Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl It’s going to be interesting to see how everyone responds to this week’s prompt. I wasn’t sure if I could come up with enough responses to justify participating this week, but luckily I did. 1. Sometimes the movie is better than the book. For example, The Hobbit was a… Read More
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ghost Stories
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My favourite genre is science fiction and fantasy. Since that’s an impossibly broad answer to this week’s prompt, Books From My Favorite Genre, I decided to narrow it down to something specific: ghost stories. I adore ghost stories, especially the ones that rely on psychological horror instead of jump… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Books Released in the Last Ten Years
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I wasn’t sure how to organize these, so I’m going to start in 2010 and end this year. 2010 – Room by Emma Donoghue What made this stand out from the typical thriller for me was that it was narrated by a five-year-old boy who really didn’t know how… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Places to Read
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl This week’s prompt was “Books That I Refuse to Let Anyone Touch.” I was hopelessly stumped by it, so I decided to do one of the first Top Ten Tuesday prompts instead. This one is from almost a decade ago, long before I had any clue that Top Ten… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters That Remind Me of Myself
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My answers this week will be a mixed bag of books, TV shows, and films. This topic was a little challenging for me, but I enjoyed brainstorming for it. Let’s see if I can come up with the full ten answers! 1. Karana from Scott Odell’s Island of the… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Here are some of my favourite inspirational and thought-provoking quotes. I honestly have no idea what else to write in the introduction to this post, so let’s move on to the quotes! 1. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: First Ten Books I Reviewed
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I write a fair number of long film and TV reviews on this blog, but it hasn’t been as common for me to give books the same treatment here due to the volunteering I do as a book reviewer who uses a pseudonym elsewhere on the web. By the… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Rainy Day Reads
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl There are two things I really like to read on rainy days: poetry about stormy weather and humorous books. Why does my brain work this way? I have no idea, but it has strong opinions on this topic that I’m going to honour. This week I’m going to be… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Outrageous Things I’ve Done for the Love of Books
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl You’re all about to hear some funny stories about the outrageous, silly, and memorable things I’ve done for the love of books. For anyone who didn’t already know, I was a preacher’s kid growing up, so the church’s building was basically my family’s second home. We were there two… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday: Things That Make Me Pick Up a Book
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Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Some weeks I struggle to come up with enough items for a Top Ten Tuesday list, but this sure wasn’t one of them. I could have easily given you all twice as many answers to this question. There are so many different things in our world that make me… Read More
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