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My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . This week's theme was "Top Ten Tuesday Freebie! Pick your own topic!" and I decided to list my Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read and Review for this theme for two very special reasons. The first reason is that my "repeat offenders," my favorite books that repeatedly make it onto my TTT Lists, were read long before I started blogging and logging onto GoodReads. So while I pimp my favorite books and authors out, loudly and proudly, I have never left fully articulated and complete reviews as to why they've capture my heart. I feel like that is something I should do. The second reason, is that my year of moving my reviews from GR to this blog every Wednesday morning, is over. They are all here. And while I strive to read new books every day, I can't always afford as many new ones as I like, and I can't always get out to the library. And when I finish a new book I'm so exc...

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . This weeks list theme is supposed to be books about friendship -- My books this week aren't specifically about friendship, but they do contain friendship-themes through out in both positive and negative view points. Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Holes by Louis Sachar Summer of Night by Dan Simmons Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Harry Potter by JK Rowling A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . This week's theme is Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn't.  Year Zero by Rob Reid. -- It wasn't as funny as promised...But it's good light reading.  Whitechapel Gods by SM Peters. -- Beautiful cover, disappointing writing. Uglies by Scott Westerfield. -- Full of cliches. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. -- Sad and dry, not really my thing. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. -- I just didn't like the unhappy turn.  The Meaning of Night by Micheal Cox. -- Starts good, long book full of irrelevant-to-plot events, takes too long to get to the point.  Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire. --The story is disconnected from the characters.  Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon. -- I actually enjoyed this by the end, but the story was written from a barely literate black man's POV which made starting the book difficult. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlai...

This week for Quotable Thursday, I'm reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. One of my favorite moments, in one of my favorite books is, newborn Elphaba's father explaining that "--the baby is damaged." --  Enjoy! For a few moments, Frex could only shake his head. Nanny did not like him and she would not like him, but she softened. "Frex, it can't be that bad. There's always away out. Tell Nanny." "It's green," he finally said. "Nanny, it's as green as moss." "She's green, you mean. It's a she, for heaven's sake." "It's not for heaven's sake." Frex began to weep. "Heaven is not improved by it, Nanny; and heaven does not approve..." Quotable Thursday originally brought to you by Bookshelf Fantasies .

The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)  by Patrick Ness ***Spoiler Alert*** If you haven't read Book 1 and hate spoilers, do not read this review!  There is absolutely no way to review Book 2 without mentioning the events and characters in Book 1. If you really want to know: Read on. ---------- “We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.”  The Ask and the Answer is a little bit different than The Knife of Never Letting Go...The story pretty much starts where The Knife's cliffy lets us hanging... Viola's life hanging in the balance and Todd facing down evil Mayor Prentiss with no hope in sight. But in part 2 of Chaos Walking, Viola and Todd become separated, and so the story is told from two perspectives. His and hers. Through Todd we learn Haven surrendered to Mayor Prentiss, who then changed Haven's name to New Prentisstown and declared himself President of the New World. Mayor Prentiss is a sick tw...

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . This week's theme is Top Ten Book Covers I'd Frame As Pieces of Art...Please note the books are this list are not necessarily here because they were awesome reads, they are here because they were some of the nicest to look at. That isn't to say they were bad either, I'm pretty sure I've got a mix. Whitechapel Gods by SM Peters Summer of Night by Dan Simmons Lord of Misrule by Gordon Jaimey The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Magicians by Lev Grossman The Map of the Sky by Felix J Palma The Little Country by Charles de Lint The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien The Passage by Justin Cronin The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)  by Patrick Ness  "That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on your own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed." Todd Hewwit knows a lot of things: he knows a group of settlers left the Old World for the New World, to live a simpler existence away from the evils of society. He knows there was a war between the native people, The Spackles, and the humans. He knows The Spackles used Germ Warfare; releasing bugs that turned the internal monologues of men into never ending Noise, while killing off all the women, and giving animals the power to speak. He knows The Spackles were eventually defeated, leaving Prentisstown the only surviving settlement. Todd, the youngest member of Prentisstown, is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his thirteenth birthday, where he will officially be considered a man. But when Todd and his dog Manchee discover a hole in the Nois...

Taking a moment this Sunday morning to mention my plans for the week. Monday, I will be posting my review for The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, and though it isn't official yet, if The Ask and the Answer is half as fun as The Knife, I'll have that review for you by Wednesday. I'm also re-reading The Wicked series; I have my thoughts on the 4th book posted, but I never did a write up for the first 3 and that's something I want to do. Sometime, in between Monday and Wednesday, I've got a TTT List scheduled and since I've got plenty of reading to do this week, their should be no problem getting a Thursday Quotable to you...And then we're back to the weekend which will probably have me offline.