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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #26 – Top Ten Blogging Confessions

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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 Blogging Confessions

Initial Thoughts:

So I guess you’ve heard that I have this thing called a blog. Go figure? But what is a blog without a good ranty rant? This turned out extremely long and so I apologize. So for all those who can’t stand me rolling my face all over the keyboard, here’s a tl;dr condensed version:

 1. I have migrated through a few blogs;
 2. I take a long time to write any post;
 3. I feel bad for writing long reviews;
 4. I dislike using rating metrics;
 5. I don’t listen to music when blogging;
 6. I am bad at user-interaction;
 7. I prefer writing over reading;
 8. I may perhaps one day booktube;
 9. I would like to find another male co-blogger;
 10. You reading this makes me happy.

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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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