Tag: top ten tuesday
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Top 10 Things on My Reading Wishlist
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. First on my list is a book I will love as much as Uprooted, The Sorcerer and the Crown, and Ancillary Justice. They’re all fantasy/sci-fi but otherwise fairly different books. They’re alike, however, in being books that I never wanted to end.…
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Top Ten Favorite Choices from the 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a Freebie, so I decided to celebrate the ALA Youth Media Awards, which were announced yesterday. Like so many other teachers and librarians I know, I was up early to watch the announcements live. It’s one…
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Top Ten Hidden Gems for Middle-School Readers
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic? Top Ten Underrated Titles or Hidden Gems. What makes a book underrated? I was planning to be guided by my own intuition, but Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers took a statistical approach that seems far more sound:…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Favorite Books of 2016
It’s time for my favorite post of the year: my top ten favorite reads of the year. Brendan Wenzel’s They All Saw a Cat is by far my favorite picture book of the year. Its simple concept (the cat looks different depending on what kind of animal sees it) contains one of the most important lessons…
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Top Ten Words That Will Make Me Buy a Book: Top Ten Tuesday
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday Rewind invites bloggers to revisit old topics. I went back to April 2013 to find the Top Ten Words/Topics That Will Make Me Buy a Book. Dragons My dragon obsession is fairly new, and luckily, there are many books to catch up on. Still, I prefer the shiny and new.…
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10 Bookish Facts About Me: Slice of Life #sol16
Today’s Slice of Life was inspired by The Broke and Bookish’s Top Ten Tuesday feature. Usually Top Ten Tuesdays focus on book lists, but this week the focus is on readers. Writing this post, I was reminded how productive a provided title and a little bit of structure can be. I tried to share new, never-before-shared-on-the-blog facts this…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Reasons Why I Love Art Journaling
It’s an excuse to buy more notebooks. And art notebooks have the kind of wonderfully thick and toothy paper that I always have trouble finding in a writer’s notebook. My favorite notebooks right now are Moleskine watercolor sketchbooks. The 16 x 12 is so impractical, but I love it so much. The supplies! The amazing…
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Top Ten Tuesday: The Last 10 Books I Actually Read at the Beach
My favorite part of taking a vacation is figuring out what books to take. Beach vacations are especially tricky, because I know I will have a lot of time to read, but I’m never quite sure what I’m going to be in the mood for until I get there. Sometimes all of the books I…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Characters I’d Love to Revisit as Adults
This week’s Top Ten list has me revisiting childhood favorites and more recent favorites to consider characters I’d like to meet in books as adults. Albert from Bread and Jam for Frances. Albert had to grow up to be a chef or a food blogger, right? This book features some of my favorite food writing of all…
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Top 10 YA Novels That Make Me Laugh: Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish blogging meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Originally, I titled this post “Top 10 YA Novels That Will Make You Laugh.” But humor is subjective, and my laughs won’t be yours. This one will make you cry, too. That’s just how it is with YA. A deserted island…
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