Top Ten Tuesday (106): New Authors (To Me, Anyway!)

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten New To Me Authors From 2013

Friends, I know I’ve been on a little holiday hiatus around here–it’s been so incredibly busy this month!–but I will always take time out to make a list, especially one that lets me shout out new authors. Not debut authors, you understand, although there is one of those on my list. But rather new discoveries I made this year, some on my own and others at the recommendation of others. WOOT! I LOVED these authors’ books. So much so that I’ve read more than one book by a few of these authors this year, that’s how hard I love them now.

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Top Ten Tuesday (105): Winter TBR

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Books on My Winter TBR

Ahh, Winter. There’s very little I enjoy more than curling up under my blankets with a hot drink and a good book, friends. I feel like we are simpatico on this. These ten books, though, are some of the ones I’ve moved to the top of my winter TBR. Because they sound GOOD! And I’d like to curl up with them all.

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Top Ten Tuesday (104): Top Ten 2014 Releases

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Top Ten 2014 Releases I’m Dying to Read

Let me just preface this by saying: This is in NO WAY a complete list AT ALL. In fact, since I made these graphics, I’ve already remembered at least three other books that I meant to add here. And I deliberately left off a 2014 release that I’ve read already, otherwise it would DEFINITELY be on here: CRESS. Other than that, this is just a small-ish sampling of books that I’m most looking forward to in 2014. Seriously, this list could’ve been, like, 30 books long. Not even kidding.

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Top Ten Tuesday (103): Top Ten Things I Am Thankful For

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Top Ten Bookish Things I Am Thankful For

Friends, I am thankful for so many things this time of year. And always, of course. But I like that I get to talk about things that I am thankful for, especially when I’m talking about bookish things!

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Top Ten Tuesday (102): Books I’d Recommend To My Sister

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Top Ten Books I’d Recommend To My Sister

So friends, my sister is one of my BFFs for real. We have lots in common, but not everything. Case in point? READING. She, like, doesn’t. Well, that’s not fair. She LOVES Harry Potter and the Stephanie Plum series, as well as the Pink Carnation books. But she doesn’t like fantasies AT ALL, or paranormal anything, and YA books aren’t really her jam. Recommending books for her is not easy, but I think she might actually read a few of these, haha! Maybe.

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Top Ten Tuesday (101): Cover Redesigns

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Top Ten Covers I Would Like To Redesign

Covers are tricky business, friends. They’re obviously so important to the way people are attracted to books–or not. But it’s also a case of not being able to please everyone all the time. That being said, there are some covers that I see and I’m like, “for REAL?” So without further ado, here’s my list of ten covers I would love to redesign, for one reason or another.

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Top Ten Tuesday (100): Sequels

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Sequels I’m Looking Forward To

I feel like I’ve said before how much I LOVE SERIES books, friends, but my love of them is so huge that it bears repeating: I LOVE SERIES. So that’s twice in one sentence now. But one thing that comes with loving series books the way I do is the waiting. The perpetual state of “WHEN IS THE NEXT BOOK COMING???!!” This list is the upcoming series books I’m most looking forward to, including a few that don’t have covers yet. I’m SQUEEING with excitement for these books!!

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Top Ten Tuesday (99): Creepiest Book Covers

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Creepiest Book Covers

I’m not usually one to read scary books, friends. Not because I scare particularly easily, but more because I have to be in the right mood to want to be scared, and I’m not often in that mood. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t put together a list here! Some of these creepy covers are books I’ve read, some are books that aren’t out yet, and some are books I haven’t read yet and just think they covers are flat-out shiver-inducing. Creepiest book covers ahoy!

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Top Ten Tuesday (98): Character Names

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Best/Most Unusual Character Names

OMG friends, I was BEYOND excited for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. Best character names? I died. For me, one of the more underrated aspects of books are the names of the characters, in good or bad ways. Guys named Oliver? Well, YES PLEASE. A girl whose nickname is Belly? ICK. But this list doesn’t just ask about my favorite or least favorite character names, but the most unusual as well. I can always get behind that, friends. And so, here is my longer-than-ten-items list of the best unusual character names from books that I’ve read. (I did, for a while, have names on here from books I haven’t read, but that turned out to make for a ridiculously long list.)

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Top Ten Tuesday (96)

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Series Enders

Friends, while I was compiling my list for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, I realized something: I haven’t finished many series. Granted, this is largely because some of my favorites are still in progress and aren’t even finished yet (HELLO, A Song of Ice and Fire). Because of this, I decided to shout out some of my most anticipated series enders because hey, my list, my rules, right? But never fear: I’ve got a solid list of my favorite series enders (and, you know, one final book that left a sour taste in my mouth).

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