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Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books On Your Winter TBR .  Hot Dog!  I always have so many books I want to get to in the near future, but my list is so fluid that it's never something I stick to.  Regardless, these are a few books that are on my radar that I'd like to get under my "Read" banner in the next couple months. White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi A nice, creepy sounding book for these drizzly, dark days :)   The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Such a timely read and very important.   The Rescuers by Margery Sharp Love this movie. Peter Pan by JM Barrie It's been on my TBR for ages. Senseless Confidential by Martin Bannon Hate the cover,

Top Ten Tuesday: Thankful is an Understatement

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books I'm Thankful For .  There are so many books that I'm thankful for.  Whether they helped to inspire my love of reading or they ushered my interests into a new genre, these books hold a special place in my heart. Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn The is the book that sparked my interest in horror/thrillers at a young age.  I was in third or fourth grade when I checked it out from the library at school and it was love at first read.  I've re-read it a few times over the years and it's still creepy.  Love it! The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Historical fiction is my go-to genre and I believe this book is the main reason.  I've re-read it multiple times, even into my adult year

Top Ten Tuesday: Creep-City

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Halloween Freebie !  I have a love hate relationship with freebies because the possibilities are endless.  However, being that it's Halloween (the BEST time of year), I'm going with ten books that creeped me out.   Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn Fear Street Series by RL Stine   The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson   Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk The Shining  by Stephen King   Weasel by Cynthia C DeFelice   Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Seeders by AJ Colucci   It by Stephen King What are some of the most creepy books you've read?  Also, look for next week's Top Ten:  Characters Who Would Make Great Lead

Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books With Unique Titles .  There are some doozies out there...here are a few. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel of Letters  by Mark Dunn    Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn   Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes by Lewis Gizzard What?! All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses and Eye

Top Ten Tuesday: It's a Love Fe(a)st

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a great way to share what you're loving in list form.  The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books That Mention Yummy Food .  Now, I'll be honest in that I don't read a lot of books that feature food or are set around food; some come to mind, but nothing to build a favorites list around.  Instead, I'm going with my favorite cookbooks :) Super late to the game but...in no particular order:   365 No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners by Rachael Ray Say what you want about Ray, this book is fantastic! Betty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty Crocker This. Is. The. Ultimate. Cookbook! Culinaria: Germany by Christine Metzger Includes wonderful histories on the regions and WHY certain foods are prevalent. The Jewish Mama's Kitchen: Authentic Homestyle Recipes by Denise Philli