#TopTenTuesday: August Reads Over A Decade

August 11, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads42 Comments

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

This week’s topic is: Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years (Stolen from Anne @ HeadFullofBooks) (This might be tricky if you don’t use a reading tracker like Goodreads, but the idea is to share what you were reading on August 11th of 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016. If you have no idea, pick a book you loved that you read at any time during each of the last ten years. And if you still have no idea, pick a book you loved that was published during each of the last ten years. Make this work for you!)

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [337]

August 9, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads6 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.

I’ll be spending the rest of my Sunday night in bed reading Swordheart by T. Kingfisher. I’ve actually got a few reads going on at the minute, but I’ve taken to reading this before bed every night for the past week. I’m not speeding through it, but enjoying it immensely when I read it. Halla and Sarkis have such great banter! 🤭

What book do you have in bed with you this Sunday?

First Lines Friday: 7 August 2026

August 7, 2026August 9, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads10 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:

“Cannon fire before breakfast is obscene – and waking up to it is an atrocity.”

Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?

#WWWWednesday: 5 August 2026

August 5, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads24 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: Pantone Birth Chart Palette Book Covers

August 4, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads45 Comments

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

This week’s topic is: Cover Freebie (Pick any topic related to book covers. You can make up your own topic or pick one from the list of previous ones!)

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [336]

August 2, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads6 Comments

I’ll be spending the rest of my Sunday night in bed finishing the final two short stories in the Magic & Mystery Collection. The sixth book is Battle of the Round House by Tananarive Due, an author that I’ve been keen to check out. The final book in the collection is The Cairndale Orphan by J. M. Miro. I don’t think I’ve heard of Miro before, but I’m keen to give them a read.

What book do you have in bed with you this Sunday?

First Lines Friday: 31 July 2026

July 31, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads14 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 farmer is dead, he is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him. Was it an accident or was it murder? It looks like murder, they say, with that gunshot wound to the heart, so precise, it must have been intended.”

Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?

#WWWWednesday: 29 July 2026

July 29, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads17 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: Books I NEEDED but still haven’t read…

July 28, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads54 Comments

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

This week’s topic is: Books I HAD to Have Immediately but Still Haven’t Read (this is a throwback topic from 2022)

Sundays in Bed With… #MyWeeklyWrapUp [335]

July 27, 2026 Dini @ dinipandareads4 Comments

I’ll be spending my Sunday night in bed with Paladin’s Faith by T. Kingfisher. This is the last book in the Saints of Steel series (so far?) but after very quickly finishing the third book, we decided to power through the last one so we can complete the series. I haven’t been reading much, but I’m enjoying what I have read so far with Kingfisher’s classic witty characters, charming interactions, and cosiness!

Also, I think this cover might be my favourite of the lot. It’s so pretty (especially irl)! 😍

What book do you have in bed with you this Sunday?