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Another Top Ten Tuesday here brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish . This week's topic is... Top Ten Sequels I'm Dying to Read 1. Winner's Crime ( and since I've already read that one, Winner's Trilogy #3) : Like, okay, the first book was good ,but wow that second book. I want to talk about it to other people!! 2. The Winds of Winter: Desperately need to find out what happens to all my favorite characters. I NEED MORE GEORGE. 3. Dark House #2: The first book left so much open to continue! I want to know what happens! 4. The Retribution of Mara Dyer: I totally have this one, I just need to read it! 5. Saints: This is another one that I have but haven't read yet.  6. Rose Under Fire: I read Code Name Verity a couple months ago, and I need to read the companion novel. 7. Hawkeye Vol 2 : I loved the first collection. I need to get to the second. 8. One Tiny Lie: I really enjoyed Ten Tiny Breaths, and I'm getting to th...

Hello Lovelies! Another week, another Top Ten Tuesday, brought to you as always by The Broke and the Bookish .  This week's topic is... Top Ten Characters I Wish Had Their Own Book Miss Honey from Matilda. : Her story is really flushed out for the movie, but can you imagine a book about her trials growing up and then her becoming a teacher to help kids like her? So good. Wren from Fangirl : What's it like growing up knowing you're the second half of a name? And what about life made her desert the Simon Snow world?  Any of the ghosts from Liv, Forever: The snippets we got from them weren't enough. I want to know their whole story!! Alice from The Magicians.: This might have been much more interesting of a story for me if the protagonist was female. I couldn't stand Quentin. But maybe gender has nothing to do with it since even Martin Chatwin's story would have been a billion times more interesting to me. Marlee from The Selection : Marlee'...

Welcome to the rest of my book review round-up for this last month! I have no idea how I got so behind on these, but holy cow, it got bad there. I promise to try to never let it get this backed up again. Here's the rest of what I'm been reading lately! No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale : This was a hard one for me. I originally wanted to read it pretty much just based on its cover, but then I found out it came from James Frey's writer sweatshop, so then I didn't want to read it, but I eventually caved. Morals? What morals? And then the day that I finished this I heard about Hale's disastrous PR fail of stalking a blogger. Which is not what I want to talk about here. I just want to focus on the book. And it was okay at best. She seems to make fun of a lot of what it seems she perceives as insincerity of Minnesotan kindness. I just don't know how I feel about it over all. I found Kippy pretty obnoxious as a character. Her entire town seemed really ...