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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers for the Winter

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday, you pick ten books on that week’s topic. And this week, we get free room to pick ten reads for the Winter season.

Here are the book covers that made me go Brrr…! with a Sigh this December.

Eowyn
Stella Gibbons
Dickens
Ottessa
friendship
O Henry
Fannie Flagg

All in all, Winter seems to denote so many things: #Christmas #snow #Rest&Relaxation #forgiveness #the never-ending pursuit of love #Santa Claus #mountainous adventures #gifts #irony #nostalgia #bottled memories #friendships in odd places #fairytales by the fireside #laughter #miracles, and of course, #moments of kindness.

Which bookish things does cold season remind you of? Would love to know!

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Books Memes

Six Degrees: Judy Blume’s Margaret & Six Little Women

Six Degrees Judy Blume

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Inspired by the Six Degrees of Separation Meme hosted every month at Books are my Favorite and Best.

December 2020’s book is Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, a book that’s been around for 50 years.

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong.
But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that she isn’t going to the Y or the Jewish Community Center. What they don’t know is Margaret has her own very special relationship with God. She can talk to God about everything—family, friends, even Moose Freed, her secret crush.

Are you There God made me nostalgic for all those vintage childhood reads about important turning points in the lives of the protagonists — and of the readers. These cherished books were published long back but ring true for every age.

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Best of List Long Posts Self-Help

Top 20 Ways to Get Over Reader’s Block

How to get over Reader's Block.

You may have heard of writer’s block, but have you heard of the reader’s block? There are some really funny descriptions over at Urban Dictionary. But simply put, the Reader’s Block is this perfectly incomprehensible state where a prolific reader’s bookish habits come to a screeching halt.

Sometimes, the Reader’s Block can go on for days, sometimes weeks. What are the triggers, and how do you cope with it? Read on to know more.

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Books Recommendations

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater: Charming Regency Fantasy

Half a Soul
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Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater was such a charming book, more so because it was so unexpected. I found it recommended on a recent Twitter thread on Regency era books about warlords and wizards, and knew I had to give it a try too.

Theodora (let’s just call her Dora) has always lived in a dream-like state, disconnected from her emotions, unable to fully grasp the rules of polite society. You see, when she was just a wee scamp, a sinister Faerie lord tried to abduct her (unsuccessfully), and ever since then, she’s been only living with “half a soul”.

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Art & Illustration Books

Tam Lin by Jane Yolen & its Splendid Artwork

O I forbid you, maidens a’
That wear gold in your hair,
To come or go by Carterhaugh
For young Tam Lin is there.
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Memes To Be Read Books

#NonFicNov Week 4 // New to My TBR

#NonFicNov

It’s #NonFicNov month: we’re encouraged to read non-fiction (or analyze past non-fiction reads). To ease the way, Shelf Aware, Doing Dewey, Julz Reads, and What’s Nonfiction have some cool weekly prompts to ponder.

This week we round-up all the wonderful book recommendations that we picked up in November from fellow #NonFicNov bloggers.

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Memes Recommendations Self-Help

#NonFicNov Week 3: Books on the Good Life

#NonFicNov

It’s #NonFicNov month: we’re encouraged to read non-fiction (or analyze past non-fiction reads). To ease the way, Shelf Aware, Doing Dewey, Julz Reads, and What’s Nonfiction have some cool weekly prompts to ponder.

This week we bring up books about any particular theme, and one theme I’m very interested in is: how to live a good, happy life.

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Memes

Book-Famous Animals for Top Ten Tuesday

Book-Famous Animals for Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday, you pick ten books on that week’s topic. And this week’s topic is just about any spin-off on books with animals.

So I decided to spotlight book-famous animals who may not be the heroes or their typical sidekicks, but who are pretty integral to the hero’s journey. Here goes the list!

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Bringing Up Baby: Movie Review/ Funnies #1

Bringing Up Baby is a story about a missing intercostal clavicle, George the digging dog, and a Brazilian leopard named Baby. And what a madcap rip-roaring ROFL hysterical comedy this was!

Bringing Up Baby
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Cary Grant plays an absent-minded museum director who just wants to polish off his gigantic dinosaur skeleton. But the harum-scarum Katharine Hepburn has other plans, and willy or nilly, Grant just HAS to help her out.

Oh, I felt so sorry for Cary Grant — who has trouble keeping up with all the stories and names people keep assigning to him. Hepburn gives him a really tough time, sending him running after golf balls, stolen cars, misplaced purses, escaped geese, musical leopards, hidden clothes, missing bones … I am laughing as I write this.

I never expected to like Bringing Up Baby so much. I went in thinking they were both an old married couple (they weren’t) who had decided to raise a leopard (not by choice!) and then squabbled over it (not precisely over the leopard).

I was so happy I took a chance on it. There was never a dull moment. No wonder this movie is considered one of the Top 100 Funniest English Movies of all time. Highly, highly recommended.

Watch the trailer HERE.

Rating: 10/10
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Memes

Books with Songs for Top 10 Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday, you pick ten books on that week’s topic. And this week, we get to share book titles remind us of songs.

My spin on this: books with songs in their titles. I’m taking this rather literally — the easy way out, you know!

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