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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #21 – Top Ten Book Bromances

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Book Bromances

 

Initial Thoughts:

Top Ten Book Friendships felt too tacky for me.
So, obviously, this is much cooler …wait for it… bro-er.

Don’t get me wrong though, I do enjoy a good friendship turned shippable relationship or even the possibility of a platonic friendship between boys and girls, men and women…but bromances are a different beast of its own right. Or at least I’d like to think so.

Apparently, there are diverging meanings toward what bromance ought to be. Some sources focus on the non-romantic, non-sexual relationship between two males while others add to that and focus on it having to be straight boys/men only. Even if you made me take a step back twenty years to consider what bromance ought to be, I’d still favour the former. Narrow-mindedness and not forward-thinking rambling is not in my repertoire despite its validity to some individuals that I can’t completely and faithfully argue against. Because in the end…to each their own. But I’m opening up the scope of bromance for this list to consider all aspects of self-identity. I mean does everything have to relate back to some social cause? Nope.

(But really…I can’t take myself seriously with this post.)

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #20 – Top Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn’t

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Books I Almost
Put Down But Didn’t

Initial Thoughts:

When a book is cracked open, you never know whether or not you’ll find yourself enjoying it by the end. And during the read, there might be times that you’re fed up with plot or character antics, confused with how things are happening, or are simply not enjoying the experience as you had hoped. So it turns into a gamble: to continue or not to continue. If you’re like me, always giving things a chance past-expiration point, by the time you might decide one or the other…you’re already done the book. And so you ask yourself: was the payoff worth it?

Books that I almost put down but didn’t:

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Backward Glass (David Lomax)

I ended-up really enjoying this novel. But truthfully, there was so much work involved to keep yourself afloat with information management which weren’t necessarily infodumps…but it was hard work to keep tabs on mental notes.

The Waiting (Joe Hart)

A lot of nothing happens in the beginning. But like all horror films (or books, I guess), all things serene and pleasantly full of mundane activities is thrown out the window once the shit hits the fan. Because when it did, I was considering putting it down because of the wtf factor increasing one-million-fold.

When You Were Here (Daisy Whitney)

Mumsy passes away..and he’s all like: *rage* *rage* “wtf you promised me you’d attend my graduation. why did you die?”
Oh Danny boy…your antics are so rage inducing.

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[Music Monday] – #7 – Nightwish – Storytime/Last Ride of the Day/Scaretale

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Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by the Total Book Geek. The purpose of this bookish variant is to match a book with a particular song; whether it is character defining, a narrative element, or just an overall book defining track.

So why am I doing this? Well if I had to choose to only have one of the five traditional senses, it would be sound perception above all else. And hey I think it’d be neat to share music I listen to on a daily basis!

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This Week’s Song:
Storytime, Last Ride of the Day, 
& Scaretale – Nightwish

Book Selected:
Night Terrors – Tim Waggoner

 Initial Thoughts:

night terrors coverSo after weeks of mellow music, I’m going to bring in a curveball with this selection—it’s symphonic metal. This genre may not be for everyone, but if you’re willing, have a listen! You can skip my long rambles and just listen to the music if you wish, it’s going to be a long post that makes no sense whatsoever (even to me…).

After reading Night Terrors by Tim Waggoner – it was basically a no-brainer that I had to choose something from Nightwish’s – Imaginaerum album. The high-concept of the album is quintessentially a metaphorical reflection on one’s life at a point near death—namely to engage life retrospectively through the eyes of a child. The basis of the term: Imaginaerum, is for all-intents-and-purposes, a spin on sanitarium to depict a world where one’s imagination can be healed.

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