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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Hi friends! It’s been a long yesterday, starting with a new job. We will see how much reading I can do this month considering I’m still adjusting with a nearly-overwhelming amount of new information.

Today’s TTT is a freebie topic. I’ll be sharing some YA book adaptations that may not be as memorable among the many that have been produced over the last decade or so. After all, there have been a number of box office successes (whether they were truly loved by the masses or not).

Among these include movies such as Twilight, Divergent and The Hunter Games franchises. If we’re throwing in TV series, we have shows like The Vampire Diaries, Shadowhunters, and the recently successful Netflix series Shadow & Bone. The number of adaptations from YA books are increasing, even with the most recent release of the Amazon Prime series Panic. With streaming platforms potentially changing the ability to make a profit off of book adaptations, I have a feeling we will only be seeing more in the future.

These others below are a little older and have therefore fallen between the cracks a little in our memory banks in the old system of movie releases or cable TV options. But, they deserve a little attention too. Hopefully you’ll find something of interest to watch in case you haven’t seen them before.

Without further ado, let’s begin!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes about Reading

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Hello friends! It’s been one hectic week, and this list for today’s TTT is one that took a while to gather together. This week I have compiled quotes on the love of reading and storytelling. After all, if you enjoy reading, I’m sure it’s for a variety of reasons as these quotes suggest. Life can be lived through the words we read, and they most definitely shape our worldview. While my own words may not be as eloquent, I hope these quotes and/or books showcase the beauty and love I personally have for reading in my own life.

I hope you enjoy! Let me know in the comments below if any of these quotes resonate with you.

1. Familiar stories told in a whole new way

“I am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully, because within it is one you have never heard before.”
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

2. The beauty and importance of libraries

“Libraries are lungs…books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.”
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

3. We are what we love

“We are the books we read and the things we love.”
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

4. A whole new world unfurling within a book’s pages

“This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand.”
The Reader by Traci Chee

5. The long-lasting impact of books

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.”
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

6. There are always more to explore

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

7. When my heart soars and breaks

“When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.”
Pivot Point by Kasie West

8. We leave parts of ourselves in stories

“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?…As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.”
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

9. Love of reading propels us to great lengths

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

10. Many lives lived

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

If it’s one thing I appreciate in life, it is this ability to share life through the power of words and the emotions invoked. Do you have any quotes about our shared love of reading that resonates with you? Please share below!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles that are Complete Sentences

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 Andge @ Down the Rabbit Hole

Morning friends! It’s been a beautiful weekend and start of the week here for me. I hope you have been enjoying yourselves as much as you can with whatever opportunities you have. I am excited to be resting a little soon as I am changing jobs end of this month so it is leaking into my overall feelings about everything at the moment. A wonderful reprieve from the last month for me.

Anyway, today’s TTT was a fun one. How many books have you come across that are a complete sentence within themselves? I personally love one-word titles but there’s just something about short sentences/questions that make for interesting titles too.

Let me know if you ever noticed some of these were full sentences! Or if you have any books you know that fit into this theme 🙂