It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: other types of stories; so either favourite Movies or TV Shows! I’ve decided to pick some TV shows that I think tell great stories with well developed characters.

• The Wire
• Suits
• Veronica Mars
• Mad Men
• The Sopranos
• Orphan Black
• Firefly
• Spartacus
• Orange is the New Black
• Rake (The Australian show)

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Ten Blogging Confessions. I have already done a post of the classics I haven’t read recently so I’m going to confess to authors I’ve never read.

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Alexandre Dumas
• Anton Chekhov
• Charlotte Brontë
• Homer

• J.K. Rowling
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Mark Twain
• Mikhail Lermontov

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Ten Favourite Classic Books or Top Ten Classics I Want To Read. I thought I would take the opportunity to mention ten books I really need to read. I feel so much shame for not having read these books.

• Candide by Voltaire
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Books On My Winter TBR list. I’m planning to be away for about six weeks so I’ m sure if all these books will be read, but here ten books I hope to read in the next three months.

• Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
• just_a_girl by Kristen Krauth
• Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis
• The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

• The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
• The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
• The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Books I’ve Read so far this Year.

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Dark Path by David Schickler
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan

• Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia by José Manuel Prieto
• Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
• All That Is by James Salter
• Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
• The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Ten Books That Should Be In Your Beach Bag or Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer. Problem with this theme is the fact that it  is winter here and I won’t be going outdoors. So I’m going to hijack this and tell you about ten ARC’s on my nightstand that I probably should read but often get overlooked in favour of my TBR. I’m lucky enough to get books sent to me by publisher and I have every intention to read these books but sometimes a shiny new book gets in the way. I’m not trying to boast – a lot of these books are older – I just really need to make an effort to get to all these books.

• just_a_girl by Kirsten Krauth
• Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
• When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
• Terms & Conditions by Robert Glancy
• Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

• Chance by Kem Nunn
• The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
• We are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
• Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
• Pig’s Foot by Carlos Acosta

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: A free choice, which means I can pick my own topic. I love books and I have to admit that sometimes I pick up a book to make more of a book snob. I like to think it as increasing my pretentious levels, however dispite picking on books for this reason, I found that I enjoyed most of them; once I spent a lot of time working these novels out. I thought I might post ten book I picked up to increase my pretentious levels.

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books on Friendship. So many choices, pretty much all of John Green’s books could work here. I did try to avoid too many YA novels but here are some books on friendship worth checking out.

• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Paper Towns by John Green
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art. So many to choose from but here are just a few examples.

It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Great femme fatales. I love a good femme fatale, they are mysterious, seductive and often deadly.

• Brigid O’Shaughnessy – The Maltese Falcon by Dashell Hammett (without spoiling the story, Brigid is the ultimate femme fatale)
• Phyllis Nirdlinger – Double Indemnity by James M. Cain (like Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Phyllis embodies the perfect archetype of a femme fatale)
• Cleopatra – Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Cleopatra is possibly one of the original femme fatales)
• Dolores – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (while we may not want a 12 year old femme fatale. You can’t deny she doesn’t embody the characteristics of a femme fatale)
• Vivian Sternwood – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (I can’t over look Chandler and Vivian is his best example of a femme fatale)

• Daisy Buchanan – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (no explanation needed)
• Rebecca – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (just because she’s dead doesn’t stop Rebecca from being a great femme fatale)
• Joan Medford – The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain (Cain is the king of the femme fatale and I struggled to only name one of his characters in this list)
• Laurel Gray – In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes (sassy, strong minded with a little mystery to her)
• Veronica Mars – The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham (if you’ve seen the TV show you’ll know how great Veronica Mars is; part hard-boiled detective part femme fatale)