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Top Ten New Series We Want To Start This Year!

Taylor's Picks:

 

1. In The After by Demitria Lunetta

2. Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

3. The Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist

4. Perfect Ruin by Lauren Destefano

5. The Lost Souls by Tiffany Truitt

Has anyone read/started one or more of these yet? Don't forget to check out Pixie's list below!
Have a great week!

 

Pixie's Picks:

This was pretty tough! Most of the series I hope to start sometime in my future are older (older than 3 years). Ack. I managed to come up with a few though... I think these would still be considered on the "newer" side anyway. Lol.

1. His Fair Assassin - R. L. LaFevers

2. The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon

3. Grisha - Leigh Bardugo

4. A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray

5. The Elemental Trilogy - Sherry Thomas


What's your top ten? If you could only choose one series out your list to start and read, which one? Do we share any common ones?

Have a great week!

<3


 

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Pixie's Fall TBR

I always find these lists so difficult to make because I’ll say I’ll read these, but then I won’t read half of them because of TIME or excitement for other books or just me being me. READ ALL THE BOOKS! Yay! Hahaha… Anyways… Yeah… I’ll try. Let’s just leave it at that. This is my sort-of-I-think-I’ll-get-to-these-I-hope-list.

Also being in a reading slump makes it extra difficult to really get the motivation, but I’m trying, and slowly picking up reading again. Even if it’s reading slowly at the moment.

(And obviously some of these are older releases sitting on my shelf that I still need to read so they are on the list for that reason)

 

1. Made For You
2. Belzhar
3. I’ll Give You The Sun
4. The Bone Season
5. All Our Yesterdays
6. The Darkest Part of the Forest
7. Heir of Fire
8. Lies We Tell Ourselves
9. The Maze Runner
10. Tiger Lily

What's your Top Ten TBR? Any upcoming releases you're really excited about? Sound off in the comments below!! Have a fantastic week! <3

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Books we REALLY want to read but don't own yet!

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Taylor's Picks!

1. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

 

2. Unhinged by A.G. Howard

 

3. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

 

4. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

 

5. The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa

 

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Pixie's Picks!

 

 

Quick update: I have been the one slacking lately so much in my blogging. But now that summer is winding down, I have high hopes to be returning to normal around here. And I'm finally out of that horrendous reading slump. Yippee!

I have to admit I've been a bit down in the dumps because I turn the big thirty in twelve days. :( Ugh.. Haha.. I'll get over it. Anyways, welcome back to me! I'm happy to be back. Love and missed you all. <3

 

 

1. Love Letters to the Dead -- Ava Dellaira

 

2. Vicious -- Victoria Schwab

 

3. The Burning Sky -- Sherry Thomas

 

4. The Way of the Kings -- Brandon Sanderson

 

5. Stolen Songbird -- Danielle L. Jensen

 

 

 

What's your Top Ten?

 

 

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Books everyone tells me I MUST read!

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Taylor's Picks!

1. Elinor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

2. Shadows/Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick

3. Gravy Mercy by Robin Lafevers

4. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

5. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

6. A Million Suns by Beth Revis

7. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

8. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

9. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

10. Malice by John Gwynne

Most of these books are currently on my TBR list but I just haven't gotten around to reading them yet and all I hear is how good they are! And there's one or two that I'm not sure I really want to read but people still keep telling me I should, but I can be a bit stubborn when it comes to certain things lol. I guess we'll see! 

What's your top ten?

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Books I'd Give to Someone Who Has Never Read Classics!

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Taylor's Ten!

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

5. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

6. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

7. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I decided to go with classics for my Top Ten, I'm a lover of classic books and literature and I still have several on my own TBR list that I've heard great things about but have yet to read. There's just SO many!! But the ones that I've listed are a mix of some of my absolute favorites! And yes, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan are among them!

What's your Top Ten?

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Authors You Own The Most Books From!

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Taylor's Ten!

1. Melissa Marr

2. Richelle Mead

3. Jane Austen

4. Shakespeare

5. J.K. Rowling

6. C.S. Lewis

7. Holly Black

8. L.M. Montgomery

9. Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Robert Frost

Well there's my ten! Some of my very favorote authors are on that list. And as you can see I also added in a few poets, I couldn't resist lol. Plus I do have a LOT of books by those particular few! Anyways I won't ramble forever and leave room for miss Pixie! :) 

Pixie's Ten!

Good God, my list has much of the same. LOL.
I unfortunately can't complete a full list of ten. I don't really count series sets with books of 3-4 unless I also own other books by that author. And I'm not counting J.K. Rowling for me because I haven't picked up her new books yet. This is just my own personal quirk for the topic, that's all. Totally get why others would count them (after all, 7 books is a lot!).

1. Richelle Mead
2. Holly Black
3. Melissa Marr
4. Melissa de la Cruz
5. Shakespeare
6. Ilsa J. Bick
7. Stephen King
8. Julie Kagawa

And that's my list!

What's your top ten?

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List!


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Taylor's Ten!

 

Okay so some of these books aren't necessarily Spring 2014 releases but are books that I've been wanting/meaning to read for a long time but haven't gotten around to yet (shame on me, I know!). But I am determind to remedy that! And then also there are some of my top wishlisted books that I can't wait to get my hands on that will be released this spring! :)

 

1. Panic - Lauren Oliver

2. Dreams of Gods and Monsters - Laini Taylor

3. Shadows - Ilsa J. Bick (and also Monsters which is the third book in the same series!)

4. Unhinged - A.G. Howard

5. Lady Thief - A.C. Gaughen

6. The Arrivals - Melissa Marr

7. The Iron Traitor - Julie Kagawa

8. The Unbound - Victoria Schwab

9. Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas

10. Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black

This list could go on forever thanks to my never ending TBR list lol, but I'll refrain from rambling all day (and leave Pixie space to share her ten hehe).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pixie's Ten!

 

Spring is going to be all about playing that catch-up game for me mostly. There'll be a couple of the new releases I'm sure to pick up and move into the "must read now" pile, but I'm on a mission at the moment to try and get some of these books on my shelves read through, books that have been collecting and stacking up through the months (because let's face it: I'm a hoarder), are getting seriously neglected. These poor babies need attention also. And I'd really wanted them. I still really want them. Of course. I wouldn't have bought them or put them on my wishlists if I didn't. So that's what I'll be up to for my spring reading I hope. Several of them are even ones I'd sat around and felt the dying urge to have, only when I got them there were other priorities and before I knew it, time slipped away from me. Now they're dusty. :(

This is actually a list consisting of MORE THAN ten. Sorry, cheated. But I really couldn't find a way around it this week. Ha. :p Eh. It's been awhile since I posted a TTT anyway, so you can give me a little pass. <3

1. The Arrivals - Melissa Marr

2. Hollow City - Ransom Riggs

3. The Great Gatsby

4. Dreams of Gods & Monsters - Laini Taylor

5. The Forever Song - Julie Kagawa

6. The Fiery Heart - Richelle Mead

7. The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon

8. The Duff - Kody Keplinger

9. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson

10. Angelfall - Susan Ee

*Bonus*
All Our Yesterdays - Cristin Terril

These Broken Stars - Kaufman/Spooner

Across A Star-Swept Sea - Diana Peterfreund

Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker

Carnival of Souls - Melissa Marr

Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira

 

So yep. As you can see, I'll be busy playing a lot of catch-up mostly with titles released within the last year (some later than that) and only a small handful of new ones for my spring reading. But this list really only applies to early and mid spring, I think. Being a Texan, I usually start calling the end of April/first of May "summer" despite that it's still technically part of the spring season. Haha! :P

 

What's your spring list?



 

 

 

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten All Time Favorite Books in the Classics Genre
 

 

Okay so this week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was one where we pick the genre ourselves, so I decided to go with Classics. I could have easily picked another genre but as far as Classics go I don't really talk about them very much so I thought it would be nice to change it up a bit and give them some attention! :)

 

 

1. Wuthering Heights

 

2. Jayne Eyre

 

3. Peter Pan

 

4. To Kill a Mocking Bird

 

5. Pride and Prejudice

 

6. A Tale of Two Cities

 

7. The Great Gatsby

 

8. Anne of Green Gables

 

9. The Secret Garden

 

10. Alice in Wonderland

 

 

 

What's Your Top Ten?

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Books That Will Make You Swoon

　

Pixie’s Ten

　

Wow. This may be tough. I actually read more of these type of books than I thought. LOL.

　

　

1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone

2. Jane Eyre

3. The Vampire Academy series (particular Frostbite and Shadow Kiss being the swooniest, imo) and Bloodlines series (The Indigo Spell)

4. Under the Never Sky

5. Anna and the French Kiss

6. Wicked Lovely

7. Ultraviolet/Quicksilver

8. Throne of Glass/Crown of Midnight

9. Delirium

10. Touch of Power


I could've named more... :P But it's Taylor's turn! Ha!


 

Taylor's Ten

This is definitely a hard list to condense! The fact that I'm a total romantic doesn't help lol. Also several of these are on Pixie's list too, but that's what happens when you have two people with the same reading tastes :)

1. Wicked Lovely series 

2. The Fault in Our Stars

3. Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series (Team Adrian!!)

4. Daughter of Smoke and Bone

5. Pushing the Limits

6. Under the Never Sky

7. Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door 

8. Graceling

9. Iron Fey series

10. Just One Day

 

What’s your top ten?

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This week’s topic:
Top Ten 2014 Releases I'm Dying To Read

I’m highly anticipating quite a bit, but here’s my list with the top ones for the coming year so far. I’ve already managed to pick up a couple of them as e-ARCs and excited about that, but will still not get around to reading until after the start of the year with the schedule anyway. Ha.

　

　


1. Lady Thief -- A.C. Gaughen

2. Prisoner of Night and Fog -- Anne Blankman

3. Salvage -- Alexandra Duncan

4. Dreams of Gods & Monsters -- Laini Taylor (I think I’ll re-read the first two before this one releases since I’ve had to wait so long)

5. Red Rising -- Pierce Brown

6. The Unbound -- Victoria Schwab

7. The Winner’s Curse -- Marie Rutkoski

8. Dorothy Must Die -- Danielle Paige

9. Prince of Shadows -- Rachel Cain

10. We Were Liars -- E. Lockhart

　


What’s your top ten?

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This week’s topic:

Top Ten Best/Worst Series Enders

　



Okay, I’m going to try and do this the best of my ability. Haha. The last couple of years have been a bit of hell as far as finishing series. And there have been some wonderful ones I’ve started in the last two years, but they’re not completed yet so I can’t say where they stand! =O I’ll just list as many as I can for each category, even if the total doesn’t equal up to ten.



Best:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows --This was actually a best and a worst. It was great for all of the details and the battle and so much… but at the same time I still felt slightly dissatisfied after the epilogue. I don’t know. It’s a bit hard to explain. Maybe I just didn’t want to let go of the world. I do want more. LOL.

Darkest Mercy (Wicked Lovely) -- Such an amazing ending to one of my favorites. It was beautiful. Yes, there’s another Wicked Lovely novel coming out soon (I have an ARC *squeeee*), but it’s not exactly a part of the series if that makes sense? It’s a companion. So there are some characters from the series. But to get technical about it, Darkest Mercy is still considered the last book.

Monsters (Ashes) -- This was also one to be on the fence about. Ending left me feeling a little dissatisfied, I didn’t want to let go of the characters and world, wanted more, but generally a fantastic (and super-long) series ending.

The Iron Knight -- I loved the last book to this series mostly because of the style and tone. It’d been written so differently I felt compared to the rest of the books.

　

Worst:

Requiem -- Ugh… this book had me almost on a rampage through the house. I completely loved it up until the ending. Sure, ending paragraphs where gorgeous, but it was not wrapped up well at all and I RAGED at book for hours.

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy) -- One of my favorite series ever. One of my favorite authors ever. One of the worse endings. Like, what was THAT? Pretty good first half. Second half rushed and OMG WHAT DID SHE DO?! The end. Over.

The Goddess Inheritance -- I don’t even want to discuss this waste of time.

Breaking Dawn -- Yeah. I read all the books. And THAT my friends is why some bloggers drink…. Ugh. Seriously, though. I would say I kind of enjoyed the first book, albeit some character issues. I can see where the appeal is, okay? The second book, ew. The third book was kind of cool, too. Meyer is good with action sequences. And she did come up with an interesting concept. I’ll give her that. I also feel pretty damn sorry for her right now after hearing that she’s quitting writing because she’s so tired of it and has got sick of Twilight herself (Hear that fanfic pubs?? The actual author is tired of her own work. I would think that's a sign.). But this installment was where it really went all downhill and probably ruined my potential enjoyment of anything to do with this series. Well, and the movies with the horrendous acting of Kstew and Rpatz. I will admit that I adore Charlie, Alice and Jasper. The books should’ve been about them.

　




So do you have any best/worst series enders?




What’s your Top Ten?