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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #25 – Top Ten Classic Books To Be

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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 Classic Books To Be

Initial Thoughts:

Don’t put this letter down.

I’m writing this in 2114. I hope you’re one of the Readers. I don’t know how this found you but enclosed is a list of books that should help in a time of need. I haven’t read any of them but I’m told the text will bend your mind, sharpen your thoughts, and encourage a dialogue that spans a lifetime.

I’ve changed the time-stamp on this letter to 2014. It should give you some time–but hurry, they’re looking for them too. Things have changed since 2000. They started by banning books. Then they removed the previous generation of classics—no one today has heard of Orwell, Austen, or Salinger (actually, I might be glad that Holden may be gone for good). But change is here again. I can’t tell you if they’ve uncovered these titles yet. Without certainty, you have all the time to find them…these stories. All I can say is to keep looking forward, and maybe one day that irrevocable truth will exist in the slightest. Trust in the possibility even if you’re skeptical as hell.

You’ll understand when they’re found.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #24 – Top Ten Book Cover Trends

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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 Cover Trends

 

Initial Thoughts:

As the initial point of contact, a book cover doesn’t necessarily have to tell you what the book is going to be about any more than it should supplement the synopsis in doing so. But sometimes it gets perplexing when we start to form judgments based on simply the face value of the cover. Here are some trends I’ve noticed spread across the genres. I thought about including the book covers that would fit these categories…but decided against it. In doing this, I hope that when you read the trend being listed, you can conjure up book covers that you’ve personally come across and can relate to it even more.

Feel free to hit me up with notable culprits of these trends in the comments below!

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Pretty sure the genre most guilty of this is YA contemporary romance. At least for these no-face pictures, you can basically plug-and-play your favourite face into the character and live out whoever you think it might be. But it seems kind of cookie-cutter to me where it’s almost set in stone that the couple on the cover (using the synopsis as a guideline) is the be-all-end-all. So it’s almost as if you’ve read the ending (because potential happily-ever-after shipping is the most important trope, right?) and then you’re basically backtracking to the front to view the spectacle of drama leading up to it. Though, these are just my thoughts considering I don’t read too many YA contemporary.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #23 – Top Ten Books On My Summer 14′ TBR

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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 On
My Summer 14’ TBR

 Initial Thoughts:

Your eyes do not deceive you… I’m alive!

Summer is no different than Spring as I’m still backlogged from ARCs from the previous season. It also doesn’t help that I’ve returned to a certain game which eats time so quickly. In better news, summer also means certain movies are coming out and therefore some reading must be done prior to.

All images link back to Goodreads and I’ve provided briefs to support each title.

The Leisure

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The Maze Runner – James Dashner

Thank you to movie trailers for getting the ball rolling with this.

“When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers–boys whose memories are also gone. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out–and no one’s ever made it through alive. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.”

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Yes, you’ve read correctly. To all individuals who have chirped me to read this…this is written in the stars now. It will happen.

“Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.”

The Rithmatist – Brandon Sanderson

I will mend a broken promise to read a previous book club book (Jenny Han’s To All The Boys…) with this one. Well…I hope at least. Though I’ve heard some mixed reviews of this, I’m still pretty certain you can never go wrong with anything Sanderson.

“More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students study the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Then students start disappearing — kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. Assigned to help the professor who is investigating the crimes, Joel and his friend Melody find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery — one that will change Rithmatics — and their world — forever.”

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