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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #47 – Top Ten Shortlisted Books For My Non-Existent Bookclub

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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 Shortlisted Books
For My Non-Existent Bookclub

Initial Thoughts:

There’s a thread of intent that weaves all these shortlisted choices together and perhaps you can take jabs at what the overarching theme I’d look to engage is. Reading the synopsis excerpts might help in the understanding, but more importantly, their purpose and its placement over a year-long endeavour.

There are actually 12 books listed for reasons of thematic continuity to span a year—except for one book—that was just a choice for me alone LOL (I’m sure you can guess which one it is haha). Some of these I’ve read, many of these I haven’t. As always, all images link back to their respective Goodreads.

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[Think Aloud] – #6 – The (Not-So) Villainous Monologue

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Think Aloud explores book-related discussions encompassing reading, writing, blogging, and perhaps newsworthy content. The focus is to push the boundaries, stretch the mind, and encourage dialogue within this community. Let’s all think out loud.

Table Topic:
The (Not-So) Villainous Monologue

Abstract:

“Their dreaded monologue is more frightening than death itself” said no protagonist ever.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #46 – Top Ten Landscapes That Need A Visual Time-lapse

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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 Landscapes That
Need A Visual Time-lapse

Initial Thoughts:

(Good ol’ freebies letting me take creative reign.)

World building gives body and context to the wtf-ness that happens in a story, and sometimes, they feel like characters themselves. The purpose of this theme was to consider landscapes that I wouldn’t mind visualizing its pre-storyline development to the actual happenings in the narratives (i.e. protagonists and their tomfoolery through haphazard wrecking of buildings for narrative effect). Think of this topic as an aerial 3D time-lapse of the construction-and-deconstruction of a focus setting and how the setting had to have begun somewhere.

If I’m making no sense at all: just imagine the Game of Thrones opening sequence and how kingdoms evolve throughout the series. Or…here is an example of a time-lapse.

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Now take the above and change it into an aerial shot, then set it back nth years to the start of civilization in ABC Novel and watch the innovation turn nothingness into something.

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