Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Should be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies

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Hello my dear readers! Finally, my favorite topic. I know, I know, it's not often that book adaptations are just as amazing as the source material, but since we're on a "should be" type of post, we can dream that our favorite books will have 5-star adaptations. Let's dive right in!

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved but Never Reviewed

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Hello my dear readers! We've all done it. We've all read book we loved but never reviewed them on our blogs. I'm guilty of this. There's no real reason why some books end up reviewed on my blog while others don't. It's usually a matter of time. If I read a book just to read it, I usually move on to the next book and then the next, and by the time I remember to review certain books, I end up not remembering the finer details of the first book enough to write a proper review. It doesn't mean I completely forget about it, it just means I don't have enough material to write more than "omg I loved this". Let's start with the post though.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Colors In the Titles

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Hello my dear readers! Today's prompt is very interesting. It also erm...proved to be very difficult. Because you wouldn't believe how much I had to scroll through my read shelf on GR to find books with colors in the titles. I found out that way that I read so many books with "dark", "shadows", and "blood" in the title, and those should count as colors. Anyway. After much searching I found the books. So here we go!

Top Ten Tuesday: Series I Need To Catch Up On

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Hello my dear readers! Today's prompt is a freebie, which means we can pick whatever topic we want to talk about. I'm going to talk about series. Predictable, right? Well, I have A TON of series I need to catch up on, series that I never meant to give up on, but that life just got in the way of me keeping on reading them. Since 2020 is a sort of back to basics year for me in terms of my reading, I'm planning on catching up with these series because I miss them. So let's get started!

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases for the Second Half of 2020

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Hello my dear readers! Today's prompt is about book events that I'm excited to participate in, but since I'm an international blogger, I feel like "All Of Them" would be not only the most appropriate answer, but it would also make this post insanely short. Because of this I'm going to talk about my most anticipated releases for the second half of 2020, a prompt I missed at the end of June

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Make Me Smile

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Hello my dear readers! Today's book is all about books that make me smile. I love books that put a smile on my face. Especially during these strange times, I believe we need a distraction from reality, and what better way to achieve that than with books that are truly fun to read? Let's get started, shall we?

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’ve Read the Most Books By

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Hello my dear readers! It's been a while since I last did a Top Ten Tuesday, but this particular topic is very dear to me. We all have our must-read authors, and I'm here to talk all about mine. So buckle up, because this will be a very interesting time!

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2019

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Hi everyone! It's been a while since I last did one of these posts, and I figure which better topic to start with than the one for this week? Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about our top 10 most anticipated releases for the second half of 2019. Can you believe it's that time already? Where did the time go? Anyway... Let me tell you guys, there are a BUNCH of them that are coming out that I am dying very excited about. Let's get started!

Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions To My TBR

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about the newest books we added in our TBR. We all know I have a problem with that, so this is just a way for me to showcase how far I've gone down the rabbit hole. Let's start!

*Click on the covers to go to the Goodreads page.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read In 2018 But Didn’t Get To

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about the books we wanted to read in 2018 but didn't get to. This is not such a strange thing to me. I'm notorious for making lists of monthly TBRs and not following through. That's not to say I completely disregard the list, I actually did quite well during 2018's ARC August, by reading 3 books off of my initial list. 3 books might not sound like a big deal to you guys, but it was to me. I usually have a hard time reading books off a list because, as a mood reader, by the time I start crossing books off of that list, I'm no longer in the mood for them.

But let's not drag this further shall we? Let's start!

Top Ten Tuesday: Yet Another 5 Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2019

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday is all about the new authors we read in 2018, but since I already shared a similar list during Blogmas, I'm going to share the books I'm very excited to read that are coming out this year. Now I know I previously had not one, but two lists highlighting the 2019 releases I want to read (here and here), but there are just SO MANY BOOKS coming out that I want to read! I will however stop at just my top 5 today.  The anticipation is killing me, guys!

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Backlist Books I Want to Read

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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about the backlist books we've been meaning to read. I'm thinking about rewarding myself during November and December, and doing a "one ARC - one backlist book" kind of thing, because I feel like I'll never get to read those backlist books otherwise. Here are my

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors I'd Love To Meet

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday is all about those authors we want to meet. Let me tell you, I have a ton of them. Since I read both adult and YA literature, I had a really hard time picking just 10 authors. BUT I managed to contain my excitement at the thought of possibly, maybe one day, meeting all of my favorite authors and picked 5 adult authors and 5 YA authors. *pats self on the head*. So without further ado, here are

Top Ten Authors I'd Love To Meet

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2018 TBR

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The time has come to make up fall TBRs and let me tell you, I have a lot of them on my list. The reason for that is because I have something fun planned for October, and so I made a schedule and I hope I'll be able to hold it *fingers crossed* I'm also in the mood for some darker reads, so I'll be reading a ton of horror, thrillers, and maybe some cozy mysteries as well, all to get me in the mood for Halloween. I can't share all of them, because then this post will never end, but I'm going to share my top ten. Let's start.

TOP TEN BOOKS ON MY FALL 2018 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday: Ways to Get Out of a Reading Slump

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is all about the books that help pulling you out of a slump. But I don't really have a recipe for this, because it usually depends on what put me in that slump to begin with. I don't know what the onset of a reading slump is like for other readers, but for me it can be any number of things, from stuff from my personal life, to my most recent read that gave me a massive book hangover, to a DNF I didn't anticipate that makes me want to give up reading for a while. So I'm going to change up the theme a little bit and I'm going to talk about some of the things I do in order to get me out of a reading slump. Let's start!

Ten Ways To Get Out Of A Reading Slump

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Blogs

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is near and dear to my heart for a number of reasons, the number one being that it's about the community of readers out there that share the same passions and hobbies: books and blogging. I wouldn't be here had I not discovered my first book blogs many many years ago (think 2008-2009), and I have always felt welcomed from the start in this community. It's going to be very hard to stop at just ten blogs, because I love a lot of blogs and the bloggers behind them. But I'll try really really hard. So without further ado, here are my

TOP TEN FAVORITE BOOK BLOGS

Top Ten Tuesday: Books You’d Mash Together

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is about something I hold very dear to my heart: book mash-ups. If you don't know, Lexi Blake did a crossover collection with five other authors and my nerdy heart was insanely happy (you can check my reviews here and here), so you could say that with some series, my dreams came true. Now, if I'm being honest with myself, there have been many books over the years that I've wanted to somehow see come together under a single story, maybe even just a novella, or a short, short story, something to get some of my favorite authors work together. So today's topic fits like a glove to me, as I have many ideas. Let's start!

Top Ten Tuesday: Popular Books that Lived Up to the Hype

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Hello my dear book lovers! Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about all those overhyped books that were as good as most people said, and there have definitely been a few over the years that have lived up to the hype. So without further ado, here are

Ten Popular Books that Lived Up to the Hype

Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Sensory Reading Memories

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Guys, I am so excited about today's Top Ten Tuesday topic! One thing you need to know about me is that while I'm reading, it isn't just my eyes that are engaged in the reading process. Most of the time all of my senses are engaged in the reading process, so much so that I start associating sounds, smells, even seasons to certain stories, and that makes those stories stick to my head. I also remember when I read certain books, where I was... It's what makes them special, in a way.

So without further ado, here are

Top Ten Tuesday: 5 Favorite Novellas & 5 Novellas I Want To Read

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Hello book lovers! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is all about novellas and short stories. While I do read novellas and I like them, it takes a special kind of story to make me love it and give it a 5-cup rating, because usually I don't feel that there's enough page-time to get to that potential. That being said, there have been a few short stories that I adored enough to get to that high rating. Because of that, I'm going to split today's Top Ten list into two sub-lists: one for my top five favorite novellas, and one for my top five novellas I want to read. So without further ado, here are my

Top Five Favorite Novellas/Short Stories

     

1. Flame's Dawn (+18) is the prequel to the Hell To Pay trilogy by Jillian David and let me tell you, it is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. Beautiful, because you get to see how Barnaby and Jane met. Heartbreaking, because since this prequel is listed as the fourth story, and I read it last, I know how their story ends. Read my review here
2. Fish Out Of Water (+18) tells the story of Harlow and her road to regaining her old self and overcoming the trauma of being kidnapped and tortured by the serial killer Charybdis. I have nothing else to say, except for the fact that this is Hailey Edwards, and y'all know I love basically everything I've read by her. Read my review here
3. Another author that can do no wrong is Larissa Ione. I don't think I've ever been disappointed by anything this author has written, and I don't think I ever will. Her Guardian Angel (+18) is one of the 6 novellas part of the Lexi Blake Crossover Collection, and it continues Ione's collection of Demonica Underground of short stories. It's hard to pick a favorite in the D.U. collection, because each and every short story that has come out so far have provided both a way for me to calm my impatience until the first book in the Demonica spin-off is published AND a way to expand the universe of the Demonica as a whole. I ultimately settled for the latest novella, because out of all of the short stories, I feel like this one was the biggest game changer ever and I can't help but wonder if past events were similarly affected, the readers just never knew about it. And that's all I'm going to say, otherwise I'll start giving out spoilers and I don't want that. Read my review here
4. Blood Red Kiss (+18) is an anthology that includes three of my favorite paranormal/urban fantasy writers on the planet: Kresley Cole, Larissa Ione, and Gena Showalter. Out of all the three short stories, I've only previously read The Warlord Wants Forever, by Kresley Cole. Rereading it has reminded me how much I actually enjoyed reading the Immortals After Dark series, and the added short stories by Ione and Showalter has made me want to try out the series these short stories are a part of. Read My Review Here
5. Shade's Lady (+18) is a great short story about the National President of the Reapers MC, Shade, and how he found his perfect lady. It's a great story that I've read and reread many times, and each time I fall in love more and more with Wylde's characters. Read my review here



Top Five Novellas/Short Stories I Want To Read




6. It's no secret that I love the Caster Chronicles series, so it really shouldn't be a big surprise that Dangerous Dream is on this list. I'm really curious to see everything involving Lena, Ethan, Link and Ridley, so even a short story will be enough for me. Of course, I'm planning a reread of the entire series before I can read the spin-off duology later this year, because why not?
7. Although I wasn't the biggest fan of Partials, I am curious to read this prequel story, Isolation, if only because maybe this will give me a little bit of extra knowledge that may offer some incentive to keep reading the series. I still am curious to see what happens in the series, but not quite enough to make me want to find out right away.
8. I talked about the fact that I loved Mila 2.0 in a previous edition of Top Ten Tuesday, so of course I'll do it again now. I'm very curious about Origins: The Fire, especially because I'm curious to see if and what will Mila and the readers discover in this novella. Very curious indeed.
9. I seem to be more and more attracted to stories about villains lately and I've been interested in reading Fairest ever since I first heard about it. Hopefully I'll get to it sooner rather than later.
10. The Dead House is my favorite psychological thriller/horror ever. I still can't make up my mind if it's the scariest paranormal horror ever or the most tragic psychological thriller ever, but either way I loved it. I feel like The Nadia Tapes can either answer my questions or have me question the book even more. I want to read this novella, but at the same time I am so, so, so scared of doing it. But I will read it!

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So this is it, guys, my Top 5 Favorite Novellas and my Top 5 Novellas I Want To Read. What about you? What are your favorite short stories? What about the short stories you want to read?