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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #33 – Top Ten Underrated Characters I’d Share My Birthday Cake With

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 Underrated Characters
I’d Share My Birthday Cake With

Initial Thoughts:

So….

(Last weeks theme: book characters that’d sit at your lunch table) + (This weeks theme: underrated books/authors) + (day of birth [Sept 9]) = today’s theme. With cake.

I figured I’d try to incorporate them into one topic, sort of. I can’t say whether or not I identify with the underrated/underdog characters in novels but they’re definitely among my favourite characters even if they have less screen time (in terms of not being the main hero/heroine). Though it’s very possible that some of these characters aren’t underrated after all. Either way, I’d hand them a slice and tell them, “you done good.”

….I guess it’d also be awkward to cut the cake into 11 sections (though I will dismiss the fact that I would probably enjoy eating a larger slice) so it’d probably be cut into 12; and you, said reader, can enjoy a slice of celebration for these characters as well.

As per usual, images link back to their respective Goodreads.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #32 – Top Ten Books I Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet

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 Books I Want To
Read But Don’t Own Yet

Initial Thoughts:

Soooo this might just be a list of upcoming reads that I’m reminding myself to purchase whenever they’re released. I have also provided synopsis excerpts for your enjoyment and as always the images link to their respective Goodreads page. And aside from the last pick, which was done solely based on fanboy reasons, the majority of the choices have been limited to publishing dates with a twenty-fourteen year ending, with a chronological listing.


Ernest cline - ready player onem.r. carey - the girl with all the gifts (cover)the infinite sea- rick yancey

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #31 – Top Ten Books/Manga People Insist I Should Read

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 Books/Manga
People
Insist I Should Read

Initial Thoughts:

The easiest copout of a list would have been in reference to last week’s theme [Top Ten Books I’m Not Sure I Want To Read] as they’re both almost the same topic (and I kind of do just that). This list contains content that I’ll probably end up reading/not reading despite all the hype and insistence.

But let’s take things back a second. A kind reminder that as much as you may love a book, over-hyping a book or series as the best read ever (or such variant) sometimes can detract one’s the willingness to read it and also sets the bar so high that even if it is good it may (or may not) be on the same perceivable level of good as the individual who recommended it. Then, it can be that the hype-r feels the “I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it as much as I did” (and hopefully not to the extreme of questioning the readers intelligence in reading–but I’mma just stop right there). Alternatively, the hype-e themselves can feel bad for not liking it as much as the one who recommended it and even though everyone can like/dislike what they enjoy–the fact that hype seemingly affects the read going forward is just derpy. That’s just my two cents–I know it’s all advertising in the end but just saying that books can often live and die with hype (or at least I think so anyways).

All book cover images link up to their respective Goodreads while the Manga’s don’t link up to anything at all. 

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