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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #97 – Books To Read For Mentor/Pupil Dynamics

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
Books If You’re in the Mood For: Mentor/Pupil Dynamics

Initial Thoughts:

This week’s theme centers around featuring “books if you’re in the mood for X”. Since most mentor-to-pupil moments hit me right in the feels, bam, that’s my topic.

Many of these choices you’ve seen before but I’ll try to shine a different light on each. You know…satire and stuff.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #96 – Book Recommendations From Other Bloggers

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
Book Recommendations
From Other Bloggers
(That Aren’t My Usual Cup of Tea)

Initial Thoughts:

I’d sound like a broken record if I were to recommend Federle’s The Great American Whatever, Zentner’s The Serpent King, or any of Ness’ contemporary-ish titles that are, in theory, “outside my comfort zone” — which I’d rather say “aren’t my cup of tea” because comfort zone sounds like I’m discomforted by them…which I’m not.

So instead, I’ll grace you with the lovely recommendations from other bloggers that have a big question mark over them for me personally.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #95 – A Hero’s Journey Heard Through A Cappella

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
A Hero’s Journey
Heard Through A Cappella

Initial Thoughts:

(Recommended to be read on the blog as Reader formatting is pretty blergh).

Here’s the thing: I had brain farts as to how to make this topic satirical or “fun” like previous top ten tuesday prompts. Nothing fun really spoke to me so I’m stripping all the fun away and opening up the floor to a genre of music that’s near and dear to me.

Call me some nerdy kid but A cappella music is something I really appreciate it. I’ll be mainly highlighting collegiate level a cappella covers. For the sake of keeping things “bookish”, I’ll be featuring the 12 Steps of the Hero’s Journey that outlines a template of the rise and fall of a hero’s story.

Note: The “opb.” notation will be used as a stand in for ‘originally performed by’. All songs link to the respective artist’s Spotify as it’s the only place that has a repository of recordings.

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