Top Ten Tuesday:  Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List 

(could be blogging related, book related etc. -- meeting authors, reading x many books per year, finishing a daunting book, etc.)

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Jeni's Picks:

1. To read more books off of my TBR list. This list gets bigger every year so I'm determined to keep it below 500. 

2. To go to a book festival in another state. I'm lucky I live by so many authors but it would be fun to meet more. 

3. Get my sister to finish her book!!! I love the start of it and have been begging for years for her to finish it. I hope I get to see a finished copy before I'm 40. 

4. Meet Rick Riordan with my book club. All of the girls in my book club would love to meet him. Wish he would come visit Utah or a city close by like Las Vegas.  

5. Work at a Library one day. I'm thinking this would be an awesome post retirement job. Wish my husband would let me do it now but my current job makes more than I would earn as a librian. 

Emily's Picks: 

1. Reading all the books in my house. I have a few.

2. Buying more books to add too my shelves at home.  I love when authors discribe characters that have rooms full of books every where, taking up every available space of their home.  That's what I want, well, at least one room, because my husband wouldn't let me over run the house with books, but there are worse things..

3. Maybe work on my great unfinished novel.

4. It would be fun to one day read all the books in the library. Starting with "A" and work down. I thought about it once.

5. Read new book genres, and expound my reading experiances. I tend to stick with things I know and author's I like.  

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring TBR List

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Jeni's Picks: 

1. Night Broken by Patricia Briggs : This is one of my favorite series. So excited to see what is in store for Mercy Thompson in this book. 

2. The One by Kiera Cass: I really loved the Selection but I haven't read Elite. I love reading but I hate waiting for trilogies. I decided to wait until the whole series was out to continue reading. So I can't wait to revisit this world and find out what happens. 

3. The Shadow Throne by Jennifer Nielsen: Another trilogy I have been waiting to finish. I love how Jennifer Nielsen writes. This is a great series to read out loud. Hope that the movie well actually get made. At the launch party for this book Jennifer Nielsen mentioned that if it gets to casting they are hoping to cast well known actors as the adult characters and not well known actors for the child/teenager actors. 

4. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent: This book sounds so interesting. She is coming to a book signing near my home. Yeah!!

5. Small Town Spin by Lyndee Walker: I loved the first two books in this series. Here's hoping that this one well be just as good.

Emily's Picks

1. Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepard. This is the second book in the Madman's Daughter series.  I wasn't totally convinced with the first book, but I'll give this book a go.

2. Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick. So, the world goes dark, and then what? Seems like a 5th wave theme, and I'm willing to try it.

3. Speaking of...The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey.

4. Tallow (Curse of the Bond Riders #1) by Karen Brooks. New fantasy is always interesting to me.  

5. The Death of the Necormancer by Martha Wells a world like Victorian England with magic? Yes please. 

Top Ten Tuesday: Popular Authors I've Never Read

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 Jeni's Picks:

1. Kassie West: I've meant to read her Pivot Point series I just haven't gotten to it yet. 

2. Marie Lu: Another series I've been wanting to read but just haven't

3. George R.R. Martin: Maybe one day I will read his books. 

4. Brandon Sanderson: I've actually met him in person and I've bought a few of his books. Maybe this should've been one of my new years resolutions. 

5. Lois Lowery: My goal is to read her Giver series before it comes out in the movies. 

Emily's Picks

1. Elizabeth Gaskell.  I have watched all the BBC mini series but I have never actually read the books. North and South, Wives and Daughters. (Hello handsome)

2. Charles De Lint. He writes fantasy, need I say more?

3. C.S. Lewis. His essays, not his children books. 

4. Oscar Wilde..just his name alone should tempt me to read him. OSCAR WILDE

5. Tahereh Mafi Shatter Me. I had Amazon send me a little sample, and I must say, I will be looking this book up.

Waiting on Wednesday:
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Release date: March 4, 2014

From Goodreads: 

When Ileni lost her magic, she lost everything: her place in society, her purpose in life, and the man she had expected to spend her life with. So when the Elders sent her to be magic tutor to a secret sect of assassins, she went willingly, even though the last two tutors had died under mysterious circumstances.

But beneath the assassins’ caves, Ileni will discover a new place and a new purpose… and a new and dangerous love. She will struggle to keep her lost magic a secret while teaching it to her deadly students, and to find out what happened to the two tutors who preceded her. But what she discovers will change not only her future, but the future of her people, the assassins… and possibly the entire world

Top Ten Tuesday: Rewind

Authors I would DIE to meet

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Jeni's Picks: 
1. Rosamunde Pilcher: I have been reading her books since I was 14 years old.  Every year I take a month and just reread every book she has written. 

2. Patricia Briggs: Her Mercy Thompson books are my favorite werewolf series out there. 

3. Julie Klassen: I love her books. I wish I could go to one of her book signings but she lives so far away.

4. Kristen Geir: I'm not sure if she ever travels to the states. She is from Germany. I loved her Ruby Red trilogy. I know my niece would love to meet her too. 
5. Rick Riordan: Just to see my daughter meet him. She loves the Percy Jackson series and I know she would just die to meet Riordan. She met Richard Paul Evans, author of the Michael Vey series, and her face was priceless. He even said she looked like his first girlfriend. 

Emily's
(Jeni you thief, you stole one of mine!)
1. Terry Brooks, because I read his first and fell in love with fantasy.
2. Robin Mckinley..because Damar is a land I love. 
3. Rosamunde Pilcher..(ha! Jeni..) Because she made me fall in love with England, and all things British..and because it's MS. Pilcher for goodness sakes! She is the best at lovely romantic books..not romance, romantic writing.(there is a difference)
4. Brandon Sanderson..just so I can tease him again about the size of his book..seriously, 1000 plus pages..does any book need to be that long?? :)
5. Gail Carriger..soulless cracked me up.  So, the author has got to be a cracker her self, right? 
And..last, because I stole one from Jeni..
Michael Pollan, because I would love to ask him a thousand questions. 

Waiting on Wednesday: Of Scars and stardust

Release date: October 8, 2014

From Goodreads:

After her little sister mysteriously vanishes, seventeen-year-old Claire Graham has a choice to make: stay snug in her little corner of Manhattan with her dropout boyfriend, or go back to Ohio to face the hometown tragedy she's been dying to leave behind. 

But the memories of that night still haunt her in the city, and as hard as she tries to forget what her psychiatrist calls her "delusions," Claire can't seem to escape the wolf's eyes or the blood-speckled snow. Delusion or reality, Claire knows she has to hold true to the most important promise she's ever made: to keep Ella safe. She must return to her sleepy hometown in order to find Ella and keep her hallucinations at bay before they strike again. But time is quickly running out, and as Ella's trail grows fainter, the wolves are becoming startlingly real.

Now Claire must deal with her attraction to Grant, the soft-spoken boy from her past that may hold the secret to solving her sister's disappearance, while following the clues that Ella left for only her to find. Through a series of cryptic diary entries, Claire must unlock the keys to Ella's past—and her own—in order to stop another tragedy in the making, while realizing that not all things that are lost are meant to be found.

2nd Choice: 

Release date: August 24, 2014

From Goodreads:

Home is where the bodies are buried.

Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longo’s YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love.

Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers:

Pre-Need: They know what’s up. They bought their graves a long time ago, before they needed them.

At Need: They are in shock, mourning a loved one’s unexpected death. Leigh avoids sponging their agony by focusing on things like guessing the headstone choice (mostly granite).

Sarcastic and smart, Leigh should be able to stand up to her family and quit. But her world’s been turned upside down by the sudden loss of her best friend and the appearance of Dario, the slightly-too-old-for-her grave digger. Surrounded by death, can Leigh move on, if moving on means it’s time to get a life?

Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons Why I love being a blogger/reader

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Jeni's Picks:

Reading:

1. Entertainment: I'm not much for TV or movies but I love to read.

2. Learning: I learn something new in every book I read. 

3. Escape: sometimes I just want to escape my reality for awhile. 

Blogging:

4. Increasing my TBR list: Not that I really need help with this but it's fun seeing what new books are out there.   

5. Branching out: I love reading other blogs to see what people enjoy reading. It helps me step out of my comfort zone.

Emily's Picks

Reading:

1. Books are the ultimate guide to the universe.  They can transport us instantly to another world, and we can choose to be totally consumed..or not.

2. Meeting characters that make me fall in love, to love the world I live in, Too find hope in something beyond myself.

3. The gift of words is given to everyone, but only a few have the power to translate that into something magical, and they share it with us. And when you find that gem of a book, you never want to let it go. That is why I love reading.

Blogging:

4. Blogging, I can express my self without stumbling over my own words. I am not very elegant at expressing them in person.

5. I can meet people in this world of ours by just skipping on over to sights like The Broke and the Bookish, and suddenly meet a kindred spirit, who reads just as much as me, and who maybe has a few books i have not read, or has suggestions that I wouldn't have tried.