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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday list features recent releases I didn’t get to in 2018 but will try in 2019. For the sake of variety, I’m not including any titles that are covered by my challenges, so you won’t find any Tolkien or middle grade on this list.
Tom and Hatty in Tom’s Midnight Garden – I recently read this book because I needed a classic for my children’s literature course (it won the Carnegie in 1958). I was pleasantly surprised by the development of Tom and Hatty’s relationships. I cheered the lack of any romance between them. Mo and Meggie in the Inkheart trilogy – Seeing how Mo and Meggie’s father-daughter relationship evolves as their characters grow (and as […]
I thought this would be an ironic TTT for me to participate in, as I am infamous for avoiding lengthy books. And yet, one of my favourite books of all time is probably also the longest book I’ve ever read. 692 pages: Stripped: Depeche Mode by Jonathan Miller 699 pages: Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke 709 pages: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 736 pages: Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook […]
I missed this week’s Top Ten Tuesday because I’ve had a cold sapping my energy since Sunday night, but I had a two hour nap this afternoon and now I’m ready to blog! I wanted to participate in this topic (books by my favourite authors that I still need to read) because I actually have a Goodreads shelf for it. Links to Goodreads. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson […]
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Hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl I’m sticking with the original topic for today (TTT throwback). Previous TTT with this topic include #1 Childhood Favourites and #77 Childhood Faves. This turned out to be a bit trickier than I anticipated, as I couldn’t recall the titles of three of my favourite books. (I was close with two of them – I had Picollo and Timothy in mind and […]