We know this is the latest retrospective in the blogosphere, but as everyone else looks forward to the highly anticipated books of 2012, we want to take a moment to share our collective favorites from 2011. We hope that this year there are just as many books that blow us away, leave their a mark, [...]
This week’s topic — courtesy of the Broke and the Bookish — is wonderful, because it doesn’t specify which emotion you felt when reading the book, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you even adored — or hated — the book in question. I’ve limited my selections to books that touched me deeply because of my [...]
This week the Broke and the Bookish’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is “Books I Wish I Could Read Again For The First Time.” We took that to mean the kinds of books that are so magical, so unforgettable, so life-changing there’s nothing like the very first time you read them cover to cover. We [...]
This week, the Top Ten Tuesday hosted by the Broke and the Bookish is “Top Ten Book Endings That Left Me With My Mouth Hanging Open,” so we’re each sharing five of our favorites. Diana’s Picks: 1. “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” by J.R.R. Tolkien – Of all the books in the [...]
This week’s list from the Broke and the Bookish is books I’d like to re-read. I didn’t include books I re-read on a regular (obsessive) basis, like “Deathly Hallows” or “Where She Went” or “The Sky Is Everywhere.” These are all books I have somewhere around the house or borrowed from the library so I [...]
The writers at the Broke and the Bookish run a weekly Top Ten, and since this one is so easy for me to do for the YA genre (I’ve only been reading it for one year), here it is: YA Books EVERYONE has read but me. 1. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. My teenaged niece [...]
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