Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Books with a unit of TIME in the title

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Topic for June 7, 2022: Top Ten Books with a unit of TIME in the title

 

Let’s just accept that this is actually Thirteen…and that it’s Wednesday, and then get over it. I was having fun with the progression and didn’t want to stop. And I’m late.

 

176 Milliseconds by John McWilliams

 

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

 

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

 

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

 

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller  by Italo Calvino

 

The Day of the Locust by Natanael West

 

Five Weeks in a Baloon by Jules Verne

 

A Fortnight Before the Frost by Sigurd Hoel and Sverre Lyngstad

 

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr

 

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

 

Storm of the Century by Stephen King

 

Millennium by John Varley

 

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

 

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Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Dynamic Duos in Literature

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I haven’t participated in – yikes! Literally years. This topic caught my eye.

 

Topic for February 22, 2022: Top Ten Dynamic Duos in Literature

 

10. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara – Gone With the Wind

I felt an obligation for at least one romantic couple, but the most obvious choice was Romeo and Juliette, but aren’t Rhett and Scarlett so much more interesting? Of course, they’re not truly a romantic couple. Are they?

9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Super obvious

8. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza – Don Quixote

I didn’t love the book, but it would have been unbearable without Sancho

7. Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his vicar Father Joseph Vaillant – Death Comes for the Archbishop

Marvelous book and a touching, powerful relationship

6. Tom and Huck – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

They were so often, so misguided in their understanding of the world, but they understood friendship, loyalty, and courage

5. Nick Andros and Tom – The Stand

This is a little one-sided, because it is Nick’s willingness to accept the companionship of Tom – who will only add to Nick’s struggle, and Nick toyed with leaving the true-hearted man-child to his own fate. But Tom would simply have not survived in the raging world, and Nick…just couldn’t abandon him.

4. Jem and Scout – To Kill a Mockingbird

So touching to see brother and sister also best friends.

3. George and Lennie – Of Mice and Men

Oh, how my heart breaks…not for Lennie, but for George and the horrible, misguided, pure intentioned decision he must make to protect his friend. This is a love story.

2. Frodo and Sam – The Lord of the Rings

No commentary necessary

1. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

There would be no pleasure in reading of the World’s Greatest Detective if not for his friend and straight man

 

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Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Bookish things I'm thankful for

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Topic for November 20, 2018: Thanksgiving Freebie – So I’ll interpret that as Top Ten Bookish things I’m thankful for

10. That some authors resist the urge for the Happily Ever After ending

9. That some authors still do end with Happily Ever After

8. That Artsy Reader Girl for carrying on Top Ten Tuesday

7. The Classics Club

6. That Orwell didn’t write LOTR and Tolkien didn’t write 1984

5. For rereads

4. Project Gutenberg

3. That no one has made a remake of Gone With the Wind

2. That screenwriters for The Lord of the Rings respected the author and rejected the producer who wanted to kill off one of the Hobbits
1. The Number ONE thing I am thankful for, in bookish terms:  my sixth-grade teacher Ms. Tina Banks of Burke School Elementary, who instilled in me the love of reading. 

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The Longest Books I've Ever Read - A Top Ten Tuesday list

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First, to the former hosts of TTT at The Broke and the Bookish thanks for all the wonderful lists and time dedicated to this meme. Second, thanks to the new host Jana, for keeping it going.

Topic for October 9, 2018:  Longest Books I’ve ever read

Oh, I’ve so got this.

10. Don Quixote (my version 940 pages)

9. An American Tragedy (972 pages)

8. Gone With the Wind (1037 pages)

7. The Stand (1153 pages)

6. Atlas Shrugged (1168 pages)

5. Les Miserables (1466 pages)

4. The Count of Monte Cristo (1472 pages)

3. War and Peace (1615 pages)

2. A Dance to the Music of Time (2947 pages)

1. Remembrance of Things Past aka In Search of Lost Time (3365 pages)

Which Guiness recognizes as the World's Longest Novel (by character count with over 9.6 million characters)

The combined pages of my TTT is over 16,000 pages. Do I win? I think I won.

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Top Ten Tuesday - Favorite Book Blogs / Bookish websites

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August 14, 2018: Top Ten Book Blogs / Bookish websites

#1 The Classics Club 

The name is the description. I read mostly classics, so it’s a great place to meet other classics readers/bloggers. 

#2 GoodReads

Well of course I had to list this one. Another good place to network with other bookish types. I especially like the “compare books” function to see how similar your reading tastes are to others on goodreads.

#3 Project Gutenberg

Because FREE BOOKS, as long as they are in the public domain, and since I read mostly classics, ie mostly old books, many of them are public domain, and therefore free. It’s free, but I make a donation once a year – they don’t bug me for it.

#4 Course Hero – but I’m linking to the Infographics page

Well, because I like the infographics

#5 OK, gonna stop there. Sorry. I’ve reached the point where I am tempted to start listing fellow bloggers, and there’s too many wonderful souls that I’ve connected with. I would hate to leave anyone out. Besides, one of my favorite blogs is there one day, gone the next. No telling. Some of you know who I’m talking about.

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Top Ten Novellas / Short Stories - Top Ten Tuesday

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July 17, 2018: Top Ten Novellas / Short Stories

#1  Easy – The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#2  The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

#3  The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke 

#4  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

#5  The Adventure of the Speckled Band – by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Sherlock Holmes short story

#6  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

#7  The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

#8  The Call of the Wild by Jack London

#9  The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

#10  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

I have the short stories of Edger Allan Poe on my TBR, and I suspect there will be some in that collection that I'll want to put in this list...but for now, this is how it stands.

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Top Ten Character Names - Top Ten Tuesday

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Wow! Can’t believe I haven’t done a TTT since November 2017. Time to rejoin the fun

May 21, 2018:Top Ten Character Names

I knew immediately what #1 would be.

#1  Sal Paradise from On the Road  (I didn’t care for the book, but this is a great name)

--The rest in no particular order

#2  Squire Allworthy from Tom Jones  (an aptronym if ever there were one)

#3  Port Moresby from The Sheltering Sky  (not a great person, but a marvelous name)

#4  Bishop Jean Marie Latour from Death Comes for the Archbishop  (another aptronym, meaning of Latour – The Tower)

#5  Father Joseph Vaillant  (Latour’s right hand man. meaning of Vaillant – Valiant)

#6  Homer Simpson from The Day of the Locust  (D’oh! Long before THE Homer)

#7  Major Major from Catch-22 (as in Major[rank] Major[last name] who was promoted by accident, due of course to his last name)

#8  First Mate Starbuck from Moby Dick  (explaining the mermaid on your coffee cup)

#9  Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird

#10  Huckleberry Finn (do I really need to say what novel this is from?)

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Top Ten Books on my Winter To Be Read list

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November 28:  Top Ten Books on my Winter TBR

After I finish my current read, which by the way is the longest novel in the world, I’m going to take a brief respite from novels and per my recent tradition read a couple short Christmas stories.

First, to finish off the third of Dickens’ most famous Christmas stories

The Chimes by Charles Dickens

Next a spooky Christmas story by an author I’ve never read.

The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol (I think this is alternately titled Christmas Eve)

And then in January, back to novels. I doubt I’ll finish all of these before spring.

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos

Native Son by Richard Wright

Deliverance by James Dickey

The Stand by Stephen King (first ever read of Stephen King. I know.)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

And ***drumroll please*** that will bring me to A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which will be the 100^th and final novel in MY QUEST to read The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time.