Top Ten Tuesday #112 - New Releases For The Rest Of 2016...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -


Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The Second Half Of The Year

I haven't been very good at keeping up with what's coming out when this year so this threw me into a bit of a spin. Having sifted through Goodreads I think these are my most anticipated titles for the rest of the year... I'm almost 100% certain that I will think of a dozen or more titles immediately after I hit publish!

Top Ten Tuesday #82 - Favorite Heroines From Books & TV

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Favorite Heroines From Books & TV

I have a vague recollection of doing this topic before but cannot for the life of me remember how long ago it was. Anyway, here's a new list of some of my favorite heroines from books and, thanks to characters from Game of Thrones, television too!

Lila - A Darker Shade of Magic

Mori - Jo Walton

Elizabeth Bennett - Pride & Prejudice

Lyra - His Dark Materials

Sansa Stark - A Song of Ice & Fire

Brienne of Tarth - ASoIaF

Daenerys Targaryen - ASoIaF

Lady Trent - A Natural History of Dragons

Karou - Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables

Top Ten Tuesday #81 - Books I Can't Believe I (Still) Haven't Read From... Fantasy & SF

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -  

Top Ten Books I Can't Believe I Haven't Read From... Fantasy & Sci-Fi

All of these books have been sitting on my shelves for some time and they're all books I've been desperate to read, a couple I originally borrowed from the library and then bought as I couldn't renew them! Yet I still haven't read a single one, disgraceful!

Top Ten Tuesday #78 - 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn't Get To

There are a lot of 2014 releases that I didn't get round to last year. I've been getting together my statistics for last year and if I've worked it correctly, just under a third of the books I read last year were published last year! Which means two thirds weren't... Here's a sample list of 2014 releases that I didn't read last year, kicking myself about not reading them last year and will read, soon hopefully. Especially Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy because I've heard so many good things. Maybe not Gods & Monsters because that's it, series over - same for Book of Life.

Top Ten Tuesday #54 - Books About Friendship

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books About Friendship

Books about friendship - best friends, ex-friends, keep your friends close and your enemies closer 'friends', sisters, friends who are gone, friends who become more. Hands down, my favorite book about friendship will always be the Anne books by L M Montgomery. When I was a child and first read them I used to daydream about all the kindred spirits I would meet!

Anne of Green Gables

Hold Still | Aristotle & Dante | Attachments

Perks of Being A Wallflower | The Secret History | Cruel Summer

Harry Potter | Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Pride & Prejudice

Book Haul #73

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

Another great week on the buying front, one pre-order which I've been waiting for what feels like forever and a special edition hardcover of one of my favorite books. I think my postman thinks I'm sick or something as he hasn't had to stagger up the path under the weight of a dozen parcels! To make up for the lack of buying books it was library week this week so a nice big stack of books appeared on Thursday, lots of great reading for Easter.

Bought

Dreams of Gods & Monsters | Fahrenheit 451

Borrowed

The Other Life | Daughter of the Blood | Black City

Dearly Beloved | Happy Ever After | Dreams & Shadows

Dark Hear Surrender | Exit Kingdom | Boy Snow Bird

The Ninth Circle | Jasmyn | Bird Box

Top Ten Tuesday #45 - Books On My Spring TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

 Top Ten Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List

I saw this topic and thought it would be an easy one. But then I started thinking and I realized I haven't even thought about what I'll be reading in the near future! For me this is unusual as I do like to have a vague idea of what's coming up and what I have to look forward to. I'm sure once I see other people's lists I'll be kicking myself for not thinking of most of the books listed.

Cuckoo Song | Dreams of Gods & Monsters

First Fifteen Lives of Harry North | Dark Days | Feather Bound

The King | A Love Like Blood

Banished | Half Bad | Red Rising