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Top Fifteen: Rainy-Day Reads

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was rainy-day reads.

The term “rainy-day read” always makes me think of a gloomy, dull Sunday where I don’t have any plans and can spend all day on the couch engrossed in a good book. Whatever the genre, a good rainy-day read sucks me into the plot and makes me loathe to leave its world—sometimes not even for food or bathroom breaks.

What makes a good rainy-day read for you? Did any of these make your list?

♥ Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
♥ Blackout by Connie Willis
♥ A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
♥ A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
♥ A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

♥ A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
♥ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
♥ The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
♥ Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
♥ The Passage by Justin Cronin

♥ Renegades by Marissa Meyer
♥ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
♥ The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
♥ What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
♥ The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

Top Ten: Books That Need a Sequel

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was standalone books that need a sequel.

I had a really hard time with this week’s topic, y’all. The books I thought of first were either already part of a series or were so terrible that, even if I didn’t like the ending, I didn’t particularly care to read more. 😂 So, do the following books need a sequel? No, not really—but I also wouldn’t complain if they got one!

♥ I Went to Vassar for This? by Naomi Neale
♥ If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
♥ Miss You by Kate Eberlen
♥ My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
♥ Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

♥ On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
♥ The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
♥ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
♥ What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
♥ The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

BONUS! The following books were standalone, but now they all have sequels!!

♥ Geekerella by Ashley Poston
♥ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
♥ The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

Five Favorite: Books I Read in 2018

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Instead of focusing on the less-than-stellar reads that made up my 2018, I wanted to highlight the five that made it great––which just so happen to all be written by women. (So freaking dope!!) I also thought that I wouldn’t have ten books to fill out a Top Ten Tuesday post but that was a huge miscalculation. Lol. Winnowing down this list was so hard.

Are any of my favorite 2018 reads your favorite, too? Let me know! To see previous topics, click here.

Top Ten: Friendships

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme was platonic relationships, but I wanted to focus specifically on friendships – and the many different forms they take!

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell // A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab // A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray // Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson // My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl // The Passage by Justin Cronin // The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory // The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby // Smart Girls like Me by Diane Vadino

Five Favorite: Atmospheric Thrillers

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It’s taken me a full month to digest the seemingly innocuous Top Ten Tuesday prompt villains. (Please don’t ask why because I just don’t know.) Very few books I read have capital-V Villains, and I became bored scrolling through Goodreads trying to think of more than a handful or any one type. Since it’s so chilly/borderline cold in New England now AND it gets pitch black by four-thirty, I thought I’d explore creepy, chills-down-your-spine atmospheric thrillers instead — because sometimes a place itself can be the scariest thing.

Do you have your own favorite atmospheric thrillers? Let me know! To see previous topics, click here.

Round-Up: My Spring 2018 TBR

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The Top Ten Tuesday topic for March 20th was “books on my spring TBR,” and I pledged to read the following:

So, what did I actually read?

On the list…

Not on the list…

What I missed…

All in all, I didn’t do a terrible job – I read eight books out of a planned ten, but I only read 50% of those I actually wanted to read. (Isn’t that life??) Did any of you have a spring TBR? Did you stick to it? Let me know!