Top Ten: Characters Who Remind Me of Me

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was characters who remind me of me. ♥ Beth from Attachments♥ Esther from The Bell Jar♥ Eleanor from Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine♥ Ann from A Great and Terrible Beauty♥ Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower ♥ …

Top Ten: Required Reading I’d Change

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was a back-to-school freebie. Since my school was super white, the books I read were capital-C Classics. Below are eight titles I was assigned while in high school, matched with titles I wished I’d been assigned instead. Bittersweet rather than …

Top Ten: Books Featuring High Schoolers

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme was a back to school freebie, so I chose books featuring high school students because, to me, nothing screams "back to school" more than public school. The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long // Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes // …

Five Favorite: Mute Narrators

"Five Favorite" is a feature on thewasofshall where I lay out my five favorite "x". Sometimes they're relevant to a season or holiday, mostly they're not. It's an all-around fun excuse to give my 100% amazingly awesome opinion. To see previous topics, click here. What makes someone mute? Well, a lot of things. They could …

Top Ten: Books for Readers Who like Character Driven Novels

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme was character driven novels. Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster → There is a reason Lancaster …