top ten tuesday
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Top Ten Platonic Relationships in Books

I’m very partial to character-driven stories and novels centered on friendship and family. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is right up my alley! Sam and Frodo from The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien). Need I say more? 🙂 Mrs Hudson and Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). This is not to exclude Watson, but Continue reading
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Ten Book Turn-Offs

There’s exceptions to every rule, but I generally steer clear of books that involve any of the following: Continue reading
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Ten Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book

(these can be auto-buy authors, tropes you love, if an author you love blurbed it, settings, genres, etc.) With a “to-read” list longer than my “read” list, it’s safe to say it doesn’t take much to get me interested in a book. Let me break this down a bit… There aren’t a lot of living Continue reading
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Ten Things Getting in the Way of Reading

I like today’s prompt very much… It forces me to confront the 3-4 stacks of books I am supposed to be “currently reading” and ask—why?! Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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