Showing posts with label Top Ten Bookish Wishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top Ten Bookish Wishes. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Bookish Wishes & Tell Me Something Tuesday: Have you ever been surprised by a book that you didn't expect to enjoy?



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

Typical Tuesday, I am out the door early. Looking forward to visiting your blogs later.  

This is a popular recurring Top Ten Tuesday. Participants share the books they are wishing for, and sometimes their blogging friends grant those wishes. I have been blessed with a granted wish in the past, though I never expect it. As you know, I have a ton of unread books here. 


Top Ten Bookish Wishes
These all appear on my Amazon wish list


Until the Snow Clears by Nina York


Under the Mistletoe by Penny Zeller


Christmas Promises by Shelley Shepard Gray


The Santa Claus Girl by Patricia P. Goodin


Stupid TV, Be More Funny by Alan Siegel


Tempest at Annabel's Lighthouse by Jamie Jo Wright


From Little Houses to Little Women by Nancy McCabe


Night Falls on Predicament Avenue by Jamie Jo Wright 


A Grand Old Time by Judy Leigh 


Apparently There Were Complaints by Sharon Gless

Thanks to Freepik (now Magnific) for the image



Tell Me Something Tuesday (TMST) is hosted by Jen Twimom at That's What I'm Talking About. TMST is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general. Participation is optional, and you can leave your comments in the weekly post when you participate. Check it out if you're interested in joining.

Tell Me Something Tuesday asks: Have you ever been surprised by a book that you didn't expect to enjoy?

It has been a while, but this has definitely happened to me. Never expected to enjoy The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins as much as I did. Jeff Hirsch's The Eleventh Plague was another dystopian novel I surprisingly liked. The Kensei by Jon F. Mertz was a vampire novel that I highly recommended back in 2013. I don't read vampire novels very often. Finally, proving that if you are a great writer, you can attract readers who openly profess not to read your genre, one of my favorite authors, whom I have known since I started blogging, is Karina L. Fabian, who writes fantasy and sci-fi. Now, I don't actively search for those genres, but I have enjoyed her Dragon Eye PI books, her zombie exterminator book, and her space anthology. She has also written Christian fiction and nonfiction, which are genres I regularly read. 

What book(s) have surprised you? 

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Bookish Wishes



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.  

Welcome back to Tuesday! Hope you're having a good week. REALTOR Day on Beacon Hill was fun. I'm glad, however, to be back home and concentrating on other things. At least I got some good exercise walking around the state house. 

This week it is time to look at books on your friends' wish lists to see if you want to grant any wishes. I've tried it once and received a book from my list, so I sent one in return. Here is how it works:

List the TOP TEN books you’d love to own and include a link to your wish list so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wish list to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your e-reader in the list description so people know how to get the book to you. After you post, jump around the Linky featured at That Artsy Reader Girl and grant a wish or two if you’d like. Please don’t feel obligated to send anything to anyone!

I put together my book list last time Bookish Wishes were done, but I've also added a few books since then. You can check out Cheryl's Book List here. These are my...

TOP TEN BOOKISH WISHES











Have you read any of these? What are some bookish wishes you are looking to have granted?