Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.


This week's list: Top Ten Favorite Book Settings

1. Hogwart's from the Harry Potter Series. This one is probably going to be on everyone's list, but I couldn't leave it out. It's just so wonderful.

2. Krynn from the Dragonlance Series, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Preferrably after the Cataclysm, thank you very much.

3. Appalachia in Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. I love the lushness of the land and peace in it.

4. Middle Earth from LOTR by Tolkien. Love the magical atmosphere, it really pulls you in.

5. Victorian London from The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. Although I wold have to be quite rich to be comfortable as a single woman.

That's all I can come up with, you?

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.


This week's list: Books You've in Some Way Lied About
Ooh, this one is an evil one!

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Ok, I've said I've read this and I know I should read this, I know, and yet...I can't do it. I've read some of his other books and I don't enjoy his style. It's, dare I say it, dull. Gods of Literature, please don't throw lightning bolts!

2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. No, I haven't read it, and I don't plan to. I think watching the movie is more than enough.

3. Romance novels in general. I must admit, I have read some, which is something I should own up to, but for some reason always find it a bit embarassing.

4. The Odyssey by Homer. I've read parts but never the whole thing.

5. I said I liked Middlemarch by George Eliot, when in fact, I think I hated every minute of that book. Don't know why I didn't just set it aside.




That's all I can come up with. I'm usually pretty honest with my book choices.

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.


This Week's List: Top Ten Favorite Minor Characters ( you know... all those great supporting character or a VERY minor character that might have been only in there a page or two but had an effect on you)


1. Katerina Ivanovna from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. She appears quite a lot throughout the book, but is not one of the most crucial characters. I just love her strength despite having a debilitating illness.

2. Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. He's a pretty cool dude, although he does end up killing Nagini (poor little snake).

3. Bupu from The Dragonlance Series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. She is beyond adorable, albeit a little on the smelly side.

4. Georgiana Darcy from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She doesn't appear much but I've always thought she was a very interesting character.

5. Frederick Fairlie from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. His neuroses had me rolling on the floor in laughter. Fabulous character.

6. Seraphina from the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I don't know why I like her, really, I just find her really cool.

7. Blaine the Mono from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. A demented monorail who adores riddles? Yes, please!

8. Dandelo from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. He is just soooo freaky. I was actually scared while reading the scenes in which he appears.

9. Helen Burns from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She is a really interesting character, and probably the first person to show Jane affection.

10. Hedwig from the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. I just love her and I was so sad when she died. I couldn't believe Rowling had killed her off.

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

This week's list: Top Ten Biggest Jerks in Literature


1. Nathan Price from the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. This man was the epitome of repressed, abusive maleness. Hateful creature.

2. Tom Buchanan from the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A bit of a pig, racist and cheating a-hole. Yup, a real jerk.

3. Quentin Coldwater from The Magicians by Lev Grossman. He is indifferent to everything in his life, rejects any type of happiness and is bored by even having magical powers.

4. Alec d'Urberville from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Major jerk, he actually carries a pitchfork!

5. Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, because he picks on poor Harry when he's already got issues.

6. Harold from The Stand by Stephen King. He does his best to destroy every plan the "good guys" have, so he deserves to be mentioned.

That's all I can come up with. Huh.

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

This week's list: Top Ten Books that Came Recommended

I have tons.

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Recommended by pretty much everyone.

2. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. My sister recommended this one, and I will be forever in her debt.

3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. This one was my mom's recommendation and boy was she right. I've read it at least three times.

4. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse. Another book my mom practically shoved down my throat and one which I love.

5. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber. Another one my mom recommended.

6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. No suprise here since it's my favorite in the whole world. I have to thank my AP English teacher for this one. Thank you Mr. Remis!

7. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe . Another one my mom recommended.

8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Yeah, you guessed it, my mom.

9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur C. Doyle. My mom, yet again. She seems to talk a lot, doesn't she?

10. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. A friend actually bought this one for me, and it is fabulous.

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

This week: Top Ten Mean Girls in Books

1. Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. She is the one of the main characters, but she does have quite a mean side.

2. Queen Takhisis in the Dragonlance Series by Margaret Weis and Tracy hickman. Ok, not so much a girl as a goddess, but she is an evil pain.

3. Rhea from Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. Quite a nasty creature.

4. Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. She's completely, wonderfully insane.

5. Blanche Ingram in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Come on, be honest, we all wanted to slap her a few times.

6. Lady Catherine in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. So haughty, really got on my nerves.

7. Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Evil, evil woman.


Not quite ten, but I just can't seem to remember any other of those hateful females.
How about you?

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists! Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND fill out Mr. Linky .

Top Ten Tuesday Rewind is a chance for you to go back through the archives and chose a past TTT that you want to do, or maybe even redo! The best part is that the linky is going to be like a grab bag! You won’t know what it is until you get there!


I chose:

What are your top ten Favourite Book Characters?


1. Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance series by MArgaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. He is just fabulous in every way.

2. Snape from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I love this character's secrecy, the duality to his nature.

3. Lord Voldemort also from the Harry Potter series, because he is so wonderfully evil. He is just one of those villains you love to hate.Plus, he has a pet snake, so of course I love him.

4. Sherloch Holmes from the stories by Arthur C. Doyle. His intelligence and his quick-thinking has always drawn me to him.

5. Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen because she is so real, everything about her, every thought is so grounded in real human behavior. I love recognizing myself in her actions.

6. Rodion Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is torn between following his instinctual side while his intellectual one cries for attention. Wonderful, complex character.

7. Anita Blake form the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. She is just a no-nonsense kind of woman, which is the best kind. Love her sarcasm.

8. Lisey from Lisey's Story by Stephen King. She starts off like a typical housewife, but progresses to a powerful, muti-dimensional woman who sets out to defend herself and her husband's memory.

9. Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. He is the classic anti-hero and I just love his fierceness.

10. Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. He is coolness personified.


Interesting that the majority of my favorite characters are either the anti-hero or the outright villain. I wonder what that says about me.