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2016, meme, top ten tuesday

[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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2016, blogging events, love-a-thon, Miscellaneous

[2016 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon] — An Invitation To Do Protagonist-y Things

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The Book Blogger Love-A-Thon is a blogging event hosted by Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books, Cee @ The Novel Hermit, Hazel @ Stay Bookish, and Mel @ The Daily Prophecy.

Thoughts:

The original challenge was called “An Invitation to Tea” where you assemble people from the community and authors to sit around and drink tea and talk and stuff. That’s cool and all…but let me just take a different route with this prompt by saying this is an invitation to save the world.

You can call me that wise matchmaking seer who sets these heroes on their journey…yes, that’s it.

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