Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten New to Me Authors I Added to My Goodreads Want To Read List in 2022

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! This week's topic is flexible. I could have written about 10 new to me authors whose books I read last year, but looking to give you more variety, I am sharing...

Top Ten New to Me Authors I Added to My Goodreads Want to Read List in 2022

Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think of them? What books are on your list this week?

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Books of 2022

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 to the first Top Ten Tuesday of 2023. I hope you had a nice holiday. This week's topic features our favorite books of 2022. There was a time when I read and blogged about more than a 100 books in a year, but I don't read as much these days. I completed my 2022 Goodreads Challenge, which had 40 books. I read 43. So, this week's topic might not be overly impressive, but it still includes some great books.

Favorite Seasonal Fiction

Favorite Amish Fiction

Favorite Historical Novel

Favorite Cozy Mystery

Favorite Writing Craft Book

Favorite Children's Books

Favorite Leadership Book

Favorite Thriller

Favorite Inspirational Fiction

Did you read any of these? What were some of your favorites from 2022?

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books on My Winter 2022-2023 To-Read List

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. I hope you are having a nice week. I am off early this morning to have a root canal. Doesn't that sound like fun? I promise I will check in with my fellow bloggers later.

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a great one. Don't we all like talking about the books we are looking to read? I hope I get to read at least some of these. So, without further ado, I give you the...

Top Ten Books on My Winter 2022-2023 To-Read List

This is Hubbard's latest installment of her Promise Lodge series, which is due out in February. I requested it from NetGalley today. 

I won this book by entering a blog giveaway. It sounds hilarious. If this sounds like a book you would enjoy, the author is also holding a Goodreads giveaway. You can check it out here.

I put this on my wish list to Santa, so hopefully he listens.

Another request from Santa. The Civil War is one of my favorite settings, and I like the Little Women tie in.

I have had my eye on McCurdy's book since before its release. 

This has been in my TBR pile for years. I met the author at a local writers conference. I'm always fascinated when an author can secure a grant to write a book. That would be my dream, because there is no way I could forgo working to pursue writing.

I am reading this one for a January review. 

I would like to finish this series. I have a way to go yet, but I would like to start off soon because I bought the rest of the books. 

I would really like to read another Christmas story this winter.

This has been a book I wanted to read since it first came out, but there are so many books and so little time. Hopefully, I can make room in my schedule for this one. 

Are any of these books on your list? What are some books you think I should add to my list? 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - Nov 7

Welcome to It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday.   

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's a great post to organize yourself. It's an opportunity to visit and comment, and er... add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.   

Welcome to the first Monday of November. Now, I like November, but for me it has always been the month with the holiday that we celebrate on the way to getting to the good one--Christmas. Being thankful is important, and I hope our family practices being thankful daily, but let's face it, how many people go around sharing the great Thanksgiving decorations they put up. Halloween has great decorations and so does Christmas, but who goes all out for Thanksgiving? 

Okay, enough silliness. I find when I am feeling overwhelmed, being silly gets me through it. How about you? What do you do to help relieve stress? 

The Lil' Princess celebrated a birthday over the weekend. We missed spending time with her, but we will see her around Thanksgiving. I'm not sure how we went so quickly from this...

to this...

but we can't stop the passage of time.

Other than that, real estate and editing are keeping me busy. I'm working on my 2023 business plan, editing two exciting projects, and focusing on ending the year strong. 

That has meant my reading time has shriveled up to almost nothing. Luckily, I'll spend some time in an airport this week while I fly to Orlando for the NAR NXT Conference. This is the second to the last traveling event for me while I am president of the RAPV. I haven't decided on what the next step in my leadership journey will be, but I have time to figure that out.

Last week on the blog featured a guest post from author Alan Kessler. You can read it here. I was supposed to post a review of this time travel novel, but haven't finished it yet. I posted a First Chapter Review, which you can read here. Look for my full review in the future.

I grabbed a copy of this fun children's picture book from NetGalley and posted a review at my children's book blog, which you can read here.

I am in the middle of reading this Sheila Roberts book for my review on November 17. 

My First Chapter Review of this Canadian historical novel will appear at the blog today.

I need to read this one next. 

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

Nothing in my physical mailbox this week, but I grabbed two Kindle freebies that sounded amazing and used promotional credits to grab a cozy mystery set.

That is it from me this week. I will be around in the morning to visit blogs, but after that I am on appointments and won't check in with you until later in the evening. Hope you have a great week.

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books from My TBR Pile That Make Me Think of Fall

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. This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is supposed to be the Top Ten Books on My Fall 2022 To-Read List, but as many of you know, I am not up to date on new releases often and my reading is on the slow side these days. That's why I opted to change how I approached this week's meme. Here are...

Top Ten Books from My TBR Pile That Make Me Think of Fall

I don't know much about this Harry Potter installment, but the colors of this cover alone make me think of the golden colors of fall. I pre-ordered this book and have yet to read it. 

The vibrant red-orange and golden browns of this cover make me think about fall. I've had this one since it first came out. I hope to get to it next year. 

Love the colors on this cover as well. Makes me think of the waning days of summer and early fall. I was so excited to read this book when it came out, but it is still in my pile. 

Harvest is definitely a fall event. When I was on Vannetta Chapman's street team, I received a copy of this book. I want to read it soon. 

This one shouldn't make me think of fall, except that White's stories--especially since this one spun off her Tradd Street series--has ghosts, which make me think of Halloween and fall. This was also a book I pre-ordered. Need to read it soon. 

I have to admit that the prairie usually makes me think of fall. Though summer prairies are pretty, I love the tall grasses turned brown that blow in the wind, the changing leaves, and how the animal world prepares for winter. 

In this installment of Marilyn Meredith's Deputy Tempe Crabtree series, Tempe uses Native American ways to call back the dead to solve a mystery. Even the colors on this cover make me think of fall. I've read many of these novels, but need to go back and read the earlier ones.

This is a suspense novel that I grabbed for free back in 2014 (just a few years ago). The new cover would eliminate it from my list, but this original cover makes me think of an early fall walk, maybe in October when the temperature has cooled down enough that you need a jacket, and you suddenly find yourself pursued by something unknown. The missing leaves increase the fall feeling. 

This book gives off more of a creepy vibe than a fall one, but it works because Halloween is coming. This is a collection of six supernatural stories. "Scarecrow Boy" and "The Three Dollar Corpse" are said to be among them. I grabbed this collection in 2011. 

Fall reminds me of school starting, so this one fit right in...well, except this novel starts in January with a new political administration starting. I downloaded this one to my device in 2013. There are now four books in the series. Maybe I should catch up.

These are not in my TBR pile, but they are great fall choices. 

Hope you enjoyed my list. Have you read any of these? Are there any recommendations you could make for a great fall read?