Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish I’m going to start by saying I love all these authors dearly but I am not one to run out and buy books on their release date. Although, the below author’s novels always end up on my bookshelf/ereader. Tana French — I love her Dublin Murder Squad series. […]
The Classics Club monthly meme is another way to bring members of The Classics Club together. The post for the month will go up on the main page of this blog on the 2nd of the month, and you’ll have all month to respond over at your blog. Q: “What classic has most surprised you so far, […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish 1. Hermione Granger: She is the brightest witch of her time and proves that books are cool! 2. Matilda: Her love of reading kept her one step ahead of her dense family and is just awesome. 3. Atticus Finch: He is so elegent with words and leveled-headed; all due […]
The Classic Club has announced its Classic Spin Number 14 When I was eleven The Sound of Music was one of my favorite movies (although I always liked the first half better Nazis are scary). But I have always heard the that true Sound of Music story was much different and wasn’t always about te […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish This is going to sound sick, but I love threesome romances in literature, but not in a Fifty Shades of Grey kind of way. Krum/Hermione/Ron: who wouldn’t love a Hogwarts threesome? Ron’s insecurities/resentment about the nature of Hermione’s relationship with Krum is actually a little cute and […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish This is really more of my parent’s memory, but when I was a baby they put down a buck, a beer and a book and depending on which order I went to them would determine my personality later. I crawled to the book first, followed by the buck […]
I admit, I’m a month behind getting The Perpetual Page-Turner’s End of Year Survey post up. Despite my love of lists I kept putting it off with good intentions to come back and complete it later. Well, later is better then never so here I go. *Note I did not read a whole lot of […]
What is the best book you’ve read so far for The Classics Club — and why? Be sure to link to the post where you discussed the book! (Or, if you prefer, what is your least favorite read so far for the club, and why?) I am going to discuss one of my least favorite […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Top Ten Eight Bookish Goals For 2013 Read what I want when I want — In 2012 I decided to only read classics and as is typical when one boxes themselves in the plan can go sour. Do not go crazy with reading challenges — I don’t think I completed […]
The new year is approaching, and I’m summing it up with a meme I discovered last year, hosted by The Happily Ever After… entitled My Life According To The Books I Read In 2012 Outside of the mad lib below, my life in books was rather slow, I went through several reading ruts, said rut was caused due […]