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Top Ten Tuesday || Books with One Word Titles

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books with One Word Titles.
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Best Reads of 2019
Here are the ten that made the cut:
There's something about tracking your reading on Goodreads that is so satisfying to me. It's so much fun at the end of the ye...
Best Reads of 2018
There's something about tracking your reading on Goodreads that is so satisfying to me. It's so much fun at the end of the year to look back over all the titles I've read. And I'm a bit competitive in that I like to try and beat my goal from the year before. (Okay, okay, a LOT competitive.)
I've read 130 books in 2018. Out of those, only seventeen were five star reads for me so it was actually rather easy to pick my top ten of the year. For me, five-star reads are books that 1) stay with me long after I've finished them and 2) books that I would have no problem picking up and rereading. Using those two qualifiers helps me to not get too star happy! It's actually pretty challenging for me to rate a book five stars. While I might really enjoy a book, most books are not something that I'd tuck away and reread on a rainy day.
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Top Ten Tuesday || Longest Books I've Ever Read
The Longest Books I've Ever Read:
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Top Ten Tuesday || Books by My Favorite Authors That I Still Haven't Read

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Top Ten Tuesday || Fall TBR

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Top Ten Tuesday || TV time!

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Top Ten Tuesday || Nonfiction Books I Loved

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Top Ten Tuesday - Reading Slumps

This week's TTT is books that will pull you out of a reading slump. For those of us in the blogging world, we are almost in competition with ourselves. We eat, breathe and sleep reading. We are not the average reader though.
According to the research, Americans read a mean average of 12 books per year, and the typical (median) American has read four books in the past 12 months.
Can you imagine only reading that few? I certainly can't. That's a bad couple of weeks for me! What happens though when we hit that reading slump and no book is "talking" to us? When our TBR starts piling up and there's no end in sight?
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Top Ten Tuesday || Popular Books, Worth it or Not?

This week's TTT is popular books that lived up to the hype. I decided to go with 5 that did...and 5 that did NOT.
To put a different spin on it, I chose those that had movie adaptations. I wonder if that makes me somewhat biased, or if the movie just fed into the hype surrounding it. I tend to want to read the book BEFORE I see the movie. I think the book is almost always better than the movie. I don't want to ruin my perception of the story if I see the movie first. I like to be able to picture the characters in my own mind first. It doesn't always happen that way though as you'll soon see.
Here we go! :)
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 201...
Top Ten Tuesday || Books With Sensory Reading Memories

This week's TTT is books with sensory memories.
"These are the books that are linked to very specific memories for you: where you were, what time of year it was, who you were with, what you were eating, what you were feeling, what you were seeing, etc. Ideas include books you read while on vacation, books that you read while you were eating, books you read at work/at a family or social event/on the train or plane, books you’ve buddy read with loved ones, books you read during an emotional time in your life, books you read by the fire, etc."
I struggled with this assignment at first. I read so much! How can I possibly come up with TEN books that remind me of something like that? I remember places I've read, like the beach, or in the cabin on the cruise ship, or at my family's cabin in the woods.
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Top Ten Tuesday - Short Stories Edition
Shew, I don't know about you guys but this week has come with a vengeance! I was lucky enough to have last Wednesday off for Indepen...
My Very First Top Ten Tuesday!
I was lucky enough to have last Wednesday off for Independence Day and didn't have to come back to work until Monday. It was wonderful while it lasted, but man, you pay for it when you do get back! I thought I'd try something new and give my brain cells a little rest today. So,without further ado, my first:
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