Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish In not particular order: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: the best intellectual romance out there. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Beautiful vivid writing with an engrossing, epic story Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: I love anything by this author but this in particular has great […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Faithful Place by Tana French: I started this earlier in the year and for whatever reason set it down, I’d like to pick it back up by year’s end. Broken Harbor by Tana French: to continue my love of the Dublin Murder Squad series Wives and Daughters by […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish I don’t normally read series but when I do it is usually young adult. I’d also like to note that most of these series are technically trilogies or just include a sequel.) Prophecy of Oz by Megan Shan (release date August 2013 planned trilogy) I pretty much […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Giving a nod to “best books of the year” is the norm for end of year thoughts, and I love recommending them, but what about those ho-hum books. I am not trying to say that said books were horrible, just not to my taste, and I thought it […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Jane Austen (duh) — she breathes life into any character she touches/creates. Harry Potter Series — Hogwarts is just so damn awesome! I love J.K. Rowling Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell — I read this every freak’n year almost without fail, for being written in 1936 […]