Gifts Ideas For The Book Lover In Your Life

Unsure what to gift to get for the book lover in your life? Well, here are some ideas that will sure make you their favorite person this holiday season! Book Map from Dorothy A street map (loosely based on London) that is made up from 600 titles from the history of literature! It has amazing titlesContinue reading “Gifts Ideas For The Book Lover In Your Life”

Writing Books for NaNoWriMo

What better way to get really light a fire under you for NaNoWriMo than to read some writing books! Other than a notebook and a pen, books that discuss writing are essential for budding writers. And you can’t go wrong with these necessities:   Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter ClarkContinue reading “Writing Books for NaNoWriMo”

Top Ten Tuesday: Read…If You Dare

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is:  Halloween Freebie! (Happy Halloween! Let your creativity run wild with a themed post to celebrate!) Scary movies may have always been a hit and miss with me but reading scary stories has always been a definite hit for me.Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Read…If You Dare”

Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Top Ten Unique Book Titles Other than the synopsis and, we don’t like to admit, the cover, a title of a book is what grabs readers. We are immediately drawn into those few words that make us readers evenContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles”

Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Best Banned/Challenged Books

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s theme is: Ten Books That Feature Characters ____________: Examples: Ten books that feature black main characters, characters who hold interesting jobs, characters who have a mental illness, characters that are adopted, characters that play sports, etc, etc. Can’t wait to seeContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Best Banned/Challenged Books”

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books For Fall Reading

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List Fall is almost here…and what better way to celebrate the cooler weather by grabbing your most comfortable sweater, a cup of your favorite tea, and picking some good books to readContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books For Fall Reading”

Top Ten Tuesday: Books for the History Lover

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Ten book recommendations for ______________: (Skies the limit here…examples: for Hufflepuffs, for fans of Game of Thrones, for people who don’t normally read YA, for animal lovers, for video game lovers, etc. I love history and there is no betterContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books for the History Lover”

If You Like Jane Austen, Then You’ll Like…

You finished reading all of Jane Austen’s books. Wondering what is the next step? Read them all over again! Just kidding, although you could if you wanted to. However, if you want to read books either similar to her writing style or books based in the same era, why not gives these a try:  Continue reading “If You Like Jane Austen, Then You’ll Like…”

Ten Best Film/TV Austen Adaptations

Jane Austen has such a profound effect on popular culture, more than any other author. Hollywood loves adapting her books and we, the viewers, just can’t get enough of them. Although this is day is the anniversary of Austen’s death, let us not think of the bad but about the great things that would notContinue reading “Ten Best Film/TV Austen Adaptations”

New to Jane Austen? Try These on For Size

Top Ten Tuesdays, by The Broke and the Bookish, is on hiatus until August but that doesn’t mean the lists have to stop! 2017 marks a bicentenary year for Jane Austen and what better way to celebrate her life than to read her great works! But with six terrific novels and a few great minorContinue reading “New to Jane Austen? Try These on For Size”