Top Ten Tuesday: (Not) Ten Books I Put Down

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This week's theme focuses on books you've struggled with or have recently put down. I used to force myself to finish any book I started but this year I realized life is too short for that so one of my 2017 reading goals was to allow myself to put something down if I'm not loving it.

So, here are the three books I've marked as did-not-finish on Goodreads this year.

 1. I typically like McHale but I just couldn't handle the sarcasm in this one.

2. I'm still pretty new to graphic novels and comic books and sometimes I just can't get into it.

3. Something about this just bugged me. I think it was possibly the writer's assumption that she could just waltz into the world of wine and learn all of the little secrets so easily.

Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Hidden Gem Books in YA

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For this week's list I'm going with 10 young adult books that I feel haven't gotten the attention they deserve (yet!).

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I'm lucky enough to consider Melissa Landers, Jessica Love, and Kelsey Macke as friends of mine thanks to the Internet bringing together strangers who share a love of reading. However, I legitimately think their books are amazing and more people need to read them and it's not at all because I'm a creepy pushy Internet friend of theirs.

Top Ten Tuesday: Back to School Freebie

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This week's theme is a back to school inspired freebie week which means participants are free to pick their own theme for their list. In honor of back to school time I thought I'd go with some of my favorite books from the young reader, middle grade, and young adult sections of bookstores.

Happy reading!

1. Matilda - Roald Dahl. One of my all-time favorite books ever.

2. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins. The whole 3 books series is amazing, really.

3. Alex, Approximately - Jenn Bennett. I read this over the summer and it instantly went on my list of favorites.

4. Open Road Summer - Emery Lord. My first Emery book and still my favorite.

5. Kristy's Great Idea - Ann M. Martin. I have no doubt that the BSC books are why I'm such a big reader to this day.

6. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar. I adored these as a kid.

7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume. I seriously lost count of how many times I read this growing up.

8. Sloppy Firsts (Jessica Darling series) - Megan McCafferty. Love this series and McCafferty is so nice on social media.

9. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen. Honestly it was hard to pick just one Dessen book for this list. Read them all, trust me.

10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling. I mean, duh.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books You've Read in 2017 So Far

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Hard to believe we're at the half-way point of 2017! This year is really flying.

Here are the books that I'd say are the ten best I've read so far this year. It'll be interesting to see how this list changes by the end of the year.

1. The Names They Gave Us - Emery Lord

2. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House - Alyssa Mastromonaco

3. Alex, Approximately - Jenn Bennett

4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance

5. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

6. The Hating Game - Sally Thorne

7. The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

8. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything In Between

9. The Skeptics' Guide to the Mysteries of the Universe - Jessica Arden

10. All I Ask - Nicole McLaughlin

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Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Books I'm Thankful For

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Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I Still Need To Watch

1. Divergent

2. Insurgent

3. Wild

4. A Walk in the Woods

5. Papertowns

6. Frankenstein (hello, Daniel Radcliffe)

7. Horns (again, Daniel)

8. If I Stay

9. The Spectacular Now

10. The Help