...not officially a Top Ten Tuesday post but by complete coincidence it appears to have gone up on Tuesday (and in lieu of an actual one, at that ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving! And welcome back to what has become my new favorite annual posting tradition. This post isn't necessarily about the BEST books, though there is often overlap, but the ones that fed a particular niche desire at the perfect time, that I felt lucky to get my hands on, or a myriad of other reasons. Restricting myself to ten is ( Read more... )

I'm looking at some older book posts on my blog, and one document o' delight is this post where I ran down my entire Goodreads TBR to explain why each book was on there (and eliminate any that didn't need to be) and why I hadn't read it yet. In the 5-ish years since, I've adopted a slightly looser approach that particular shelf, so it has nearly ( Read more... )

queued post ( Read more... )

It's everybody's favorite time of year, the time I get to look at my reading list from a decade earlier and add commentary, mostly consisting of any memories I haven't shared before and how I feel about the title now. Note: I drafted this post about a month ago and I'm queueing it for today because I'm probably not doing TTT this week, but just in ( Read more... )

Continued from part 1:

(This is a queued post, but I will link to part 1 after I get back.)

( Slightly shorter than part 1, but only slightly. I read 156 total this year. )

Seeing as I'm now up to 135 books acquired in 2021 and I know I haven't found them all yet, I was kind of hoping that maybe in 2022 I wouldn't average a new book every other day, but here we are at 9 already, thanks to the set I bought on Tuesday.

( the first 3 were mentioned in the TTT post. )

I was looking at old TTT posts, and one that I really enjoyed was "Ten Books I'm Grateful I Read This Year." So while it's a bit late for Thanksgiving, it's still not Tuesday yet, so this week we're gonna have TWO book posts (even though I didn't. actually finish this on time so it was private until sometime in...almost a year later). These books ( Read more... )

(and yes it's Tuesday, but this is not a Top Ten post; I got distracted by this. also, technically I never accepted these men but now I'm EXTRA done with them)

• Well-known asshole
• Anyone who "makes her blood boil"
• Smug, arrogant, cocky, overconfident, etc.
• Tattooed and/or heavily muscled
• Sexy bad boy

Continued from part 1. These blurbs are mostly shorter; I'm running out of steam. Once again, links go to Amazon, so you may prefer the one-click-stop of my 2011 Year in Books on Goodreads.

( the second half starts now! )