This blog… I’m still here. I swear. And I’m still sick, amazingly enough. I rarely get sick, but when I do, it seemingly lasts FOREVER. As I missed last week’s Top Ten Tuesday and I don’t plan to participate in next week’s (I’m not a series reader), I decided to find a middle ground, ofContinue reading “The State of Books: A Top Five List”
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One Hit Wonders: A Top Ten List
Quite possibly the only way to avoid a sophomore slump is to avoid the possibility altogether, Harper Lee did it, as did Margaret Mitchell. In a bit of a twist on today’s top ten list – as hosted by The Broke and the Bookish – here are ten authors that only wrote (or have written) one novel,Continue reading “One Hit Wonders: A Top Ten List”
Dinner Party: A Guest List
*Fair warning: My dinner parties never look like this.* So…dinner parties. I like them. While I’m not fond of hosting parties, I do like attending them (assuming the food is good). Good food is essential. In a perfect world, fictional characters would be just as likely to attend as family and friends (and in someContinue reading “Dinner Party: A Guest List”
So you don’t read Stephen King…?
Okay, so since you are reading here, I’m just going to assume that you’re human and live on planet earth and know have read adore love worship Stephen King. If you don’t, you need to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask yourself what you’re doing with your life. And then commitContinue reading “So you don’t read Stephen King…?”
Miscellaneous Movies To Watch: A Top Ten List
In all honestly, I had no intention of writing a list this week, as the topic is top ten favorite things other than books. And books are my thing. But yesterday…was not a good day. It was an exasperating, stress inducing, tear-filled kind of day. This resulted in eating pizza, ice cream, and watching a favoriteContinue reading “Miscellaneous Movies To Watch: A Top Ten List”
Confessions: A Top Ten List
Subtitle: What happens when you realize you may actually be a hipster. By the mainstream cultural standard only, of course. Let me be clear, I am not a hipster. Hipster is a term that now describes a sub-culture that was initially intended to value independent thought and progressive politics, but instead describes intentional mainstream “obscurism”.Continue reading “Confessions: A Top Ten List”
Reading the Classics: A Top Ten List
Classics have gotten a bit of a bad reputation (feel free to hum “I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation…”). They are often referred to as boring, stuffy, and hard to understand. This can be true, for me it’s books like Ulysses and Moby Dick. The first I find hard to understand (stillContinue reading “Reading the Classics: A Top Ten List”
The Best Books of 2014: The Halfway Point
Apparently we are halfway through the year already, as we’re practically through June – how did that happen? Anyway, this means it’s officially far enough into the year to start taking a guess at what will be my favorite reads of the year (as hosted by The Broke and The Bookish). Of course, this listContinue reading “The Best Books of 2014: The Halfway Point”
Just Friends, Right? A Top Ten List
I had the best of intentions to challenge myself this week, but when I started thinking about my favorite books that feature friendships (as hosted by The Broke and the Bookish), the first books that came to mind were all by Stephen King. Who am I to go against instinct? I did manage to limitContinue reading “Just Friends, Right? A Top Ten List”
Committed: A Top Ten List
I am a committed reader. It’s really rare that I do not finish what I start, so it’s not a surprise that I can come up with ten books that I really should have given up on (as hosted by The Broke and the Bookish). They added nothing to my reading history except for loathingContinue reading “Committed: A Top Ten List”
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