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Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week’s topic is top ten most recent additions to your TBR.

My list is Goodreads order with the most recent addition being at the top of the list.  Books marked with an *asterisk are ones that I own.

  1. A List of Cages by Robin Roe
  2. *Harry Potter the Character Vault by Jody Revenson
  3. *Harry Potter: Magical Places from the Films: Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and Beyond
  4. Starfall by Melissa Landers
  5. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
  6. *Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardships and Dangerous Hobbies by J.K Rowling
  7. *Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide by J.K. Rowling
  8. The Color Project by Sierra Abrams
  9. Thirteenth Rising by Romina Russell
  10. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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Friday 56The Friday 56 was created by Freda from Freda’s Voice.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader

(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)

*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)

*Post it.

*It’s that simple.

Today’s Friday 56 is from one of my favorite books that I have read this year.

“Olly: You still there?

 Madeline: Yes.”– Page 56 of Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

 

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Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week’s topic is Top Ten Books To Read If Your Book Club Likes _______________.  To fill in the blank I used middle grade and young adult.

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Finding Paris by Joy Preble

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Life Unaware by Cole Gibson

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

All of these books have different topics that can be discussed within them, and some even have topics that may be difficult to discuss.

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The Friday 56 was created by Freda from Freda’s Voice.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
*Post it.
*It’s that simple.

Today’s Friday 56 is from one of my recent reads.

“There was nowhere for the prince to run.  His horse had been chased away while he slept.  The yew tree was his only shelter.”- Page 56 of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Top 5 Wednesday was originally created by Lainey from Gingerreadslainey and is now hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes.  There is a Goodreads group which lists the topics.

The topic for this week is spooky settings.  These may look familiar as they were featured in yesterday’s Top 10 Tuesday post, I did that purposefully.  And yes, these settings are all from Harry Potter, sue me.

Little Hangleton Graveyard- This graveyard is the final resting place of the Riddle Family, and it is extremely eerie.

The Dark Forest- “But there are werewolves in there,” there’s a lot of other things in the forest too.

The Black Lake- The mermaids make this lake so damn creepy, and they are beautifully creepy themselves.

Godric’s Hollow- There is a sense of eeriness I get when reading about Godric’s Hollow.

The Chamber of Secrets- It’s downright scary as all freaking hell.  It’s dark and damp.

 

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Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie.

Since I haven’t read too many scary books, I’m gonna do a mix of eerie/scary settings and books would make for great reads this time of year.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller- Written about the Salem Witch Trials, and in my opinion, a must read this time of year.

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne- I remember reading the Great Illustrated Classics edition of this when I was younger.  It contains supernatural elements and witchcraft.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs- Some of the images in this book are quite creepy, but so isn’t the thought of an abandoned orphanage.

Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty- This book is mysterious, but not in a creepy way, still, a good mystery is always good this time of year.

Bittersweet by Beverly Miranda-Whittemore- While this book does take place in the summer, mysteries are solved and secrets are discovered.

The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis- This is another book that contains a mystery, and lots of secrets concerning events that happened years ago.

Little Hangleton Graveyard- This graveyard is the final resting place of the Riddle Family, and it is extremely eerie.

The Dark Forest- “But there are werewolves in there,” there’s a lot of other things in the forest too.

The Black Lake- The mermaids make this lake so damn creepy, and they are beautifully creepy themselves.

Godric’s Hollow- There is a sense of eeriness I get when reading about Godric’s Hollow.

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The Friday 56 was created by Freda from Freda’s Voice.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
*Post it.
*It’s that simple.

*Note the book that today’s quote comes from was received from NetGalley for review.

“She no longer had a smile, confident or otherwise, as she disappeared back into the circle.”- Page 56 of Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine.

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Top 5 Wednesday was originally created by Lainey from Gingerreadslainey and is now hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes.  There is a Goodreads group which lists the topics.

I had so much fun with this week’s topic, it is non-canon ships.

Albus and Scorpios- I really wish that these two were canon.  While I was reading Cursed Child I thought that there was something between them that was more than “just friends” and that they should have just gotten together.

Neville and Luna- I can definitely put this one on the list because it never really happened.  They were always just friends, but I always felt like there was something there between them in the books and the movies.  There’s a scene towards the end of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 where Neville is sitting on the stairs with the Sword of Gryffindor and Luna just sits next to him and they just look at each other in silence.

Laurie and Jo- There was always something between them in Little Women, but they never actually ended up together at the end of the book.

Greg and Rachel- I always wanted them to be more than just friends.

Cal and Mare- Are they or aren’t they, that is the question.  Everything about these two is so complicated I can never tell if they are just friends or if they are actually together, and if they aren’t together, I want them to be.

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Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week’s topic is characters that you would name your pet after.

Luna- From Harry Potter

Scorpius- From Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Fluffy- From Harry Potter

Dobby- From Harry Potter

Winnie- From Tuck Everlasting

Wilbur- From Charlotte’s Web

Teddy- From Little Women

Nellie- From Little House on the Prairie

Rho- From Zodiac

Andie- From The Unexpected Everything

 

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Friday 56

The Friday 56 was created by Freda from Freda’s Voice.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
*Post it.
*It’s that simple.

Today’s quote is from my current read.

*Note: This quote is from an eArc

“hard-shelled tortoise

Boiling in bronze with the meat of lamb,

Laid upon bronze below, covered with bronze on top”- Page 56 of The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization by Anthony Everitt