Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It combines what I love most in this world into one—lists, books, and blogging. It couldn’t be any better suited for me! We all have those books that we pick up because they have been on our lists for years, but this week’s Top 10 is all about the books I’ve picked up just because they looked appealing at the time. Let’s get started! 1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt I picked this book up when I was buying Christmas presents for my family. I’m not sure why it spoke to me, but when I read the…
Books of 2015
2015 was a great year for books in my life. Unfortunately, I didn’t reach my goal of reading 50 books, but there’s always next year! For now, here’s what I did manage to read in 365 days… 1. Play the King by Michael Dobbs 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 3. Planet of the Apes By Pierre Boulle 4. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston 5. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 6. Yes Please by Amy Poehler 7. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 8. Unbroken by Laura Hilenbrand 9. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10. Wild by Cheryl Strayed 11.…
Top 10 Tuesday: Quotes
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. I know I posted a few weeks ago about my favorite quotations, but here I am again with another post all about my favorite quotes from the last year or so. 1. “Figure out what you want. Say it loud. Then shut up.” Amy Poehler — Yes Please This is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever received from a book. Amy speaks to me. Never be ashamed of what you want — if…
Opinions May Vary
Title: Side Effects May Vary Author: Julie Murphy Genre: Young Adult Fiction Quotation: “I don’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.” Would recommend to: people who appreciate a different story. This was my “young adult” choice of the past month, and I don’t have any regrets. The book chronicles a girl’s life before and after she found out she was cancer free. You follow her through her acceptance of her cancer, how she copes with the news that her life may be coming to an end, and finally how all of her actions have shaped her life…
Top 10 Tuesday: Characters I Just Didn’t Click With
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. This week is dedicated to the characters we just didn’t click with from the beginning. 1. Four- Divergent I’m almost really sorry about this one — but I just didn’t like Four that much, especially when we were thrown inside his head. I liked him enough in the first two books, but I didn’t like him enough to see the story from his point of view. I felt the different viewpoints made the reader feel disconnected from…
Top 10 Tuesday: Characters I Just Didn't Click With
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010. It’s a fun way for bloggers all over the Internet to connect and post the things they love about books. This week is dedicated to the characters we just didn’t click with from the beginning. 1. Four- Divergent I’m almost really sorry about this one — but I just didn’t like Four that much, especially when we were thrown inside his head. I liked him enough in the first two books, but I didn’t like him enough to see the story from his point of view. I felt the different viewpoints made the reader feel disconnected from…
The Best Time to Buy a Book is All the Time
So I’ve done some shopping…I’m not proud of my addiction, but I understand it’s better than most. This is an extremely collective haul of books, some that I received as gifts and some that were free and some that were fewer than five dollars. So without further ado, let’s see what I’ve bought lately. Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy Along with this book, I picked up a little bookmark that says “Eat.Sleep.Read.” The perfect mantra for me. It’s a book about a girl who thinks she’s going to die from cancer, so she confesses all these truths to people. She ends up surviving her ailment and is left…
