Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten ALL-TIME Favorite Books Of any genre of my choosing. For this week I picked 10 out of many of my all-time favorite children’s classics.
Where the Wild Things Are
The Secret Garden
Goodnight Moon
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Stuart Little
Charlotte’s Web
Make Way for Ducklings
The Mitten
The Snowy Day
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is TV theme, so pretty much anything that has to do with TV. I decided to do this week’s post on shows I will be watching this fall. I only have seven shows on my list, as there haven’t been any new shows that I have seen trailers for that intrigue me. There are more shows that I do watch, however, those will be premiering mid-season.
Returning shows:
Once Upon a Time
Blue Bloods
The Vampire Diaries
Dance Moms- This one is a guilty pleasure show.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians- Another guilty pleasure show
Premiers:
Still Star-Crossed- I’m really intrigued by this one
Pitch- I’ve been seeing commercials for this and it looks really good, it also helps that it’s about baseball.
Many of you may have noticed that I have been absent, and there’s a reason for it. I’ve been in slump, reading and blogging. For some reason or another I really haven’t felt like reading much at all, I also haven’t felt like blogging much either. I guess I haven’t really felt inspired to blog.
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic Back to School Freebie and I chose to do books that would be on my classroom shelf if I were a teacher. I feel like I have a wide variety of books on this list, as I didn’t make this list grade level specific.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Oh The Places You Will Go by Dr. Seuss
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff
The Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is rewind, which means to revisit a past Top Ten Tuesday topic. I decided to do childhood favorites. This is just a list of 10 that I came up with off the top of my head, and there are definitely more books that are childhood favorites of mine. These are books that I love each for their own reasons.
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Nutcracker- There are different adaptations written by different authors, I don’t know which adaptation that I have or the author.
A Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is 10 books I would buy right now if someone handed me a fully loaded gift card.
These are all Harry Potter Related, I have a post here detailing why.
Bloomsbury adult hardcover boxed set: http://media.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/rep/s/9781408868379_309656.png
Bloomsbury children’s hardcover boxed set: http://media.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/rep/s/9781408856789_309372.png
Kazu Kibuishi Paperback Boxed Set: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZxhrJxaEL.jpg
Juniper Books Gryffindor Colors: https://juniperbooks.com/store/harry-potter-sets/
Juniper Books Leather Bound in Red and Gold: https://juniperbooks.com/store/custom-leather-harry-potter-set/
Bloomsbury Signature Series Boxed Set: http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/bj/9781408812525.jpg
Original Adult Paperback Boxed Set: http://www.abebooks.com/Harry-Potter-Adult-Paperback-Boxed-Set/19053418057/bd?cm_mmc=gmc-_-used-_-PLA-_-v01&product=COM9780747595847USED
Harry Potter Magical Artifacts Coloring Book
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top 10 that made you want to do or learn things.
Harry Potter made me want to:
1.) Be as quirky and unique as Luna and not give a shit what people think
2.) Learn the art of Divination (even though some people think it’s a load of crock)
3.) Have Doby as a sidekick (he’d make a badass sidekick), and I’ve always loved Doby.
4.) The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi made me want to learn more about Middle Eastern culture
5.) Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas made me want to learn more about the NFL’s mishandling of concussions
6.) Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse made me want to learn more about the Dust Bowl
7.) Zodiac made me want to learn more about the actual zodiac (not horoscopes)
8.) The Unexpected Everything made me want a group of friends like Andie
9.) Ithaca by Patrick Dillon made me want to learn more about ancient Greece
10.) Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet made me want to learn more about New York in the 1900’s
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is top 10 books set outside of the United States.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Ithaca by Patrick Dillon
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Wishes series by G.J. Walker Smith
So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is top 10 facts about me, bookish or non bookish. This list is definitely more than 10
I’m a Bostonian
Baseball is my favorite sport to watch
The Red Sox are my favorite team
I did gymnastics for eight years, and competed for six and a half
My favorite book to movie adaptations are Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
I’m definitely a PotterHead
I’m part Greek and yes I know how to make Baklava
I’ve always been a reader
I still shop in the kids department and I’m 28 years old, but I’m also 4’11…
I love yoga and I use the Fit Star Yoga app
Lilacs are my favorite flower
I come from a big family so I’m family orientated
I’m lactose intolerant, and yes I can still have some dairy
The MLB All-Star Game is my favorite to watch, because the outcome of the game actually means something.
I don’t eat seafood
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. The topic for this week is books with under 2,000 ratings on Goodreads.
Wandering Star by Romina Russell
Rebels: City of Indra: The Story of Lex and Livia
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Red and My by Bill Russell
*The Distance to Home by Jenn Bishop
Pedro by Pedro Martinez
Life Unaware by Cole Gibson
*Ithaca by Patrick Dillon
The Argonautica
Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits by David Ortiz
*I received these for review from NetGalley
Top 10 Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks topic is freebie, meaning you pick the topic or look at the list of past topics. For this week I decided to do my favorite quotes. The first five are from Little Women and the last five are from Harry Potter.
1.) “Rich people have no right to sit down, and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.”
2.) “I like good strong words that mean something.”
3.) “I hate ordinary people.”
4.) “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
5.) “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my own ship.”
6.) “There,” she said softly. “Now he is sleeping.”
7.) “Don’t worry, your just as sane as I am.”
8.) “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.
9.) “Curiosity is not a sin…But we should exercise caution with our curiosity….yes, indeed.”
10.) “The mind is not an open book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.”
Inside My Minds 
