBRs?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Celebrating LTB! 🎉

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out all the past topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

This week’s topic is actually a mid-year reading check-in but since I just posted my Mid-Year Check-In Tag earlier this week, I’ll be doing last week’s topic:

Favourite Topic Freebie!
Celebrating 5 years of Let’s Talk Bookish

Prompts: It’s the fifth Friday of August and this month, Let’s Talk Bookish turns 5! How long have you been participating in LTB? What was the first LTB topic you wrote a post for? Have your opinions changed since then? How did you first hear about LTB? If you have a favorite LTB topic from the last few years, go ahead and write about that!

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Blogging Essentials

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out all the past topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

This week’s topic is actually a mid-year reading check-in but since I just posted my Mid-Year Check-In Tag earlier this week, I’ll be doing last week’s topic:

Blogging Essentials

Prompts: What could you not blog without? Do you have to have a posting schedule? Do you rely on a set TBR to make sure you get to all the books on your list? What have you discovered helps your blogging most?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Prioritising Diversity in My Reading

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out all the past topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

This week’s topic is actually a mid-year reading check-in but since I just posted my Mid-Year Check-In Tag earlier this week, I’ll be doing last week’s topic:

Do You Prioritize Diversity in Your Reading?

Suggested by (Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly)

Prompts: Diversity and diversity in reading are often huge topics of conversation. Do you actively seek out diverse books? What kind of representation do you look for? Do you feel that diverse books are often spotlighted, or that it takes more of an effort to find diverse books? What recommendations do you have?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Author Controversies Impacting My Reading

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out all the past topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

I haven’t seen the June 2024 topics posted yet so I’m going back and doing some past topics that I missed but have an interest in. This week’s topic is from April 2024:

Do Author Controversies Impact Your Reading Choices?
Suggested by (Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly)

Prompts: For this topic, Jillian wrote that she thought of this topic because of the situation with Cait Corrain, the author who lost her book deal after posting fake negative Goodreads reviews of other books in attempt to sabotage those authors. Did you hear about the Cait Corrain situation? Do you often keep up with or read about author/bookish controversies? Do situations such as this one impact your reading choices?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Picking My Blog Name

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out the May 2024 Topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

This week’s topic is actually a Freebie so I’m doing the topic from two weeks ago:

How did you pick your blog’s name?

[Suggested by: Alli @ Alli the Book Giraffe]
Prompts: How did you pick your book blog’s name? Have you ever changed it? Have you ever thought about changing it? What are some of your favourite book blog names?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: Can There Be Too Many Retellings?

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, and it’s where we get to discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Check out the April 2024 Topics if you want to join in the bookish discussion fun.

This week’s topic is actually a Freebie so I’m doing last week’s topic and answering:

Can There Be Too Many Retellings?

Prompts: There is no end to the fictional retellings out there. From fairytales to Shakespeare to mythology all over the world, there are many stories that have been retold countless times in countless ways. Do you like reading retellings? What are some of your favourites? Are there any stories you’re tired of seeing retold? Do you think that there can be too many retellings?

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