Ten Book-to-Movie (or TV) Adaptations I’m Looking Forward To 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 week’s topic is the top ten book-to-movie adaptations I’m looking forward to, or the adaptations I still need to watch. As usual, I’ll be combining both topic ideas because I can never resist it. I’m not the best at keeping up with adaptations but I will usually seek out movies if I’ve read the book. This topic actually required quite a bit of research! Thank you, Google. Despite the fact that these are two of my favorite books, I still haven’t seen the movies. I decided I wanted to reread Paper Towns by John Green right before seeing the movie, and of course I haven’t gotten around to that yet. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger, from what I’ve heard, is absolutely nothing like the book. I’m a bit disappointed but I’ve heard that you can move past that issue and enjoy the movie nonetheless. (I even own this one now! I really need to get going.)Mockingjay (Part Two) by Suzanne Young | I can’t waaaaait for this movie! It’s so close, too. I usually go see them with one of my friends so her and I have to start planning. It comes out later this month (November 20th) and I can’t […]

Ten Debut Authors and their Sophomore Novels 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 week’s TTT is about debut authors and their sophomore novels, which can be taken in two directions: debut authors that have me itching for their sophomore novel, or debut authors whose second book didn’t disappoint. I ended up only thinking of one real solid example for the second category, so I couldn’t resist including it. Otherwise, here I have eight debut authors’ books I LOVED and need their second book ASAP. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon | The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis | First & Then by Emma Mills | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli | We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach | All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven | The Falconer by Elizabeth May Some of these may count as second novels if the author already had a self-pubbed book or something along those lines, but they’re all YA debuts in general! Loved (or at least strongly liked) all of these above and really looking forward to either the second book in the series or by the author.Emery Lord’s debut Open Road Summer and sophomore novel The Start of Me and You were both fantastic. I […]

Ten Halloween-y and Fall-time Books 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 week’s TTT is a Halloween-themed freebie. I’m not a scary book type of gal, but I don’t mind something creepy or paranormal from time to time! I definitely find myself reaching for these books during the fall season (and October, specifically). I’m going to split this up into a few categories to keep things interesting (and yes because I probably don’t have enough books to fit in each one). If you’re like me and prefer less creepy books, then these are for you. (ALSO, you should definitely read my guest post on Alyssa’s blog for Fortnight of Fright! It features similar recommendations for not-so-scary Halloween books, movies, and food.) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a really interesting paranormal story with awesome photos included. I read this one last year for Book Buddies and have decided to finish the next two books in the trilogy this October and next October. Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young is incredibly atmospheric and creepy. I was unfortunately able to predict some of the twists (which I blame on similar books/movies I’ve read that others probably haven’t). Regardless, I REALLY enjoyed this one. Shadowlands by Kate Brian is an extremely underrated […]

Ten Wishes for the Book Genie to Grant 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’ve been looking forward to this week’s topic ever since I saw it – ten wishes I’d ask the book genie to grant me (new book from a certain author, reading superpower, new library, character to come to life, meet an author, etc.). I’m going to hit on most of the suggested topics because they’re all too fun. Here we gooooo. John Green’s latest book • Yes, I was once an ardent John Green fangirl. My obsession with him, in general, has gone down lately. BUT IT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE HIS LAST BOOK. I want to read some new material from him in hopes that it doesn’t follow the same formula. Come on John, blow me away again! The genie better poke John in the butt so he writes faster. Audiobook narration speed • I love listening to audiobooks but they always read too slow for me! I know Audible has the speed-up option but then their voices sound warped. I can’t win. Even trying 1.25x sounds weird. It’s not that they become too fast – you can just tell that their voices are sped up. It’s annoying and I need a happy medium! House with […]