TTT: LOL

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Ten Books That Will Make You Laugh (or at least chuckle)”

There are a few books that I’ve been banned from reading in bed. 😆

1. The Stephanie Plum mysteries, Lizzy and Diesel mysteries, and the Fox and O’Hare mysteries by Janet Evanovich
   

   This was the second time in less than forty-eight hours that a man stopped fondling me because his phone rang. And both times it was because someone had been killed. If I wasn’t a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person I might be bothered by this. – Tricky Twenty-Two (Stephanie Plum #22) by Janet Evanovich

2. The Holmes on the Range mysteries by Steve Hockensmith
3. I Work at a Public Library by Gina Sheridan
4. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
   

   … Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with … Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

5. My Life in France by Julia Child
   

   Ce merde-monsieur a justement craché dans ma derrière!

6. The Pigeon books and the Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems
7. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
8. Mustache Baby and Mustache Baby Meets His Match by Bridget Heos
9. The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (go for the audiobook, the narrator is AWEsome)

I’m linking up:

 

TTT: Recently

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “10 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads (Or Ten Of The Best Books I’ve Read Recently if you don’t 5 star stuff…or you could do 5 of my latest five star reads & five of my most disappointing or 1 star reads).” Here’s what I’ve loved recently:

1. The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert
2. The Unbound by Victoria Schwab
3. Because of Winn-DIxie by Kate DiCamillo
4. There Must Be Murder by Margaret C. Sullivan
5. Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
6. The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
7. The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
8. Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
9. Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
10. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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TTT: Out of the Box

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is “Ten Book I Enjoyed Recently (last yearish) That Weren’t My Typical Genre/Type of Book (or that was out of your comfort zone).”

I tend to stay inside my own little “classics” / cozy mysteries / YA fantasies / kid lit box. Here are some great books from outside that box.

Contemporary / Realistic Fiction:

1. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
2. Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
3. Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu (I’m actually getting ready to re-read this one via digital audiobook!)
4. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Thriller:

5. Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith

Southern Gothic:

6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Graphic Novel:

8. Zita the Space Girl series by Ben Hatke
9. Cleopatra in Space series by Mike Maihack

Steampunk:

10. Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

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