Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is about hotly awaited sequels… the ones that keep us jumping and down in crazy anticipation.

My choices fall into two general categories:

Sequels coming soon… and we already know when:

By release date:

1) Symbiont by Mira Grant (sequel to Parasite… ick!) – to be released 11/25/2014

2) The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion (sequel to The Rosie Project) – to be released 12/30/2014

3) Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega series, #4) by Patricia Briggs – to be released 3/3/2015

4) Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell (sequel to Doc) – to be released 3/3/2015

5a) Fables, volume 21 by Bill Willingham – to be released 3/3/2015

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5b) Fables, volume 22 (6/2015) … which I’m not really eager for because IT’S THE LAST IN THE SERIES! I’m seriously upset about Fables coming to an end.

not the actual cover…

6) Prudence by Gail Carriger – to be released 3/17/2015 (I know, I know: Technically, this isn’t a sequel — it’s the start of a brand-new series — The Custard Protocol — but since it follows The Parasol Protectorate series, I’m saying it counts!)

7) Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray (sequel to The Diviners) – to be released 4/1/2015… although at this point, it’s been so long since I’ve read The Diviners, I’m not sure how much I really care about continuing with the series.

Since I’m not convinced that I actually want to read Lair of Dreams, I’m including an alternate #7:

7) Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley (sequel to The Rook) – to be released 7/1/2015

Sequels coming eventually… but no actual date has been announced:

8) Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (#16 in the Dresden Files series).

9) The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin (#6 in A Song of Ice and Fire)

And last, but not least — and certainly the book that I want to read more than any others on this list (but too bad it’s not written yet!):

10) Untitled 9th book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

OK, yes, my top 10 list has 12 books on it… but the more the merrier!

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10Nov2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Characters Who Deserve Their Own Books

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is about characters we love so much that we’d love to see them star in their own books.

My top 10 are:

1) Young Ian (Ian Murray, Jr.) from the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon: Ian doesn’t appear until book #3, Voyager, but he instantly makes every scene he’s in simply awesomesauce. Ian is funny and fierce, and one of the big delights of the series is watching Ian grow from gawky teen to… well, I won’t say (spoilers!), but he’s just the best, and I’d happily read a whole book from his point of view.

2) Sirius Black (Harry Potter): I’m not sure what else there is to say about Sirius, but his brief time in the series always broke my my heart, and he remains one of my favorite (and most tragic) book boyfriends.

3) Likewise from Harry Potter, I could never get enough of the Weasley twins or older brothers Bill and Charlie. So how about a story about the Weasley brothers (well, those who remain) after the battle for Hogwarts?

4) Bran Cornick (Mercy Thompson series): Bran is the Marrock, the most powerful werewolf in North America, and I find him to be one of the most fascinating characters in the Mercy-verse. He’s always off to the side, pulling strings, and even though we see much more of him in the Alpha & Omega books, an entire novel centered on Bran would make me very happy indeed.

5) Thomas Raith (Dresden Files): Harry Dresden’s vampire half-brother Thomas brightens up every scene he’s in, and usually my only complaint after finishing a Dresden book is “not enough Thomas”. So let’s get Thomas his own book (Backup, at 70 pages, doesn’t really count) — or better yet, his own series of books.

6) Finnick Odair (The Hunger Games): Okay, I’m not entirely sure I’d want to read a whole book about Finnick — but I do want more of Finnick and Annie’s story than we got in the Hunger Games books.

7) Kate and Elliot (50 Shades): Yes, I read the books! (hiding under rock…) While I thought the books were mostly ridiculous, I did actually like the characters of Kate and Elliot and wouldn’t have minded seeing more of them. As people. Not more of them as in without clothes. Oh, you know what I mean.

8) Aragorn (LOTR): I have a hard time separating book Aragorn from movie Aragorn… but all Aragorn is good Aragorn, right? I’d happily read nothing but Aragorn stories for a week or two. He’s my king!

9) Reagan (Fangirl): I love Cath’s prickly roommate and would love to hear more about her life.

10) Gallowglass, Ysabeau, Philippe, Hamish… and more (All Soul’s Trilogy): One of the things that makes this trilogy so phenomenal is how deeply developed all of the supporting cast is. I’d feel like there’s so much more to know about the rest of the characters, and really hope that Deborah Harkness decides to revisit this world in future novels.

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3Nov2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I’d Love to Re-Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic focuses on books that we’ve read already… but that are calling out for a re-read!

Here are my top picks for books I’d like to revisit:

1) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: I read this during high school, and that was a really long time ago! I feel so derelict for not having re-read it sooner, but at least I have a copy now. I’m going to try to make time for a re-read during the next few months.

2) Lord of the Flies by William Golding: Another one from ye olde school days that I should probably revisit.

3) Either Emma or Persuasion (or both!) by Jane Austen. I really love both of these, and it’s been far too many years since I’ve picked up either book.

4) Any of the Vonnegut books I’ve known and loved — top contenders being Cat’s Cradle or Galapagos.

5) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. I kept waiting to re-read this one, thinking perhaps that I’d convince my son to read it with me. He’s consistently turned me down, so it’s probably time for me to just read it on my own, and then maybe read the other books in the series too.

6) The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny: I never did finish this series. Of the 10 Amber books, I think I read only the first five, but it’s been a really, really long time. I should read the entire series, start to finish — and I’d really love to spend more time in this world, thinking about the labyrinth.

7) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman: It hasn’t been that many years since I first read this one, but I’ve only read it once and feel like I’d enjoy absorbing more of the story and the atmosphere during a 2nd go-round.

8) Some older Stephen King: Could be any of his earlier works, but I’m leaning toward re-reading The Stand or The Eyes of the Dragon.

9) Anything by Louisa May Alcott, other than Little Women: I’ve read Little Women probably a dozen times, but there are quite a few books by Louisa May Alcott which I read once and barely remember now, such as Little Men, Jo’s Boys, Rose in Bloom, and Eight Cousins.

10) His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman: I re-read The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife back when The Amber Spyglass was about to be released, but that’s already a long time ago. I think it might be fun to read all three books straight through, even though I’m dreading the heartbreak that certain parts will inevitably bring me.

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27Oct2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books to Get in the Halloween Mood

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week, we’re talking about books for getting into the Halloween spirit. With a pinch of ghosts, a dash of terror, and a few other supernatural creatures to add some chills and thrills, here are my top 10:

1) A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans: What’s Halloween without a little possession?

2) Misery by Stephen King: Really, just about any Stephen King book could fit on this list. I love that Misery manages to be terror-inducing without the slightest shred of the supernatural. Just a crazy woman with an axe…

3) NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Like father, like son… I could just as easily put Horns or Heart-Shaped Box on this list, although NOS4A2 has the scariest evil dude that I’ve encountered lately.

4) Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger: Because sometimes you just need a good ghost story. Bonus points for taking place next to (and in) an awesome cemetery.

5) The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian: Another fabulous ghost story. Absolutely a five-star read.

6) The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan: Blood, guts, gore, and existentialism. Quite the introspective murderous werewolf.

7) Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore: When you prefer your vampires with silliness and laughter. A great San Francisco setting doesn’t hurt a bit.

8) The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe: Smart witches, example #1.

9) A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness: Smart witches, example #2. Plus, you know, a sexy vampire — and there are even trick-or-treaters.

10) And finally, The Boys Are Back in Town by Christopher Golden: For those who like a straight-up over-the-top horror fest:

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13Oct2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is the top 10 places we want to visit because of books. And luckily for me, fictional places count too!

Without further ado, my 10 top book-related destinations:

1) The Scottish Highlands, thanks to the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

2) Paris, because of SO many books — most recently Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins. (I’ve actually spent time in Paris, but I’d go again in a heartbeat!)

3) Amsterdam, thanks to The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

4) Japan, thanks to Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

5) Botswana, thanks to The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

6) Australia, thanks to The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

7) Italian Riviera, thanks to Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.

8) New Orleans, because of every Anne Rice book I’ve ever read.

Honestly, there are so many real-world places I’d love to visit, and every time I read a book with a new or different setting, the list just gets longer and longer. I’d happily travel the world, books in hand, for the rest of my life!

To round out my top 10, I’ll just add in a couple of the fantasy worlds I wish I could get to… but alas, they only exist in fiction.

9 & 10 & beyond — the many lands of Middle-Earth:

Someone please figure out how I can get to Hobbiton (I’m short enough to fit comfortably):

Gondor:

and Lothlorien:

lothlorien

And that’s not even mentioning Narnia, Fillory, Westeros (well, no, too dangerous), and so many other favorite fantasy worlds.

Where will your bookish travel bug take you?

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29Sep2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me To Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic focuses on books that are hard to read, for any number of reasons. For my list, I’m including books that were hard to take — some because the subject matter is very emotional or upsetting, some because of the high levels of violence or horror, and at least one because I just hated the reading experience (but finished it anyway).

1) Room by Emma Donoghue: This story of abduction, imprisonment, and abuse, as seen through the eyes of a five-year-old, made me feel like I’d been put through a wringer.

2) The Pact by Jodi Picoult: The Pact was my first Jodi Picoult novel, and while I loved it, I was also devastated throughout. So much pain, both on the part of the teens involved and their parents.

3) The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow is one of my very favorite books, and it’s beautiful in so many ways, and yet the main character suffers so tragically that it’s simply heartbreaking to read.

4) A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon: Bad things happen to Diana Gabaldon’s characters in all of her books, and yet in this one, the 6th in the Outlander series, the bad just keeps coming and coming and coming. It’s still essential reading for fans of the series, but it’s really hard to take… and considering that the book is over 1,400 pages in length, that’s a lot of bad to deal with.

5) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: No explanation needed, right? TFiOS is a beautiful book, but who can read a book about teens with terminal cancer and not completely melt down? Not me.

6) Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein: Another beautifully written book, but so tragic and disturbing to read.

7) Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay: A terribly sad novel that hits so many of my auto-cry buttons. Imperiled children, family tragedy, Holocaust, generations of suffering. Reading this book felt like getting punched over and over and over.

8) Hater by David Moody: I probably wouldn’t have finished this book had it not been a gift, due to the unrelenting violence and bloodshed and overall intense level of senseless mayhem and hatred. I ended up glad to have stuck with it and the rest of the trilogy, as the story is fascinating, but these books are definitely not for the faint of heart.

9) NOS4A2 by Joe Hill: I loved NOS4A2, but I also can’t recall the last time I was this creeped out by a book.

10) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson: I hated this book. Really hated it. I read it through to the end to see what would happen, but I found it just vile, with its oversensationalized violence and brutality.

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22Sep2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books on My TBR List for Fall 2014

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is the top ten books on our fall to-be-read lists.

Only ten? My TBR list is ridiculously long. My goal this fall is to catch up on books I’ve been meaning to read for ages now, so some of these are probably on the older side. Here are the top 10 books I want to bump to the head of the line this fall:

1 & 2) Two by Stephen King: Mr. Mercedes (released this past June) and Revival (coming in November.

3 & 4) Two by Jojo Moyes: Me Before You and The Ship of Brides

5) What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

6) The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff

7) Some graphic novel/comic catch-up is needed. I’d like to make sure to devote time to at least one of these two series:

The Unwritten series by Mike Carey
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 9 by Joss Whedon et. al.

8) Horns by Joe Hill. Perfect for Halloween, and a must-read before the movie version is released. Plus, Horns is the October pick for Fields & Fantasies Book Club!

9) The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

10) At least one of three possible non-fiction books — because I almost never read non-fiction, and I really should branch out. (Plus, I’ve had these on my shelf forever, it seems):

1776 by David McCullough
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Oh, no! I finished my list of 10 (and then some), and realized I left one off that I’m definitely planning to read:

So I guess this makes this a top 10+ list!

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15Sep2014

Top Ten Tuesday: One Down, Bunches More to Go!

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is about authors whose works we’ve sampled, but not fully explored. In other words, authors who have written many books, but we’ve only read one so far… and need to fix that!

My top 10 are:

1) Alexander McCall Smith: I really enjoyed The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and would love to read more of the series. Plus, I’m fairly certain that I’ll end up loving his 44 Scotland Street books too.

2) Emma Donoghue: Room was amazing, and I’m looking forward to reading Frog Music and Slammerkin.

3) Marcus Zusak: I’ve only read The Book Thief, but would like to explore more works by this author.

4) Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls was intense and beautiful. I have copies of The Knife of Never Letting Go and More Than This — now I just need to read them!

5) Rick Yancey: Ooh, The 5th Wave! I loved it, and can’t wait for my copy of The Infinite Sea to arrive. Meanwhile, I’ve been wanting to read his Monstrumologist series as well, which I hear is gruesome and amazing.

6) Keith Donohue: I loved The Stolen Child, and have copies of his other books sitting on my to-be-read stack.

7) Jo Walton: After reading Among Others, I made sure to get copies of My Real Children and Tooth and Claw… but haven’t read them yet.

8) Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts is so beautiful, but I haven’t read anything else by this author. I’ve been told I should read Labyrinth, for starters.

9) Charles de Lint: The only book of his I’ve read so far is The Mysteries of Grace, which was fabulous. He has so many published books that it’s a little intimidating trying to figure out where to start. Any suggestions?

10) Connie Willis: I’ve wanted to read her time travel books (Doomsday Book, Blackout, All Clear, etc) ever since I heard about them, but so far have only actually read Fire Watch, a short story collection.

I almost went in a completely different direction with this list, which would have been to focus on authors whose debut novels I’ve read… and now I’m waiting for them to publish more books! My top choices would be:

Bee Ridgway (The River of No Return)
Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni)
Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project)
Lev AC Rosen (All Men of Genius)

Which authors’ works do you most want to explore? Any suggestions for where I should start with the ones on my list?

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18Aug2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books That I MUST Read (according to my friends)

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books People Have Been Telling You That You MUST Read. I love my bookish friends, but I don’t always read what they tell me to! Here are the ones that have been recommended to me the most often — or have been pushed on me with the greatest force. And maybe someday I’ll actually read them… at least a few, anyway.

1) The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman: I have no doubt that I’d love these — but the collection is just so huge that it feels overwhelming to even think about starting.

2) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: I’m truly a fan of Neil Gaiman, and I’ve liked the little I’ve read by Terry Pratchett. It’s not that I’m avoiding Good Omens. I just never seem to get around to it.

3) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: I’m certain that I will love this book, and I really do want to read it. However, I’m trying to stick to my resolution not to start any more series until I know that all volumes are available, or at least pending with a definite publication date. So I’m continuing to wait on this one.

4) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I’ve read (and loved) other books by Marquez, and I know this one is supposed to be his masterpiece. I read about half of it many, many years ago, then got interrupted by life distractions and never went back to it. But I’ve been told repeatedly that I must.

5) The Beka Cooper books by Tamora Pierce: My daughter is a huge fan of Tamora Pierce, and has been urging these books on me for years now. I really do plan to read them, eventually.

6 & 7) The Bronze Horseman series by Paullina Simons and the Into the Wilderness books by Sara Donati: Fellow Outlander fans have been pushing these books on me for a while now, but to be honest, I’ve really never felt interested in starting either one.

8) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: Everyone keeps telling me to read this one… and so far, I just don’t want to.

9) Me Before You by Jojo Moyes: This has been recommended to me by several people, and I’m finally going to read it for a book group this fall! I’m really looking forward to it.

10) The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub: No excuses. I absolutely trust the friend who says I have to read The Talisman. And I swear, I will! Sooner or later.

Have you read any of the books on my list? Which ones should get top priority… and which should I not even bother with?

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28Jul2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors Who Rule My Bookshelves

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From. It’s all about the numbers, baby! Come stand in front of my shelves with me — and it’ll be perfectly obvious which authors just have to be on my list this week!

Which authors dominate my bookshelves?

1) Diana Gabaldon: For anyone who reads my blog, this one is pretty much a given. I own multiple copies of all of the books in the Outlander series. Plus, there’s the Outlandish Companion reference book, the Lord John books, a few anthologies with Gabaldon stories, and the new edition of Outlander with the TV tie-in cover, and well… I lost count once I passed 30 books. Not that I’m obsessed or anything.

Who, me? Obsessed with Outlander books?

2) J. K. Rowling: I have a complete set of Harry Potter books in hardcover and another set in paperback. And if we’re counting total books in the household, then we must also count my kids’ collections. And yes, I have the Hogwarts textbooks set and copies of JK’s grown-up novels as well.

3) Stephen King: I haven’t actually counted, but I have Stephen King paperbacks tucked away all over my house, as well as hardcover copies of his more recent novels. When I go to my library’s huge annual book sale, I bring a list of what King books I already own, rather than what I still want, for the sake of avoiding duplicates. No matter how many I have, there are always more that I haven’t read yet! But I’m working on it.

4) Jim Butcher: I’m ashamed to admit that I’m missing one of the Dresden Files books (Ghost Story). I read my friend’s copy, and still haven’t picked up one of my own. Even with that omission, I have 14 Dresden books on my shelves, as well as the six books in the marvelous Codex Alera series.

5) Patricia Briggs: Between the 8 (and counting) Mercy Thompson books and the 3 (and counting) Alpha & Omega books, I’m off to a good start. Not to mention a couple of random stand-alones from the author’s earlier days which are sitting on my shelf, still to be read.

6) Christopher Moore: Got ’em all, from Practical Demonkeeping through The Serpent of Venice. 14 novels plus a graphic novel, if I’m counting correctly…

7) Bill Willingham: The Fables series is one of my very favorite things. 19 volumes so far, plus a bunch of stand-alones, and even a kids’ book!

8) Brian K. Vaughan: He’s a genius, I tell you! I have two amazing series by Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man and Runaways. Love ’em.

9) George R. R. Martin: Obviously, there’s A Song of Ice and Fire, with more than one copy of some of the volumes. (Hey, the spines get cracked after a while. Gotta get new ones if I’m going to re-read!) Then there’s also Fevre Dream and a few anthologies edited by GRRM, and, well, he’s taking up a good chunk of my bookshelf real estate.

10) J. R. R. Tolkien: I hadn’t quite realized how many copies of Tolkien’s works were actually in my house until I started poking around in various rooms, checking my kids’ shelves, looking at the pile of paperbacks stuffed into a corner… Between multiple copies of The Hobbit and the LOTR books, plus a few other assorted works, JRRT definitely makes my top 10!

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