Top Ten Top Ten Tuesdays
Guys! This is a super fun topic! Also CONGRATS, BROKE AND BOOKISH LADIES!! Five years of this awesome feature! *applause* Here’s to five more years of awesomeness!
Technically, this is supposed to be the top ten Top Ten Tuesdays of the past five years, but I’ve only been participating since 2012, so I’m limiting my list to Top Ten Tuesdays that I’ve participated in. Going through my archive was really fun, you guys. It’s like reading through an old journal; so much has changed in the way I write, the things I write, the books I talk about, everything. So, in no particular order, here are ten of my favorite Top Ten Tuesdays. This is so meta!
I remember having a nerdgasm when I found this topic in the Top Ten Tuesday archive. I used it for one of the “pick a past topic” weeks. I had almost no difficulty coming up with my list of ten favorite words. Spoiler alert: first word on there? Felicity.
This Top Ten Tuesday is one of the older ones and I was surprised and also not to see how many of these things haven’t changed at all since the early days of my blogging. Like, all of them. Every single one.
Another Top Ten Tuesday that was super easy for me. I feel like I have to point that out because sometimes they’re hard. Not only has none of this changed, but I think it points to something really important for me and my reading: I have really good instincts about what I’ll like and what I probably won’t.
One my happiest early blogging memories was when I posted this Top Ten Tuesday and April from Good Books and Good Wine retweeted it and left a really nice comment. I was still pretty new to the blogging community and I had such a fun time writing this post, and so I was really stoked to have someone else enjoy it too. Also, those Sweet Valley High titles. DAMN.
I love a good, unique name, friends. It’s a fine line between “unique” and “weird,” though, so you won’t find things like Royal or Rule on this list (same offending author). But names that sound pretty and roll off my tongue are always appealing, even if they aren’t names I’ve ever heard of before. One of my favorite character names is actually not even a character that we ever meet: Festival. THE JOYOUS FEELINGS. There are a few names I’d add to this list now, as well (but…not Royal or Rule).
YAY FOR FAKE PLACES! And also awesome real places! One of the very best things about reading is getting to experience different places and worlds, so this Top Ten Tuesday was easy peasy.
For real? This Top Ten Tuesday could’ve been 50 characters long. It’s a little heavier on characters from books I’d just read, but I wouldn’t change a thing now that I’ve had some time to meet new characters and remember older ones.
One of the newer Top Ten Tuesdays on my list, but I loved putting it together and sharing some of my favorite quotes. There are so many more, even though I’m not as good as I’d like to be when it comes to marking down passages while I read.
Guys, I have a pretty awesome sibling myself, so I always love reading about them. It’s nice to know that not all character’s siblings are tools or bullies and that they have a supportive, awesome friend who will always be at their side.
Sooo, I slacked off with the words on this post, I’ll admit. But I found some pretty awesome fan art for my really awesome heroines, so that makes this one of my favorite Top Ten Tuesdays.
I love this weeks topic, I’m getting to see so many topics that I have missed. You chose some brilliant topics 🙂 I loved picking the characters I’d love to check in on, although it was so difficult to only pick ten of them!!! Here’s my TTT if you want to check it out 🙂
I have a few of these one my list as well. And that’s so cool that April from Good Books and Good Wine retweeted and commented on one of your posts. That happened to me with Brittany from The Book Addicts Guide. It’s amazing when bloggers we look up to admire our posts. Great list!
My list this week has a few in common with yours! I vividly remember making a list of character names, but I’m not sure what happened to it (Penryn was definitely on it, though. Apparently she’s named after a street, but I find its a lovely name…). If I could find the post, it would definitely have been on my list this week, but it may have been eaten by the internet.
I love the graphic style you created for this post! The fonts are so pretty 😉 And these are some pretty rad topics, if you ask me!
Great choices! I love seeing all these great topics!