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Top Ten Characters I’d Like To Check In With

Sometimes when I finish a book, I wonder how the characters are doing, and this list is all about that!  Some characters stay with you long after closing the book, and some I really need to know are doing okay.

1. Tally and Lincoln from The Truth In Lies series by Katherine Owen.  It seems like there’s a good possibility of another book about these two, but that’s not stopping me from wanting to know how things are working out for them after how the second book ended.
2. Kendra from the Ondine series by Emma Raveling.  I want to know how the elemental community is doing after the war with the Shadow is over.
3. Anna and St. Clair.  I need to know all about their wedding, and I need to know that they had their happily ever after, even though I know they’ve had it.
4. The entire gang from K.A. Tucker’s Ten Ten Breaths series.  I need to know how they’re all doing, especially Kacey and Livie.
5. Cath from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.  I really want to know what life is like for Cath now that Simon Snow is over.
6. Emma from the Breathing Series by Rebecca Donovan.  I just need to know she’s okay and happy and at peace with everything that happened to her.
7. Rowan from Me Since You by Laura Weiss.  She’s another character that I need to know is doing okay.
8. Lennie from The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson.  I pretty much want to know what’s up with Lennie.
9. Valerie from Hate List by Jennifer Brown.  I want to see how she’s doing, because I’ve wondered how she’d be doing after graduating from high school and everything that happened.
10. The characters from The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  I really want to know how the Circus is going.  I really do.
11. And of course, I need to know how everyone from the Harry Potter series is doing.  I know JKR has revealed bits and pieces about what happened to the characters after the series has ended, but that’s not going to stop me from wanting to know how they’re doing!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely folks over at The Broke And The Bookish.  Every week, bloggers from all over share their own top ten list based on the topic of the week.  You can find all Top Ten Tuesdays here.

Ten Books I Recently Added To My To-Read List

So, this one was super easy, especially with goodreads!  I really love adding new books to my TBR, so it’s fun to actually share some of them!  I literally went with the 10 most recent books I added. For the most part, it definitely reflects me wanting to read more diversely, and I didn’t realize how many books I added because of it until I started working on this list.

1. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.  I was inspired by last weeks to list re-read it, and added it to my TBR to remind myself to re-read it.
2. the Soulfinder’s series by Maria Snyder.  I thought about doing each one as its own, but decided against it!  I’m super-excited that she has a new series set in Ixia/Citia.
3. Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford.  I’m really intrigued by this book!  It’s about this hotel that has the belongings of people who were sent to Japanese internment camps during World War 2, and it’s been boarded up for decades before opening again.
4. Out Of Nowhere by Maria Padian.  I added this book about a town in Maine that has a lot of Somali refugees and how this one guy is changed by 9/11 and getting to know his classmates.
5. A Time Of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y Maudet.  I stumbled across this one while searching for some books that were more diverse, and really liked the premise of this one.  It’s all about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how this girl is fleeing Georgia, and ends up all over Europe.
6. Alive In The Killing Fields by Nawuth Keat and Martha Kendall.  I’m looking forward to reading this memoir about a man who lived in Cambodia during the reign of Pol Pot.
7. Life, After by Sarah Darer Littman.  This book about a family moving from Argentina to the U.S. sounds like a book that I’d really like.
8. Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos.  3 girls, living a small town, where things get really touchy after one of their moms is accused of theft, sounds right up my alley.
9. Blue Gold by Elizabeth Stewart.  I’m really interested in this one!  It’s about 3 girls, on three different continents, who are all affected by an increased need for blue gold.
10. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier.  It’s a ghost story!  And a mysterious, ancient curse!  What’s not to like?