Top Ten: Books I Enjoyed Outside My Comfort Zone

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books I enjoyed that were outside my comfort zone. While I am grossly under-representing the following titles, I've also tried to explain them in a way that feels unappealing to me. Considering that there are books out there …

Top Ten: Books That Lived Up to Their Hype

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books that lived up to their hype. Whether these books were hyped by friends, book blogs, or the press, they came with high expectations and delivered! Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates // The Da Vinci …

Top Ten: Book Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was my top ten fourteen favorite book quotes. [Note: I did a Five Favorite post on quotes two years ago and three of those five show up here. LOLOL. #sorrynotsorry] [Bran] looked up. Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great …

Buy Borrow Bypass: On Grief

Book Riot does this great feature called “Buy, Borrow, Bypass” and I like it, so I’m going to do that here. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold Sue Klebold is best known as the mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold - and she knows it. Although her memoir twists around April 20th, 1999 (both …

Top Ten: Things Books Have Made Me Want to Do or Learn

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme was top ten things books have made me want to do or learn about after reading them, but I tweaked it slightly to include things I actually learned or did rather than things about which I got curious or still want …

The Hold Shelf #1

Very rarely do I place library holds on new releases - either because I can't predict when a book will find its way to me (when I'm in the middle of something else??) or because there just isn't anything I absolutely have to read right away. And then there are these titles: The City of Mirrors …