Top Ten Tuesday – Reading Goals to Accomplish Before 2024

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Reading Goals I Still Want to Accomplish Before the End of the Year (We’ve just begun the last quarter of the year! What bookish goals would you still like to accomplish? If you participated in TTT’s Bookish Goals for 2023 topic this past January, update us on which goals you’ve achieved, which you’ve given up on, and which ones you’re still working on!)

Hey guys! Here’s to hopping this list will actually happen. Cheers!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List

Hey guys! I tried to choose books I already own because with pre-orders or orders made now, I will probably only be getting them in November, late October if I’m lucky. So I added some books I own or already purchased and are on the way. Hope you enjoy!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books that defied my expectations

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Books That Defied My Expectations (books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!) (Submitted by Sia @ everybookadoorway.com)

Hey guys! This time we have kind of a big prompt to feel in, so I’m gonna do 5 books that I was surprised I liked and 5 I really didn’t care for and though I would.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten TuesdayTop TenTuesday

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday (books you discovered through Top Ten Tuesday, or they kept appearing in top tens and you got intrigued) (submitted by Ellie at Curiosity Killed the Bookworm)

Hey guys! This is going to be a mix of books I’ve seen or heard about in other platforms too. I definitely saw them in TTT, but I don’t know if I added them just for that. Let’s see what I came up with!

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First Line Friday: 28 July 2023

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? This is originally hosted by Wandering Words.

Rules:
> Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
> Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
> Finally… reveal the book!

Hey everyone! Hope you’re all having a great Friday ❤️ So, this is an easy one, but it’s so compelling I can’t wait to start the book.


“When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also liked me.”

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WWW Wednesday – 25 July of 2023

Welcome to my first ever WWW Wednesday. A weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Currently Reading

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson is STILL my current read? Actually I’m thinking of DNFing this one.

It started quite ok, but it has become boring. I don’t like the female MC, and I don’t like to see the past and present restricted each to one different point of view.

Present – girl / past – boy

I like the male MC but I don’t know, can he be a bit too young for me? Often I don’t have much problem with that, if it is done for everyone to enjoy, aka Nevermoor. But this one, I don’t think it’s good.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish (Feel free to tell us why if you want, but if you do please be nice to the authors and don’t tag them when you mention your post on social media!)

Actually I rarely DNF books, so this is a difficult topic for me, but let’s see, don’t think I have 10 tho. Also, I might consider DNF some, but that doesn’t mean I won’t get to the book at another time that it might work for me better.

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Five Finger Challenge

Hey guys, I just saw this on instagram and found it interesting so… Today we are doing the five finger challenge. I’m soon moving to another apartment for 4 months so I don’t have the books I’ve read with me so, sorry for not posting a photo of the books.

Without further ado let’s get started!


Pinky – A book I pinky promise to read soon

Daisy Jones and the Six is a book I’ve been meaning to read for the longest time, but for some reason it doesn’t appeal to me as much as the others by the author?

I think it’s because of all the hype surrounding it, it just makes me afraid I won’t have the same opinion, even tho I’m pretty sure I’m gonna love it just like all the TJR books I’ve read.

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Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum – Review

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Series: N/A
First published April 5, 2016
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Buy: Amazon

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?

It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son.

In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?

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This book is about navigating life after the worst has happened and all is in disarray.

Jessie just moved to a new private school in LA, she was previously from California and going to a perfectly normal school where she already had her friends. She used to live with her mother and father, until her mother died of cancer. Now she has been uprooted to her new stepmother’s house and her new stepbrother.

If that is not enough, she has to start all over again. Making friends, putting up grades, everything. And she has already people not liking her.

But, just when she thinks she can’t make it she receives an email from Somebody/Nobody helping her out. At first she wasn’t really sure what was happening, was it a prank? But no, this person actually started helping her and making her new life not suck so bad. The only thing is, she doesn’t know who he is, and she wants to find out, badly.

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TOP 10 Tuesday (freebie) – If old ratings still hold

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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Freebie, so let’s go with books I’ve read long ago and if the rating still holds!

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