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 2023.  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 2023

 

 

  

 

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

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 actually just supposed to be Things That Make Me Instantly NOT Want to Read a Book but life got in the way last week so I missed last week’s topic, which was  Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book, so now I’m combining last week’s and this week’s topics into one post and giving you five of each.

 

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Things That Will Instantly Make Me WANT to Read a Book

 

1. FOUND FAMILIES – Doesn’t matter the genre, if there’s a found family, I want to read about it.

 

2. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS OR BOOKISH PEOPLE – Again, doesn’t matter the genre,

this kind of book has a special place in my heart and will always be a must read.

 

3. FAVORITE ROMANCE TROPES – Grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lover,

small town romances, and second chance romances are like catnip to me

 

 

4. NEW RELEASES BY AUTO-BUY AUTHORS – Again, pure catnip for me.

Don’t even need to read the synopsis to know I’m going to read them.

 

5. ADULT DEBUTS BY FAVORITE YA AUTHORS – I’ve been struggling a bit lately with YA books

so I’m always thrilled when a YA author I love tries their hand at writing something non-YA.

 

 

Things That Will Instantly Make Me NOT Want to Read a Book

 

 

1. LOVE TRIANGLES

 

2. INSTA-LOVE

 

3. IMMATURE MAIN CHARACTERS – I’m all for following a character’s journey of growth and development

but draw the line when MCs are just so immature that it’s painful and cringeworthy every time they speak or think anything.

 

4. TOO CLOSE TO REAL LIFE (i.e. set during COVID or too steeped in politics).

I don’t mind a little politics but as soon as it gets too preachy, I’m done. I read to escape reality, not be further immersed in it.

 

5. CONSISTENT LOW RATINGS AND/OR DNFs

BY TRUSTED BLOGGERS AND BOOKSTAGRAMMERS – If they say it’s bad or just won’t be a good fit for me, I believe them. 

What are some things that will make you instantly want to either read or not read a book?  Do we share any?

 

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 The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf.  I tweaked this topic a little by only pulling from my unread shelves.  I decided to use this as kind of a “TBR jar” moment, where whatever ten books I pulled would be the next ten books I already own that I’ll be reading.  This obviously doesn’t include ARCs, which I’ll still be reading, but these are the next ten I’m tackling in my ongoing challenge to read books I’ve bought and ignored over the years.  Full disclosure – I did cheat in one instance. I actually did pull a different book from the Outlander series but since I want to keep reading them in order, I put that one back in favor of the one that is next in the series for me. I’m actually pretty excited to get to most of these, especially Wolfsong, By a Thread, and Maame.

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My Next 10 Reads Randomly Grabbed from My Bookshelves

 

Have you read any of these?