A Very Valentines-y Top Ten Tuesday & Teaser Tuesday

It's a Valentine's Day Freebie this week for The Broke & The Bookish's Top Ten Tuesday and  I'm reading a Valentines-y-ish chick lit right now that I have been chomping at the bit to use for MizB's Teaser Tuesday. I love a good schmaltzy feel-goodie heart-achey chick lit and what's more schmaltzy feel-goodie heart-achey than Valentine's Day? SO I'm doing my Top Ten Chick Lits I'm Excited About Potentially Getting My Heart Ripped Out Over ... right after the teaser for the book currently shredding me to pieces!

Holly Martin -- One Hundred Proposals

and, in no particular order ...

Top Ten Chick Lits I'm Excited About Potentially Getting My Heart Ripped Out Over

Top Ten Tuesday : Top Ten Tax Refund Buys

I haven't done a Top Ten Tuesday in quite a while but it's a quiet night at work and it's a freebie week so I'm doing Top Ten Tax Refund Buys in honor of filing already. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish.

I absolutely cheat. The first three actually total nine ... but I really really REALLY want all three omnibuses (preferably with decent dust jackets):



1. The Thorne Smith 3-Bagger (Topper, Skin and Bones, and The Glorious Pool)

2. The Thorne Smith 3-Decker (The Stray Lamb, Turnabout and Rain in the Doorway)

3. The Thorne Smith Triplets (Topper Takes A Trip, The Night Life of the Gods, and The Bishop's Jaegers)


Only three middle grade titles on my list:



4. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier -- I've already read but need in hardcover

5. Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier -- I've read part of the ARC for but had to stop because it was too delicious not to hold in my hands

6. Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens -- I'll have to buy from the UK because it will be released there loooong before here


The last four are a bit of a mish-mosh:



7. The Rowdy Coyote Rumble by Ann Charles -- because it's the newest installment of one of my favorite series

8. & 9. How To Get A (Love) Life & How To Stuff Up Christmas by Rosie Blake -- because they sound fecking adorbs and I couldn't possibly do a list of ten without some UK Chick Lit

10. Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore -- one never needs a reason for Christopher Moore.

Top Ten Tuesday : Characters I Wish I Could Check In With

Another TTT thanks to The Broke and the Bookish! This one wasn't real easy for me but, luckily, some books had multiple characters I wonder about so that helps to stretch it out some ;)

1 & 2 -- Rabbit & Alice Hatmaker from Kate Racculia's Bellweather Rhapsody

3 -- Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth MacPherson from one of my favorite series that is no longer being continued but had great titles like If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him...

4 -- Milo Gordon also from the Elizabeth MacPherson series

5 -- Jay Omega from Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun & Zombies of the Gene Pool

6 -- Harriet M Welsch from Harriet The Spy

7 -- Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently

8, 9 & 10 -- Rhyllan, Wren & Detective Crombie from Julia Hughes' Celtic Cousins' Adventures (which I wish was so much more than a trilogy!)

Top Ten Tuesday - Books From My Childhood/Teen Years I Would Love To Revisit

It's another Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and The Bookish! This time around we're revisiting books from our childhood & teen years. I have to admit that one thing that I'm most excited about with John is getting to revisit some of these with him over the next several years. Hopefully he'll love them even half as much as I did.

In no particular order ... and with no wordy explanations because I have piles of laundry to fold at work (again). And I know I cheat horribly since most are series. Deal.

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