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Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Books That Make Me Want to Take a Road Trip

August 2, 2022/34 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 supposed to be Books Set In a Place I’d Love to Visit (real places or fictional). I couldn’t think of any place that I haven’t shared books for already, so I decided to tweak the topic a bit. I’m still focused on traveling, but this time it’s books that feature road trips – fun road trips, romantic road trips, angsty road trips, and even a dangerous road trip. There’s a little bit of everything here.

10 Books That Make Me Want to Take a Road Trip

1. A THOUSAND MILES by Bridget Morrisey

Features a road trip designed to reunite two friends who have become estranged

2. DESTINATION ANYWHERE by Sara Barnard

A road trip across Canada that helps a young woman find her squad

3. NO FUNNY BUSINESS by Amanda Aksel

A cross country road trip featuring two stand up comedians on tour together.

4. PLACES WE’VE NEVER BEEN by Kasie West

Features a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her childhood best friend on an unexpected road to romance.

5. THE ROAD TRIP by Beth O’Leary

Features a road trip that is a highly entertaining comedy of errors where truly everything that could possibly go wrong does.

6. I WAS TOLD IT WOULD GET EASIER by Abbi Waxman

Features a somewhat angsty mother-daughter road trip to tour college campuses.

7. I WANNA BE WHERE YOU ARE by Kristina Forest

Features a teen taking a forbidden road trip to follow her dreams behind her mom’s back.

8. THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOST THINGS by Jessica Brody

Features a romantic road trip

9. LOVE & LUCK by Jenna Evans Welch

Features a fun road trip across Ireland.

10. SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jessamyn Ward

A heartwrenching book that features a road trip that is a “a journey rife with danger and promise.”

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books from my Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read

July 26, 2022/42 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 from my Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read. I was actually impressed with myself when I sat down to do this topic because I had to go back through my seasonal TBRs all the way to 2017 in order to find ten books I still hadn’t read yet. I can’t remember but I think a couple of these may have been DNFs. Apparently I do pretty well on those seasonal TBRs. 🙂

Books from my Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read

1. DAUGHTER OF THE PIRATE KING by Tricia Levenseller (Fall 2019)

2. WHEN WE LEFT CUBA by Chanel Cleeton (Summer 2020)

3. SEAFIRE by Natalie C. Parker (Fall 2018)

4. WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo (Summer 2020)

5. DESCENDANT OF THE CRANE by Joan He (Spring 2019)

6. JACK KEROUAC IS DEAD TO ME by Gae Polisner (Spring 2020)

7. I STOP SOMEWHERE by T.E. Carter (Spring 2018)

8. THE STOLEN MARRIAGE by Diane Chamberlain (Fall 2021)

9. WE ARE OKAY by Nina LaCour (Spring 2017)

10. SOMETHING WILDER by Christina Lauren (Spring 2022)

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books by My Favorite Authors I Still Need to Read

July 19, 2022/47 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 freebie so I thought it would be fun to share some books I really need to get my butt in gear and read, specifically Books by My Favorite Authors I Still Need to Read. Sometimes I wish I was the type of reader who, as soon as I find a new author, I immediately devour everything they’ve ever written. Instead, I tend to very slowly (think turtle slow) work my way through their backlist. For that reason, I always have titles lying around that I still haven’t gotten to yet. Here are some that I’m really hoping to finally read this year.

Books by My Favorite Authors I Still Need to Read

1. TRUE COLORS by Kristin Hannah

2. ROOMIES by Christina Lauren

3. EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL by Katherine Center

4. THE DOLLHOUSE by Fiona Davis

5. RUNNING WILD by K.A. Tucker

6. THE DIAMOND EYE by Kate Quinn

7. FOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid

8. I FOUND YOU by Lisa Jewell

9. THE NEAR WITCH by V.E. Schwab

10. AURORA BURNING by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Book Covers That Feel Like Summer

July 12, 2022/52 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 Book Covers That Feel Like Summer. I love covers with summer vibes so this was an easy topic to do. The biggest challenge was to narrow it down to just ten of my favorites. To narrow it, I tried to focus mainly on new and recent releases.

Ten of My Favorite Books Covers That Feel Like Summer

1. OUR LAST DAYS IN BARCELONA by Chanel Cleeton

2. OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY by Kristan Higgins

3. EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune

4. WAIT FOR IT by Jenn McKinlay

5. FLOAT PLAN by Trish Doller

6. THE HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

7. THE GUNCLE by Steven Rowley

8. ONE ITALIAN SUMMER by Rebecca Serle

9. THE FRIENDSHIP PACT by Jill Shalvis

10. THE SUMMER PLACE by Jennifer Weiner

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – My Most Anticipated Books Releasing the in the Second Half of 2022

July 5, 2022/54 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 Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2022. This is always an easy topic just because, of course, there are always so many books that I’m excited to get my hands on. I have ARCs for a few but will be waiting to read most of them when they’re actually out in the world. I fully expect several of these to make my best of 2022 list. 🙂

My Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2022

1. LOVE ON THE BRAIN by Ali Hazelwood – “From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.”

2. CARRIE SOTO IS BACK by Taylor Jenkins Reid – “In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime—from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising.”

3. THE AMERICAN ROOMMATE EXPERIMENT by Elena Armas – “From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.”

4. A VERY MERRY BROMANCE by Lyssa Kay Adams – “‘Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they’re pulling out the mistletoe for everyone’s favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love.”

5. DAISY DARKER by Alice Feeney – “The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.”

6. DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN by Denise Williams – “After butting heads, an event planner and a wedding officiant begin an enemies with benefits arrangement as wedding bells chime around them in the newest rom-com from acclaimed author Denise Williams.”

7. IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover – “Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’ side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.”

8. ONE LAST GIFT by Emily Stone – “When a young woman finds herself lost and at a crossroads, one last gift from her brother just might give her another chance at life and at love in this epic holiday romance from the author of Always, in December.”

9. THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES by Sangu Mandanna – “A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family–and a new love–changes the course of her life.”

10. THE FAMILY REMAINS by Lisa Jewell – “From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs.”

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Question: Are you planning to read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – The 10 Most Recent Bookish Additions to my Amazon Wishlist

June 21, 2022/40 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 Bookish Wishes (List the top 10 books you’d love to own and include a link to your wishlist so that people can grant your wish. I decided to tweak it a bit since I don’t expect anyone buy me books, so instead, I’m just sharing the 10 most recent additions to my Amazon wishlist. If you follow my blog, you’ll recall that I keep a pretty current Amazon wishlist so that I can forward the link to friends and family whenever they ask me for gift ideas. It’s usually filled with books I want to read because of blogger recs, preorders I’m hoping to get, and sometimes even books I’ve already read an e-copy of but loved and want a physical copy for my collection (Lessons in Chemistry, for example). Here’s the link to my wishlist if you want to see what else is on it —> Amazon Book Wishlist

The 10 Most Recent Bookish Additions to my Amazon Wishlist

1. DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN by Denise Williams

2. A VERY MERRY BROMANCE by Lyssa Kay Adams

3. THE DO-OVER by Lynn Painter

4. THE LOVE WAGER by Lynn Painter

5. FLOCK by Kate Stewart

6. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

7. NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher

8. CARRIE SOTO IS BACK by Taylor Jenkins Reid

9. THE AMERICAN ROOMMATE EXPERIMENT by Elena Armas

10. IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover

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Question: Are any of these on your bookish wishlist?

Top Ten Tuesday – Save the Date: Ten of My Favorite Wedding Themed Novels

June 14, 2022/24 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 actually supposed to be Book I Wish Had an Epilogue, but I just wasn’t feeling that topic so I went rogue. Since June is such a popular month for weddings, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite novels that center around weddings in some way or another. Most of these are adult contemporary romance novels obviously but there’s also one historical fiction novel in the bunch as well as one YA.

Ten of My Favorite Wedding Themed Novels

1. FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING by Jesse Q. Sutanto

2. THE SECRET BRIDESMAID by Katy Birchall

3. THE WEDDING SEASON by Katy Birchall

4. THE WEDDING RINGER by Kerry Rea

5. THE WEDDING VEIL by Kristy Woodson Harvey

6. SAVE THE DATE by Morgan Matson

7. THE SINGLES TABLE by Sara Desai

8. THE WEDDING GAME by Meghan Quinn

9. SOMETHING BORROWED by Emily Giffin

10. THE WEDDING PARTY by Jasmine Guillory

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Books With a Unit of Time In the Title

June 7, 2022/24 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 Books With a Unit of Time In the Title (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, eternity, etc.) (Submitted by RS @ The Idealistic Daydream). This is one of those topics that makes me wonder how many book titles actually fit this description. Will we see a lot of duplicates as we blog hop or will we see more titles with units of time in them than we ever could have imagined? I’m leaning toward the second option, especially since I always end up amazed by the variety of books we all come up with. 🙂

Books With a Unit of Time In the Title

1. OUR LAST DAYS IN BARCELONA by Chanel Cleeton

2. IN A NEW YORK MINUTE by Kate Spencer

3. ONE DAY IN DECEMBER by Josie Silver

4. EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES by Lisa Scottoline

5. 180 SECONDS by Jessica Park

6. IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle

7. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

8. MAGIC HOUR by Kristin Hannah

9. THE CRUELEST MONTH by Louise Penny

10. THIS TIME NEXT YEAR by Sophie Cousens

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Question: Have you read any of these?

Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Reads That Provided Me an Escape During the Pandemic

May 31, 2022/28 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 Comfort Reads (Share which books or kinds of books you turn to when you need to escape. You can either share specific titles if you love to re-read, or you could share qualities of books you look for in a comfort read). I decided to focus on reads that provided me a much needed escape during the Pandemic, particularly as we were going through months and months of isolation. The kinds of reads I’ve highlighted here are reads that feature elements that bring me joy – both real families like the Murphy women of Peachtree Bluff and found families like we find in The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Break Up Book Club. They also feature happily ever afters as in Very Sincerely Yours and The Simple Wild, as well as uplifting themes as in The Garden of Small Beginnings. And finally yes, there are books such as Crazy Stupid Bromance that feature laugh out loud humor. If you ever find yourself looking for a read that will provide you with a much needed escape from the reality of your life, I highly recommend any of these gems.

Ten Reads That Provided Me an Escape During the Pandemic

1. THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by T.J. Klune

2. THE KINDRED SPIRITS SUPPER CLUB by Amy E. Reichert

3. THE SECRET TO SOUTHERN CHARM by Kristy Woodson Harvey

4. THE SIMPLE WILD by K.A. Tucker

5. THE BREAKUP BOOK CLUB by Wendy Wax

6. VERY SINCERELY YOURS by Kerry Winfrey

7. ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN by Talia Hibbert

8. CRAZY STUPID BROMANCE by Lyssa Kay Adams

9. THE GARDEN OF SMALL BEGINNINGS by Abbi Waxman

10. THE LAST CHANCE LIBRARY by Freya Sampson

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Question: Have you read any of these? What kind of read brings your comfort?

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 Books I Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Haven’t Read

May 17, 2022/40 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 Was SO EXCITED to Get, but Still Haven’t Read. In my head, I call this “The List of Shame.” Those books I just had to have, couldn’t wait to get my hands on them, and then proceed to let them sit on my shelf for months or even years before I finally get around to reading them. I did finally put a dent in the last list I made like this, but there are always more to share. The biggest trend I see is that I’ve neglected my fantasy reading for a while now. During the pandemic I have craved pretty much exclusively romance so all of those fantasy novels I was dying to read got pushed aside. I did finally read the entire Poppy Wars trilogy this year though so I’m hoping to start working my way through all of these series as well. I think the book that has the “honor” of sitting on my shelf unread the longest is Uprooted. I didn’t love Spinning Silver as much as I hoped to so I’ve kind of lost interest in Uprooted as a result. Honestly the only reason I haven’t just gotten rid of it is that the cover is so stunning, lol.