Top Ten Tuesday: Fall Reading

As the days get shorter, the nights get cooler and the leaves start to change, it’s time to consider what I’m going to read this fall.  As with many bibliophiles, I’ve got a long list of books that I’d like to read.  And that just happens to be the theme of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the Broke and the Bookish).

Here are ten books I’m looking forward to reading this season (between watching football games and celebrating fall with my wife and Shortcake).

1.  Bless Her Heart by Sally Kilpatrick.
2. Artemis by Andy Weir.
3. Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
4. The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter
5. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
6. Strange Weather by Joe Hill
7. A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne
8. The Midnight Line by Lee Child
9. Working Fire by Emily Bleeker
10. Slade House by David Mitchell
11. Doctor Who: Survival by Rona Munroe (Audiobook re-visiting)

I’m sure I’ll find more books as we get through the fall.

And if anyone has any recommendations for fall reading, please let me know!

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Waiting on Wednesday: Bless Her Heart by Sally Kilpatrick

My local library branch was closed for three weeks for renovation.   So, I not only experience withdrawals but I also had a huge stack of stuff I’d put on reserve come in, leading to a truly epic check-out.  That’s why I wasn’t able to participate in the Waiting on Wednesday (hosted by Breaking the Spine) last week.

But now as I whittle down the pile, deciding what to return and put on reserve again for future reading, I’m looking into the future for more books to add to my TBR pile.

This week it’s the latest novel by one of my favorite authors and a good friend, Sally Kilpatrick.   Her new novel, Bless Her Heart, hits physical and digital shelves on Halloween.

Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly uplifting, with just the right amount of Southern sass, Sally Kilpatrick’s wonderful novel centers on one woman’s journey from unhappy marriage to a surprising second chance . . .

On the day Posy Love discovers that her born-again husband has been ministering to some of his flock a little too eagerly, she also learns that he’s left her broke and homeless. Posy married Chad five years ago in hopes of finding the stability her hippie mother couldn’t provide. Instead she got all the trappings of security–house, car, seemingly respectable husband–at the price of her freedom.

Posy’s mother, Lark, accepts her daughter’s return home with grace, though her sister can’t resist pointing out that being a sweet Southern wife hasn’t worked out as planned. And so, with the Seven Deadly Sins as a guide, Posy decides to let loose for once. Envy is easy to check off the list–Posy only has to look at her best friend’s adorable baby for that.

One very drunken night at The Fountain bar takes care of gluttony. As for lust–her long-time friend, John, is suddenly becoming much more than a pal. One by one, Posy is bulldozing through her old beliefs about love, family–and what it really means to be good. And she’s finding that breaking a few rules might be the perfect way to heal a heart…

I’ve read all of Sally’s books and enjoyed them.  I’m really looking forward to her new novel and hoping I may get an early peek if it arrives on the Galley of Nets in the near future.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved Growing Up

One of the things I’ve loved about being an uncle is sharing some of the books I read over and over again with my nieces and nephews.  It’s fun to visit old friends again or wander the bookstore or library and see which books have withstood the test of time and which ones are no longer still in print.

And with Shortcake, I look forward to sharing those books with her and discovering new favorites.

I will admit I had a tendency to check-out and re-read some of the same set of books over and over again growing up.  Some I can still recall the title of, while others I can remember snippets and passages from but I can’t recall the title or author.  (And believe me, I’ve spent a few minutes on Google trying to see if I can put together enough pieces to find them!)

For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the Broke and the Bookish), I’ve decided to share some of my favorite books I read growing up.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Struggled To Get Through

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of reading a good book.  Breathlessly turning the pages to find out what happens next or finding that next great sentence or paragraph. Books that remind you why you love reading so much.

And then there is the other side of the coin with books that are a struggle to get through. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the Broke and the Bookish) looks at the books we had a hard time making it all the way to the end.

Top Ten Tuesday: Underrated Tie-In Novels

Over the years, I’ve read more than my fair share of tie-in novels.  And while I can’t recommend a steady diet of them, I think that good tie-in novel can be a great way to clear the reading pallet if you’ve just finished something heavy, dark, emotional or intense.  Or they can be great bubble gum for the mind, whether reading or hearing them on audiobook (I re-read a lot of classic Doctor Who adaptations while running or working out.  Great distraction without being too distracting).

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the Broke and the Bookish) asks us to look at underrated books in a particular genre.  So, here are my top ten underrated tie-in novels.

Waiting on Wednesday: Never Apart by Romily Bernard

Mid-week and it’s time to not only look forward to the weekend but some new books.  This week’s Waiting on Wednesday (hosted by Breaking the Spine) is Never Apart by Romily Bernard.

This one comes recommended by best-selling author lady and friend, Sally Kilpatrick.

Here’s the back cover blurb, courtesy of Goodreads.

Top Ten Tuesday: Required Reading I Want to Re-read

Growing up, I often bristled at the assigned reading in school.  Part of it was probably that I was in the midst of another book that I was reading from pleasure and regretted the time I had to spend reading the stuff for school.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the Broke and the Bookish) is a back-to-school theme.  So, I decided to look back at the books that were assigned reading and that I might want to visit again now that I’m a bit older.