10 Books to Read If You Like Victoria

I am so excited that Masterpiece: Victoria returns for another season on PBS, this Sunday, January 14. I am in love with this show! It is such a great biographical adaptation that tells the beginning years of Queen Victoria’s reign. The show is not only entertaining and engrossing, but informative. It gives audiences a chance toContinue reading “10 Books to Read If You Like Victoria”

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 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”

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”

Top Ten Tuesdays: Best Books of 2017 So Far…

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Best Books You’ve Read In 2017 So Far (break it down however you want — by genre, strictly 2017 releases, whatever!) Already half the year is gone and out of my goal of reading 100 books for 2017, IContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesdays: Best Books of 2017 So Far…”

Top Ten Tuesdays: Favorite Dads in Literature

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Father’s Day related Freebie:  favorite dads in literature, best father/daughter or son relationships, books to buy your dad, worst dads in literature, etc. etc. I was going to list memorable fathers of literature but then I remember that IContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesdays: Favorite Dads in Literature”

Top Ten Tuesday: Recently Added Books To My TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: 10 Books From X Genre That I’ve Recently Added To My TBR List — I want to know what books have piqued your interest lately from whatever genre you choose! I read different genres so it wouldn’t make senseContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Recently Added Books To My TBR List”

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books in My Beach Bag

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s post is: Summer Reads Freebie: In preparation for Memorial Day (which is always the unofficial summer kickoff for me), let’s rec some summer/beach reads: books to go in your beach bag, best books set in summer, books with summer-y covers, bestContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books in My Beach Bag”