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 Reasons Why
Blogging/Reading is Cool Beans

Initial Thoughts:

We all have different reasons for doing what we do. For one, I’m eating kettle cooked chips that I nuked in the microwave for several seconds while writing this. Don’t chirp it until you’ve tried it. Anyways, the theme for this week considers why readers read and why bloggers blog from a personal standpoint.

Here are some of my long winded reasons:

1. Value Creation from Idea Engagement

Standard, but the thing I find most important. Regardless of the traffic you get, there’s something unfathomably enriching when content can further a dialogue or provoke a thought that may or may not have been considered. It’s in expanding one’s thought capacity that I feel matters most. Perspectives and angles can change; are limitless, and in reasoning the “why” rather than the “how” can deeper meanings be discovered.

2. Sharing is Caring…Seriously.

Albeit just a public opinion, regardless of the degree of positivity (or negativity) in shared content, it’s the effort in spreading ideas that keeps growth in motion. So this is more about giving back to the community (authors, readers, etc.) who have put the time and energy toward an art form that enjoys less exposure. This isn’t to say that literacy is declining or anything but just to highlight the idea that with the amount of distractions in the world, it’s understandable why some individuals may not find the time to read and/or discover certain reads. By keeping books in the spotlight regardless of one’s love/hate relationship with it, the importance lies in keeping literature in the present – and all parties alike only have you to thank for it.

So to you reading this… thanks for your continual effort!

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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 with Swoon
Worthy Relationships

Initial Thoughts:

Man...It’s so difficult to develop weekly theme adaptations in keeping things in perspective for myself. Last week I touch base on moments in books that made me “cry with feels,” which to some degree is the same thing as swooning. So I decided this week to focus on swoon worthy literary relationships that make you believe in the process of love itself and its varying perspectives; not simply grounded in the happily-ever-after focus (but that’s always nice too). I’m hoping that makes sense! My selection focuses on books I’ve read within the past year-ish. (All images were taken from Goodreads).

1. Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta)

Hue hue. So I’m still reading this book but I am quite pleased with how things are developing.

2. The Waiting (Joe Hart)

There is so much parental feels that makes me appreciate the lengths my rents have gone to that much more.

3. Divergent Trilogy (Veronica Roth)

Basically FourTris from beginning to end…but I will shout out the friendship antics via. fellowship of the ring...Allegiant style.

(LOL. Just to tangent this fellowship idea, imagine during the HG’s Quarter Quell:
“…you have my wire.”
“…and you have my trident.”
“…and my axe.”)

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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 That Made Me Cry
(with FEELS)

Initial Thoughts:

I don’t read many books that prompt the water works so I’m adapting this week’s theme to involve crying…but with feels; loosely redefined as an emotional (happy or sad) response. My equivalent. These are done retrospectively from just thinking of the book title and the events I can conjure up on face value. But I’ll be extremely vague on certain fronts so I don’t spoil anything.

This list is adapted from books I’ve read during or were published in 2013 specifically.

1. Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

Full disclosure: I decided to read the books as the movies came out so I’ve yet to read Mockingjay.

Feelsy moments: The death of certain individuals and the realization of the games design during the 75^th hunger games. Although I must say that the book had a bigger impact for me than the movie. This isn’t even due to knowing what happens, it’s more about the build-up in the book that was more feels.

degree of feels: sad feels.

2. Allegiant (Veronica Roth)

Feelsy moments: Brain injury incurred from the explosion (WHY?!!!?!?!?) and the last scene of the book. Also, the Room B13 scene in Divergent is an honourable mention.

degree of feels: super sad feels.

3. Backward Glass (David Lomax)

Feelsy moments: When Kenny is introduced to Star wars and Mario (of Nintendo fame), the scene in the Silverlands, and the Prince Harming rhyme finally making sense.

degree of feels: gleeful and awestruck feels.

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