Double-Stacked Bookshelves

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 New To You Authors .  Oh, there are so many possibilities!  Needless to say, there are several authors on my list who should not be new-to-me authors because they've been around for a while.  Alas...I'm late to their genius.  In no particular order, here are some authors I loved this year: Jhumpa Lahiri :  Her short stories in Interpreter of Maladies are beautiful and brilliant.  I'm very excited to expand my Lahiri reading. Ellen Marie Wiseman :  Wiseman's The Plum Tree is a heartbreaking work of gorgeous story.  I'm thankful I found this gem in the Friends of the Library book sale. Leslye Walton :  The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is just that...strange and beau...

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 Books That Have Recently Come Into My Possession .  This can be in any form but, as luck would have it, I recently purchased a bunch of books from the local library.  Every 4th of July weekend, the library has a Friends of the Library book sale and it is a real treat!  I managed to walk away with twelve new books for 5 bucks.  Score!  Here's What I Got The Perfect Royal Mistress by Diane Haeger Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns The Living by Annie Dillard Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick   A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy Quentins by Maeve Binchy   Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Cruise A Rather Lovely Inheritance by C.A. Belmo...

Bout of Books Challenge 2:  Books I'm Looking Forward To Today's mini challenge in the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon is hosted by Shannon @ River City Reading and it's all about anticipation!  Here's a list of books I'm looking forward to reading in the near and distant future (some I own and some are yet to be published): Yet To Be Published Winter by Marissa Meyer -- Expected publication 2015 The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin -- Expected publication forthcoming A Dream of Spring by George R.R. Martin -- Expected publication forthcoming Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian -- Expected publication July 2014 Untitled Memoir/Sequel to Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir  by Jenny Lawson -- Expected publication forthcoming Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Year of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami Books On My Bookshelf The Casual Vacany by JK Rowling A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin The Satanic Ver...