Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [255]

November 3, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads2 Comments

We’re back with another Sundays in Bed With… meme! This meme dares to ask you what book has been in your bed this morning and is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. Come share what book you’ve spent your time reading in bed or wish you had time to read today.

Becky and I started our buddy read of Bright Young Women this weekend. I admittedly haven’t made much progress (12%) but I’m hoping to make more tonight! It’s a lot, to say the least, but I’m intrigued by the concept of the author taking power back from serial killers and instead empowering the women who lived through these horrifying events. I’m keen to continue!

#FirstLinesFriday: 1 November 2024

November 1, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads9 Comments

Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are the rules:

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

First lines:

“In the middle of a collection of cornfields, in the middle of the country, in the middle of nowhere, a weathered wooden post marked the intersection of two roads.”

#WWWWednesday: 30 October 2024

October 30, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads11 Comments

Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:

What did you read last?
What are you currently reading?
What will you read next?

#TopTenTuesday: Spooky Season Romances I Want to Read!

October 29, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads39 Comments

We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is Halloween Freebie!

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [254]

October 27, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads9 Comments

I’ve found myself in a suddenly very fickle reading mood. I haven’t continued my buddy read since putting it aside last week, and I haven’t continued the romance fantasy I started either. I’ve picked up multiple books too including titles I started months ago and am so close to finishing. I’ve already finished some titles this weekend and others I’m wondering whether I’m really in the mood for. Not sure what’s going on in my tired brain but my mood has left me with this ongoing pile:

Anatomy → 65%
How Not to Drown in A Glass of Water → 73%
Starling House → 11%
The Letters We Keep → 11%
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry → 12%

#FirstLinesFriday: 25 October 2024

October 25, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads6 Comments

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

First lines:

“I dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen.
I mean, pretty much nobody has. Logan Caldwell claims he ding-dong-ditched the place last summer break, but he’s an even bigger liar than me. The truth is you can’t really see the house from the road. Just the iron teeth of the front gate and the long red lick of the drive, maybe a glimpse of limestone walls crosshatched by honeysuckle and greenbriers.”

#WWWWednesday: 23 October 2024

October 23, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads22 Comments

Hello, hello and welcome back to another episode of WWW Wednesday, a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words, which means I’ll be answering these questions:

What did you read last?
What are you currently reading?
What will you read next?

#TopTenTuesday: Changed Reading Habits

October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads50 Comments

We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week’s topic is How My Reading Habits Have Changed Over Time (submitted by Lydia @ https://lydiaschoch.com)

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [253]

October 20, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads2 Comments

I’ll be spending the rest of my Sunday in bed with Anatomy. This is my buddy read with Leslie and we’ve been making slow progress because life. Despite the slightly gruesome scenes that have made me feel surprisingly queasy (I’m usually ok with/indifferent to them), my curiosity to see the story unfold is still high. We love a curious FMC and I feel for Hazel. I’m also curious about Jack!

#FirstLinesFriday: 18 October 2024

October 18, 2024 Dini @ dinipandareads10 Comments

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

First lines:

“The frog was dead, there was no doubt about that. It had been dead already when Hazel Sinnett found it. She was taking her daily stroll after breakfast, and the frog had just been there, lying on the garden path, on its back as though it had been trying to sunbathe.”