Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books with X Setting. I’d probably better start by defining what I mean by “alternate universe”: a world or universe that is recognizably ours, but contains elements that ours does… Read more »
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Ten Books I’d Buy in an Instant (If I Had a Gift Card)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Ten Books You’d Buy Right This Second If Someone Handed You A Fully Loaded Gift Card. These are all books I want for my physical shelves (so nothing that I’ll… Read more »
Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want to Do/Learn
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want to Learn/Do. The Possible Falconry. Between medieval and Renaissance fiction, Mercedes Lackey’s Hawkbrothers, and Nora Roberts’ Cousins O’Dwyer trilogy, I’ve developed an interest in hawks… Read more »
Fifteen Mysteries Set Outside the U.S.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Books Set Outside the U.S. I’m expanding beyond traditional and cozy mystery to including a few romantic suspense novels (the Mary Stewarts) and one book that is more fiction, but does have… Read more »
Bet You Didn’t Know (Ten Facts About Me)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about getting to know each other as bloggers and as people. So here are ten things you… Read more »
The Best New Releases I’ve Read This Year (So Far)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I’m a little late with this post, but I decided to go ahead anyway, because I had so many books for the topic!… Read more »
13 New Releases I Can’t Wait to Read (July-Dec. 2016)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is My Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The Second Half Of The Year. Here are the 13 forthcoming books from July through December that I’m most eager to read and in many… Read more »
Summer Escapes: Vacation Reads for 2016
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Beach Reads. I rarely go to the beach. I can hear you all gasping in horror. But I sunburn easily, and I’m not a fan of hot weather, so I usually… Read more »
My Favorite Non-Bookish Websites
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Websites I Love That Aren’t About Books. Obviously, I spend a lot of time on bookish websites: Goodreads, NetGalley and Edelweiss, Amazon, my library, other book blogs, author blogs… But there are… Read more »
Ten Child Characters I’d Love To Revisit As Adults
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Childhood Characters You’d Love To Revisit As Adults Children’s books and even some adult books are brimming with wonderful child characters. Here are some characters I would love to revisit… Read more »