Top Ten: Bookish Items I Want

November 13, 2018November 16, 2018 thewasofshall2 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was bookish items I want to own. I’ve actually done similar posts already, so be sure to check out my favorite book art, book home accessories, and book jewelry!

banned books pin // Hamlet t-shirt // Harry Potter cross stitch // Harry Potter sheets // Harry Potter tote bag

Hogwarts map // LiliLite // notebook paper earrings // supershelf // Sylvia Plath embroidery

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Top Ten: 2017 Backlist Books I Want to Read

November 6, 2018November 5, 2018 thewasofshall2 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was backlist books I want to read. Because I have so many books on my TBR (seriously SO MANY), I decided to showcase 2017 titles that I actually put on my list pre-publication… and yet I still haven’t read them.🤦‍♀️

Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin // A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes // Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia // The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas // How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft by Edward Jay Epstein

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay // Nasty Women by 404 Ink // The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder // The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente // You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano

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Top Ten: Horror Novels on My TBR

October 30, 2018October 28, 2018 thewasofshall3 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was a Halloween-themed freebie, so I decided to round up horror novels on my TBR. Because I apparently have more than ten (who knew?!), here are fifteen of the most ghoulish, creepy novels I have yet to read. 👻🎃

Damned by Chuck Palahniuk // Frankenstein by Mary Shelley // The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas // Horns by Joe Hill // The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist // The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg // My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris // Night Film by Marisha Pessl // The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson // Universal Harvester by John Darnielle // We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson // World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks // Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

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Top Ten: Longest Books I’ve Read

October 9, 2018October 7, 2018 thewasofshall2 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was the longest books I’ve read. To keep from padding the list, I only included the longest book in any one series. The number of pages is included in parentheses.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1,069) // City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (911) // A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (1,016) // Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling // I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (897)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (849) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1,187) // The Passage by Justin Cronin (879) // The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (819) // 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (898)

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Top Ten: Books by My Favorite Authors That I Still Haven’t Read

September 25, 2018October 3, 2018 thewasofshall5 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was books by my favorite authors that I still haven’t read – because oops life gets in the way. 🤷‍♀️ (Btw: this list is by no means exhaustive!)

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green // Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld // The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling // Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay // The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

Night Film by Marisha Pessl // Nimona by Noelle Stevenson // Origin by Dan Brown // The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee // What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

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Round-Up: My Summer 2018 TBR

September 21, 2018September 24, 2018 thewasofshall4 Comments

The Top Ten Tuesday topic for June 19th was “books on my summer TBR,” and I pledged to read the following:

So, what did I actually read?

On the list…

The Broken Vow by Scott Westerfeld
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Inferno by Dan Brown
Ms. Marvel, vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson
Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
Vox by Christina Dalcher (a DNF failure but, still, I tried)

Not on the list…

Artemis by Andy Weir

What I missed…

Breakout by Kate Messner
Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
There, There by Tommy Orange
The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

Did any of you have a summer TBR? Did you stick to it? Let me know!

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Top Ten: Books on My Fall TBR

September 18, 2018October 25, 2018 thewasofshall5 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was books on my fall tbr! I couldn’t quite narrow down my list to ten, so below are thirteen books I hope to read in the next thirteen weeks.