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From Becca's Shelves...   Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish . 
This week's topic is TOP TEN BOOKS TO READ IF YOU'RE IN THE MOOD TO BINGE READ... because I'm currently OBSESSED with binge-ing any and everything lately! I went a little overboard with suggestions today, but I wanted to give you guys ALL the options! Enjoy! Finished series: The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo -  SHADOW & BONE IS #1 PRIORITY BINGE READ. If only so you can read Six of Crows IMMEDIATELY. Just trust me (and I'm sure Andye would back me on this!) Vampire Academy /Bloodlines by Richelle Mead - Vampires + Vampire Guards + SEXY guys = <3 His Fair Assassin by Robin LaFevers - ASSASSIN NUNS. That's all I'm saying. (Also, they are totes bada**es! The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare - Demons + Demon Hunters + LOTS of sexual tension. Trust me, this series is 110% binge-able. You won't want to stop reading them! (Which is g...

From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish . 
This week's topic is Ten SIX Books I Recently Enjoyed That Were Out Of My Comfort Zone... which was kind of difficult, because I don't really not read books if they are out of my comfort zone? I'm not sure if that really makes sense, but I'm honestly pretty comfortable about reading anything. I'm willing to give a chance to anything, and if people are really talking about a book, I'm more willing to read it, because I want to know what made everyone so uncomfortable about it. I loved all of these books, but when I first thought about picking them up, I thought maybe I wouldn't. Moral of the story: don't judge whether it's out of your comfort zone until you give it a chance, because how exactly do you know that it's not your 'thing' if you don't give it a chance? Just my two cents. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab  - High fanta...

From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish . 
This week's topic is A VALENTINE'S FREEBIE, which means, of course, I am choosing to share my TOP TEN FICTIONAL CRUSHES . Because fictional crushes are basically the only crushes I have these days. In my opinion, Fictional Crushes are the only crushes worth having, and since V-day is unfortunately approaching pretty quickly, I thought I'd share the fictional crushes that I spend the most time thinking about! PRINCE MERIK ( Truthwitch by Susan Dennard) - I've got a mighty crush on this airwitch prince. He can take me for a ride on his pirate ship anytime. GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA THE GUTTERS! I mean his actual pirate ship . Plus, I did a ton of flailing for Merik in my review letter. I cannot wait to read more about him!!!   BLACK KNIFE ( The Mirror King by Jodi Meadows) - Jodi Meadows wrote this character, which means he's super swoony and totally c...

From Becca's Shelves...   Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish . 
This week's topic is TOP TEN HISTORICAL/FUTURISTIC BOOKS I LOVE! I decided to do a few of each, because I can ! Haha, plus I haven't read a ton of Historical YA books ( or not enough that I absolutely loved like these ). Under A Painted Sky by Stacey Lee - Under A Painted Sky was basically one of my top favorite books of 2015. It features a fantastic friendship of a couple of gender-bent girls set on the Oregon Trail. AND IT HAS ALL THE SHIPS ! Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - If you're just getting into the Historical YA world, you should definitely start with Elizabeth Wein. She's the Queen of Historical YA. Code Name Verity is my personal favorite (about women aircraft fighters during WWII & the sweetest, most sincere friendships I've ever read), but you can't go wrong with any of her others either! Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin - Wolf b...

From Becca's Shelves...   Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish . 
This week's topic is A FREEBIE!!!! OMG. WHAT ON EARTH WILL I TALK ABOUT?! THIS IS MY FIRST FREEBIE TOP TEN TUESDAY POST AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT. THEY HAVE GIVEN ME WAY TOO MUCH POWER. I CAN'T BE TRUSTED. jk. Since it's a freebie about a topic that is near and dear to our hearts, what else could I talk about other than PUPPIES? And not just puppies, either. PUPPIES AND BOOKS AND NAMES.  Is your mind blown? If you don't know me very well ( Hi, my name is Becca) , then you probably don't know that I'm pretty much obsessed with two things.....books and dogs. There was actually this one point very early in my blogging career that I made a meme featuring the two things I love most called Cover Puppies. It was basically where I would recreate book covers using my two dog s . Looking back at them now, they all look like a hot mes...

From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Broke & The Bookish .   
 This week's topic is  TOP TEN BOOKS BECCA HAS RECENTLY ADDED TO HER TBR, ( I just looked at my goodreads list)   which turned out to be an interesting combination of books for 2016. Most of them are highly anticipated reads for me, and I'm curious to start hearing some buzz about them!! GOING GEEK   by Charlotte Huang (September 3, 2016) - Okay, so I read Charlotte's debut, For the Record, at the end of last year, and thought it was totally adorable, quirky, and dramatic. She's an auto-buy contemporary author for me now, and I'm pretty much dying for her new book, Going Greek!! THE LONG GAME   (The Fixer #2)  by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (June 7, 2016) - I'm late to the Fixer bandwagon but I read The Fixer last week, AND ZOMG I NEED MORE. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS INTO POLITICAL THRILLERS UNTIL NOW. But can The Long Game have some kissing? Maybe a little...

From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Broke & The Bookish .   
 This week's topic is  TOP TEN 2015 BOOK RELEASES BECCA MEANT TO GET TO, BUT DIDN'T , which was a TON. UGH. I'm still upset over how LITTLE I actually read last year, but I'm already on book 5 of 2016, so BOOM SHOCK-A-LOCKA!  AND these are for sure going to get read this year! I solemnly swear! VENGEANCE ROAD by Erin Bowman  - I actually cannot believe I haven't read this one yet. Western? Yes. Yes. Yes. This is my thing. SOON!  QUEEN by Aimee Carter   - YOU! I am actually starting you as soon as I finish this post. Mwuahahaha! ICE LIKE FIRE by Sara Raasch   - I'm actually waiting on this one, because the cliffhanger on Snow Like Ashes physically hurt me, and I'm not sure I can go through something like that again and WAIT.  DAUGHTER OF DUSK by Livia Blackburne   - I remember really enjoying Midnight Thief, but it's be...

From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Broke & The Bookish .   
 This week's topic is  TOP TEN RESOLUTIONS I HAVE FOR 2016 aka "I resolve to finally FINISH reading these 10 books" (or a special edition of READ or DITCH for TTT).   Because as everyone knows, Becca's reading year in 2015 is better known as the Year of the BIGGEST Book Slump of Mankind. So I kind of, sort of started a bunch of books last year, that I basically just gave up on, because I just wasn't feeling it. I did enjoy most of what I read, but because of my slump, I just wasn't digging it as much as I hoped, if that makes any sense. Anyways, in some way or fashion, all of these books were DNF'd last year, but not forever. I just sat these aside for another time.  Should I really resolve to finish reading these or should I ditch them?  (Apparently I'm not sure about finalizing these resolutions? Haha)     The Creeping by Alexandra S...

From Becca's Shelves.... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Broke & The Bookish .   
 This week's topic is  TOP TEN MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2016,   which I tried to do a mix of both sequels (HOLY COW I HAVE A TON OF SEQUELS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO!!!) and other books that are the beginning of a series or stand-alones. Looks like 2016 is going to be an EPIC year for reading!! Am I right?  Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira (Jan 12, 2016) - Bookishly Ever After? Yes, please!!! I'm pretty sure every book nerd around is dying to read this book, just like I am! Thankfully, it's coming up on my TBR, because I'm not sure how much longer I can hold out since my friend Kelly has been RAVING about it!! It actually really feels weird that this book is FINALLY coming out, because I've had my eye on it since it was announced by Publishers Weekly. My, how time flies! Firstlife by Gena Showalter (Feb 23, 2016) - Okay...