Top Ten Books On My Spring To-Be-Read List

Top Ten Books I'm Looking Forward to this Spring...

 

Some Assembly Required

by Anne Lamott

(Happily, I've already read this one as an ARC.)

 

Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

by Amy Thomas

 

Storybound by Marissa Burt

 

No Cheating, No Dying:

I Had a Good Marriage.

Then I Tried to Make it Better

by Elizabeth Weil

 

Paris in Love

by Eloisa James

 

Insurgent

by Veronica Roth

 

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

by Dinty W. Moore

 

The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman

 

Lots of Candles,

Plenty of Cake:

A Memoir

by Anna Quindlen

 

Drop Dead Healthy

by A. J. Jacobs

The Beginner's Goodbye: A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

What I Finished Last Week Turn Right at Machu Picchu (review coming soon) The Lost City of Z (review coming soon)

What I Received in the Mail Last Week Five beautiful picture books from iPg:

What I'm Reading Now

What are you reading today?!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

Sunday Salon: Spring Break...in the Amazon?

 

I was sick over spring break.

(Thank you for that lovely "Awww!" I needed to hear that.)

Coughing. Aching. Chills.

So I was forced to do nothing this spring break but...read.

(Which is how I would have spent spring break anyway, right?

Albeit without the coughing, aching, and chills.)

For reasons that I cannot possibly ascertain, I spent my favorite reading hours this spring break 

in South America. First I traveled with Mark Adams as he retraced the steps of

Machu Picchu discoverer Hiram Bingham. Then I went off with City of Z explorer Percy Fawcett

across the Amazon jungle.

Hiram and Percy led us through "insatiable thirst, skull-splitting headaches, and uncontrollable shivering," as we were "spitting up mouthfuls of blood." We tramped through lands with tribes of natives who "captured prisoners...they either kept...forever or roasted them to devour in their banquets." Swimming in the waters of the Amazon were not only the feared piranhas, the so-called "vampire fish of Brazil," but the horrifying candiru, a creature that is known for lodging in human orifices. Some of us contracted espundia, which "destroys the flesh around the mouth, nose, and limbs, as if the person were slowly dissolving" and others  found maggots growing inside our open wounds.

Delightful, right?

Somehow I have survived all these horrors and,
though we never found the golden City of Z,
I am, happily, able to complete a sentence or two without incessant coughing.
Just in time to return to work tomorrow....

Top Ten Books That Take Place in Paris

Paris to the Moon

Suite Francaise

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

My Life in France

Anna and the French Kiss

C'est la Vie

This is Paris

No Dogs Allowed!

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

A Moveable Feast

Madeleine

The Three Musketeers

There you have it.

The ten best books set in Paris.

How about you?

Do you have suggestions for my list?

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

What I Finished Last Week The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan Signs of Life by Natalie Taylor

What I'm Received in the Mail The Book Club Cook Book Woody Guthrie's Riding In My Car

What I Might Read Next I have no idea. Suggestions? I've got a whole week off.

What are you reading today?!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.

Top Ten Book Covers

Top Ten Book Covers

A random selection of ten book covers that delighted me,

covers that only hinted at the wonderfulness inside.

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Jumanji

Blackout

Window

Martin's Big Words

An Egg is Quiet

People by Peter Spier

Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More

The Napping House

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

 

What I Finished Last Week Nothing. But I'm almost finished with...

What I'm Reading Now (Can you tell that I spent this weekend at a retreat?!)

What are you reading today?! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. Book Journey offers a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling BJ how many you visited.