Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books Covers That Feel Like Summer.
I did a similar theme for a Top 5 Tuesday post not too long ago… but summer-flavored books always make me happy, so why not put together another batch?
Beaches, seashells, palm trees, fireworks… the joys of summer!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the Second Half of 2022.
Where do I even start? I want to read ALL the books… but here are ten I’m really excited about.. while also trying not to repeat books I’ve highlighted in other TBR posts already!
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (7/19)
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (7/19)
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (8/30)
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (9/6)
Be the Serpent (October Daye, #16) by Seanan McGuire (9/6)
Fairy Tale by Stephen King (9/6)
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory (9/20)
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (10/11)
Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell (11/8)
Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca (12/6)
What new releases are you most looking forward to? Please share your links!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books On My Summer 2022 To-Read List.
I have SO MANY books to get to this summer! Some are new releases I’ve already bought, and some are ARCs for upcoming releases (July and August publication dates) — and half of these are books in series I’m invested in. I’m excited for all of these!
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Flash Fire by TJ Klune
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Thank You For Listening by Julie Whelan
Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
What are you planning to read this summer? Please share your links!
I usually do Top 10 Tuesday posts, but once again, the topic didn’t really appeal to me… and meanwhile, Top 5 Tuesday has some great ones going on! This weekly was meme originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, and is now hosted by Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic is Top 5 books that remind you of a season — so here are five summer-themed books, since summer books always make me happy. Sun, sand, warm breezes… what’s not to love?
For future Top 5 Tuesday topics, see the list here.
My top 5 summer books are:
And here, I have to admit that I haven’t read the last two (All Summer Long and One Perfect Summer), but I love the covers and how relaxed they make me feel just looking at them! Both are in my Kindle library — so maybe this summer will finally be the summer to read them!
What are your favorite summer books?
As always, if you have a TTT or T5T post this week, please share your link!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books With a Unit of Time In the Title(seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, eternity, etc.) . Fun… and not too much work to put together — always a plus!
My 10 books:
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki — the author’s first novel; so powerful!
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders — I haven’t read this one yet, but I like the author, so I do want to get to it.
A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A. B. Yehoshua — one of my favorite Israeli authors, but I haven’t read this particular book (yet)
Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis — read last year! (review)
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder — so many happy memories of reading this series with my daughter
Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti — loved this book! (review)
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin — on my TBR (but I really don’t tend to read short story collections)
180 Seconds by Jessica Park — I think this is a very under-the-radar book, but I enjoyed it. (review)
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill — I read one story in this collection, and it terrified me so much that I never read the rest. Maybe someday, when I’m feeling exceptionally brave…
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — I have tried this book at least twice, and neither time have made it past the midpoint. Someone convince me to give it another try!
What books are on your list this week?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
I usually do Top 10 Tuesday posts, but wasn’t feeling the topic this week… so this time around, I’m going with Top 5 Tuesday! This weekly was meme originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, and is now hosted by Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic is reading accessories:
Be it lamps or bookmarks, tabs or pens, headphones or cloth jackets ― what are the things you like to use or have when you’re reading?
1. Cozy pillows and blankets — because really, what’s better than curling up someplace comfy with a good book?
2. My reading glasses –just can’t live without ’em!
3. My phone and headphones — for long walks in the company of a good audiobook.
Listening to audiobooks wherever the path may take me…
4. Bookmarks galore! I collect paper bookmarks wherever I go. They’re not fancy or expensive, but they contain good thoughts and memories, and make me happy.
5. A place in the sun — OK, this isn’t really an accessory, but sitting in our window seat in the afternoon sunshine or out on my back porch on a beautiful day is my idea of a perfect reading situation.
What are your favorite reading accessories?
As always, if you have a TTT or T5T post this week, please share your link!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books I Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Haven’t Read. I have plenty of these! (Don’t we all?)
To keep it simple, I went back through my preorder spreadsheet (yes, I keep track of my book orders via an Excel spreadsheet!), and discovered plenty of books that I ordered well in advance of the release date… and still haven’t gotten around to reading. Sigh…
I only went back through my last 4 – 5 years of book buying — I’m sure I have plenty of older books that would fit this list too!
My top 10 books (and the year each was purchased) are:
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2018)
Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness (2018)
Someday by David Levithan (2018
Death of an Eye by Dana Stabenow (2018)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (2019)
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (2020)
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey (2020)
Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister (2020)
Ambush or Adore by Gail Carriger (2021)
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (2022)
What books made your list this week? Are there any on my list that you think I should read ASAP?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is One-Word Reviews for the Last Ten Books I Read. I tried, but I couldn’t think about how to do this — my list would have been basically: scary! funny! sweet! etc… not very enlightening.
So, I thought I’d do a bit of word association. Remember playing word association games? Say the first word that comes to mind…
In this case, I decided to do the two words that come to mind when I think about the most recent books I’ve read. Here goes!
Hollywood&Hyenas
Narwhals& Cheese
Mule&Pajama Party
Lawyers&Scones
ASL & Anarchy
Bonedog & Dustwife
Doll-children & Surveillance
Tudors & Shapeshifters
Cake & Kissing
Dating & Demons
How did you do with this week’s TTT prompt? Did you have better luck than I did writing one-word reviews?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with [___] On the Cover (Pick a thing (a color, an item, a place, an animal, a scripty font, a sexy person, etc.) and share covers that have that thing on the cover.). I took what seemed like an easy-ish approach and went with books!
I love books about books and readers — how about you? Do you have a favorite?
What was your TTT theme this week?Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Authors I Haven’t Read, But Want To, and I definitely have a bunch of those!
In no particular order, my list includes:
Jess Kidd: I own two of this author’s books, and I’m especially interested in reading Things in Jars, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
2. Jesse Q. Sutanto: The “auntie” books look so cute!
3. Stacey Lee: I have one of her books, and love the sound of at least one more.
4. Mike Chen: I keep picking up Kindle books by this author because they sound so good, yet I haven’t read any of them (yet).
5. Elizabeth Acevedo: I own one of her books, and know there’s another that I need to read as well.
6. Sarah Pinsker: The sci-fi award-winning author’s books sound really intriguing to me.
7. Sarah Moss: Another author where I own one book, and have another on my wishlist.
8. Peng Shepherd: And again — I have the first book below (unread), and I’m wishing for the second.
9. Kate Quinn: I feel so behind when it comes to this author! I have copies of three of her books, and have yet to read a single one.
10. N. K. Jemisen: I’ve been wanting to read both her Broken Earth and Inheritance series, but have never quite found the right time to start.
Have you read books by any of the authors on my list? If so, which do you think I should make a priority? What authors were on your TTT list this week?
Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!