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Formerly located at rainbowstevie.livejournal.com (RS @ The Idealistic Daydream) until LJ got too hostile to allow comments from anyone other than registered LJ accounts. That is still my homebase; I will continue posting there for my own convenience and currently have no plans to use or check this site outside of Top Ten Tuesday interaction, …

Top Ten Petty Reasons I’ve DNFed A Book or Lowered Its Rating

Happy last day of April! Can You Believe we're that far into the year?? Anyway, this week's topic at That Artsy Reader Girl is another one I had great fun working on. Most of these result in the latter reason rather than the former, but I'm sure I've done both for the same reason at …

Top Ten Books Unread Books On My Shelves I Want To Read Soon

I've been nervously excited for this week's topic That Artsy Reader Girl for MONTHS! I knew I couldn't draft it more than a week in advance, because once I started thinking about it, I would either start reading some right away, or not read them but also no longer be at all in the mood …

The Last Ten Books I Read Off My Own Shelves

(note: this is a backdated post that I couldn't quite finish polishing in time to post with the linkup, to my immense sadness. I almost made 4/23's post a double-feature, but decided to bump this out a couple days beforehand instead, fixed where I meant it to be all along) This week at TTT is …

Top Ten Book Covers With Rain On Them

This week's prompt for Top Ten Tuesday was "April Showers -- pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt," which I think is very fun. I knew offhand a few that I wanted to use, but actually had to do a bit of digging to …

Top Ten Movies & TV Shows That Would Have Made Great Books

I love this topic! I often think about this, and I've actually had this post locked & loaded for a month as a result. :) The main linkup post can be found at That Artsy Reader Girl here. 1. Siberia (NBC) I loved this twisty-crazy-unfairly-canceled-on-a-cliffhanger show with all of my heart, okay? I am desperate …

Top Ten Books On My Spring TBR (2024)

Oooh, is it already seasonal TBR time? I am not prepared! (link to other posts on this theme at That Artsy Reader Girl) Well, we'll see how crushed I get by work, and I guarantee within a month I'll have twenty different books I'm excited about, but after a ridiculous amount of thinking, I've come …

Top Ten Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had

Hello! It's already Saturday but shhh, this is such a fun Top Ten Tuesday topic I could not miss out on it, even though I have had such a busy past two weeks that I didn't have time to finish pre-writing it. I'll admit, one superpower-equivalent I do have is that I can spot a …

Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023

A bit late for this post, but that's the TTT schedule, and I shall abide by it for organization's sake. :) On second thought, I have a good excuse -- this is the most literal example of "I don't make the rules" ever, lol. Main link-up post @ That Artsy Reader Girl is here. This …

Top Ten Books I Meant to Read in 2023 But Didn’t Get To

Thank god I'm limited to ten for this week's TTT -- and am actually sticking to that limit for once -- or I might go a little bit crazy. I decided to go short-n-sweet today with the first books that came to mind, which I have mostly mentioned before on here, that were definitely accessible …

Top Ten Bookish Goals For 2024

Other goal posts (for extra inspiration!) can be found in the linkup at That Artsy Reader Girl. This is mostly about physical books rather than what I'm into reading, as most of what I can think of is covered by 6 and 7 and I don't want to get more specific, lest it hamper me. …

Goodreads TBR Shakedown (part 4/?)

Hey, I'm back! What better way to kick off a new year than another one of these 50-book posts.Oh hey, I made it a solid half a year from the last one before posting again, good for me. We begin now with books added in April 2022, and are at #165 on the list (but …

Ten Most-Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2024

Hello! Real quick, since I appear to be too lazy to put it into WordPress, following my massive year-in-review book survey, I did finally compile some charts and graphs about my reading stats, but you'll have to check 'em out on Tumblr. (click each picture for full size) Now, as for this very forward-looking week...other …

End of Year Book Survey: 2023 Edition

Hello! I have had this blog for exactly one year, but this is the first time I'm releasing The Survey upon it. I've been doing end-of-year book surveys for a LOT of years, and every year they get longer. This will be no exception. I started with the one posted on Jana's blog...and then I added …

Top Ten Reads of 2023

It's here! It's happening! It's time to narrow down the TOP TEN from my 134 reads!! Except you know I'm going to do more than ten because I have to, but I tried very hard to pick my true faves, even though it was very difficult because I had such a great reading year. Also, …

The Last Ten Additions to My Bookshelf

An absolute favorite TTT topic! (main linkup at That Artsy Reader Girl here) AND I'm finally on vacation so maybe I can visit other people's posts this week?? This post, which would have looked quite different had I actually written it before Tuesday, has been brought to you largely by 20% off sales on BookOutlet.com …

The Ten Most Expensive Books I Bought This Year

This week's TTT topic is actually "Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings," but as much as I wanted to play that game, I think it's better if I focus on what I have right now. :) I have tracked my book acquisitions very closely this year -- unfortunately not in a way that curtailed …

Top Ten Books On my Winter TBR (’23-’24)

Rolling up LATE to the gate but determined to fling this in just to see how far off I stray! Other TTT posts for the week can be found at the roundup here. I read, let's see...3? off the fall TBR, which was exactly as haphazard and scattershot as this one is going to be. …

Books I’m Most Thankful I Read This Year

Happy Thanksgiving! And welcome back to what has become my new favorite annual posting tradition. This post isn't necessarily about the BEST books, though there is often overlap, but the ones that fed a particular niche desire at the perfect time, that I felt lucky to get my hands on, or a myriad of other …

Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Books

Main linkup post at That Artsy Reader Girl here. Short-n-sweet today. 1. VICARIOUS ROMANCE, BABY. There's nothing like swooning over text about a great couple, or even just a great love interest, in ways that give a similar but distinct high from watching one on film. 2. They are the BEST interior decor (even if …

Top Ten Mainstream Popular Authors that I Still Have Not Read

Another great Top Ten Tuesday topic this week! [Submitted by Rissa.] I've been looking forward to this one for months and I had a lot of fun making my picks, which include a mix of authors I intend to read someday, ones I proudly do not, and a few on whom I'm undecided. 1. Agatha …

Top Ten Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines

This week's TTT prompt was submitted by Cathy @ What Cathy Read Next. And I love it! For maximum effect (and conveniently minimal effort), I'm skipping both cover pics & authors* this round, so that you can look 'em up yourself if any of the titles intrigue you. just like a real headline! Some of …

Top Ten Intimidating Books on my Physical TBR

Hello, and happy spook day! (I am very sleepy so imma just-barely-post-in-time and run) Since this week at TTT is a freebie, I thought it would kind of thematic to talk about books I'm a little scared to start. Generally speaking, I don't do Read Harder type challenges. I'm a mood reader and want reading …

Top Ten Atmospheric Books

Another fun topic! I wanted to spend more time on this, but work is busy again so I just had to use the cheat code, a.k.a. googling "atmospheric" + my username + "site:goodreads.com." It turns out I mostly use this word to describe spooky books, interestingly enough. Guess that's a timely choice for the season… …

Top Ten Books with Weather Events in the Title

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was fun! I love a good scavenger-hunt topic that can be fulfilled by entering keywords into my Goodreads account and/or owned-books catalog. I ended up going with a mini-theme...purely because those were a) the most numerous and b) the better books. Lots of childhood favorites coming forth! 1. After …

Top Ten Bookish Jobs I Would Do For Free

Susan! Your submission for this week's Top Ten Tuesday is one of the toughest I've ever attempted, because to be honest, I am both lazy and uncharitable. Look at me, I don't even want ARCs -- consume a story that you can't guarantee won't change by the final product?? that might not even have finished …