Top Ten Blogs/Sites You Read That AREN'T about Books

Brain Pickings

Ted Talks

The Happiness Project

Free Technology for Teachers

World Community for Christian Meditation

Pandora

All Recipes

Wordless Wednesday

Rosetta Stone

Pinterest

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 Behind the Beautiful Forevers:  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo The Voluntourist by Ken Budd The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

What I'm Reading Now Long Way Home  by Bill Barich The Last Girls by Lee Smith The Loop  by Joe Coomer

What I Might Read Next Redeeming Love  by Francine Rivers

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.

Wordless Wednesday: Beautiful Spices

Even spices are more beautiful in France....

For more wordless photos,

go to Wordless Wednesday.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

                             

What I Finished Last Week (Reviews Coming Soon) Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Bloom by Kelle Hampton How to Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures in Mindfulness by Jan Chosen Bays

What I'm Reading Now The Voluntourist by Ken Budd The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove Long Way Home by Bill Barich

What I Might Read Next The Loop by Joe Coomer

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 Favorite Quotes From Books

10. "Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand: 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."   Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

9. "...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."   Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

8. "We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things."   Jill McCorkle, Creatures of Habit

7. "Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it."   Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

                                                                                                                    

6. "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.""I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."   Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

5. "Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" from The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

4. "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for all of Paris is a moveable feast."   
3. "As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."   Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

2. "This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too....Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest."   Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


1. "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."   Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
















Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists 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 complete with one of our bloggers answers. 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 sign Mister Linky at the bottom to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Don't worry if you can't come up with ten every time..just post what you can!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

What I Finished Last Week Bloom by Kelle Hampton The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

What I'm Reading Now Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman Long Way Home by Bill Barich

What I Got in the Mail This Week and Might Read Next: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente Insurgent by Veronica Roth

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.

Wish I Had Time to Chit-Chat, But I'm Off to the Center of the Earth

Wish I had time to chit-chat today, but I'm off to the center of the earth. With Jules Verne, of course. I've already found the secret instructions:

Descend into the crater of Yocul of Sneffels, which the shade of Scartaris caresses, before the kalends of July, audacious traveler, and you will reach the centre of the earth. I did it. ARNE SAKNUSSEMM*

Would you like to come along? It's certainly not too late and we'll be traveling with an accomplished (though perhaps a bit eccentric) geologist and his nephew, so there's nothing to fear. You aren't afraid of heights, are you? Or, should I say, depths? Easily remedied by a five-day course of ascending 150 steps to the top of a steeple on the Island of Amak, in the southeast quarter of Copenhagen.

How about supplies? A letter of introduction to the Governor of Iceland is already prepared and our geologist friend has packed all the ropes and torches and pickaxes and alpenstocks we will need.

So join us, if you will. We're waiting for you, if you'll hurry along.



*Verne, Jules (2009-10-04). A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (p. 17). Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition. 

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go.

Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....

That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

Top Ten Books That Would Make Great Movies (Though Most of These Would Be Near-Impossible to Make into Movies)

Some books are so brilliant I fear 

they could never be made into good movies.

Here are some I wish could be made into movies:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

has it all: mystery and murder.

The Gold Bug Variations is

music, math, and intelligence.

A tough book to make into a movie.

Have any Haruki Murakami books

been made into movies?

This one or 1Q84 would be expecially tricky.

Half of a Yellow Sun is another big book

that would be difficult to make into a 

conventional movie.

I can see Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 

as a movie. Why hasn't it been undertaken?

Olive Kitteridge

With so many wonderful older actresses out there,

why not try to make a movie from Olive Kitteridge?

Meryl Streep, perhaps?

I'm amazed that no one has made Megan McCafferty's

Sloppy Firsts into a movie.

What could Hollywood do with 

The Lover's Dictionary?

And who wouldn't love to see a movie

made from one of M.F.K. Fisher's books like

An Alphabet for Gourmets?

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.