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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books from 2017 (so far)
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from the Broke and the Bookish concerns favorite books for the year, and while there’s still a chance that some amazing book could pop up in the last two weeks of the year, I’ll go … Continue reading
Top Ten Reads, 2016
This week the Broke and the Bookish invite readers to think about their top ten books for the year. Twenty-sixteen started off with a bang: no less than five top-ten contenders appeared in January, and four of them survived to … Continue reading
Ten Novels Outside the United States
Today the Broke and the Bookish queries their readers: what are your favorite books set outside the United States? For my list, I am purposely avoiding ‘classics’, and am casting my net wide as as not to simply present … Continue reading
Top Ten Tuesday: Historical Fiction, Half Off!
This week, the Broke and the Brookish inquire: what are your favorite settings for historical fiction? 1. Medieval Castles, lyres, armies of armored men on horseback, columns of swords-, spear- and bowmen…what’s not to like? Besides plagues, I mean. And..the … Continue reading
Be it Hereby Resolved
The Broke and the Bookish’ theme for Top Ten Tuesdays this week concerns New Years resolutions, naturally. I’m not usually one for resolutions, or even paying attention to the New Year, but it’s as good a time as any to … Continue reading
2016 Reading Challenge
A new challenge has been issued, one slightly shorter than last year’s. There are a few curveball categories (a romance set in the future..? Maybe I can count The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), but it looks like a fun … Continue reading
Top Ten Authors I’ve Read the Most Of
This week the Broke and the Bookish are asking people who their most-read authors are. 1. Isaac Asimov It’s been a while since I read the dear doctor here, but after discovering his fiction in 2007 I went a little … Continue reading
Top Ten Authors Who Live in my Stacks
This week’s top ten topic is an interesting one; authors we own the most books of. For the most part there’s a gulf between the authors I’ve read the most of and the books I own. I’ve read all of … Continue reading
Ten in the life of Sharpe
Since 2010 I have been steadily reading through Sharpe’s series, a set of historical novels following the storied career of the fictional Richard Sharpe, an orphan turned soldier who became an officer after saving the Duke of Wellington’s life in … Continue reading
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