I was really excited about this week's top 10 Tuesday theme, which is favorite quotes from books. But the list ended up taking me a really long time to compile! How do you choose your favorite quotes? Do you pick the funniest, the most profound, or the most beautiful? I basically ended up picking sentences and paragraphs that have stuck with me ( Read more... )

The task for this week's Top 10 Tuesday is to pick ten books you'd read in one day (but not all 10 in the same day, obviously!). So here are ten books that sucked me in with a vengeance, some of which have definitely only taken me a single day to read.

1. Jennifer Echols, Going Too Far: A YA romance with realistic, believable and relatable ( Read more... )

This week's topic for Top 10 Tuesday is the top 10 books you'd play hooky with. This is such a great theme for spring, especially for me -- in my current frame of mind, nothing sounds better than taking a mental health day! If I ran away and shirked all my responsibilities for a day, here are the books (from my shelves) I'd take with me:

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This week's topic is books that you think would make great book club reads. I have never been in a book club, so I don't have any firsthand knowledge of what would constitute a "good" book in this context. Presumably, book club readers would want to read something that's enjoyable and that also has some substantial issues to discuss -- and ( Read more... )

This week's Top Ten Tuesday asks readers to share 10 authors who they wish would write more books. Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. Jane Austen. Surprise, surprise. She's my favorite author of all time, yet she only completed six novels in her lifetime. Dear Jane, couldn't you have lived about 40 more years and written a ton more books? Or ( Read more... )

Haven't done this meme in a while, but I'd like to get back into it.  This week's Top Ten Tuesday asks for the 10 books you're most excited to read in 2012. My picks, in no particular order, are below. Not all of these books will be published in 2012, mind you; some of them are older, but I'm still excited to read them this year!

1. The Spirit War ( Read more... )

Happy (belated) New Year, everyone! I hope you all had fun (and safe) celebrations this weekend. As you might imagine, I'm chomping at the bit to start all my 2012 challenges, but right now it's time to look back at 2011.

For starters, I read 152 books this year -- or, to be more precise, 151 books plus two halves. Of these, 141 were new-to-me books ( Read more... )

You may recall that last year, Chronicle Books sponsored an amazing giveaway, wherein one lucky blogger won $500 worth of books, and one commenter on the winning entry also received the winner's wishlist. Well, this year, they're upping the ante: not only will one blogger (and commenter) win his/her wishlist of merchandise worth $500, but the ( Read more... )

In answer to this week's Top 10 Tuesday, here are ten books I really want to reread. I've limited the list to books I have only read one time but really enjoyed.


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It's been a while since I last posted, mostly because I'm reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia and I just can't get into it. So, to make it up to you (because I'm sure you have all been distraught by my absence), here is my contribution to this week's Top Ten Tuesday -- books that everyone has read but me:


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