Top Ten Tuesday (12)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Characters I Would Like To Trade Places With For A Day


1. Anyone at Hogwarts: it doesn't have to be one of the big 3, anyone attending the school would do.  Though, I'm not sure I could give it up after just 24 hours.

2. Anna in Anna Dressed in Blood: She is one seriously freaky deaky ghost and I would love to have my ethereal hands on those powers for while.

3. Any of the kids in Narnia: Again, like Hogwarts, I'm not picky about who - I just want in!

4. Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A chocolate factory AND I don't have to worry about the candy hangover the next day? Gimmie!

5. Aura in Shade: A few hours with Zach. Yes, please.

6. Biff in Lamb: hanging out with Christopher Moore's version of Christ has got to be the ultimate "you're never gonna believe this" story. 

7. Francesca in Saving Francesca: I loved the characters in this one so much that I would kill to spend one day with them.

8. Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love: Only while she is in Italy.  None of this self sacrifice and meditation for me, I want to eat every dish that she mentions in the book!

9. Any of the kids at Camp Half-Blood:  This place fascinates me.  I would love a chance to explore and be claimed by my mythical mother or father. 

10. George in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: MUST. WARN. FRED. (seriously, I am still heartbroken over his death - if there is a way I can fix it - I will.)

Top Ten Tuesday (11)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.

This week's topic is:

Top Ten Most Vivid Worlds/Settings


In the case of a series, I have included the first book that I read (and thus my introduction into that particular world).  I also included a freebie, because I could not decide between Room and Fog Magic.

Top Ten Tuesday (10)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.

This week's topic is a freebie, so I am choosing:

Top Ten Books thus far in 2012

Some of these are books that were released in 2012, some are books that I just READ in 2012.  They are also in no particular order because I loved all of them for very different reasons.

Top Ten Tuesday (9)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. 
This week's topic is the Top Ten Books I'd Recommend As Good Beach Reads.

I consider beach reads to be books that are easy to read, fun and or generally fluffy.  My own list has a mix of YA, Magical Realism and even a Memoir.

 

Top Ten Tuesday (8)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. 

This week's topic is the Top Ten Blogs/Sites you read that aren't about books.  

1.  Books of Adam:  Adam is a pretty strange guy.  His social commentary (accompanied by cartoons) serve as a great pick me up.  Sometimes I am right there with him, and others I think he is on glue.  Also, since he added a very handsome picture to the sidebar, I find him a lot more intimidating than when I thought he was some average looking dude sitting around his parent's basement.

The Featured Creature

2. The Featured Creature: This blog displays pictures and commentary on the strangest creatures.  I love finding wacky and wonderful new animals that I never knew existed and I especially love showing them to my students!  

3. The Bloggess:  I am going to assume that by now you have all heard of the lady with a penchant for ethically taxidermied animals and hiding in bathrooms during social events with a grab bag of drugs.  Also, she clearly has the most amazing and patient husband in the world, or the craziest - one of those. 

4. Good E Reader: I like electronics and I love ereaders.  I am the go to chick when a friend or colleague is thinking about buying one so, of course, I need to keep up on the latest on all my favorite devices.   

5. The Ebook Reader:  Ditto #4 PLUS this one regularly lists coupon codes for lots of ebook buying sites.  

6. BabyCenter: When I became a mom, I had A LOT of questions.  On Babycenter, I was able to join a group for women who gave birth in the same month as me and chat with them about common issues and how to solve them.  I swear, the first few months after the Munchkin was born, I was on this site at least 20 times a day.  

MODG Blog

7. MODG Blog: When I became a mom I also needed some humor in my life.  On this blog I can read about hippie baby toys, hemorrhoids and the joys of breastfeeding and teeth - All in one place!  These posts are usually accompanied by drawings that could only have been created by a monkey missing all but two fingers - or a mom with access to MS Paint and no recognizable artistic skill 

8. Squawkfox: Living is expensive.  Gas is going up, groceries are going up, teachers are losing their jobs left and right (and I decided to have a kid - what the frick was I thinking?).  Squawkfox features some money saving tips and techniques that can help me keep a little more cash in my pocket. 

Can You Stay For Dinner?

9. Can You Stay For Dinner: I love to eat, so I learned to love to cook.  CYSFD is one of my favorite sites for new recipes.  Andie's pictures will have your mouth watering and her instructions are super easy to follow.  Thanks to her, I no longer spend big bucks on pasta sauce at the grocery store and instead stock up on crushed tomatoes when they go on sale and make my own homemade marinara! 

10.  Green Lite Bites: Also on the foodie front is a site that is pretty new to me.  Roni has some great recipes and I especially love her posts on School Lunches and Baby Food Adventures.  I am already dreading having to pack school lunches for the Munchkin in a few years but I am sure Roni will be a huge help!

There you go folks!  Can't wait to see everyone's posts and maybe pick up a few new blogs for my bookmark folder!

Top Ten Tuesday (7)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. 

This week's topic is Top Ten Authors I'd Like To See On A Reality Show.

Hmm.. This one is kind of a tough topic.  What do we really know about our authors other than what their books tell us?  Can we gleam who would be the fan favorite?  Who would be the villain?  And in the interest of finishing this post in time to watch Game of Thrones with the Husband, I am changing my topic.  So here is the list of:

Top 10 CHARACTERS I Would Like To See In A Reality Show:

I am choosing Big Brother, because it is my favorite reality show (probably due to the fact that it airs in the summer when there is NOTHING else on).

1.  Katniss from The Hunger Games - Yes, Katniss is the queen of reality tv, but the games were the complete opposite of Big Brother.  Put Katniss in a house with 9 other houseguests and I am betting she develops a severe case of cabin fever and goes on a murderous rampage.

2. Anna from Anna Dressed in Blood - I love Anna.  I just want to see more of her.  Plus, she can help with Katniss' rampage.

3. Four from Insurgent - The house needs some male blood and Four would use his cool and calm facade to fool the other houseguests while he secretly tried to dismantle Big Brother from the inside out.

4.  Daisy from Revived - She dies, she comes back from the dead.  It is the ultimate Surprise Return Of A Former Houseguest.  Nuf Said!

5 and 6.  Aura and Zach from Shade - Every Big Brother House needs a power couple and they are my pick.  Just cutesy enough to make me want to barf into my "just as bad for me as the tv show" snack food but not so cutesy that I lose my voice screaming at the tv to film somebody else.  PLUS, while Aura can't actually talk to ghosts in the house (unless there was a mysterious death while constructing it) the other players don't know that and she can totally pretend to know what they are all talking about behind her back.

7. Todd from The Knife of Never Letting Go - because he annoys me and I need someone I dislike to be the first person voted out of the house.

8. Sybella from Grave Mercy - Katniss needs a mortal enemy and the handmaiden of death/ assassin nun is the only character I can think of who could be just as bad ass.

9. Angel from My Life As A White Trash Zombie - what could possibly make this season of BB any more awesome?  Well, I'm glad you asked.  Let's say hello to our resident Zombie who is trying to keep her brain cravings a secret.  A week on slop?  No problem, she'll just munch away on Todd's brains - that should keep her in tip-top shape for the next POV competition.

10.  Galinda from Wicked - because every season needs one chick who isn't interested in the game but wants to get far enough to cement a career in show-business in the real world. 

Top Ten Tuesday (6)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.

This week features the Top Favorite Quotes from Books

1. "Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked.  This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men" - Neil Gaiman

2. "To swallow and follow, whether old doctorine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3. "Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"Yes."
"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
"Have a biscuit, Potter."

- J.K. Rowling

4. "Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..." - Roald Dahl

5. "Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, and do such bitter business, as the day would quake to look on. - William Shakespeare

6.  "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear." - Suzanne Collins

7. "Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates." - Christopher Moore (My parenting/teaching style in a nutshell)

8. "She's so small, yet she contains so much evil." - Christopher Moore (My personal mantra) 

9. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." - John Green  

10. "So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." - Roald Dahl 

Top Ten Tuesday (5)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.

This week features the Top Ten Books I'd Like To See Made Into A Movie. I am going to try and list movies that aren't (to my knowledge) already in production.