Category: top ten tuesday

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.

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This week’s TTT is all about bookstores, however I had to tweak the original prompt a bit which asked for the Top Ten favourite bookstores I’d like to visit. While I’d love to visit other bookstores, I don’t particularly have a specific list I’d want to visit.

So instead, this week I’m focusing on books that feature bookstores in their plots. As a former bookseller, I am very fond of bookstores and the people we meet there. I’m always super happy to come across a book where bookstores may be the setting or a major plot point in the story.

Let me know if you’ve read any of these, or if you can come up with some titles I’ve missed!

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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.

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I’m going to have to keep this short and sweet because I’m about to knock out. It’s my boyfriend’s birthday today and I have a long day planned which also includes a half day of work still, but I’m looking forward to it and hopefully won’t fall asleep somewhere in the middle.

Today’s TTT is all about typography. I once told my graphic design friends that typography was my favourite thing about art. It’s possibly the only thing I am semi good at when it comes to art so I may be biased. (My friend thought I was super weird for liking the one class most of them hated but oh well.)

I have collated a list of book covers that scream FASCINATING fonts, ones that match the theme of the cover/story, or are just generally unique in my opinion.

Let’s begin!

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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.

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I have barely been reading these last 2 months so what is reading goals at the moment, hmm? So the following list for this week’s TTT is really some wishful dreaming that I’d actually get to this fall. We shall see if I make even 50% of these.

• The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
• The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
• The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
• Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen
• Would You Rather by Allison Ashley
• Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus
• If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
• The Luminaries by Susan Dennard
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
• Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

I chose a few new releases in the fall, some recent books on my TBR and others I’m playing catch up on.

Have you read some of these titles already? What’re your thoughts?