Category: Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Books On My Spring 2022 To-read List

Posted March 14, 2022 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 20 Comments

Welcome to another TTT! I can’t believe spring is coming! Are you surviving the time change? I’m not! LOL. I’m not tired or ready to wake up when I’m supposed to, I’m not hungry when I’m supposed to be, and I feel like I’m caught in some weird time warp. I like getting an extra hour of sleep in the fall, but I absolutely hate rolling forward in the spring. It never used to impact me, but now it takes me so long to recover! Anyway, it’s that time again! I do love these seasonal to-read topics because I think it’s so much fun to share the titles I’m the most excited to read over the next three months. Some of these are recent/upcoming releases I’ve received for review, but many are titles I re-stumbled upon while cleaning my bookshelves this past weekend. I’m looking forward to seeing what you’re excited about! Sorry (not sorry) in advance for what this week’s topic is going to do to your TBR!

1. Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas
2. When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
3. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
4. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
5. The Love Academy by Belinda Jones
6. Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
7. The Summer of Christmas by Juliet Giglio and Keith Giglio
8. Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
9. Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma
10. In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer

Have you read any of these? Are you interested in reading any of them?
What’s ONE book that you know FOR SURE you will be prioritizing this spring?


Top Ten Fake Dating/Engagement/Marriage Romance Books

Posted March 7, 2022 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 20 Comments

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is Books With Your Favorite Trope/Theme, and was submitted by Raincheckandread.com and Sara Beth @ Life, Love, Writing. There are a few tropes in romance that I absolutely love, but I’ve chosen to share my favorite books that include fake dating, fake engagements, and/or fake marriages. I flock to these kinds of books, and will gobble them up one after another after another. I can’t wait to see which tropes or themes you all choose to feature this week!

The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
I Temporarily Do by Ellie Cahill
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Date Me Like You Mean It by R.S. Grey
Roomies by Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
The Christmas Pact by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward
Well Matched by Jen DeLuca
A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

Do you have any recommendations for other fake relationships in romance?
Which trope/theme did you choose to feature in your TTT this week?


Top Nine Books I Enjoyed, but Have Never Talked About On My Blog

Posted March 1, 2022 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 11 Comments

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s prompt is inspired by the fact that I’ve been blogging for 11 years now, and I’ve done numerous TTTs, surveys, and bookish lists and there’s a bunch of books that seem to fit every topic or question and I end up talk about them instead of alllll the other books that I loved, but are not ones I immediately think of (either because it’s been so long since I read them or because they are quieter titles). This was extremely hard for me because I’ve been blogging for so long, so today I just will be sharing 9 books I loved but have never talked about on here!

1. A Christmas Spark by Cindy Steel
2. Anything You Can Do by R.S. Grey
3. The Martian by Andy Weir
4. An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
5. Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
6. Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare
7. The Designated +1 by Ellie Cahill
8. Anna and the Duke by Kathryn Smith
9. Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark


Top Ten Dynamic Duos In Literature

Posted February 21, 2022 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 43 Comments

Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday! What do you think of my new blog design? Inspiration struck last week, and I spent a night redesigning everything and I just love it. I hope you do too! Feel free to use my new TTT logo above or keep using the old one!

This week’s topic was submitted by Elley the Book Otter and is Top Ten Dynamic Duos! These can be romantic couples, friends, partners, siblings, etc. If there’s a fun character/animal duo, those count too! I love great relationships in books, platonic and romantic, so I’ll be sharing some of both!

1. Ryland and Rocky from Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A human and an alien become allies to save the lives of everyone living on their home planets! What better dynamic duo than that?? They teach each other their own languages and come up with something in between that they can both understand, they save one another’s lives multiple times, and they pool their own knowledge and assets to strengthen their efforts. The trust and friendship they build is touching, and I loved these two so much.

2. Lucien and Feyre from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
These two have a really sweet friendship, and I loved how Lucien was always there for Feyre. He’s so loyal and caring!

3. Bree and Nathan from The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
Bree and Nathan are best friends, who are secretly in love with each other. Their friendship is one of the purest and most adorable relationships I’ve read about. She loves to buy him trinkets that remind her of him, they have a standing running every week that wouldn’t even be canceled if a hurricane came through, he loves to secretly pay her bills, etc. They decide to enter a fake relationship to help his career and make her some money, and things become very not-fake very quickly.

4. Aiden and Maddie from Date Me Like You Mean It by R.S. Grey
I clearly love best friends fake dating and catching feelings. Aiden and Maddie met at a wedding when their siblings married each other, and formed an instant friendship. They ended up becoming roommates, and Maddie had to suffer silently as she fell in love with him while an endless stream of women poured in and out of their apartment over the years. A situation arises where Maddie accidentally says Aiden is her boyfriend, and he’s a good sport and plays along until… is anyone even playing anymore? Their friendship is so sweet, and their relationship becomes swoony pretty quickly.

5. Ulysses and Graham from The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
Ulysses is the moose Graham befriends (and feeds yummy baked goods to) and loves so much.

6. Graham and Easton from Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler
This is my favorite bromance! I love the friendship these two share. I won’t spoil anything from the others books in this series, but I will say that Easton does something for Graham that made me cry a couple times.

7. Avery and Daisy from Roman Crazy by Alice Clayton and Nina Bocci
It would be seriously so nice to have a best friend like Daisy, who is always there and will support you no matter what.

8. Cinder and Thorne from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
I can’t even find the words for this friendship, but it might be one of my very favorite ones in any book I’ve ever read.

9. Cinder and Iko from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
A girl and her devoted android.

10. Charlie Brown and Snoopy from Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Because I had to!

Who are some of your favorite dynamic duos in literature?


Top Ten Books I Loved So Much I Couldn’t Find the Words to Write a Review

Posted February 14, 2022 by Jana in Top Ten Tuesday / 23 Comments

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic was submitted by Dedra @ A Book Wanderer, and gives me the opportunity to just say “I LOVED THIS BOOK PERIOD”. Maybe I’m a bad book reviewer, but if I love a book too much I don’t know what to say about it without spoiling everything or making my review too long and detailed for anyone to actually want to read it. So I sit on it for a while, and never feel equipped with the words to do it justice so I just… never write one! It’s completely ridiculous! Anyway, here are some books I absolutely loved and wholeheartedly recommend, but never reviewed.

1. The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
4. Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morgenthaler
5. The Winter King by C.L. Wilson
6. Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree Farm by Jaimie Admans
7. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
8. The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
9. The Fortunate Ones by R.S. Grey
10. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

What books have you loved so much you couldn’t review them properly?