Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Books that will make you cry

Winger - Andrew Smith (my review)

If He Had Been With Me - Laura Nowlin (my review)

Scars - Cheryl Rainfield (my review)

Invincible Summer - Hannah Moskowitz (my review)

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece - Annabel Pitcher (my review)

Waiting - Carol Lynch Williams (my review)

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (my review)

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (my review)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Books I read in 2013

Divergent - Veronica Roth !!

Insurgent - Veronica Roth !!!

Allegiant - Veronica Roth !!!!! Seriously. I'm so glad I got to binge read these all at once. This was just such a fantastic series. I hope the movies do the books justice!

Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell  I fangirled hard over this one. I did a matching manicure and I wrote my first piece of fanfiction for this book. It's soooo amazing!

If He Had Been With Me - Laura Nowlin So much love for this novel. I had not heard anything about it and wasn't expecting much. This book will give you so many feelings. I love it so.

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green Yeah, I waited awhile before reading this. Someone spoiled it for me almost immediately, so I had to wait until I forgot the spoiler. Then, I waited because I knew I would be devastated afterwards. It was soooo good though. 

Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta This is another one where I'm a bit late to the game with. Another heartbreaking but beautiful read. 

Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner A strange little book that was just so powerful. I want more people to read this because I feel like no one has. It deserves to be read!

Winger - Andrew Smith Such a punch in the gut. When I started this, I never would have believed it would have been a top ten pick, but it is! So amazing!

Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi Warner <3

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten new to me authors...

Veronica Roth - I never thought these books would be as great as they were. It was really nice to be able to sit down and tear through them all at once.

Andrew Smith - Oh, Winger, how much you tricked me and I totally and completely fell for you.

Rainbow Rowell - If you've read Fangirl, you know what I mean. ^_^

Laura Nowlin - Broke my heart into pieces. Finny <3

Page Morgan - Who knew a book with such a pretty cover good be so fantastic ;)

Josin McQuein - Josin knew about the pretty cover = great book thing. 

Kate Karyus Quinn - I can't wait to read her next book because Another Little Piece was all sorts of crazy and spooky.  

Emil Ostrovski - A road trip unlike any other. 

Andrew Fukuda - Vampires, but better.

J.H. Trumble - Ruined my life, beautifully. 

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Books in my Winter TBR...

In the After - Demitria Lunetta

Meet Me at the River - Nina de Gramont

Not a Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis

No One Else Can Have You - Kathleen Hale

Poor Little Dead Girls - Lizzie Friend

The Clockwork Scarab - Colleen Gleason

The Beginning of Everything - Robyn Schneider

How to Love - Katie Cotugno

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

In the Shadow of Blackbirds - Cat Winters

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten 2014 Release I NEED RIGHT NOW!

Ignite Me - Tahereh Mafi
Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray

Idols - Margaret Stohl

The Retribution of Mara Dyer - Michelle Hodkin

Hollow City - Ransom Riggs

Lies My Girlfriend Told Me - Julie Anne Peters
The Inventor's Secret - Andrea Cremer

The Geography of You and Me - Jennifer E. Smith

Tsarina - J. Nelle Patrick

Don't You Forget About Me - Kate Karyus Quinn

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Seven book covers I'd like to redesign

Death Cloud - Andrew Lane (To be fair, they did redesign these without the Justin Bieber kid, but they still aren't that fantastic.)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart (This is such a great book and such a poorly photoshopped cover. There are good aspects to it, but execution is lacking.)

Forgotten - Cat Patrick (This was another good book with not a great cover. I just want something more fitting the story.)

As You Wish - Jackson Pearce (This cover is just kind of plain. I want more for it so that it can stand out.)

Pretty Girl-13 - Liz Coley (Bleeding Cowboy. Not that I need more than that to hate the cover, but it's a little hard to interpret. The photo isn't awful though.)

Graceling - Kristin Cashore (Meh. I don't mind the cover, but I wouldn't mind it spruced up a bit.)

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (Will there ever be a good cover for this book? Honestly I think the best one so far is the movie cover, and I hate movie covers. This book is so awesome though and all the covers make it look so blergh.)

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Sequels I can't wait to get my hands on... 
So I couldn't think of that many sequels that I want to read that aren't out yet, so some of these are books I want authors to write but they aren't necessarily sequels. Of course, directly after finishing this post I realized that I didn't include The Retribution of Mara Dyer. So consider that included now.

Ignite Me - Tahereh Mafi (I need more Warner!) 

Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray ( I need another nice creepy tale.)

Idols - Margaret Stohl

Hollow City - Ransom Riggs

Meridian - Josin L. McQuein

The Interrupted Tale - Maryrose Wood

I want a new YA novel from Rainbow Rowell!!!! I loved Fangirl and Eleanor & Park. She has a new book coming out soon, but it's an adult book. MORE YA PLEASE!

Inland - Kat Rosenfield (There's no cover for this and only the briefest of summaries, but I want it. Amelia Anne was so fantastic!)

I also want a new book from Arlaina Tibensky. And Then Things Fall Apart was just such a great novel and I want Arlaina to dazzle me again.

I want the tears that John Green provides. I want characters from him that I care so much about that it hurts to lose them. I want a book emotionally like The Fault in Our Stars.

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Scary Book Covers...

Reviews
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Murmurings
Eyes in the Mirror
The House of Dead Maids

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Character Names I love...

Sebastian - The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti

Margot - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Jericho - The Diviners by Libba Bray

Étienne - Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Augustus - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Tristan - Tristan and Iseuldt by M. Joseph Bedier
Mara Dyer - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Atticus - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tobias - Divergent by Veronica Roth
Gemma - A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Five books I was forced to read
I couldn't really think of 10 that I was forced to read and actually read. I mean, we had a ton of required reading, but most of it I just didn't bother to actually read.

Graceling - Kristin Cashore (Forced to read by: Megan, a co-worker)

She is totally in love with this series (and huge books) and kept telling me I should read this. I finally relented (and picked it for our feminist book group) and was so confused on why I had waited so long to read this. 

The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon (Forced to read by: Jenna, my boss)

She walked into work and said "This is so good, Brittany read it so we can discuss it". It sounded pretty good so I put it next on my list. 

The End Games - T. Michael Martin (Forced to read by: Jenna, my boss)

This one I felt I really had no choice about. Jenna walked in frustrated and rant-y and passed me the book is was like "You need to read this and then we'll discuss because..." and then little anger squiggly marks rose above her head. 

The Hollow - Jessica Verday (Forced to read by: Julia, an old co-worker/Teen)

She really loved this book. And I promised her when she went away to college I would read it and we could discuss on her first break. I forgot about this and on her first day back she asked me about it and I promptly read it the next day. It was really good.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Car (Forced to read by: Michael, my boyfriend)

To be honest, he's not very forceful. Mostly he just mentioned it a lot and said I should probably read it. So soon after he read it I devoured it. It's a fantastic book. 

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten best/worse series endings! (real post)
Top Ten Series I will finish sometime in the soon-ish future 
When I saw this weeks prompt I thought about all the series that I have actually finished. This took about 2 seconds because I've only finished a handful...three? So, I thought I would steal this excellent prompt That Jaime at The Perpetual Page Turner did this week for pretty much the same reason. 

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Book Turn-offs

no real plot - Sometimes books happen but nothing happens within the pages. There are some characters and they do things but really, nothing happens. 

generic blurbs - "The next Hunger Games!" "The next Twilight!" "Vampires!" "Letters that form words that form sentences!" "Characters!" Why bother?

terrible names - There are some names I simply hate and if I start a book and a major character has that name, I have a really hard time reading it. Also if the names are just ridiculous and unpronounceable for the sake of being ridiculous. 

snobish narrator - If I have to listen to the narrator tell me this story and they look down on everyone and everything I have a really hard time powering through because I hate them. I don't care about them or what they are saying and therefore will not enjoy the book. 

bad cover - This may be shallow but I want to read a book with a great cover. It doesn't have to be earth-shattering, but if it looks like you made it in Paint I'll pass. 

too many talking animals - Sometimes it's fitting to have talking animals (Alice in Wonderland). But, if your animals could have easily been humans instead, no thanks. Unless it fits the style of the book or is symbolic in some way, please just make them people. 

poor editing - Having poor editing in your book makes me feel like you don't think I'm worth a second glance. A lot of mistakes I see could have been saved with a simple read through. 

preachy - I don't want a book telling me what to think or how to conduct my life. Lessons are fine, drilling them into my brain for 400 pages is not. 

trying to hard to be something it's not - You're either writing a funny, sad, dark, mysterious, book or you're not. Don't try too hard to make your book fit into a certain category, just write the damn book. 

hypocritical narrator - If a narrator is bitching about someone doing something and they are also doing that same thing I just want to shake them. 

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten favorite sequels... 
So I have a bit of problem of being stuck on the first book and never getting around to reading the sequels. Also, I often find book number two a bit disappointing. So I have five off the top of my head that are better than the first one. 

The Lost Saint - Bree Despain

Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

A Million Suns - Beth Revis

Supernaturally - Kiersten White

Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Books on my fall TBR list... 
(in a perfect world where I actually finish things on my TBR list)

Etiquette & Espionage - Gail Carriger
I have the second book staring at me so I need to start this series. 

The Chaos of Stars - Kiersten White
I just love Kiersten's writing and really need to read something else by her and this one sounds fantastic!

The Boy on the Bridge - Natalie Standiford
Love, love, love Natalie Standiford!

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two - Catherynne M. Valente
(my review of book 1)(my review of book 2)

The Truth About You & Me - Amanda Grace
Amanda Grace does not write feel good books and sometimes you want something gritty. 

The Clockwork Scarab - Colleen Gleason
Bram Stoker's sister and Sherlock's niece!? Yes, yes, YES!

The Melancholy of Mechagirl - Cathrynne M. Valente
I have loved what I've read of her and I adore short stories, so this seems like a perfect match!

Winger - Andrew Smith
Boarding school, Rugby and that cover, how could I refuse?

Divergent - Veronica Roth
Now that the last book will soon be out, I can binge-read this series. 

Taken  - Erin Bowman
If I put this on enough lists, I may actually read it sometime. 

Have you guys read any of these? Where's the best place to start? 

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.

Top Ten Tuesday

This week's topic is:

Top Ten books you'd like to see turned into movies or television shows...

The Broke and the Bookish is a group of college aged and twenty somethings that have an unhealthy obsession with reading and would spend every last penny on books even if it meant skipping a few meals. We are the people  who lurk in the library, buy handbags based on how many books can be stashed in them, and who refer to characters in books as if they are personal friends.

We sought after other bookish college students to share in our love for reading and were brought together by the College Students group on Goodreads that was created in September 2008. Our desire to share great books with each other in and our tendency to be opinionated and passionate about all things book related naturally led to the birth of The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.