Category: Top Ten Tuesday
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Be sure to check out different takes on this week’s freebie topic on her site! * * * We are currently bird sitting for one of my partner’s coworkers. Gizmo is an adorable green-cheeked conure, but goodness birds are so much work! We’ve learned a…
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TTT: 10 Series I Can’t Wait to Finish and/or Start
Alan Bradley, book series, Discworld, Douglas Adams, fantasy, fiction, Flavia de Luce, Great Cities, Hannah Whitten, His Dark Materials, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Jasper Fforde, N.K. Jemisin, Patrick Rothfuss, Philip Pullman, Reading, Sarah J Maas, Shades of Magic, Terry Pratchett, The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Wilderwood, Throne of Glass, Thursday Next, V.E. SchwabTop Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Are you the type of person that can finish a series? I am….not generally that person. There are a few series that I love–that I’ve read multiple times, but to be honest those are mostly books that I started as a kid or young adult.…
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TTT: My 10 Favorite Fictional Unlikable Characters
Alice in Wonderland, Donna Tartt, fiction, Geek Love, Kate Christensen, Katherine Dunn, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood, Mikhail Bulgakov, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Oscar Wilde, Ottessa Moshfegh, The Epicure's Lament, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Master and Margarita, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Secret History, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, unlikable characterTop Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. For me, reading is all about the characters. I want them to be interesting. I want them to have chutzpah and gumption and a *teensy* bit of common sense. They need to develop, have interesting viewpoints, be flawed. So actually, I really like the normally…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was a freebie related to Halloween. I love Halloween. The dress up and magic and witches and candy and caramel apples….so fantastic. One of my favorite things to do around this time of year is watch Halloween appropriate movies. But I’m not…
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This week’s prompt is book-adjacent, but a fun prompt for me as a poet. It’s about favorite words. And actually limiting it to ten was extremely difficult, so I have chosen (with much narrowing down) a dozen to share with you. Have you ever repeated a word so often that it loses all its meaning?…
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I’m the kind of person who always brings a book to the cabin and…never reads more than a few pages of it. I go on trips with several book and come back with most of them unread except for the audiobook on the plane. I’m often lucky if I get a single book read on…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The prompt for today was to talk about book covers that either were solely composed of type or used mainly typographic elements. I cannot think of many designers that design more beautiful covers than Jessica Hische. Hische is a letterer, author, and a Brooklyn transplant…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Anyone else absurdly motivated by arbitrary reading challenges other people have set? I started subscribing to Book of the Month when I bought a 6 month subscription for my friend for Christmas. It’s now her annual gift. We don’t coordinate our choices–sometimes we choose the…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was books with geographical terms in the title, and while I was looking through my read books (thank you, Story Graph), I noticed a trend. All of the geographic terms I was encountering were through fantasy books. So I leaned into that…
Allison Burris 