Category: Top Ten Tuesday

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Books People Keep Telling Me I MUST Read. Which there are a lot of, but these are the first that come to mind in no particular order:  Under the Dome – Stephen King 1984 – George Orwell On the Road – Jack READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Books I’m Not Sure I Want To Read. Oh, what a good topic! 1. Allegiant – Veronica Roth Seeing as I didn’t much like Insurgent and then had this definitively spoiled for me, I’ve rather gone off the prospect.2. Crime and Punishment READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Ten Authors I Own the Most Books By. Which, to be totally honest? I can’t really answer. Because my bookshelves are double stacked and architecturally delicate and I have further stacks of books all over the place, and they’re not organized, so I READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Movies and TV Shows!A bit of a departure from the norm, but one I won’t have any trouble with! Movies Cold Comfort Farm I recently (finally) finished reading this book, but I’ve been a fan of the movie pretty much since READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Blogging Confessions. I’m slightly confused about this topic – you’d think, based on the title, that it would be confessions about things you’ve done as a (book) blogger. But the example seems to be confessions of things you’ve done as a READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Favourite Classics. I’m a little late to the party on this one because on top of working all weekend, my Dad returned on Monday night from a huge road trip (across the country and back) that took him two months! Since READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Cover Trends I Like/Dislike. This is going to be a slightly more boring post for two reasons: 1 – I don’t have much time this week for blogging, and 2 – I don’t want to use cover images because I feel READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year. Oh, man. There have been some excellent books so far this year. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow – Rita Leganski Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a seasonal: Top Ten Books That Will (or Should) Be In My Beach Bag This Summer. First of all, let me say that I’m not a seasonal reader, I’m more of an, “as the mood strikes me” reader. So I don’t really have READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a Freebie, which means I get to pick my own topic. So I pick…. (drum roll please)…Top Ten Bookish People I’d Like to Meet. I like this because it’ll allow me to highlight some of my favourite bloggers, as well as a few READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is “Top Ten Books About Friendship.” 1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green – Tiny and the first Will Grayson is complicated, occasionally acerbic and runs deep.2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – Don Tillman isn’t the easiest person. READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is “Top Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn’t.” I really need to start working on these sooner so I give myself more time to think about my answers. 1. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton I think if this hadn’t been so READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is “Top Ten Books If You Like X TV Show/Movie/Comic/Play etc.” I get to pick what “X” represents. Because I’m pathologically bad at decisions and because I want EVERYTHING all at once, I’m going to do a few different things with this post. Here READ MORE

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is “Top Ten Characters Who X.” I get to pick what “X” represents. So I’ve decided to stretch this topic to breaking point and go with “Top Ten Characters Who Make A Perfect Pair.” So basically it’s my top ten duos in all of READ MORE