Double-Stacked Bookshelves

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly  meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a 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 Feature Characters Who Hit You Right In The Feels .  I'm not normally an emotional reader, but these ones really worked a number on my heart :( Liesel Meminger and Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Dobby from Harry Potter by JK Rowling Rue from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Ove from A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Eleanor & Park from Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Rosie from Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Fantine and Jean Valjean from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Pi from Life of Pi by Yann Martel Oliver from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Emma from A Series of Small Maneuvers by Eliot Treichel I'm aware that I cheated and did som

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a 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:   Ten Books On My Fall TBR .  Since I'm continually adding to my (daunting) TBR and I never really map out what I'll be reading, this will be an evolving/changeable list of ones I'd like to get read in the very near future and will include both published and soon-to-be published options :) In no particular order: Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich (Publication: November 21) While I'm getting a little weary of Stephanie Plum's antics, I can't abandon this series... Year One by Nora Roberts (Publication: December 5) I know...I know.  Every single book is the same formula, but when you want something mindless, easy, and quick, Nora is your girl! Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Publication: November 7) I just love

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a 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:   Throwback Freebie !  Because this is such a wide topic, I'm going to go with ten books I loved when I first started blogging (between 2006-2010).  My early blogging days were very sporadic...and so was my reading and recording of that reading.  That's all gotten better over the years...kind of.  Thank you, Goodreads and blogging communities!  Regardless, here are my top ten books from that time period: 2006 Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 2008 The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino 2009 Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bo

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a 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:   Ten Books that Were a Struggle to Get Into But Turned Out Awesome .  I have always been a champion for books that start out difficult.  My thinking was that they had to get better at some point; push through and give it a fighting chance!  I rarely, if ever, DNF a book...though I've allowed myself to finally embrace the DNF in the past year or so... Regardless, here are ten books that resided on my struggle bus until they became pretty awesome: Life of Pi by Yann Martel Once you get past the first 100 pages, this is a fantastic book and it's now among my favorites.  I wish I could read it again without knowing how it ends...it's that magical. Heartless by Marissa Meyer I think I was expecting the awesome that is The Lunar Ch