This is a surprisingly challenging one for us but it was fun to look back on our favorite books and bits of bookish wisdom we’ve come across over the years.
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Quotes
Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Characters on The Cover
This week’s topic is top ten books with characters on the cover. Covers that depict characters’ faces is a pet peeve of Pete’s so it was fun to find books that were exceptions to this rule.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books for My Younger Self
This was such a fun topic - and gave us a great excuse to peruse our shelves!
Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Should be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies
Now this is a fun topic: Books that Should Be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies. There are plenty of books and series that we’d love to see (faithful) adaptations of.
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors We’ve Read The Most Books By
We Both have plenty of favorite authors, many of which are shared between the two of us, so putting this list together took little time at all.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Give off Summer Vibes
This week’s topic is books that give off summer vibes — and given that this is a pretty weird summer, these books are likely to be more important than ever.
Top Ten Tuesday: Best Opening Lines
This week’s topic is best opening lines, which led us to flip through a couple dozen of our favorite books. It’s surprising how many first lines are a bit flat or don’t make sense without context—but we managed to find some gems.
Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons We Love Secondary World Fantasy
This week’s topic was a bit of a freebie: Reasons Why We Love [Blank]. We went with secondary world fantasy—fiction focusing on a non-Earth setting—because it is one of our most beloved genres.
Top Ten Tuesday: The Last Ten Books We Abandoned
This one was tricky for us! In the last few years our views on sticking with books have changed often. Sometimes we’ve felt like it’s always best to stick it out and see if a book gets better by the end. Other times we’ve felt the opposite.
Top Ten Tuesday: Things We’d Have at Our Bookish Party
We’ve tried to throw bookish parties a few times, but the plans always fell through. Fortunately, this week’s topic is things we’d have at our bookish party, so we can revisit our literary party plans.
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