Category: Top Ten Tuesday

  This week’s topic on Top Ten Tuesday is “Books On Your Fall TBR.” There are so many great books coming out this fall, you guys. SO MANY. I’m going to start with the ones I can remember off the top of my head without consulting my list and then try to narrow it down. READ MORE

  For Top Ten Tuesday this week, we get to pick our own topic. For normal people, this is probably a great opportunity to come up with something original and interesting. I, however, am not normal. So for me, it’s an opportunity to panic, hyperventilate, and second (or third) guess all of my potential ideas. READ MORE

  It’s happened to all of us. You start a new book, and you wait. You wait for the magic to happen. You wait for that moment when something snaps into place, and you just get the main character.                 Lilac and Tarver from These Broken Stars. She was a major pain in READ MORE

  This week’s topic is a really, really good one. We got to pick which top ten books would be on our syllabus if we taught x 101 – for example, historical fiction 101 or high fantasy 101. I’ve decided to cheat a little bit, because there were just too many possibilities to pick from! READ MORE

  Every once in a while you discover an author whose work speaks to you on a level that goes beyond just the words on the page. Maybe their style appeals to you, maybe it’s their topics or the settings they choose. Maybe they just nail down the words you could never find to express READ MORE

  This week’s prompt is all about authors we just can’t resist. Those authors on our auto-buy lists, the ones whose new books we literally count down to, and whose books we devour like a starving man attacks a box of jelly-filled doughnuts. These days my efforts to read widely have meant less diving into READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Last Ten Books That Came Into My Possession. This includes everything from books purchased to review copies to library books or borrowed books. So, without further ado…. The Rocks – Peter Nichols (from the library) The Blythes Are Quoted – L.M. Montgomery READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far in 2015. So far this year my reading has been pretty up and down, with some amazing books and some disappointing ones. Here are the ten that stand out as having been the most memorable READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Favourite Top Ten Tuesday Topics. I’ve been doing this link-up for a whiiiiiiiile now, and I honestly couldn’t even list ten topics off the top of my head, but here are a few that jumped out from as far back as READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten  Books On My Summer TBR. Well, last week I listed the books I’m looking forward to most coming out for the rest of the year so I’ll try to mix in a few that weren’t on there. Here are my top READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Most Anticipated Releases for the Rest of 2015. I’m gonna just start laughing right now. Ten. Pffft. What kind of amateur do they think they’re talking to? Here’s the (very long) list:  JUNE 2015                 Love May Fail – Matthew READ MORE

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag This Summer or Ten Books That Make Great Beach Reads. Since I’m not an authority on beach reads (I often end up reading something horribly depressing or re-reading Harry Potter when I’m READ MORE