#TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 3/2/21

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. Please check out her website for more TTT topics!

This week’s topic is:

Characters Whose Job I Wish I Had (maybe not even because the job sounds fun, but maybe the co-workers are cool or the boss is hot?)

The Soulmate Equation by. Christina Lauren – I want to be a scientist and work with Dr. River Pena for sure.

Ladies of the House by. Lauren Edmondson – I think Daisy’s job as a Chief of Staff for a Senator is fascinating but I don’t think I’d love the job, I just admire how she was such a boss at it!

Darkfever by. Karen Marie Moning – I want to work in Barron’s bookshop too.

Maybe This Time by. Kasie West – I always wanted to be an assistant wedding planner and do all the little things to put things together.

Kingdom of the Wicked by. Kerri Maniscalco – working in your family restaurant sounds pretty awesome especially when grandma is cooking fabulous dishes!

The Lost Apothecary by. Sarah Penner – I used to be a massage therapist so all kinds of healing therapist, past and present fascinate me a lot. I think being an apothecary would be awesome.

The Inheritance Games by. Jennifer Lynn Barnes – I just want to inherit the money.

Skyhunter by. Marie Lu – In my fantasy, I want to be on an elite fighting force, but in real life? Not really. Still kind of cool to imagine if I was a fighter like Mara.

Dark of the West by. Joanna Hathaway – I’d be a fighter pilot for sure! Except it might give me major vertigo? I can just imagine the adrenaline one gets from flying a fighter jet though.

When it’s Real by. Erin Watt – um, hello, yes I’ll sign up to be the fake girlfriend for a major pop star. Why not? As long as it lasts for like a year tops…unless we fall in love of course. LOL.

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I think my favorite one of all these is to work in Barron’s Books and Baubles shop. 😍

😘 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 2/23/21

This week’s topic is:

Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

I don’t have 10 to give you basically looking at the book I’ve read…I read a lot of books that aren’t funny at all! So serious and dark…smh…haha…I need more funnies, can you recommend any?

📖 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 2/16/21

This week’s topic is:

Purple, Yellow, and/or Green Book Covers (in honor of Mardis Gras, which is today!)

Happy Mardi Gras! These colors are so fabulous together. 💜💛💚 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 2/9/21

This week’s Valentine freebie topic is:

Greatest Love of All ~ My Fave Couples

💘 Jude & Cardan from The Folk of the Air series by. Holly Black

💘 Lara & Aren from The Bridge Kingdom series by. Danielle L. Jensen

💘 Stella & Michael from The Kiss Quotient by. Helen Hoang

💘 Feyre & Rhys from ACOTAR series by. Sarah J. Maas

💘 Juliette & Warner from the Shatter Me series by. Tahereh Mafi

💘 Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice by. Jane Austen

💘 Lara Jean & Peter K from To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series by. Jenny Han

💘 Kazi & Jase from The Dance of Thieves series by. Mary E. Pearson

💘 Mac & Barron from Darkfever series by. Karen Marie Moning

💘 Roselle & Reykin from the Secondborn series by. Amy A. Bartol

Top Ten Tuesday | 2/2/21

This week’s topic is:

Books Written Before I Was Born

To Kill a Mockingbird by. Harper Lee published in 1960 – this was required school reading for me
Lord of the Flies by. William Golding published in 1954 – another school requirement
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by. C.S. Lewis published in 1950 – funny story, in high school (and I went to a high school that people called ghetto 🙄 because of the gang fights but it really wasn’t so bad as the news made our school out to be)…anyway it was predominantly filipino and samoan kids and my senior year we had a white teacher from Colorado. She said we’d basically get nowhere speaking our pidgin English (Hawaii slang) and she decided to take 20 minutes at the end of class to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to us! Most of the kids in class slept through it or wrote notes to one another (I wrote notes), but I did listen to the story as well since I love books. Anyway ~ that’s my memory about that book.
Jane Eyre by. Charlotte Bronte published in 1847 – love this book
Pride and Prejudice by. Jane Austen published in 1813 – I watched the show series first before reading the book
Romeo and Juliet by. William Shakespeare published in 1595 – required school reading
Little Women by. Louisa May Alcott published in 1868 – I don’t remember reading it, but I definitely remember watching the movie a lot
Dracula by. Bram Stoker published in 1897 – never read it, but watched the Dracula movie with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder back in the day because…Keanu🤷🏻‍♀️
Interview with the Vampire by. Anne Rice published in 1976 – I watched the movie but never read this book. I did read her Lives of the Mayfair Witches series and I loved The Mummy!
The Shining by. Stephen King published in1977 – I saw the movie and read the book. I was in a Stephen King phase back in high school which was in the 90’s. Then I read a book of his that freaked me out and gave me nightmares so I stopped reading his books. 😅

Have you read any of these books?

📚 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 1/5/21

This week’s topic is:

Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021

January 2021 Releases:

We Free the Stars – 1/19/21

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February 2021 Releases:

A Court of Silver Flames – 2/16/21

Reaper of Souls – 2/18/21

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March 2021 Releases:

Red Tigress – 3/2/21

A Queen of Gilded Horns – 3/16/21

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April 2021 Releases:

Blessed Monsters – 4/6/21

What’s Not to Love – 4/20/21

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May 2021 Releases:

Soulmate Equation – 5/18/21

Blade of Secrets – 5/4/21

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June 2021 Releases:

The Cruelest Mercy – 6/15/21

Out of all these titles I think my MOST anticipated reads are A Court of Silver Flames and The Cruelest Mercy. Leave your TTT link in the comments so I can check out your list!

💚 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 12/29/20

This week’s topic is:

Favorite Books of 2020

I can’t believe we have come to the end of 2020! I never want to have a repeat of this year, EVER again. But I will say, books did get me through it as did Netflix and music. But here are my top TWELVE books of 2020 in NO particular order…

Okay…so I picked my top twelve instead of ten because 2020 had some really good releases!! Drop me a comment and tell me what was your favorite book of 2020.

📚 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 12/22/20

This week’s topic is:

Books I Hope Santa Brings

I only get book gifts from my mother-in-law usually! So I usually do my own book gifting to myself haha. I can’t think of 10 since I just bought a few on my kindle app, but here are 5 that I’d like to get next:

The only one I’ve read in this list is These Violent Delights and it was as an arc so I’d love to have the physical copy on my shelf. I’m in love with the cover.

What book gifts do you want this Christmas?

🎁 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 12/15/20

This week’s topic is:

Books On My Winter 2020-2021 TBR

I have a bunch of NetGalley arcs to get through this Winter so you can see I’m not reading many new releases unless I have time to fit them in. I’m trying to get through books on my shelf that have been sitting there neglected haha, so I need to read them before buying any more new books.

What’s on your Winter TBR?

💕 ~ Yolanda

Top Ten Tuesday | 12/8/20

This week’s holiday freebie topic is:

Books That Take Place in Cold Weather

I used to read much more holiday romance books but now it looks like I’ve been reading more fantasy set in cold weather haha. What’s on your TTT today?

❄️ ~ Yolanda