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Top Ten Books with Dynamic Duos

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Top Ten Books with Dynamic Duos

TTT for February 21, 2022
#TopTenTuesday 

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For this one, I have used two interpretations:
two names in the title and/or two persons on the cover!

Please click on the book covers to access my reviews
or the relevant page

  The Little Wooden Robot Monet and Oscar  

  Hikikomori Because of Winn-Dixie  

  Trap for Cinderella Hard-boiled wonderland  

  Summer of Reckoning The Missing Sister  

  Crenshaw Lady Clementine

Have YOU read any of these?
Any great books you have read, that fit this meme?
Please leave the link to your own list,
so I can visit.

Top Ten Books with Names In the Titles

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Top Ten Books with Names In the Titles

TTT for February 1st, 2022
#TopTenTuesday 

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For this one, I decided to start by my latest reads.
Actually the top three are books I have read this January!

Please click on the book covers to access the books
or the Goodreads page

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EDIT:
Attentive reader Elyse (see comments) pointed out that Noor is not the name of the girl. Of course! I have no idea what came up with me.
I even talked quite a bit about AO in my review!!

Have YOU read any of these?
Any great books you have read, that fit this meme?
Please leave the link to your own list,
so I can visit.

2022 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

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#TBR2022RBR

CLICK ON THE BANNER TO JOIN THIS CHALLENGE

So glad to see Adam at Roof Beam Reader back hosting this challenge!

Here are the 12 titles I plan on reading in 2022. Books that have been collecting dust on my shelves for quite a while…
A mix of classics, fiction, nonfiction.
NB: some have a library label, but they are no longer in circulation and I bought them at my library some years back.

TBR 2022

I will update the list below with the links to my reviews, as I go along

  1. Thomas Jefferson’s Crème brûlée: How a Founding father and his salve James Hemings introduced French cuisine to America, by Thomas J. Craughwell
  2. Le Voyage d’Octavio, by Miguel Bonnefoy
  3. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
  4. Stuart Little, by E.B. White
  5. The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
  6. Eventide, by Kent Haruf
  7. The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
  8. Ensemble, c’est tout, by Anna Gavalda
  9. Wanderlust: A History of Walking, by Rebecca Solnit
  10. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa, by Haruki Murakami
  11. Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence, by Peter C. Bouteneff
  12. A is For Alibi, by Sue Grafton

Alternates:
11. Joie de Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French, by Harriett Welty Rochefort
12. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, by Graham Robb

WILL YOU JOIN US IN THIS CHALLENGE?
WHAT TITLES OF YOUR TBR
ARE YOU PLANNING TO READ IN 2022?