Category: Weekly Memes

Top Ten Tuesdays #54: Characters

Posted September 1, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 10 Comments

Ten Characters I Didn’t Click With Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Ah yes, this topic is an interesting one. There are plenty of books where the main character annoys the crap out of me or just doesn’t work for me, so here are ten of them! Jane from Signs Point to Yes by Sandy Hall – These characters were all kinds of awkward, and not in an endearing way. I couldn’t click with them and cringed at a lot of the dialogue. Tamsen from Young Widows Club by Alexandra Coutts – For such a sad topic, this book didn’t give me really any emotions at all. Tam had no interests or hobbies except for her the ones she shared with her deceased husband, and I just didn’t connect with her. Ally from Behind the Scenes by Dahlia Adler – I loved the second book in this series, but the first one wasn’t as good for me because of Ally. She was a bit overdramatic and I liked all of the side characters more than her! Charlotte from Even in Paradise by Chelsey Philpot – I’m still sad about this book. I was so excited for it and it just didn’t work for me. Charlotte was a follower with very little […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #53: YA 101

Posted August 25, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 10 Comments

Ten Books on the Syllabus for Young Adult Lit 101 Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I love this week’s topic: the top ten books on my syllabus if I taught a ____ 101 class. I decided to go with the general Young Adult 101 class. The first half of the semester would be the fluffy, feelsy books and the second half would be the heavier topics featured in YA. Second Chance Summer | Saint Anything | All the Bright Places | I’ll Meet You There | Tease Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda |Emmy & Oliver | Meant to Be | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before | Anna and the French Kiss

Top Ten Tuesdays #52: Auto-Buy Authors

Posted August 18, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 12 Comments

Ten Auto-Buy Authors Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I think a lot of people will have some major overlap between this list and last week’s list of authors we’ve read the most books from. I am actually not one of them! My most-read authors are definitely more towards my younger years and those loooong series I used to read. I mean, I’ve read everything by Cecily von Ziegesar and, thanks to Gossip Girl and It Girl, that equates to 27 books. And I’m also a Sara Shepard fangirl with 29 books due to super long series. ANYWAYS, here are my auto-buy authors! They’re even different than the TTT earlier this year for all-time favorite authors.

Top Ten Tuesdays #51: Most Read Authors

Posted August 11, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 20 Comments

Ten of my Most-Read Authors Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This list is certainly not surprising to me! The majority of these authors are from far back in my reading history, back when I pretty much exclusively read REALLY long book series about mean girls and boarding school. The Kate Brian total below also includes the 3 Kieran Scott books I’ve read, since Kate Brian is her other pen-name.

Top Ten Tuesdays #50: Retellings

Posted August 4, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 13 Comments

Ten Fairytale Retellings (2 Loved + 8 To-Read) Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. So, first of all – this is my 50th TTT! I can’t believe it. 50 straight weeks of Top Ten Tuesday. Damn. And second, YAY! I love this one! I have a lot of retellings on my TBR and even joined a challenge for them this year. I have plans for quite a few more – especially with the Lunar Chronicles readalong starting this month. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Still can barely talk about this one Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay | Took a while to get going, but fantastic after it did! Cinder by Marissa Meyer | Reading very soon for the Lunar Chronicles readalong! Ash & Bramble by Sarah Prineas | Started this but had to stop and send to the next person Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Berry & Ridley Peterson | A classic I need to read Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson | I’ve heard nothing but fantastic things about this one Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge | This has been on my TBR forever! Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay | I loved PoT so I have to […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #49: Book Nerds

Posted July 28, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 10 Comments

Ten Eight Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. So, I’m pretty terrible about remembering book details after I finish the book. Something like “the main character is a big reader” would not stick with me in most cases. So, with that alert in mind, here are EIGHT (whoops) books with characters who are book nerds… as far as I can remember: The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord… because of Quiz Bowl and Pride & Prejudice references Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan… because of The Strand Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell… because of the comics shared on the bus Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell… because of the fanfiction and Simon Snow Kissing in America by Margo Rabb… because of the romance novels read by the MC Between the Pages by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer… because of the fairy tale Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon… because she has nothing to do but read all day Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller… because she always carried a book when she moved

Top Ten Tuesdays #48: Diversity

Posted July 21, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 17 Comments

Ten Books That Celebrate Diversity/Diverse Characters (Examples: minority/religious minority, socioeconomic diversity, disabled MC, neurotypical character, LGBTQ etc.) Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Like a lot of people, I want to read more diverse books! I can’t lie, though – I’m not always successful and I don’t always make it a priority. I honestly don’t think about it too much and I’d like for that to change. I have read a decent number of books recently that fall under the general “diverse” category, but there are still quite a bit on my TBR! I’ll be sharing both here. The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis | blind main character Ah, I loved this book. If someone were to ask me to recommend #QuietYA, this book would be one. It comes out in September but it’s definitely worth mentioning now. I’ve seen some great reviews, so I don’t think I’m the only one who loved it! What a touching story, centered around a main character who goes blind from meningitis complications. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell | two diverse main characters | review Woo, lots of diversity in this one I feel like! The book takes place in the 80’s and follows around – obviously – Eleanor and Park. Eleanor comes […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #47: Stacking the Shelves

Posted July 14, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 5 Comments

Last Ten Books That Came Into My Possession Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I love that this is basically the TTT version of Stacking the Shelves, a meme I love creeping on but don’t participate in… Here are the last ten books that came into my possession and how I acquired them! I love these easy topics. From Around the World ARC Tours I sent Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy back already, but I read it and it was fantastic. I also finished The Lies About Truth by Courtney C. Stevens, which was awesome. I’m currently reading The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak but am not completely sold. I can’t lie, I’ve been skimming a little bit… And up next is Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. From the Library I requested Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli and The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguire and they came in last week. I hope I get to them before they’re due back, but no promises. I also checked out This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, but haven’t gotten around to it either. I’m so bad with library books but it doesn’t stop my addiction! (Also pictured is my current audiobook series binge-read…) From Amazon I preordered […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #46: Hyped Books

Posted July 7, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 27 Comments

Top Ten Hyped Books I’ve Never Read (Newer Releases I Plan to Read or Won’t Read) Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I feel like I’ve done some similar posts to this one before! I’ve decided to do a little twist on this one, and make it the top ten hyped new releases (within the last 6 months or so) that I haven’t read yet – and whether or not I think I’ll ever read them! I always add the hyped books to my TBR but never seem to be in the mood to read them. I have a feeling that a lot of them will slip by me and I’ll never read them, but there are some I’m definitely still interested in getting to at some point. Everyone seemed to be super excited for these two before their release! I actually even started to listen to an audiobook of The Wrath and the Dawn, but ended up quitting. I wasn’t really into the story and had a hard time keeping track of the characters. I will probably try this one again at some point, but I’m not sure! I’ll definitely need to read the print copy if I do. I preordered An Ember in the Ashes when there was a […]

Top Ten Tuesdays #46: Best of 2015 So Far

Posted June 30, 2015 / Top 10 Tuesdays, Weekly Memes / 22 Comments

Top Ten Twenty Books I’ve Read So Far in 2015 Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. So we’re halfway through the year, and I’ve read 88 books. To put that in perspective, I read 91 books total in 2014. It’s hard to keep track of what I had for breakfast, let alone all the books I read this year. Most of these books I totally thought I read last year, so there are a bit more than expected… I tried to keep this list as SMALL as possible but its not easy. Here are the top 20 books I’ve read so far in 2015! (Yikes.) Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway | I think this may be my favorite book so far of the year. It’s hard to say (and I’ll probably say this again a few more times on this list…), but I just got so many feels from this book. It’s so well-rounded, with romance, friendship, and family. I can’t sing its praises enough. The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis | This book definitely caught me by surprise. I wasn’t expecting to love it so much, but it was pretty amazing. It doesn’t come out until September but I would mark your calendars. I have a feeling this […]