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Top Ten Tuesday – 10 of My Favorite Bookish Families

August 20, 2024/10 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Relationship Freebie (Pick a relationship type and choose characters who fit that relationship as it relates to you. So, characters you’d like to date, be friends with, be enemies with, etc. Bookish families you’d like to be a part of, characters you’d want as your siblings, pets you’d like to take for yourself, etc.).

I decided to share some of my favorite families from the books I’ve read over the years. Some are biologically-related families, while others are found families. What they all have in common, whether biologically related or not, is that their relationships with one another are just so heartwarming, supportive, and fun.

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10 of My Favorite Bookish Families

1. THE BRIDGERTONS (Bridgerton series)

2. THE BERGMANS (Bergman Brothers series)

3. THE WEASLEYS (Harry Potter series)

4. THE CHANS (Aunties)

5. THE WALKERS (When in Rome)

6. THE MURPHYS (Peachtree Bluff series)

7. RILEY’S PACK OF ELDERLY NEIGHBORS (Riley Thorn series))

8. ARTHUR, LINUS, & THE ORPHANS (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

9. THE REN FAIRE FAMILY (Well Met series)

10. VIV’S FOUND FAMILY (Legends & Lattes)

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Who are some of your favorite bookish families?

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Antcipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024

June 25, 2024/15 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is My Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024. The hardest part about this topic is trying to narrow down to just ten books that I’m excited about. These were the ten that first popped into my head but there are so many others that I’m also very excited to read in the second half of the year.

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My Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024

1. THE EX VOWS by Jessica Joyce

2. BUSINESS CASUAL by B.K. Borison

3. THE GAME CHANGER by Lana Ferguson

4. A WEREWOLF’S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A VAMPIRE by Sarah Hawley

5. GIVEN OUR HISTORY by Kristyn J. Miller

6. MAGICAL MEET CUTE by Jean Meltzer

7. NOT ANOTHER LOVE SONG by Julie Soto

8. RUN by Blake Crouch

9. THE BRIAR CLUB by Kate Quinn

10. HOUSE OF GLASS by Sarah Pekkanen

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Have you read or are you planning to read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Everything’s Coming Up Roses – 10 Books with Rose in the Title

May 7, 2024/13 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is May Flowers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with flowers on the cover, flower names in the title, characters whose names are flower names, stories involving flowers/gardeners). I’ve done lots of posts with florals on covers so I decided to try to find as many books with the word “Rose” in the title just to try something different. Below is what I came up with. Can you think of any others with rose in the title?

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Books With Rose in their Title

1. A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES by Sarah J. Maas

2. LOST ROSES by Martha Hall Kelly

3. THE ROSE & THE DAGGER by Renee Ahdieh

4. CONCRETE ROSE by Angie Thomas

5. THE ROSE GARDEN by Susanna Kearsley

6. THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco

7. DARLING ROSE GOLD by Stephanie Wrobel

8. UNDER ROSE-TAINTED SKIES by Louise Gornall

9. RUN, ROSE, RUN by James Patterson and Dolly Parton

10. THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn

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Can you think of any other books that feature the word ROSE in their titles?

Top Ten Tuesday – April Showers: 10 Books With Rain on Their Covers

April 2, 2024/17 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is April Showers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with rain on the cover/in the title, that have rainstorms in the story, or that have anything to do with rain). I decided to go with books that feature raindrops on the cover but also wanted to find some that were still somewhat bright since I associate brighter colors with spring. This was harder than I thought it would be because most of the covers I initially found were stormy and gloomy. I had to dig deeper and there are a couple that I’m not sure are even meant to be raindrops (the Waxman and Mills covers) but I’m counting them anyway since they look like raindrops, haha.

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Books With Rain on Their Covers

1. WEATHER GIRL by Rachel Lynn Solomon

2. THE GARDEN OF SMALL BEGINNINGS by Abbi Waxman

3. FUNNY FEELINGS by Tarah Dewitt

4. SHELTERING RAIN by Jojo Moyes

5. THE UPSIDE OF FALLING DOWN by Rebekah Crane

6. SAVING GRACE by Jane Green

7. THE COLORS OF THE RAIN by R.L. Toalson

8. THE RAIN IN SAPPHIRE by Kayla Rose

9. FIRST & THEN by Emma Mills

10. RAIN DELAY by Allie Marie

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Can you think of any other books that feature rain on their covers?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Spring 2024 TBR

March 19, 2024/16 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books on My Spring 2024 TBR. Almost all of my 2024 most anticipated releases come out this spring or early summer, so those will feature predominantly with this list, along with a romantasy series I’ve been wanting to start. The second book comes out soon so I’m featuring the first book in hopes that it will give me the kick in the pants I need to finally start reading it. I also have a couple of thrillers in the mix by authors I’ve been wanting to try for a while now.

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Books on My Spring 2024 TBR

1. FUNNY STORY by Emily Henry

2. THE PARADISE PROBLEM by Christina Lauren

3. A HAPPIER LIFE by Kristy Woodson Harvey

4. A NOVEL LOVE STORY by Ashley Poston

5. JUST FOR THE SUMMER by Abby Jimenez

6. THE ROM-COMMERS by Katherine Center

7. THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass

8. SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews

9. A DAWN OF ONYX by Kate Golden

10. GOOD HALF GONE by Tarryn Fisher

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Are any of these on your TBR?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around

March 12, 2024/14 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around. This topic feels very timely to me because although I’m not a big re-reader, the past couple of years I have attempted to go back and re-read a few old favorites. I have mostly abandoned this goal though because almost all of the books I chose to re-read ended up being DNFs the second time around, not because I didn’t still love the book but because since I already knew what was coming, they just didn’t really hit the same and I didn’t want to taint my initial experience with the book. Today I’m sharing some of those as well as a few that I would never even consider re-reading because they were so perfect the first time around.

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Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around

1. THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morganstern

2. THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah

3. A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab

4. THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by TJ Klune

5. CINDER by Marissa Meyer

6. THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey

7. VERITY by Colleen Hoover

8. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte

9. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by C.S. Lewis

10. THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Spring is in the Air & Flowers are on My Book Covers

February 27, 2024/18 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature (covers/titles with things like trees, flowers, animals, forests, bodies of water, etc. on/in them). I love flowers on covers so I decided to share some floral covers that I have coming up on my TBR.

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Books on My TBR with Flowers on the Covers

1. THIS COULD BE US by Kennedy Ryan

2. THE PARADISE PROBLEM by Christina Lauren

3. BUSINESS CASUAL by B.K. Borison

4. AN ENCHANTING CASE OF SPIRITS by Melissa Holtz

5. FIRST COMES MARRIAGE by Laila Rafi

6. HEDGING YOUR BETS by Jayne Denker

7. LATE BLOOMER by Mazey Eddings

8. OLD FLAMES AND NEW FORTUNES by Sarah Hogle

9. ONLY AND FOREVER by Chloe Liese

10. THE TAKEDOWN by Lily Chu

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Are any of these on your TBR?

Top Ten Tuesday – Valentine’s Freebie – Books with Heart in the Title

February 13, 2024/24 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is a Valentine’s Day Freebie so I decided to share some of my favorite book with “Heart” in the title. I don’t know if my brain just wasn’t working or what, but it was surprisingly hard to find ten even though I primarily read romance.

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Books with Heart in the Title

1. ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART by Stephanie Garber

2. THE HEART PRINCIPLE by Helen Hoang

3. WILD AT HEART by K.A. Tucker

4. HEARTLESS by Elsie Silver

5. HEARTSTOPPER by Alice Oseman

6. THE KEY TO MY HEART by Lia Louis

7. HEART BONES by Colleen Hoover

8. OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng

9. THE TRAIL OF LOST HEARTS by Tracey Garvis Graves

10. JAR OF HEARTS by Jennifer Hillier

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Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Read for the First Time in 2023

January 30, 2024/17 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week’s TTT topic is Top 10 New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023. I read a lot of great new-to-me authors last year, and today I’m sharing my favorites from the bunch. I’m definitely looking forward to reading more from all of them.

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Top 10 New-to-Me Authors in 2023

(in no particular order)

1. LUCY SCORE

2. ELSIE SILVER

3. CATHERINE COWLES

4. ANASTASIA RYAN

5. KATEE ROBERT

6. KENNEDY RYAN

7. KAREN ROSE

8. LAUREN ASHER

9. FREIDA MCFADDEN

10. MARIANA ZAPATA

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Who were some authors that were new to you in 2023? Do we share any?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

January 23, 2024/22 Comments/by Suzanne

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!

This week’s TTT topic is Books I Meant to Read In 2023 but Didn’t Get To. This topic actually made me chuckle when I saw it because I actually have a list of 50-60 books I meant to read last year but couldn’t fit in. The ones I’m sharing today are books that I’m most hoping to get to sometime in the next few months.

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