Top Ten Tuesday: Best/Worst Movie Adaptations
Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme created by Jamie at The Broke and the Bookish that combines top ten lists and books. She’s come up with a great list of weekly discussion topics and I hope you’ll join in the discussion by commenting on this post or some of the other ones (you can find the list of participating blogs in this week's Top Ten Tuesday post on her site).
This week’s topic is Top Ten Best/Worst Movie Adaptations.
This is a topic I feel very strongly about—you might have been able to guess that based on the fact that I both have seventeen entries and have divided them into categories. :p As I'm sitting here formatting this post, my husband is naming dozens of other movie adaptions - Stephen King adaptions, John Jake's North and South, Nick Hornsby Adaptations, The Shipping News, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, LA Confidential, Lawrence of Arabia; honestly, I had no idea how many movies are based on books until I really started thinking about it. Thank you, Jamie - this is a great topic! I hope we get to revisit it again some time!
Now, I’m going to get tarred and feathered for some of my opinions, I just know it. :-p ::deep breath:: Okay, well, here goes – just, before you throw the rotten eggs, please remember this is just my opinion! :-)
Top Ten Tuesday: Top of the TBR Pile
Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme created by Jamie at The Broke and the Bookish that combines top ten lists and books. She’s come up with a great list of weekly discussion topics and I hope you’ll join in the discussion by commenting on this post or some of the other ones (you can find the list of participating blogs in this week's Top Ten Tuesday post on her site).
This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR Pile.
This one was a toughie because I’m a “moody” reader. Sometimes I get in a mood to read only certain types of things (or to not read certain things). So, for instance, though I’ve been dying to read Terry Pratchett’s “The Long Earth,” I haven’t yet grabbed a copy because I haven’t been in the mood for serious fiction.
However, having said that, here’s the list of books I really want to read and plan to read in the very near future (mood permitting).
Top Ten Tuesday: Beach Reads
Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme created by Jamie at The Broke and the Bookish that combines top ten lists and books. She’s come up with a great list of weekly discussion topics and I hope you’ll join in the discussion by commenting on this post or some of the other ones (you can find the list of participating blogs in this week's Top Ten Tuesday post on her site).
This week’s topic is Top Ten Beach Reads.
Beach reads was a really hard topic for me – I don’t have a particular type of book I like to take to the beach. All I want in a beach read is something engrossing because I’m usually trapped there for hours. See, my husband insists on going to his favorite beach, which is 1.5 hours away and the water is freezing cold, which means when we go, we go for all day and I don’t go in because the water is so cold. So I need something I can get lost in. I usually take several books just in case I’m not in the mood for one of them or I’m not pulled in. So, for that reason, short story collections are often a good beach read for me—don’t like what I’m reading? Wait two pages and it will be something completely different. So, my “beach reads” list is actually a list of my favorite short-story collections/anthologies.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Featuring Travel
Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme created by Jamie at The Broke and the Bookish that combines top ten lists and books. She’s come up with a great list of weekly discussion topics and I hope you’ll join in the discussion by commenting on this post or some of the other ones (you can find the list of participating blogs in this week's Top Ten Tuesday post on her site).
This week’s topic is Top Ten Books Featuring Travel.
The books that immediately came to mind tended to focus on traveling to fantastical places or featured strange modes of travel, so that’s what I went with.
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Book Topics
Top Ten Tuesday is a great meme created by Jamie at The Broke and the Bookish that combines top ten lists and books. She’s come up with a great list of weekly discussion topics and I hope you’ll join in the discussion by commenting on this post or some of the other ones (you can find the list of participating blogs in this week's Top Ten Tuesday post on her site).
So this week’s topic is Top Ten Words/Topics That Make Me Pick Up a Book.
Originally, I thought this was a really hard topic because I didn’t think there were any words or topics that would make me instantly pick up a book and at least look at the back cover blurb. However, a quick perusal of my books and my Goodreads shelves.
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