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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #48 – Top Ten Comments Regarding Romances In Books

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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 (or 20+) Comments
Regarding Romances In Books

Initial Thoughts:

It’s funny that this week’s theme comes just after my recent discussion post about The Diminishing Utility of Love Triangles where I highlight that everyone enjoys love triangles and it’s the execution that you [may] dislike. But this is just one dude’s opinion that you should never take seriously.

Anyhow, likes and dislikes are a fickle thing to claim because I’m sure that there are scenarios where I like the dislikes and vice versa. These things aren’t black and white and I surely wouldn’t auto-DNF a book based on my random comments. So the following is more like observations (mostly negative?) than anything else because there are 20+ points of randomness here.

So yes, prepare yourself for the complain train. I complain a lot. A lot a lot.

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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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[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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