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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #61 – Top Ten Books In My Beach Bag

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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.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Books In My Beach Bag

Initial Thoughts:

I haven’t experienced reading on the beach seeing as how I seldom visit any of them in Toronto (but they’re pretty mediocre overall). Either way, this isn’t really inclusive of books I’d actually bring with me to the beach (because I ain’t no beast that can read 10 books in 1 sitting let alone 1). These are more reminders for me to read during the summer.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #60 – Top Ten YA Clichés We Love/Hate

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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.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten YA Clichés We Love/Hate

 

Initial Thoughts:

Ahoy! A freebie Top Ten Tuesday calls for a rant. Except I’m not going to rant (too much)—I’ll let you do it in the thoughts you share!—I’ll just start it off.

For what it’s worth, many books wouldn’t have widespread appeal if they weren’t bound by several clichés. Yes the market is oversaturated with these kinds of writing but they’re often shortcuts (flagged by readers, I guess?) to explain the story without the requirement of an explanation. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun chirping them out!

That being said, I do have a love-hate relationship with all of them (but it’s kind of therapeutic to rant about).

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #59 – Top Ten Authors I’d Love To Meet

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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.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Authors I’d Love To Meet

Initial Thoughts:

This could turn out to be a fun topic in exposing bloggers to their inner Annie Wilkes (of Stephen King fame). For those who don’t know, she’s a “kind” soul in the Misery novel who’s obsessed with the protagonist, an author (go figure), until he writes something she doesn’t approve of. Cue crazy, villainous bananas. I mean, I wouldn’t torture said author the way Annie did but maybe I’d hide them away in a basement with only a pad of paper and pen, food delivered often enough, give them hope by letting a tiny ray of sunlight through a barred window—wow, I am not as crazy as these words seem. (Although I apologize for nothing.)

This isn’t really a love to meet anymore than a day of necessary tomfoolery. Necessary.

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